JLT's latest activity

It should be noted that FitzGerald made a rather free translation of the original, which doesn't (or shouldn't) detract from the value...

The Lanyard By Billy Collins The other day I was ricocheting slowly off the blue walls of this room, moving as if underwater from...

And another, by Rudy Francisco: Mercy She asks me to kill the spider. Instead, I get the most peaceful weapons I can find. I take a...

A favourite, by Michael Donaghy: Machines (2000) Dearest, note how these two are alike: This harpsichord pavane by Purcell And the...

A thought on art from Ralph Waldo Emerson that's got me thinking: "Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art."...

Below is a page out of An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days – which reads like a call to artists to their art. Two...

Heh. Well, you won't find the first meaning unless you're reading/writing about old-fashioned coal-powered trains, of course, 'cos it's...

Today I learned that blindness provides some kind of protection against schizophrenia. No person born blind has ever been diagnosed...

Welcome to the forum! Lots of thought-provoking stuff on the writing process.

Maybe I am reading this wrong, but I never would have got through losing my husband without my family. In my experience, it's not that...

I love this. And even when you do realize that you have experienced true love, it still holds a lot of mystery. Not in the love itself...

I figured out a little bit more about why the "tomboy" trope doesn't sit well with me. It's based on the outmoded notion that to be...

Well I forget 97% of them. Sometimes I just wake up with the echo of a strong emotion, like sorrow. Common as a child were reoccurring...

*snorts* I've definitely been guilty of some good ones in my lifetime, but "one-eyed goat" is.... let's just say context clues didn't...

This thread needs a bump: "My life closed twice before its close— It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me So...