girls like me don’t find comfort in bedsheets or city streets the refuge does not come from the outside world, not for someone who has everything they need within the warmth of their skin. there[…]
Category: Alysha
a funeral for my childhood
The following is a polished poem inspired by Pablo Neruda’s, ” I Explain A Few Things”. I took the themes of destruction and death and instead mourned the loss of my innocence and childhood, the[…]
Catching Mist
Prompt: The ways in which individuals deal with the prospect of an uncertain future. Response to Marco Antonio’s photograph. Theme statement: When an individual is only exposed to uncertainty, they will often be fearful of the[…]
The Dream of a Salesman
The ways in which individuals take responsibility for themselves or others. The American Dream, though defined variously for each individual, is often equated to striking success in both one’s personal and financial life. For some,[…]
An Honourable Woman – Polished Critical
Discuss the ideas developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the ways in which individuals struggle to restore honour and certainty to their lives. A woman is expected to be three things:[…]
Lust for Destruction
My dearest Ophelia, you and I are the same. Pouring love down the throats of men who spit our nectar back at us, Licking their plates of affection clean trying to taste something other[…]
Ophelia: Character Perspective (Alysha, Yasmeen, Shyla)
Ophelia’s Pursuit of Honour & Certainty QUOTATION “When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like a while they bore her up,[…]
The Artist’s Addiction
This free choice poem was inspired by the idea that all art forms are an addiction to the artist. This addiction is what allows them to thrive creatively and excel in their art forms, but[…]
Blanche Dubois & Dorian Gray – A Love Affair Carved From Illusion
Blanche Dubois – a ruined Antebellum with the incapability to separate realism from her fantasy world of candlelight and magic. Dorian Gray – a beautiful, yet self destructive narcissist, caught between the realities of time[…]
i want the roses to bloom (forever.)
Upon reading Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, I began to feel a hopeful, wistful sort of empathy for the tortured main character – Dorian Gray himself. I think I’ve always seen the world[…]