Read Time 4 minsAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin [1799-1837] Historians say, their opinions of course, that Pushkin with the way he used words may have emancipated the Russian language from its adolescent conventions […]
Isolation in Creation – The appendices
Read Time 8 mins Interview with Oft Beat Echo in 1983. Crooner were an independent band from Glasgow and still to this day keep their hand in for their long […]
Life in One Day
Read Time < 1 mins   When the moment is true, you will find a way, ‘No need to live your life in one day.’  In each breath, in each […]
Time to Come – Walt Whitman
Read Time < 1 mins O, Death! a black and pierce-less pall Hangs round thee, and the future state; No eye may see, no mind may grasp That mystery of fate. […]
One’s-Self I Sing – Walt Whitman
Read Time < 1 mins One’s-Self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor […]
O Me! O Life! – Walt Whitman
Read Time < 1 mins Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Of myself forever […]
What People Know
Read Time < 1 mins People talk about finding a safe place, Without much to offer, But I’m not sure how to help them. Maybe I should just move on, Until they […]
Oh Captain My Captain – Walt Whitman
Read Time < 1 mins O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells […]
Beat! Beat! Drums! – Walt Whitman
Read Time < 1 mins Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation, Into the school where the scholar […]