Day: March 24, 2018
Six Word Stories #32
For you, I’m always offline, jackass.
by TETIANA ALEKSINA
© All rights reserved 2018
davidbrucehaiku: time
https://pixabay.com/en/time-time-management-stopwatch-3222267/
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TIME
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So much I must do
I should die when I am done
I may die sooner
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davidbrucehaiku: legacy
https://pixabay.com/en/day-of-the-dead-candles-graves-204544/
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LEGACY
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Death is coming soon
Whether I want it or not
What’s my legacy?
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Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist: A Retelling in Prose
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John Ford’s The Broken Heart: A Retelling
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HAIKU: MY REBEL HEART
Siegfried Sassoon: The One-Legged Man
https://pixabay.com/en/sports-football-amputation-handicap-2706937/
Propped on a stick he viewed the August weald;
Squat orchard trees and oasts with painted cowls;
A homely, tangled hedge, a corn-stalked field,
And sound of barking dogs and farmyard fowls.
And he’d come home again to find it more
Desirable than ever it was before.
How right it seemed that he should reach the span
Of comfortable years allowed to man!
Splendid to eat and sleep and choose a wife,
Safe with his wound, a citizen of life.
He hobbled blithely through the garden gate,
And thought: ‘Thank God they had to amputate!’
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Christopher Marlowe: Helen of Troy (from Doctor Faustus)
Source: Evelyn de Morgan, “Helen of Troy” (1898 painting)
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss…
Her lips suck forth my soul; see where it flies! — …
Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars;
Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter
When he appear’d to hapless Semele:
More lovely than the monarch of the sky
In wanton Arethusa’s azured arms:
And none but thou shalt be my paramour.
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Note: “Ilium” is another name for Troy.
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