Literature
- Moving Rocks
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. ?Gary Snyder, "Riprap" These lines are from a classic Gary Snyder poem that I thought of as I was making a rock pathway today outside the cottage I rent in Davis. Some of Snyder's more recent...
- The Classics Club
I stumbled upon this site by accident and it seems like the perfect way to get back into reading! In conjunction with my literature frenzy challenge, here is a condensed list of 50 "classics" (subject to change) that I hope to finish by 2017: ...
- Angel
"You look familiar," I say for the third time since she joined me at the table about fifteen minutes ago. "Maybe we?ve met somewhere," she says, her big eyes lighting up with a smile ? that front-page smile with which she breezed into the bar. The smile...
- Fasting! (poem)
The name is not the substance is the name it is not the fasting but the hidden presence of food drawing saliva from hunger?s mouth when giant yawn halted mid-air replicates through the simmering desert sucking tears from open sockets there is no lie...
- Let Your Heart Speak My Mind (poem)
I plead for passion you show compassion rock of a hug crushing my heart broken hearts fleeing the mire outgrow the bounds and flop manure to the swamp homes, dark corners of our rooms, are the actual battlefield war is for the brave where mud houses...
Literature
A smile on the rock (poem)
Swelling foes can only
stir the star
in the eagle heart
to stare the eclipse
in the groin
raise the last battle roar
and strike,
stir the star
in the eagle heart
to stare the eclipse
in the groin
raise the last battle roar
and strike,
strike
strike to carve
a smile on the rock
and let granite
strike to carve
a smile on the rock
and let granite
smile
hasten the day!
© Sumaila Isah Umaisha
hasten the day!
© Sumaila Isah Umaisha
- Moving Rocks
Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. ?Gary Snyder, "Riprap" These lines are from a classic Gary Snyder poem that I thought of as I was making a rock pathway today outside the cottage I rent in Davis. Some of Snyder's more recent...
- The Classics Club
I stumbled upon this site by accident and it seems like the perfect way to get back into reading! In conjunction with my literature frenzy challenge, here is a condensed list of 50 "classics" (subject to change) that I hope to finish by 2017: ...
- Angel
"You look familiar," I say for the third time since she joined me at the table about fifteen minutes ago. "Maybe we?ve met somewhere," she says, her big eyes lighting up with a smile ? that front-page smile with which she breezed into the bar. The smile...
- Fasting! (poem)
The name is not the substance is the name it is not the fasting but the hidden presence of food drawing saliva from hunger?s mouth when giant yawn halted mid-air replicates through the simmering desert sucking tears from open sockets there is no lie...
- Let Your Heart Speak My Mind (poem)
I plead for passion you show compassion rock of a hug crushing my heart broken hearts fleeing the mire outgrow the bounds and flop manure to the swamp homes, dark corners of our rooms, are the actual battlefield war is for the brave where mud houses...