Category Archives: Experimental

This is my experimental blog.

Artist #3: Silvia Colombo

Photography is a beautiful form of art. The breathtaking and graceful scenes captured by the Italian artist Silvia Colombo is proof of this. As an amateur photographer and stamp maker from Italy, Colombo frequently makes flowers and fauna from nature her main subjects. Her … Continue reading

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Starting in the Middle of a Sentence and Rambling

–then the sun shines through when you ruffle your hair, and I don’t think you’ve even noticed how much of a difference you make with that smile and sparkle in your deep brown eyes — full of surprise, happiness, and laughter and everything about … Continue reading

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Describing a Photograph

Norway 102 by Polish photographer Maciej Duczynski A little more than half of the photograph features a still, open water lake.  The waters are perfectly calm — smooth and unwrinkled like glass and clear and reflective like a mirror of the cloud-dusted … Continue reading

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Heroic Simile

I. Your laughter is like a splash of cool ocean water, refreshing and sparkling with crystal clarity as a beautiful, cloudless day passes by under the summer sun. The ocean spray is swept up by the wind as dappled waves … Continue reading

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Objective Correlative Exercise

Eva would always remember the sun shining brilliantly and the birds chirping that beautiful day in June. As she waited by the bus stop for her 5 o’ clock ride home, she couldn’t help but notice the clear, pristine beauty of … Continue reading

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Give Me: An Anaphora With Imperatives

Here is my attempt! Note: A lot of these “give me” demands come from a list of virtues I found on Wikipedia… Give me the courage to speak up when something’s wrong. Give me the bravery to stand up for … Continue reading

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Yeti Found Literature

Here is my monster adaptation of a different excerpt from Wuthering Heights. In vapid listlessness, I leant my head against the window, and continued spelling over the events of the days past, till my eyes closed; but they had not rested … Continue reading

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Lipogram: My Floral Print Bag

A tiny bag sits in my room back in Philly. With a floral print and a thin ribbon wrapping around its top, this bag holds an array of surprising potpourri — odds and bits from my half-month studying abroad in Katsushika, Tokyo, Japan, … Continue reading

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A Dozen Days of Ice

Here is my abstract poem! (Based on the “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Five Dawn Skies” prompt.) A Dozen Days of Ice I Between four walls, I hear, before I see The draft of tinkering ice. II The water has … Continue reading

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Experimental: This I Believe

Here is my second version of This I Believe. I actually like the opening of this draft better than my first one, even though I poured hours into my “official” draft. For those of you who’ve read my main draft … Continue reading

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