What Makes Music “Good”?

Aidan AdamsJune 16, 2019

What Makes Music "Good"? written by: Aidan Adams @aidanposting   Music itself is probably humanity’s most superfluous, immaterial and universal art f...

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Boston

SpillwordsJune 2, 2019

Boston a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson   The rocky nook with hill-tops three Looked eastward from the farms, And twice each day the flowing sea Took ...

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Inferno

Shyamal MukhopadhyayMay 23, 2019

Inferno written by: Shyamal Mukhopadhyay   Devil's Inferno at Notre Dame swinging bell atop the cathedral Arousing the spirit of Esmeralda to avenge Fr...

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Total Evil

Eliza SegietMay 16, 2019

Total Evil written by: Eliza Segiet translated by: Artur Komoter   I often wonder where so much "vivid" war within me comes from. After all, whilst...

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Kept Himself

Paul BrookesMay 14, 2019

Kept Himself written by: Paul Brookes @PaulDragonwolf1   Kept Himself to himself. Quiet man always in sharp waistcoat and tie. Shoes keen like mirro...

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Bring Back Our Girls

Umar Yogiza JrMay 13, 2019

Bring Back Our Girls written by: Umar Yogiza Jr @yogizajr   bring back our girls and only their shadows were brought back without a soul wretchedl...

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Revisiting History

Garima MahajanMay 11, 2019

Revisiting History written by: Garima Mahajan @GarimaM1204   'Et tu... It was my ego Not the dagger, Caesar!' 'Save it for later When I die, you wil...

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Six Seconds

Roger TurnerMay 1, 2019

Six Seconds written by: roger turner @titansdad   Six seconds What takes that long? You can't write yourself a letter You can't write yourself a son...

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Finding Closure

Michal ReibenbachApril 23, 2019

Finding Closure written by: Michal Reibenbach   Preface My father abducted me from my mother as a small baby. I knew nothing about her until her family...

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The War Within

Sharona ReevesApril 18, 2019

The War Within written by: Sharona Reeves   Tainted soldier Heart waged in war Rich in strength Ultimately poor Stricken with hate and words of th...

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World Falls

Shawn M. KlimekApril 14, 2019

World Falls written by: Shawn M. Klimek   Rudy told me he had discovered his passion for history and travel during his Sophomore year of college in Rome...

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Little Mermaid

Nobby66April 5, 2019

Little Mermaid written by: Nobby66 @douglas97_s   In the land of Queen Margrethe and King Canute lives a little wonder, ever so cute. born in ninet...

EnglishPoetry2 min read

In Rauen Woods

RichApril 4, 2019

In Rauen Woods written by: Rich @H3Richard   From Fürstenwalde's Rauen Wald Where we run to hide To the Spreewald and Halbe The Ninth surrounded o...

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Kossover

Michael NattMarch 24, 2019

Kossover written by: Michael Natt   My maternal grandparents came from a small shtetl (village) outside of Warsaw, Poland named Kossover. The Jews in ...

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