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Tag Archives: Literary
Virginia Woolf
Through a glass, darkly, splitting of selves by prism– Wide berth for one’s I.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged dark, glass, haiku, I, John Biscello, Literary, lyricial, Mirror, poem, Poetry, prism, reflection, room of one's own, virginia woolf, writer
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William Faulkner
Moon turning blood-red, tides roiling, writer signs crosses to stand Time’s test, sound and fury bridled through carnal lightning and soil of pen.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged crosses, genius, gothic, John Biscello, lightning, Literary, literature, lyricism, pen, poem, Poetry, script, sound and the fury, southern, time, timeless, william faulkner
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Birds
By whirling reams of papered birds, the writer’s flights, short-lived, earn the keep of dreams daringly emptied.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged art, birds, dreams, expression, flight, John Biscello, Literary, love, paper, passion, poem, Poetry, writers, writing, writing life
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Balm
To write a poem that demands nothing from anyone else, truly asks for nothing, except to become, is the purest placeholder for the Muse’s proferred balm.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged art, balm, become, creatvity, dreams, John Biscello, Literary, Muse, poem, Poetry, profer, writing
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In Praise of Dark and Light
Everyone’s dark is coming up and it isn’t going to be pretty, as well it shouldn’t be. Beauty, as a rugged force, as thorny swaths of dream-thistles, blooms through night-fasting, and respiring enclosures of dark. Beauty marks the hidden faith … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged brave new world, courage, creativity, dark, dawn, dreams, epic, faith, gospel, heart, John Biscello, Light, Literary, love, love poem, Poetry, praise, songs, sovereignty
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Thomas Wolfe
Locomotive-brained, roar and let of angels blood– Tracks vetting heaven.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged angels, haiku, Heaven, John Biscello, Literary, literature, locomotive, of time and the river, poem, Poetry, thomas wolfe, tracks
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Rilke
Consort of angels, intimacies unfettered– split man between worlds.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged angels, haiku, Heaven, John Biscello, Literary, love, myth, orpheus, poem, poet, Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke
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In Love and War
I dumped all my G.I. Joes out of the shopping bag and onto the pavement of the driveway. I separated the good guys from the bad guys, and then arranged them in specific positions. Before initiating a battle, or an … Continue reading
Death of a Super Hero
I was six when I found out I’d never become a super-hero. We were in the kitchen. Me, my mother, my father. My father’s hand was around my mother’s throat. He had a wild, bloodshot, not-there look … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged batman and robin, Brooklyn, death in the family, family, father, John Biscello, Literary, literature, mother, mourning, novel, Prose, story, super-hero
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John Biscello 