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Revisionist Poetry – “River of Balancing Things” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.2

Along the riverbank I wander,gathering stones for my brittle towers,not for anything lasting,only for the brief astonishment of balance. The river keeps its own counsel,moving softly past my knees,as I turn each stone in my palms,feeling weight, grain, coldness, edge. The sun warms my shoulders.I crouch. I try again.One rock. Then another.A shape begins to … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “River of Balancing Things” – Uncertain Sculptures, v.2

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The Adaptable Educator’s (TAE’s) Book Review – Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion is one of the sharpest social comedies ever written about class, language, and the performance of identity. Beneath its wit and theatrical sparkle lies a deeply serious investigation into what society hears when it listens to a person speak. Shaw turns phonetics into drama, and social prejudice into a kind of … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s (TAE’s) Book Review – Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

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“Crown Crashers: Baby King, Battle Clips & the Joan Fiasco” – Poetcore Shakespeare: The Bard for Gen Z

(T.A.E.'s LitBites) - A modern retelling of Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Okay, listen — history’s a chaotic group chat and the main thread here is: England won big under Henry V, then things spiralled. Henry V dies, leaving a baby — literally an infant king, Henry VI — and suddenly the crown … Continue reading “Crown Crashers: Baby King, Battle Clips & the Joan Fiasco” – Poetcore Shakespeare: The Bard for Gen Z

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Revisionist Poetry – “Your Little Hand in Mine” – For the Love of My Child, v.4

Note: I tried to reimagine this one as a story a parent could read to their young child. I love to hold your hand,so tiny, soft, and warm.You smile at me, and suddenlythe whole wide world feels kind. We look at birds and flowers,at puddles, bugs, and stars,and every little thing we seeis lovely just … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Your Little Hand in Mine” – For the Love of My Child, v.4

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The Adaptable Educator’s (TAE’s) Book Review – The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S. Sharma

Robin S. Sharma’s The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari is best read not as a novel in the conventional sense, but as a modern spiritual fable: a didactic parable dressed in the language of business burnout, midlife crisis, and self-reinvention. Its central transformation—from Julian Mantle, a once-celebrated lawyer destroyed by success, to a serene teacher … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s (TAE’s) Book Review – The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin S. Sharma

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Revisionist Poetry – “The Softest Name for Love” – For the Love of My Child, v.3

I hold my child,and everything in me answers. Her fingers, small as promises,close around my hand;her eyes, wide with marvel,seem to gather the worldand give it back to me. We move together through each dayas through a field of firsts,where even the simplest thingsshine with new life. Her laughter fills the room.Her delight enters meand … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Softest Name for Love” – For the Love of My Child, v.3

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The Adaptable Educator’s (TAE’s) Book Review – The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino’s The Complete Cosmicomics is one of the most playful achievements of modern literature: a book that treats cosmology not as a field of cold explanation but as a theatre of longing, memory, chance, and comic self-invention. The author takes the grand, impersonal language of science and bends it into something intimate and strangely … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s (TAE’s) Book Review – The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino

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Revisionist Poetry – “Held by Wonder” – For the Love of My Child, v.2

My life has known no greater joythan this:my child in my arms,her tiny hand seeking mine,her face lit with astonishment. She teaches me the worldby seeing it first.In her gaze, even the ordinarybecomes radiant—a leaf, a shadow, a laugh,the turning of a day. Her joy is a living thing,bright and unguarded.When she smiles,something in me … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Held by Wonder” – For the Love of My Child, v.2

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The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Cymbeline by Shakespeare

Cymlbeline is one of Shakespeare’s most fascinating late plays because it refuses to behave like any one thing for very long. It begins in the register of political drama, slides into domestic intrigue, mutates into romance, and finally arrives at a kind of miraculous reconciliation that can feel both deeply moving and slightly unbelievable. That … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Cymbeline by Shakespeare

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Revisionist Poetry – “The River’s Undead Garden” – Rooted Flotsam, v.3

At the river’s lowered skin,the bank lies exposed like a wound,and the blackened roots reach outas if to remember the bodythat once fed them. Branches claw from ruined trunks,grafting themselves to rot,to splinter, to silence,as though decay were onlyanother name for hunger. Along the mud,seed and thorn and ruingather in shivering patches—a fever of grasses,a … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The River’s Undead Garden” – Rooted Flotsam, v.3