Tag: Poetry

Library A requires Python 3.6. Library B relies on Library A but needs Python 3.9, and Library C depends on Library B but requires the specific version of Library A that is compatible with Python 3.6. Welcome to dependency hell! Since native Python is rubbish without external packages for data...

I’ve been developing stuff for quite a while now and a good part of it was built using Python (on a Mac). More often than not, I get to help a friend or coworker to unf*** their Python environment because it “broke” somehow  Here is the setup I‘ve been using on macOS f...

it was so bizarre walking through a replica of a space I was so used to seeing only on a television screen — for years and years this space was like a new york city fantasy world, a sitcom reality — and to walk through it at full scale, it was fun and weird and trippy — t...

I want to share with you a collection of short poems that I’ve written, inspired by the captivating art pieces I come across on my Twitter feed. I call them my "pen pals" because they serve as my poetic responses to artwork that moves me. Twitter has become an incredible platform for...

It’s the second month of our themed poetry challenge! Yay! I’m ultra excited to share new, refreshing prompts with you, my lovely online family of talented writers! Last month we took a journey through the vast cosmos and befriended planets, stars and even de the sun itself! This mont...

Hey everyone! It’s the final countdown for the first month of our themed poetry challenge. All these celestial poems got us contemplating the mysteries of the Universe and reinforced the idea that we’re interconnected! Over the last three weeks I’ve come across some of the most ...

Afew years ago, I started experimenting with blackout poetry. Blackout poetry, sometimes called “erasure” poetry, is where the writer uses an existing text and “blacks out” or “erases” words on the page in order to create a new poem. The words that remain after th...

After the death of my beloved dog, it was suggested by my editor, Stephanie Dagg that I take up geocaching. A hobby to encourage me to get out-and-about, because without the dog, I’d stopped going for walks. Geocaching for those who don’t know, is a type of treasure hunting game played w...

When I came back from Dublin, I brought with me a new copy of Ulysses, which was a necessity. I haven’t started reading it yet because I don’t believe I am equipped enough to understand such a fragmented text and honestly I don’t want to give up somewhere in the middle. But I di...

I hadn’t slept well, tossing and turning over not having spoken to Jenny. Her messages, touching in the first instances, became less so as time went by, then downright angry. I was never good at explaining things, certainly around any weakness I might have, and hearing a woman threatening t...

The demon of poetry is of scent. The redolence of sin is the adolescent of poetry. What do you think? Alone is not with others. Obviously, we will be sad and abandoned. <What is more in Poe's Alone>Chi Keung Tang Edgar Allan Poe(Poe) tells us the infancy, childhood, and adolescent...

The morning after the blue moon My muse woke me and said: The first known poet was a woman of colour The first known poet is a woman of colour Listen — A man cancelled her A man put a stop to her words To her power And she called on her god And her god failed her Read More

Soviet literary history is notorious for its bloody purges, in which entire categories of intellectuals were erased from history. Yet compared to the purges of Georgian poets during 1921 and 1931, the Great Purge of 1937 was extreme, due to the number of the poets who were executed, as well as the a...

Inthe gentle whispers of the breeze Escucha, mi amor Let me guide you with ease Para amarme bien Here’s what you must know Escucha mi corazón, let it flow First, listen closely to my silent cries En mis palabras, encuentras mi alma, my guise Visit Now