Prose

Üzeyir Lokman ÇAYCI, 16 august 2014

ISTANBUL

The dock birds
pull me to the sea
like I am pulled to suffering,
to Istanbul, that wrings sorrows
that fall on me.
Solitude without you.

In this obscure city,
my blood clotting,
I am snowed under with dreams.
The wide streets accentuate your absence.
Istanbul takes me from city (... więcej)

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Tinker Bell, 29 july 2014

The Only Girl On Which The Spell Worked

It was unusual. She wasn’t mean or jealous or, ever said anything bad about others. But the wrong thing happened when she looked in that large round-shaped beautiful mirror that hung in the room for so many years. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t look away.

It spoke to her (... więcej)

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TOUFIQ UL ALAM, 4 july 2014

Interpretation of 'The Woodpile' by Robert Frost

Frozen = lifeless, death, colorless, empty.
Swamp = a low lying land seasonally flooded and has woody trees.
Gray = colorless, old, lifeless, decaying.
A small bird = personification of nature.
The uniformly cut pile of wood = symbol of industrialism, charmless and dead uniformity of machine. (... więcej)

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TOUFIQ UL ALAM, 3 july 2014

About Robert Frost's After 'Apple-Picking'

Apple= the fruit of knowledge, sin, fall of man, temptation, immortality.
Ladder to heaven = Jacob's ladder.
Winter = everything dies in winter. it is a symbol of death....
Night = is the absence of Light or Good, it seems evil and dark. Presence of ignorance.

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The poem starts off with (... więcej)

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TOUFIQ UL ALAM, 3 july 2014

My understanding of 'Mending Wall' by Robert Frost

Wall = symbol of boundary, limitation, lack of freedom, conservativeness

It is in the nature of humans to be possessive and create a personal circle into which they do not want someone else to come and go as they please. They have in their nature a sort of secrecy and definiteness and they like (... więcej)

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TOUFIQ UL ALAM, 18 june 2014

On a rainy day

It had been drizzling from the morning. It is not that I hate it. But drizzle over a long period of time seems too depressing to me. I do not know- but today a dark and gloomy emotion is stirring my heart to no ends. My eyes are wet with tears.
I close my eyes I discover my consciousness afloat in the (... więcej)

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Scott Clark, 9 june 2014

Personality

“Much of personality is developed from our meditation of what people think about us and how much we are concerned about that and our reaction to our conclusions.”

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Scott Clark, 9 june 2014

Life is....

“Life is a complication of polycentric environments whose dominance is obtained through Eminent Influence.”

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Scott Clark, 9 june 2014

Anything is Reasonable

Anything can be made to seem reasonable; mathematics, philosophy and religion are instigators of this. Their disciples will hide all their mistakes. They will only admit to their successes and never to their failures. It’s like their followers are all in some quasi-demented state of believing only (... więcej)

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Stephen J. Vattimo, 28 may 2014

Terminator Chicken

Two friends are trying to decide which grocery store they should go to , to do their weekly food shopping.
One say to the other, " I think we should shop at a whole foods store,be cause their meat come from animals that were raised with out the use of steroids ."
Other guy asks his (... więcej)

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