serenade with sentences
of one to three years
a chance of early release
for good poetic behaviour!
and politely taking turns
with a twist of a phrase
instead of the knife!
it would certainly work in the favor
a well turned line would earn
a rehearingof the case
and comute the sentence from life
on an unlined page to ...
little girl's diaries, voluminous leather bound journals
shelved in studies where gentle types puff pipes :) *phew*
where the readers keep warm
by stoking the furnaces
with journals shredded and torn
but written in the most sincerest earnestness
a book is a home to birth, a bird's nest :)
you'll be missed here on earth, a bard's rest

lol. oh my ...
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EXCELLENT :) you are so talented.
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good one! i struggled with what could complement "furnaces"
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now you get to struggle with earnestness
(don't we all)
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i like challenge :)
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"Both sides are deeply in earnest, with passions that approximate those of civil war" Conor Cruise O'Brien.
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lol
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OR

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
Blaise Pascal

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don't lose your temper, but i say forego reason
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what portends?
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unbridled enthusiasm, of course
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yippee ;)
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i like that about you
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lol! it's a.. s-t-r-e-t-c-h ...
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in fact it doesn't work, me thinks.
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"a book is a home to birth" clarify please
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i've been very affected by various books read throughout my life; sometimes resulting in feelings of rebirth :) does that make sense to you?
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(sorry i didn't keep the rhyme's rhythmic flow; rhyme isn't a strong suit of mine)
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absolutely! here's one of mine - if you show me yours ;b
Stranger in a Strange Land - not deep but affecting
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yes, me too as a teenager. sci-fi was impactful - helped me GROK beyond - lol. and the DUNE series :) And Tolkien!
when i was younger, grade seven, i read a heavy Russian author, don't recall the name, all about escape from a gulag and deprivations - pretty shocking to a kid. in grade eight i read Lolita and was horrified. so was the school Librarian, but it was there on the shelves :)
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so, blue eyes and spice? Solzenitzen? (sp?) how does Lolita resonate now?
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that's him!! Solzenitzen! I was thrilled reading his book with my 12 year old vocabulary sky-rocketing and the challenge of understand a complex prison culture and the author's dense language. really helped grow my comprehension abilities. I won the academic award that year which surprised the heck out of everyone. especially since i excelled at math that grade and sucked there after ;) lol! prolly more than you want to know, but an example of the catalyst books can be.

Also of particluar impact that year was A Wrinkle in Time and The Tesseract, both by Madeleine L'Engle.

Lolita is a masterpiece but still creeps me out as I was molested for a decade by a pervy uncle and the story can re-traumatize. it was a strange experience to read the book then have adults question why I was doing that. i made up some BS lines (early PR ability) about literary brilliance on the part of the author and his sensitive handling of the issue. i had no idea what i was talking about - but it worked. they left me alone.

and of course: To Kill a Mocking Bird. I read it every summer for several years of high school sitting out on the lawn swing eating baloney sandwiches.
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how about other titles and genres you enjoy?
:)
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well, life holds more horrors and hopes than any fiction can capture. I happened on Lolita in my late teens and was astounded more by the command of language than content. I was arrested by Notes from Underground in high school but wasn't compelled to go off in search of other russian writers
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i've wandered through 20th century amer. lit - caught by the "southern" writers in particular - Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy - a passing aquaintance with japanese writers, the europeans - camus, kafka, umberto eco and the hilarious italo calvino - for reasons i can't remember 100 years of Solitude mattered alot - all this to say - layered with an interest in esoteric physics considerations...
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Fyodor Dostoevsky. I find Russian tomes challenging to read through. I should take another look at the book though. I'm starting to get back into reading. I have boxes of books, mostly poetry and writing related that I either haven't read or visited for a while. I need bookshelves :)

Are there any particular magazines you read?
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"layered with an interest in esoteric physics considerations..." i find that interesting and would love to pick your brain about related topics :)
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eeeewww...if i read mags (intention)- harper's, smithsonian - parabola
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jk about the eeeeww...
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lol! i pick up counter culture mags to see what's going on out there and get some new ideas but i don't have subscriptions :) used to subscribe to Harvard Magazine or whatever, but it's expensive and i can read the office copy ;)
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ciao!