[wolf-ies]

(nevermind the clip, just listen lol) Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening by ROBERT FROST Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sounds the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. - The poem is made up of four stanzas, each with four stressed syllables in iambic meter. Within an individual stanza, the first, second, and fourth lines rhyme. The speaker tells us that it's 'the darkest evening of the year,' and the darkness, the isolated spot, and the cold, frozen lake don't sound like a very inviting place to stop and commune with one's own thoughts. The poem can be seen in different perspectives. A darker interpretation of the poem addresses exhaustion in life and longing for death. This poem can be interpreted in any other way, as per usual, different reader, different mind, different perspective. The poem literally talks about a person who stopped by the woods on a snowy evening (yes, i know, the title says that) But as what I have said, on a deeper interpretation, it talks about depression, sadness, death. But who knows, right? That's the nice thing about poems, no one knows exactly what's going on unless the author said so. With this being said, good bye and have a good life.

[wolf-ies]

There are a lot of people who die and suffer because of starvation. Are we brave enough to help each and every one of them? Has it ever crossed our mind that we are so blessed? No matter what happens, they’re humans, we’re humans. We need help, they need help. What can we do to make this world a better place?

The author describes what is currently, has been, and still happening in our world. Every person needs our help. The author used persuasion in a very nice and formal way. The author might have played with our minds but either way, it’s true. We can be convinced, we can be persuaded. The author states different facts and statistics about everyone who suffer because of starvation. Do we really care about the others? Just like what the author said, even some states in America suffer from starvation. This is our world. Every human needs another human’s help.

When it comes to arguments, persuasion and conviction is really important. You need to play on the readers’ feeling and emotions. Not only that, but you need to state different facts that can make the readers’ believe you. You cannot just use persuasion alone, without conviction.

[difficult]

I wonder if you ever talked about me to someone.

(via difficult)

[mademoisellerika]

School taught me To make poems rhyme Tumblr taught me That the most beautiful poems Don’t contain even a single Line that sounds the same As the next

[mademoisellerika]

The ocean is so selfish 
that it takes back all the waves 
it sends to the shore.

The ocean is so possessive 
that it takes even the waves 
that have mated with the sand.

I am the ocean, 
the all of you is mine.

[mademoisellerika]

There is a reason why skin is the first line of defense against a disease. When a virus finds its way inside, it can crawl almost anywhere from your pipe-tight arteries to your significantly visible veins, and maybe even cross through a lucky little pathway leading to your silly organs you might as well have sold in eBay.

It can travel the long route to your brain and unravel each secret until you wish for it to break down on its own walls. It can push through all the blood and plant a home in every corner of you heart. Where you expected roots will be dozens of holes, and I tell you, you will feel every pang of pain, but you won’t have anything to clutch on to anymore when you feel it, because the virus has managed to pull off your heart that you will wish you tore off on your own. It can follow the flow of gravity, all the way down to your leg, right leg, left leg, it does not matter, it won’t be of use anymore. It will make it go numb and turn your own limb against you.

Never let a virus get under your skin. It should be easier this time. This is a new era, no longer are microscopes necessary to identify one: a virus is a walking, talking, breathing human. Do not let them get under your skin.

Brush it all off. Their words.Their thoughts. That’s right. Pat them all away. You’re wearing a suit and it’s too expensive for them to even dare to touch.

They’re just virus, the only way for them to damage you is if you let them.

[mademoisellerika]

My Love Letter to Nobody

We were just a goddamn phrase.

We were not a subject and a predicate. We did not have the subject-verb agreement like all the other sentences. We were either both a confused subject, or both a lengthy predicate. And that was the thing: we never made sense. We didn’t have to know that from the people around us, we both knew it: we were doomed from the start. But we still continued, didn’t we? We still existed.

