Dear Eyes
Dear Eyes,I should have sheltered youfrom the things that seemed unseen,and I should have listened to you more.
But god help me if it was not also youwho showed me the ways of sin,and pointed my attentionto a place where a heart does not belong.
I...
Mirror
"A small wooden house near that sweet lake",that's what you said to mewhen I asked you what your dream was.
Now together we stand herenext to our wooden house,holding two cups of coffee,we stand together staring at each other.
Slowly, I placed my hand on your...
Enigma of Love
Frozen eyes and scattered lips, that’s all left in your portrait.
Unzipped
wounds of cruelty are stained by scarlet white.
Fragments of linen hold up a fragrance which pierces my nose.
In your eyes, I am seeing me, placid,
But
mine turns out to be empty.
You, the...
Scars of love
I just want to be loved.
A phrase that I’ve said way too many times. But what does love really mean?
Does it mean...
That look you get from your man across the way or all the snuggles your pet gives you when you come...
Photo series: A journey back home
The following is a photo series submitted by The Baron's photographer, Wolfgang Düchtel after traveling to his home country of Germany over the Holiday break.
Waves
it comes at night,
after soft, gruelling days.
like a tidal wave,
it rises and crashes over me:
dragging me under.
the current is much too
strong for me to fight.
so I will drown,
until somebody saves me.
Plywood and Duct Tape: Part II
It hit me full blast In an instant, Crack I fell It poured over me, Rushing and coursing. The hallucinations started to laugh as they took a fuller form, “Really?” One mocked. “You didn’t know what we were, Who we were?” I could...
The haunting of lateness
Sometimes do you ever feel like
Time is going too fast
You can’t catch up even if you try hard
Your best is only good enough for some people
Deadlines fall behind, stress enters in like a bad dream enters a child at night
You feel like you are...
Poor Things is a darkly humorous, offbeat take on the human condition
Satire films tend to vary in terms of their tone and content.
Get Out is a Jordan Peele horror flick about race relations with a horror angle. Knives Out is a murder mystery that deconstructs the upper-class hierarchy. Parasite is a black comedy suspense drama...
Movie Review: Old (2021)
The movie “Old” is based on the graphic novel "Sandcastle" by Pierre Oscar Levy and Fredrik Peeters, and one might wonder how Shyamalan comes across suspenseful stories like this. But, surprisingly, he also plays a prominent role in the movie. Most of the film...