journey one must take to find independence, moral clarity, healthy living and a voyage of imagination. Authors of poems and short stories from this time period try to meet different characteristics of American romanticism, examples of their literature include, “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving, “Old Ironsides” and “chambered Nautilus” by Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Tide Rises, Tide Falls” and “Cross of Snow” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and lastly, “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen Bryant. These individual
After Nine days of constant grieving for her missing son, Michael, old Maurya is fallen into a restless sleep. Her daughter, Cathleen, is busy with household tasks, when another daughter, Nora, slips quietly into the kitchen with a bundle given her by the young priest. It contains part of the clothes taken from the body of a drowned man far in the north. They have been sent to the family for identification, since the
However, geopolitics took a different turn when Mozambique became free nation in 1975, a year after the dam’s completion. Expectedly, South Africa, one time partner and co-beneficiary, began instigating rebels in the former colony who, among other attacks, sabotaged the dam and power lines. Meanwhile, in 1976, West Germany entered into a joint venture in working the Rössing Uranium Mine in South Africa. Jason Verber, Stopping the River without Stemming the Tide: West Germany, the Cahora Bassa Dam, and
third eye, anger is lost. With third eye all that uncanny is lost and love is secured. “Life is bless and Love is bliss”, is a devotion to that very complex ‘Life’ and that choice offered ‘Love’. Each one of the poetry has within itself a story to tell; a story that speaks of parts of life and its love. And if the poetry is read together it speaks of a tale, the tale of human life. It is an ‘ode’; an ode to all those seeing souls.
Frankie Fipps Joy in the Midst of my Pain By: Lakella L. Taylor God give me the strength I need to go on My heart is wailing, sorrowful My soul lies driven in by the tide of despair. Lord lift up my heart; lift up my soul, save me From my affliction and pain. For great is my love for thee. For thy art my joy in the midst of my pain. A Piece of Art By: Lakella L. Taylor A piece