People could never figure us out. Never. What is it about the subject? Where’s the direct object? Who is this description referring to? We would laugh about their monotone way of reading whenever they tried to read us. It didn’t have the usual upscale tone from the questions or the panicked faces that came with exclamations. Or even just the mere certainty of sentences ending in dots. We didn’t care. Let them read if they wanted to read, we said.

“It’s a phrase, stop trying to figure it out, it’s just that, a phrase does not mean anything,” they would dismiss us. We were a phrase, we were not a complete thought. People told us that all the time that it has become a solid humming to our dazed ears.

But that was the thing. The humming finally reached my ears close enough for me to make out the words.

We co-existed, and your words danced with mine and we were together. But we didn’t mean anything. And the funny thing is, we didn’t have the need to mean anything. YOU didn’t have the need to MAKE it mean something, or well, anything. Because we were a phrase right? And this was all just a phase? Phrases didn’t have any meaning. You took that in stride.

I wanted FOR us to have something TO us. I wanted us to mean something. I wanted it to be complete, I wanted us to be in the way I type these words right now: certain, vowed, inked, permanent. With a dot.

The thing with sentences is they’re a done deal. And no matter how much I wanted us to be together for certain, we were only a goddamn phrase:

other people you me other people

We didn’t have dots in us, and that was the problem. Other people could be added on both ends. We were a goddamn extended line. And I wanted us to be a segment. I wanted boundaries. I wanted to be a sentence with you.

That never happened. That may still happen. Who knows?

It could mean we will never get our story, or it could just mean that our story is just taking a longer time to be written, or maybe this was all there was to the story. I can imagine the tv reports: a person, 16, starts a fire in another human being but I am afraid to say that they cannot be together or they could become a natural calamity for all the others around them. Maybe, the story stops here. I do not know when the beginning started, or if this is the end, all I do know is that everyday with you has been my climax. There is no rising or falling action to you, you keep me on my toes, you are my rollercoaster on your own. Maybe we aren’t even supposed to be a story, just a prelude. Maybe all we were supposed to be was a phrase.

Just a goddamn phrase.

But you know what? I am terribly lucky to be even in the same line as you, so really, it has been a pleasure being a phrase with you, even if people couldn’t figure us out, even if they couldn’t understand. All we really needed was the comfort that even without the usual capitalizations or norms, even if we were just a phrase, we could stand on our own without anything or anybody else.

We were just a goddamn phrase. We didn’t make sense, but we didn’t have to, to fall in love.

[mademoisellerika]

So I write this to you, but you would never know, because you never stared enough to see the way I would smile every time I heard your name. You never listened enough to hear the giggles that escape every time you speak, when you’re not even funny.

If only you cared enough, maybe then you’d know, you were in every story I told. I could write out a million poems, and you would never know. Much less, that they were about you.

[wolf-ies]

do you ever just sit there and realize that you mean nothing to anyone and you start feeling like shit

[voturs]

[nomenu]

[meatpower]

[wolf-ies]

Amazing Greece

“There’s no place like home”, they said. But wouldn’t you feel at home if you were in this place? Yes, you guessed it, it’s Greece! We may know Greece as the country with unique letters and words they use in fraternities and sororities… On a serious note, isn’t this country amazing and gorgeous? Where democracy originated and developed? Where the gods and goddesses we read in books- came from? And who does not want to learn and understand the Greek alphabet? Nobody, right? I guess so.. Come with me on a journey to Greece! (virtually) This country has always held a special place in my heart.

Did you know that an old Greek legend says that when God created the world, he sifted all the soil onto the earth through a strainer? After every country had good soil, he tossed the stones left in the strainer over his shoulder and created Greece. Thousands of birds stop in Greece’s wetlands on their migrations. As many as 100,000 birds from Northern Europe and Asia spend their winters there! How cool is that? Plus, Greece is one of the most mountainous countries in Europe.

According to Greek Mythology, Athena and Poseidon agreed that whoever gave the city the best gift would become guardian over the city. Though Poseidon gave the gift of water, Athena’s gift of an olive tree was deemed by other gods to be more valuable. Are you a fan of Percy Jackson? If yes, I guess Greece is already on your bucket list.

