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Belladona: o, angustia existencial (una alegoría)

mittens wrote 7 months ago: Desde los balcones de la casona se dejaba ver: aquel laberinto de flores y ramas al que la palabra “ … more →

Tags: Shifty Shortstory, lilac flowers

The sealed demon4 comments

mittens wrote 1 year ago: eviscerate Life! and hold her silv’ry entrails in tremulous hands. … more →

Tags: Life, Haphazard Haiku, eviscerating, Silver, the blood in your veins

To thine own mask be true1 comment

mittens wrote 1 year ago: We’re all one swashing salty sea; And we’re the but the world, when it ponders itself An … more →

Tags: Life, vague musings, Frivolous Freeverse, Humanity, salty seas, nondualism, Pantheism, Pseudo-intellectualism

Viva la Revolución9 comments

mittens wrote 1 year ago: Have you any idea how grave a mistake it is to mar a young mind? And no, I’m not talking about … more →

Tags: Life, Critique, vague musings, School, revolution, conformity, humanism, intellectualism, knowledge

Flowers for the aesthete1 comment

mittens wrote 1 year ago: I. Remembrances are the warmth that soaks the viscera, while idle speculation ventilates the lungs a … more →

Tags: vague musings, Frivolous Freeverse, Art, Man, Danse Macabre, Aesthete, Flowers, Viscera, Melancholy

Portrait of wry remarks

mittens wrote 1 year ago: Cynic is he who laughs heartily, not with Life but at her, instead. … more →

Tags: Haphazard Haiku, Poetry, Man, cynic, Portrait, Depiction, mittens's favourite kind of person, Laughing at Life, Laugh

The most raucous musical box1 comment

mittens wrote 1 year ago: The host with a flourish bids everyone welcome to the gaudy and grandiose banquet alfresco that is L … more →

Tags: Life, et. al., vers libre, Poetry, Frivolous Freeverse, raucous, Delightful, party-crackers, pinatas

the Ides of March2 comments

mittens wrote 1 year ago: It was in the midst of such a night, so very long ago, that they had conversed in hushed voices in t … more →

Tags: Life, et. al., vague musings, ides of march, Beware, Arrogance, Solemnity, impassive, ill omens

pastel-coloured reverie2 comments

mittens wrote 1 year ago: Ah, isn’t it lovely how we always seem to sit and stare at things in obstinate defiance, await … more →

Tags: Life, et. al., vague musings, pastel colours, vanilla, Sugar, butter, Flour, Frustration

Respice post te, Hominem te esse memento2 comments

mittens wrote 1 year ago: The parade tore air itself asunder as trumpeteers unfurled their great fanfares, so heralding the im … more →

Tags: Poetry, Slumberous Sonnet, Ephemeral, Roman triumph, Glory, Humanity, Divinity, Memento Mori, grandoise

Paperboat wayfaring

mittens wrote 1 year ago: The sea that is life is rather more viscous than it would seem at first glance. It springs back if p … more →

Tags: Life, et. al., vague musings, Ephemeral, Thoughts, lilac flowers, seafaring, Carpe Diem!, hedonism

A lesson in astronomy

mittens wrote 2 years ago: The scholar is a remarkable man. He somehow manages to take the tangled mass of little dots that the … more →

Tags: et. al., vague musings, Man, this is a metaphor about philosophy, Stars, Constellations, pretty enough, Tangles, Interpretations

Rain smells like existential angst1 comment

mittens wrote 2 years ago: There is no better way to summarize a lifetime than a single rainy afternoon. Countless raindrops … more →

Tags: Life, et. al., rain, umbrella, Watercolors, Existential Angst, Bias, plummeting, chalkpowdery skies

Words of a Sentimentalist2 comments

mittens wrote 2 years ago: Sentimentality is a criminally misunderstood notion. Words like “love” have taken connot … more →

Tags: Life, Metaphysical Pondering, Critique, et. al., angst, Sentimentality, lilac flowers, Indignance

Haiku about waiting in a coffee-house8 comments

mittens wrote 2 years ago: Chiming ceramic. Stirring; shapes traced on the foam of a lukewarm cup. … more →

Tags: Life, et. al., Haphazard Haiku, Haiku, Coffee, Waiting, lukewarm, clink clink, Idle

Whimsical Perambulation4 comments

Mr. Queasy wrote 2 years ago: This a tale, of a dream, of a train. Not any machine, only plain and mundane. Of joy and fantasy, a … more →

Tags: -By Mr. Queasy, et. al., Life, Metaphysical Pondering, musings, train, Magic, Magical, Dreams

Le Penseur and his vexations2 comments

mittens wrote 2 years ago: In the end, what we should pay attention to is not our thoughts in themselves, but what we think abo … more →

Tags: Metaphysical Pondering, et. al., musings, Philosophy, Vexations, Thoughts, appraising thoughts, Le Penseur


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