To The Lighthouse By Virginia Woolf: Among The Best Reads I Had In 2021. Outrageously Well Written And

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf: among the best reads I had in 2021. Outrageously well written and heavily reflective. The book feels feels like touching one's wounds with grace. Absolutely recommendable and reread-worthy.

Adonis, tr. by Khaled Mattawa, Selected Poems

There is poetry in the silence

that ensues between two intimate souls, which either dies or is often misinterpreted by the needfulness for consistency of speech. Where love happens, silence is also a language of intimacy, but sadly, it's always a unwanted guest. Lovers tend to rely on, to depend on language, on speech more than ever so that they bring forth evidence for the love they bear for each other. And now that it's the age of social media, the era of over-communication, Lovers seem to lose gradually the notion of silence, of speechlessness, of muteness, of the quiet that roams between their bodies which every time it tries to outwin their speech to speak their minds louder in ways they cannot with language; it shrinks, it's beaten and defeated so almost exiled.

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(The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald.)

(Artwork by Clive Smith.)

Your absence took my sense of articulation,

I no longer know how to make sense of what I feel.

I falter , I err, and I lapse,

My mouth only mumbles the language of exile and entropy,

And now I've become a misinterpreted ghost.

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It's late night, late that I should be sleeping and ready this body for tomorrow but grabbing a book, turning pages, reading Kafka anytime, anywhere is no sin.