Now is the time For the lighting of the lamps Twilight is here And night follows fast Let us illuminate the darkness With a golden glow As we hang the lamps From trees and bushes Let us mark safe passage For all lost souls Through the woodland dark To journey’s end At a bright and…
“Frankenstein” is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Mary Shelley. Directed by Guillermo Del Toro, it stars Oscar Isaac as Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the Creature. It is not a particularly faithful adaptation, but the majority of adaptations of this story have not been faithful to the source material. Del…
Yawn of concrete teeth and asphalt tongue The city, a sleeping monster begins to wake It wails sirens Dark sound screeching like jammed on brakes Belches smog and petrol, refuse and rot While people run about on its skin Like fleas on a dog Why do we live like this Why don’t we jump before…
Road winds up to a castle door Towers and turrets and ramparts galore A dragon sits on a nearby hill Hatching its plots to attack and kill On a path through the forest and up to that place A young girl walks with an innocent face If you please, says the girl to the ravenous…
“Witchfinder General” is the third and final movie directed by Michael Reeves, who would pass away unexpectedly the following year. It involves the witch hunts that took place in many parts of Europe from the late fifteenth to the late eighteenth centuries. This particular story takes place during the English Civil War, which ran from…
Now in the dead of night The spectre steps through from one world to the next In this borderland of ramparts and stone The watchers quail as it turns their way They see its face and know The dead king walks The king’s son, grief-laden Summoned by the watchers Waits in fearful anticipation And then,…
Full moon glows brightly In a sky awash with stars River of light winds its way Through a vale aglow with shining blossoms My boat glides down the water Towards the vanishing point of Heaven I am safe, O Lord It is Your own country Angel choirs sing Your eternal praise And I am at…
Christmas is full of tradition. Since the time it was first celebrated, and in many different parts of the world, traditions have been established, some to exist for a time and then die out, others that still go on to this day. I want to have a look at some of these traditions, their origins…
Let the music play, just let go And you will see it Marvellous shapes, indescribable colours Tints and hues constructing a world beyond imagining You will feel it Textures soft like silk, hard as diamond Rough of solid granite, smooth as translucent glass You will taste it Savor its sweetness, relish the tang Yes, let…
Night is long, dark and endless Why has light gone from the world? Where is the dawn? We try in our way to shine Stand up and give light to our own small worlds It’s hard to keep shining We can be extinguished so easily And darkness soon returns We need Heaven’s light We need…
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