Kathleen Battle singing “O Mio Babbino Caro.” (Gianni Schicchi)
Lyrics:
O mio babbino caro,
Mi piace, e bello bello,
Vo andare in Porta Rossa
A comperar l anello!
Si,si ci voglio andare
e se l amassi indarno
andrei sui Ponte Vecchio
ma per buttaarmi in Arno!
Mi struggo e mi tormento!
O Dio, vorrei morir!
Babbo, pieta, pieta!
Babbo, pieta, pieta!
Translation
Oh my dear daddy
I love him, he is [...]
Well-written blog posts are mini essays. Some are lyric, some are personal, others didactic, and still others bombastic. By and large, most bloggers write in the first person, and include details of their personal life on the page. Isn’t that how the word blog came about? Writers recorded tidbits of their lives in the form [...]
to restore a Mrs.
then he was gone. Then he was legend, language
lugging his fretful love
holding each other’s coat sleeves we slid down
I heard his mother’s crazy song. I breathed
of a man’s strength under the sleeve of his coat
in a shawl of fine air, healed, able
Gone home. Gutted the place. Slept in a single cot
on the [...]
Joseph Campbell said
Follow your bliss, and doors will open where once there were no doors.
This statement has proven true for me when it comes to writing. Last year I was taking an online creative writing class through a local college, when I decided to submit a short essay I had written. Enter Long Story Short, [...]
As a schoolteacher, my doppelganger, Lucy La Verde (sketch by mariacristina)
The following passage is a 10-minute free-write I just completed, based on the writing topic presented on red Ravine. Read ybonsey’s free-write here.
I am typing the words exactly as I wrote them in my journal.
Taking a risk: calling myself a poet
Being a writer is [...]
