𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: "𝑽𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑬𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔" - 𝑳𝒆 𝑮𝒖𝒊𝒏

What does it mean to embrace "Other"? And how might we understand carpe diem if we truly had "world enough and time?" Le Guin shows us in her famous science fiction short story.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/vaster-than-empires-le-guin/

#podcast #shortstory #ursulakleguin #allusion #vasterthanempiresandmoreslow #sciencefiction #sf #scifi #allusion #ecology #environment #other #colonialism #anarchy #andrewmarvell #tohiscoymistress

Comme chantait François Pérusse :

« Le soleil
Qui fait qu'les femmes s'habillent à moitié
Le soleil
Qui fait qu'on a les yeux tout plissés »

#chanson #allusion #soleil #printemps

Hozier was so real for opening Unreal Unearth with De Selby pts 1 and 2.

Part 1 is haunting as fuck (and partially in IRISH) and Part 2 is a straight up banger.

We refer to De Selby in our song “Just In Time”: https://candyfortrees.bandcamp.com/track/just-in-time

-Allēna

#originalsong #allusion

#allusion #originalsong

"My Preference"

If what it means is to aspire
I’ve tasted nothing of desire,
And now I see the end approaching.
The burning bush is fast encroaching
But no one seems to notice. Still…
I didn’t think it’d be until
Much later that we paid this price.
And I would’ve much preferred ice.

#poetry #smallpoems #poetrycommunity #environment #future #wildfire #smoke #endoftheworld #futility #dispair #allusion #robertfrost

Expanded from a little stanza posted yesterday:

#vss365 #plums #plum #poetry #poem #quatrain #shortpoems #metaphor #symbolism #allusion #poets #poet #love #life #loss #WilliamCarlosWilliams #emilydickinson #TSEliot #PabloNeruda #WaltWhitman #RobertFrost

Despite the lucky hand that I’d been dealt,
I cowered at the beating of the drums.
And now I’ll never know the feeling felt
When William Carlos Williams ate the plums.

#vss365 #plums #plum #poetry #poem #quatrain #shortpoems #metaphor #symbolism #allusion #WilliamCarlosWilliams #poets #poet #love #life #loss

I sit upon the tyrant’s throne,
Enjoying as my very own
His riches and his worldly pleasures.
But he has taken extra measures
To make sure my experience
Is more than wine and decadence,
Suspending, just above my head,
A sharpened sword by single thread.

#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #poetrycommunity #legend #history #literature #ancientrome #ancientgreece #classics #allusion