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A Witch's Dictionary

How to make a magic circle? clockwise to help a neighbor, widdershins (leftward, sinister) for your maleficia. Chalk or charcoal, athame (your wand) will do for scoring, outer circumference first, then a second, inner wall. Crosses [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2008 | Comments : 0

Strangers Buried Him - Pat Boran

The farm was in his palm a map complete with fields the buckets to be scrubbed spotless, all those gates to shut the brook the bream were found in known solely to himself perhaps a dog or two and the curate from the village Whea [...]

Posted On : Mar, 25 2008 | Comments : 0

Man Speaking to a Woman By Sherwood Anderson

You have come to me from a tall awkward city. You have come to me from the sister cities of the north. On your way here to me you have run in and out of a thousand cities that lie like unhatched eggs on the prairies. You are a distraught [...]

Posted On : Mar, 22 2008 | Comments : 0

The Hotel Room Mirror

But who was it, then, that made her so unhappy? —Madame Bovary A half-room, foreshortened even more in the huge speckled armoire glass, the distance chopped, uncrossable, between your image and where I stood twiddling the door [...]

Posted On : Mar, 17 2008 | Comments : 0

POEM OF THE DAY

Feel Forever I want to know you forever I don't mean wrinkles and grey hair, though I know you will grow old in my arms I mean the fingers of toddlers, scabbed kindergarten knees to know the sweet warmth of children's breath, the qu [...]

Posted On : Mar, 13 2008 | Comments : 0

Tell Me That You Love Me

By Laria S. Bone Tell me that you love me, For I cannot see, I don't have the pleasure of seeing what you see, The storm has come, my depression hits, The dark clouds is my face, Which covers my happiness every bit, The rain are my t [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2008 | Comments : 0

Plague (Piccadilly Line)

Under the grand depart- ment stores, Yerkes' moles cut through Thanet sand, clay terraces and chalky tiers lit by shells and mica. Then they hit the bones—a seam of femurs, skulls and gem- like metatarsals fell around the [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2008 | Comments : 0

The Red Hat Lady

I’m walking down the street in my pumps and my heels with my red hat all the fellas wanna kill One fella said Oh, she’s fine The other fella said I wish she was mine I walk to the bus stop All the ladies say, I wonder [...]

Posted On : Mar, 10 2008 | Comments : 0

Never say goodbye

I feel the time is getting close, When we will have to part. Ill show that I'll miss you, With last words from my heart. We must be dreaming, For it has gone to fast. The time we have spent together, Will soon be in our past. I'll f [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2008 | Comments : 0

Poetry Slam

When most people think of poetry they think of lines on a page that break in mid-sentence or are halted by punctuation. They think of stanzas of equal length or, occasionally, "shape poems," where the lines and stanzas form the sh [...]

Posted On : Mar, 04 2008 | Comments : 0

Shaikh Nasser hails folk poetry

Shaikh Nasser patronised a poetry evening organised by the Bahrain Folk Poetry Society and Public Relations Association at the Cultural Hall. Ministers, MPs and diplomats attended. Chairmen of both organisations - Mubarak Al Amri an [...]

Posted On : Jan, 24 2008 | Comments : 0

Robert Browning

was born in Camberwell, England on May 7, 1812. His father and mother nurtured in their son a love for and appreciation of fine arts, especially literature and music. With an enormous library housing thousands of volumes right in his [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2008 | Comments : 0

Title: Life, and everything in between

It takes a certain talent to create poetic verse that truly evokes an image or feeling. Stephen J. Dodds demonstrates his abundant ability in his book, “Life and Everything in Between.”This wonderful collection of works covers m [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2007 | Comments : 0

POETRY ON STAGE

Spain’s most celebrated dance company, Compania Nacional de Danza, is returning to Sydney next year as part of the Sydney Festival. The 30-dancer-strong troupe, under the guidance of acclaimed artistic director Nacho Duato, will per [...]