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Writing about life and arts

Poetry

  • Your face and clothing signal your identity. Your DNA is one thing, your outer design another; fashion is the only element you can control. A winsome smile can be deceiving. On the inside, we could be a sufferer undressing the mind’s eye. There is no need to prejudge one’s possibilities, even our own. Wearing a…

  • We shape the Earth, and it shapes us. For all the pieces interact, transforming into a cohesive thought. The trees grow in cities, the oceans meet at the cape. All the pieces interact, enveloped by the space inside. The weather is fickle, cyclical, everything too much for a remix, itching for evolution. To get closer to the texture of…

  • Art is what we do with our extra time. It is more leisure than life. “Art is everything you don’t have to do,” as Brian Eno put it. The starving artist is compelled to have a day job. We can’t make art without the backbone of cash. However, the cashless value of writing a poem, painting…