I sang during the night in early June
Song You’re wondering if I’m lonely: OK then, yes, I’m lonelyas a plane rides lonely and levelon its radio beam, aimingacross the Rockies*for the blue-strung aislesof an airfield on the ocean You want to ask, am I lonely?Well, of course, lonelyas a woman driving across countryday after day, leaving behindmile after milelittle towns she might […]
Everything was a blur around her, as in every other day. As a kiwi, she wasn’t able to see things further than the tip of her beak. But from experience she knew that it was dark. It was always like this since she was brought here. From Kella’s exploration in the past days, her long […]
Inspired by Lights out, who’s there?Watch here 11 pm, her normal bedtime. She filled herself a glass of water on the dining table. Swallowing, she felt the sound of water sliding down her throat. After finishing she looked around. Things were strangely quiet in an eerie way. She shivered. She had graduated from university three months […]
It was a growing line that never moved forward. It seemed inevitable for the line to grow thicker, thicker, and eventually filling up the room. You got to go into that door if you wait in the line, but not always, only when you have a full wallet in your pocket. It was a sunny […]
How does Tim Winton use plot to engage readers in the social concern(s) of ‘On Her Knees’? Initially, there is an individual vs. society conflict, as Vic’s mother was always patronized by her employers, who had taken her for granted and were trying to chip her rate down, even though she had got a good […]
Blessing is a poem written by Imtiaz Dharker in 1989 from a typical Mumbai slum scene. War Photographer is written by Carol Anne Duffy in 1985, inspired by her photographer friend who recently returned from a war-torn foreign country. The two poems use techniques that are sometimes similar and sometimes widely different. Overall, the images […]
This code is to find out the 3-digit numbers that have their digits add up to 9. The problem was originated from the “Problem of the week” from the university of Waterloo. The original question is stated here: https://www.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/resources/potw/2019-20/English/POTWD-19-NA-02-P.pdf The digit positive integer is the sum of all of its digits. For example, the digit sum […]
by Carol Anne Duffy In his dark room he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows. The only light is red and softly glows, as though this were a church and he a priest preparing to intone a Mass. Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass. He has a […]
To see the poem on the original website The gates are chained, the barbed-wire fencing stands,An iron authority against the snow,And this grey monument to common senseResists the weather. Fears of idle hands,Of protest, men in league, and of the slowCorrosion of their minds, still charge this fence. Beyond, through broken windows one can seeWhere […]
