The Abstract Art Gallery
A writing gallery created by writers from around the world. From poetry to song lyrics, from essays to entire novels and short stories.
It's not a club you can choose to join.
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…few lines read from an interview have remained in my mind ever since. I thought it was the 1965 Nat Hentoff Playboy interview with Bob Dylan. It wasn’t. I’ve reread that interview on the internet and two more besides. I can’t find the interview I recall. Maybe it was in Rolling Stone, or the…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreShouldn't interpretation of the law…
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…was a time not so long ago, when reading the law was the job Judges were hired to do. No more was expected – no more was tolerated. No one was interested in the Judge’s opinion of the law. Opinions about right or wrongness of a law was made by the representatives that…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreWe tell ourselves it had…
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…in her arms while the vet injected the lethal toxin. She held him in her arms until he was dead. She cried as she took him home wrapped in his favorite blanket. She cried when she buried him under the weeping willow she planted when he was a…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreLike all forms of energy, passion works best under restraint.
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…sort of emotion. It brings glory and ruin without discrimination. The word, passio, meant suffering in its original Latin form. It still means suffering in the Christian liturgy of The Passion of the Christ. Suffering remains implicit in any sort of passion. What takes you up can also pull you…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreWords aren't enough to describe those…
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…poets sing. Over and over they remind us that Cupid’s arrow pierces the heart. And we say, “Yes, how true”, yet something in us is not completely persuaded. Only the blood flowing from our very own wound will make us really…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreTunde Onakoya is changing the world with the power of Chess…
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…me, the greatest miracle of chess is in the innate ability of a PAWN [the least valuable piece] to become a QUEEN [the most valuable piece]. - Tunde Onakoya, Founder Chess In The…
By Daniel Ayinla
Read MoreWe can fly faster to new discoveries because of the written word.
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…the envelope is a phrase originally used by 1950’s test pilots to describe their passion to fly higher and faster than the known limits of the plane they were testing. Those who managed it without dying were said to have, the Right…
By K. L. Shipley
Read More…things are special in Saathiya. One is the non-linear storytelling technique and the other, trains. In fact, trains have been an integral part of Hindi cinema (popularly known as Bollywood). The metaphor, the metonym and the meanings associated with trains have been well addressed and explored in several…
By Shanku Sharma
Read More…know what it is, mama, the deliverance. My deliverance from all the pain buried in my body over these years, the weight of guilt, the strain of grief, the ache from loss, the regret of all the material things lost. It is me, mama, I am…
By Sloane Angelou
Read MoreShadowy hope for something unknown.
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…have searched every drawer in my life and probed every cupboard for something I cannot name, for something I cannot understand. My yearning for this unknown something is amorphous. I think I should know what I do not. I think I should remember something I do not…
By K. L. Shipley
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