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Tag Archives: mythology
Bluegrass
Music plays a significant role in both the construction and tone of None So Distant, with one of the sections, titled Jukebox, functioning as a mythical and conceptual music catalog. Below is one of the “songs” from Jukebox. BLUEGRASSOffbeat lonesome … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Cinema, photography, Poetry, Prose, Publications
Tagged america, excerpt, jukebox, lore, music, mythology, novel, Prose
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Lore and Order
We recall fondly. We recollect. The good old days in which we titled windmills redolently and rode dusty clanging boxcars across the horizontal spread of america What a lay we said hitching our pants sticking our peckers into every gopher … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged boxcar, lore, mythology, Poetry, Prose, train songs, tramp
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Odysseus and You
“This transformation is what all artists seek: to become like mythic heroes—Prometheus, Achilles, Odysseus, Aclestis, Athena—so that we mortals can see our fates reflected in their journeys as we do in the journeys described in ancient myths.” – Erica Jong … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Prose
Tagged erica jong, haiku, John Biscello, mythology, poem, voyage
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Living Mythology
“Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.” – Joseph Campbell Brokering the truest gold from the radiant core of melting mortal want, your life is … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged John Biscello, Joseph Campbell, marvels, mythology, poem, wonder
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The Last Furies
Completed draft of my fifth novel.
Posted in Books, photography, Prose, Publications, Uncategorized
Tagged book, dreamscaping, fifth novel, gratitude, John Biscello, mythology, novel, Surrealism, The Last Furies, the writing life
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Phoenix
Remembered to the calling of ashes, the lasting phoenix gives due form to a ceremony wakened by the leavings of wind.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged ash birthday, John Biscello, mythology, phoenix, poem, wind and fire
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Icarus, Remixed
I was Icarus with double-edged wings once upon a time. The dreamer’s big eyes, full of flames and longing, the impetuous nature, the jazz of my soaring, all of it defined me as the blaring antithesis to my dad’s son-proofed … Continue reading
Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Icarus, John Biscello, Matisse, mythology, poem, sun worship, the new myths, youth
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Viewfinder
Childhood is an ongoing historical fiction that changes based on who you are when you’re examining it. Who you are in certain periods and chapters in your life, determines what your childhood is. Was would imply that childhood is fixed … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged childhood, John Biscello, lore, mythology, no man's brooklyn
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Begin
No need for the past, living mythology, you, here and now, begin.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged begin, haiku, here and now, I, John Biscello, mythology, poem, self, soul, spirit
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