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Welcome To Emerald Book Club
Welcome to Emerald Book Club! We are a community of book enthusiasts dedicated to exploring the world of literature together. Our club offers a space for readers of all genres to come together, share their love for books, and engage in meaningful discussions Who We...
Top Dark Humour Books
Who does not love a bit of dark humour ehh? Dark humor (also known as black humor or black comedy) is a style of comedy that treats serious, morbid, or taboo subjects with bitter amusement. The humor arises from the incongruity of finding amusement in grim topics such...
Ode Written On The First Of January
Ode Written On The First Of January by Robert Southey Come melancholy Moralizer—come!Gather with me the dark and wintry wreath; With me engarland now The SEPULCHRE OF TIME!Come Moralizer to the funeral song!I pour the dirge of the Departed Days, For well the funeral...
31st December
31st December Poem by Gajanan Mishra Last day of the year,Today,31st December, dear,I hope you all on this very day,Stay and enjoy without fear.Live a life of human beingWith compassion, forgiveAnd forget all for any action.Live a life with nectar, my dear,And see,...
December 31st by Marina
December 31st by Marina Gipps Black glove at my neck- the end of the year.Those lovers were soldiers, bed spies,bombs of leg losing, the mind dropping in one blow.Masters of bullets, sacred sabotage, reasons whyI listened to the radio blaring the sweet songof someone...
December 31st
December 31st by Richard Hoffman All my undone actions wandernaked across the calendar, a band of skinny hunter-gatherers,blown snow scattered here and there, stumbling toward a futurefolded in the New Year I secure with a pushpin: January’s picturea painting from the...
Word of the Day Infantilize
To infantilize means to treat someone as if they are a child—by underestimating their abilities, denying them autonomy, or speaking to them in a patronising manner—regardless of their actual age or competence. Infantilization is the prolonged treatment of someone as...
Mother To Son
Mother to Son by Langston Hughes Well, son, I'll tell you:Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.It's had tacks in it,And splinters,And boards torn up,And places with no carpet on the floor-Bare.But all the timeI'se been a-climbin' on,And reachin' landin's,And...
When Tomorrow Starts Without Me
When Tomorrow Starts Without Me By David Romano When tomorrow starts without meAnd I’m not here to seeIf the sun should rise and find your eyesAll filled with tears for meI wish you wouldn’t cryThe way you did todayWhile thinking of the many thingsWe did not get to...
Psalm 150 By Jericho Brown
Psalm 150 By Jericho Brown Some folks fool themselves into believing,But I know what I know once, at the heightOf hopeless touching, my man and I holdOur breaths, certain we can stop time or maybeEliminate it from our lives, which are shorter Since we learned to make...
On Saturday The Sandman Sets A Silver-Plate
On Saturday, The Sandman Sets A Silver-Plate On Saturday, I sleep in late;the sandman sets a silver-plateto lie around and contemplateand let my 'soles' somnambulate.Unloading heaps of heavy freightsupports me to fly featherweightand putz around, remodulate,I clean...
How To Acquire Peace
How To Acquire Peace Poem by Kumarmani Mahakul On changeable Earth human beings are wise,They want to perpetuate the progress in rise.Some vie in earning wealth to live happily,Attractive edifices they build to reside properly.To lead a prosperous life some are on...
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31st December
31st December Poem by Gajanan Mishra Last day of the year,Today,31st December, dear,I hope you all on this very day,Stay and enjoy without fear.Live a life of human beingWith compassion, forgiveAnd forget all for any action.Live a life with nectar, my dear,And see,...
December 31st by Marina
December 31st by Marina Gipps Black glove at my neck- the end of the year.Those lovers were soldiers, bed spies,bombs of leg losing, the mind dropping in one blow.Masters of bullets, sacred sabotage, reasons whyI listened to the radio blaring the sweet songof someone...
December 31st
December 31st by Richard Hoffman All my undone actions wandernaked across the calendar, a band of skinny hunter-gatherers,blown snow scattered here and there, stumbling toward a futurefolded in the New Year I secure with a pushpin: January’s picturea painting from the...
An Interview
An Interview by John B. Tabb I sat with chill DecemberBeside the evening fire."And what do you remember,"I ventured to inquire,"Of seasons long forsaken?"He answered in amaze,"My age you have mistaken;I've lived but thirty days."
December by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
December by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Only the sea intoning,Only the wainscot-mouse,Only the wild wind moaningOver the lonely house.Darkest of all DecembersEver my life has known,Sitting here by the embers,Stunned and helpless, alone—Dreaming of two graves lyingOut in the...
December by Rebecca Hey
December by Rebecca Hey As human life begins and ends with woe,So doth the year with darkness and with storm.Mute is each sound, and vanish'd each fair formThat wont to cheer us; yet a sacred glow—A moral beauty,—to which Autumn's show,Or Spring's sweet blandishments,...
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