What do Bob Dylan's 2020 song 'Murder Most Foul' and John Milton's 1638 poem 'Lycidas' have in common anyway?
Poetry
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planet is tired...
The Serene Nazarene
And so I always go/Skipping up Calvary...
The Dying Wit
"O what a bitter jest it is," complained the dying wit...
Kells Surprise (Book of Kells Competition Entry)
Here's my entry to Trinity College Dublin's Book of Kells Creative Competition 2018. Inexplicably, it didn't win...
homer weinstein (Draft)
when agamemnon was the king women would sit at home...
Syrian Pastoral
So say you had a farm outside Aleppo...
The Last Post (A Georgic Blog Epilogue)
—Thus I sang the fields of change, the flocks of self,/While Tsar Trump thundered war across a continent...
On the Afterlife (You know, the thing that comes after the Beforedeath)
Oh there’ll be no forty maidens,/Cloud-clad angels, sainted bliss...
What’s the weather, Wystan?
Nothing happens. Ireland’s/(Her weather still) peaceful...