Tag: literature
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Career Change?: 7 Books You Need To Read
The 7 best books to inspire and guide you through career change Making the decision to change career paths is no walk in the park. I myself have found structure and strategy in making career decisions through a range of literary sources. Below are 7 books I would best recommend to anyone who, like myself…
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Book Review – Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Book Review – Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl Having read this book, I now understand why it has sold over 9 million copies. This tribute to hope against adversity should be testament to the human mind’s astonishing capabilities. Unlike alot of wishy washy self-help books, Frankl’s psychological account provides reason in the…
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Insecure
Insecure I get insecure. Sometimes. I don’t know how to look you in the eye. Days go by where I just want to lie in my bed and hide. Tell me, Are we all just suffering inside? Please let me know I’m not alone in my struggles. I get nervous, I get anxious. But…
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The Poetry of War
Below are two poems I have written which I may enter into an upcoming competition The competition challenges the writer to explore the concept of national identity, by responding to how it is portrayed in the works of WWII Poets. I chose Timothy Corsellis’ poem – News Reel of Embarkation The antagonism between fighting for…
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Poem – Lost
Lost I feel lost sometimes. Like I don’t fit in. And yet I don’t want to stand out. I just bear and grin. A broken doll. Is an appearance I feel from within. But I shouldn’t always play the victim, life is kind to me at times. I only wish I wasn’t just as…
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Poem: Wait
That dank smell still lingers, Lost in the lustre of your memory I refigure A life without you, I just don’t want delivered. Why did you say goodbye when byes are never good I feel lost more now than ever Yet back then somehow I understood That for you to return Would be a wish…
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Poem: Rorrim
I control you. From the cradle to the grave, I will own you. You can smell me, hold me, taste me, lose me. Yet you cannot refrain from the goal to retain me. You lie to everyone about me, conduct deceitful acts to earn me, learn for me, learn from me, either way, like…
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Poem – Lost
Below is a poem I wrote in a state of confusion one evening. I was at a loss with what my purpose in life should be. Frustrated that I had so many thoughts in my mind yet took so little action: Lost I feel lost, There’s a voice in my head that can never be…
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2nd Place Poem – End Hunger UK – ‘A Closed Fist’
‘A Closed Fist’ – a spin on the meaning to hurt someone. A closed fist can be a punch but it could also be inferred to as a hand that is not offering food and therefore hurting someone by starving them. I wanted the poem to show how it’s essential to be kind to one another. Afterall you never know where someone might be in their…
The Neon Squid 