Greece enjoys more than 250 days of sunshine- or 3000 sunny hours- a year. Good for those who want to be tan! Greece is the leading producer of sea sponges, except for Spongebob Squarepants, of course. Greece has more archaeological museums than any other country in the world. Greece… Greece… Greece.. Need I say more? The name of the country speaks for itself!

(above is a picture of Santorini, Greece)

[finelineharry]

[annereadsanddances-deactivated2]

There are lots of interesting places to visit. The world will never run out of them—but if you are looking around for one unforgettable vacation destination, I suggest you go somewhere with not just having scenic spots to offer. Go somewhere you can experience the richness of its inhabitants’ culture – with that, I have one very viable suggestion to make: Greece.

Perhaps you have seen quite a number of movies shot in the majestic beaches aside from the thousands of celebrity selfies taken using Mykonos island as a backdrop – but the allure of the place does not only lie on those. If you want to visit a place with a rich culture and interesting history, Greece is definitely the place to be.

It is fascinating how after hundreds of thousands of years, people are still fascinated by the ancient Greeks. In fact,  with all the readings we had in the English class, I have come to appreciate the ancient Greeks. In an archipelago of rough terrains and climate started one of the most significant civilizations. Ranging from culture, arts, traditions and philosophical beliefs – the influence of Ancient Greece is vast as it is enduring. After hundreds of thousands of years, it is safe to say that the Western world is built on the Greek ways and practices. And, there are different aspects that I more than interested to talk about to entice you to go to Greece and learn more about the place.

 Literature

Perhaps one of the most notable contributions of the Greeks would be their fascinating stories of Mythology. Who does not know and is not entertained by the adventures of Hercules, the conquests of Jason and the Argonauts, and even the infidelities of Zeus?

In the ancient times, as religion is heavily embedded in the lives of each Greek, they have come to weave and tell each other stories of how their deities lived. Though they may be anthromorphic or made to behave just like humans do, I think that these stories are made to not only remember and make each deity real but also to teach values. I think that the mythology and legends made by a civilization gives us a glimpse of the life of their lifestyle.  We can have a glimpse of what they hold dear, most proud of or even condemn.

Aside from the legends and mythology tales of the deities and the heroes, other works of literature have also captured the imagination of the modern world. These include the poems and epic stories written over hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Culture and Beliefs

Though the Greeks have a lot of strange practices or traditions considered as taboo nowadays, their ways weren’t as different as that of the modern men. In fact, the main philosophy of the Greeks is very simple. They believed in the four cardinal virtues governing the aspects of a human life: physical courage, temperance, justice and wisdom. The ancient Greeks valued simplicity and patience at all times. They believed that one should live without arrogance nor vulgarity. Justice is also essential as it assures order as each citizen obey laws and rules. Wisdom involves intellectual pursuit aesthetically, socially and morally.  Courage is valued not mainly in the form of physical strength as each individual is groomed to become a soldier (at least for the men). In a country that ambitiously expands its territory and goes on battles with the different nations, boys are groomed early to be learned in the aspect of war craft.

Another fascinating thing about the ancient Greeks is their extreme sense of competition. The Greeks used to engage in a lot of debates, symposia and other meetings where they can talk about things and be able to exchange ideas to improve their ways of living. They constantly think of ways on how they can get ahead. Aside from mulling over and challenging new ideas, they also show an extreme sense of competition by valuing “winning” over anything else. Their culture thrives and has put emphasis on being the best, whilst staring down on losing.

Truly, the ancient Greeks are an interesting bunch of people. No wonder the modern world is still fascinated of them. If you are the kind of tourist who does not only consider the scenery as a sell out to visit the place but also looks into learning about its rich culture follow my heed.  

Visit Greece and experience its glory.

[yousefxo]

[faeriest]