marble bones
shuffle
as the ancient city
groans
“Rage Quake” by Meaghan Merrifield
Artwork by tareco
Tag: Arts
Top 5 Tuesday: Literary Works on Lust and Destruction
1.) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is”
2.) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
“Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
3.) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”
4.) Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
“The hell with this aching, suffering, callow, half-assed delusion that he was in “love” with her. The hell with “love” anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.”
5.) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
“They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.”
The Animal Inside
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.” Franz Kafka
Artwork by The White Deer
Flame
From Fiery Lakes
Her lust
ignites
the humid air
-Angie
Alive
fear and rage as raw as pain
dwell within the devil’s jungle
I was born of wicked waters
quaking in her red lagoon
cast away from ivory towers
stained with pearls of misery
wild blood
burns in my hands
unbound by heaven’s harmony
now
with fists that throb and howl
I will strike
for I am free.
-“Birth” by Angie Hoover-Hillhouse
Artwork by Deborah Stevenson:
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When We Fall
Whether we fall by ambition,
blood,
or lust
Like diamonds
we are cut with our own dust
by Joseph Webster
Artwork by Sammy Slabbinck
Animus
copper cricket
in the shadow
cursed with cheerful melody
all your chirping
deafens you
to blue notes
in your
memory
“Animus” by Angie Hoover-Hillhouse
Disturbingly Familiar
I can’t really put it into words.. but I like that there are so many recognizable pieces within it. .. Comforting and creepy at the same time. The pelvis- shape makes me think of birth and femininity … but the stark contrast between black and white and the sort of sharp but symmetrical corners give it an ominous feeling. Some elements are strong and warm, others seem tentative and reserved. It kind of looks the way I feel.
-Angie
The Show Tell Project 