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Hero's Final Vigil Distances The distance between you-and-me is less than the ens and ems between these letters, yet in the minds’ eye, Planck’s scale grows too vast a chasm; illusion clouds tho… more →
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Tonight at The Menil Collection, WITS Students will Read Original Poetry Inspired by Art
Alex Gilbert wrote 6 months ago: This evening in The Menil Collection (1515 Sul Ross, 77006), Writers in the Schools (WITS) and The … more →
Distances
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bitterhermit wrote 8 months ago: Hero's Final Vigil Distances The distance between you-and-me is less than the ens and ems betw … more →
Rokeby Venus: Ekphrastic Sonnet
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bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: "Rokeby Venus" by Diego Velasquez c. 1650 What Within the Looking Glass? Is it truth y … more →
Agony: sonnet on a Ligozzi painting
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bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: "Agony" by Jacopo Ligozzi Gardens of Our Own Agony “The Kingdom is within you.” And Sata … more →
Death Would not Stop
bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: Prayer for the Dying Meditation on the Living Oh power behind the veil, to whom in hours of need a … more →
Sacrifices
bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: "Echo and Narcissus" by John William Waterhouse Beyond the Age of Sacrifice Just what God … more →
Question of Angels
bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: Where Have All Our Angels Gone? How is it we’ve come to see demons all around us, and yet our faith … more →
Soul War
bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: This Everlasting Battle How many faces you have, oh Tempter! In youth, you tempted from the yellow w … more →
Lover's Advice
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bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: Theseus on Saving Andromeda It was never about heroics. No, it was political and a matter of positio … more →
Each Verse a Vampiric Kiss
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bitterhermit wrote 1 year ago: "Dante and Virgil in Hell" William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1850 Each Verse a Vampiric Kiss Vir … more →
Of a naked lady: Sonnet 041007
bitterhermit wrote 2 years ago: Andromeda, on the Rocks What were you thinking at that moment? Here you were waiting for the whale—l … more →
