Netpoetry #4
He: I'm very eclectic; She: Did you just say black chick?
Author: kamiel79
Pope vs. Trump
Pope Francis has stated that "avoiding pregnancy" (as opposed to abortion) is not an absolute evil, and spoke out in favor of the use of contraceptives to avoid the spread of the Zika virus. In the case of certain other viruses, he added, contraception is not only an understandable decision but one that could count on God's ...
Robert Creeley (1926-2005)
This poem by Robert Creeley perfectly fits Bernie Sander's campaign.
“I want, if older, / still to know / why, human, men / and women are / so torn, so lost / why hopes cannot / find a better world / than this.”
Canned Laughter
the day I found out
that god didn't exist
was like any other day
I was eating the apple
during school break
observed by the boys that
would steal my glasses
I could not imagine back then
that the laughing you hear
when you watch tv
isn't real
the problem with democracy is that the people refuse to believe they are the people
je werkt aan een paper en schrijft een poem
zonder je moedertaal is alles gloem en doem
Two poems of Tomas Tranströmer
I discovered, through Facebook, the 2011 Swedish Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer. Here are two of his poems in translation: The Couple They switch off the light and its white shade glimmers for a moment before dissolving like a tablet in a glass of darkness. Then up. The hotel walls rise into the black sky. The ...
netpoetry #3
My French boyfriend cheated on me. What does that mean for our relationship? Cull the sack.
Kusje of kopstoot
Carnaval hier in Setúbal, de gezellige onderlip van Lissabon die door de crisis een flinke oplawaai heeft gekregen, is een gemoedelijke samenkomst van clowns en verklede kindertjes. Er is een goochelaar op het podium die op de maat van muziek van Star Wars een krant uit elkaar scheurt om deze vervolgens onder applaus weer open ...