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My Cup
My Cup
How do our identities interact with the inanimate objects we use daily?
O.G. Rose
Mar 4, 2021
The Cemetery
The Cemetery
There’s an old cemetery in the middle of town. Through the years, I’ve passed by there thousands of times and have stopped to say goodbye…
Joey Slaughter
Jan 27, 2021
Poetry Prompts
Poetry Prompt: What is True Knowledge?
Poetry Prompt: What is True Knowledge?
Epistemology can be a tricky business
Rowen Veratome
Apr 5, 2021
Paradox Prompt: Happiness, Meaning, or Psychological Richness
Paradox Prompt: Happiness, Meaning, or Psychological Richness
What makes for a good life?
Rowen Veratome
Mar 9, 2021
More Recent Work in Paradox Café
Three Existentialist Poems
Three Existentialist Poems
A play on emptiness, language, and meaning
Rowen Veratome
Nov 15, 2021
Death is for the Living
Death is for the Living
An abstract philosophical poem that contends with our language use surrounding death
Rowen Veratome
Oct 31, 2021
Questions About Fish
Questions About Fish
Creative prose pertaining to the perception of space itself
Rowen Veratome
Sep 25, 2021
I Look Like a Plate
I Look Like a Plate
A prose poem that may or may not be intended in jest
Rowen Veratome
Apr 12, 2021
Time for Change
Time for Change
What do you think of the nature of time?
Rowen Veratome
Feb 24, 2021
Time in the Mirror
Time in the Mirror
Flashes of perception, past to future.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.
Feb 18, 2021
Paradox Prompt: What is Your Highest Hope?
Paradox Prompt: What is Your Highest Hope?
A writing prompt inspired by Nietzche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Rowen Veratome
Feb 16, 2021
In Being Here
In Being Here
A poem about a paradox regarding time. Is the present moment everything that exists? Or is it a mere approximation?
Rowen Veratome
Feb 8, 2021
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