In a field of shifting hues,flowers rise in quiet congregation,their stems lifted thin and alert,their petals catching and releasingthe weather of the light. They sway when the wind passes through,as though each bloom remembersan ancient music beneath the grass.Colour gathers at their edges,spilling into the air. Their fragrance moves softly outward,a sweetness almost spoken,and the … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “The Choir of Bloom” – Floral Intensities, v.2
Revisionist Pedagogy – Leveraging Universal Design for Learning to Foster Social and News Media Literacy in Pre-Collegiate Curriculum
In an era defined by the constant circulation of social media posts, algorithmically curated news, and rapidly evolving digital platforms, media literacy has become an indispensable component of schooling. Students must learn not only to consume media critically but also to interpret its persuasive strategies, evaluate credibility, recognize bias, and participate ethically in public discourse. … Continue reading Revisionist Pedagogy – Leveraging Universal Design for Learning to Foster Social and News Media Literacy in Pre-Collegiate Curriculum
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry IV, Part 2 by Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 2 is one of The Bard’s most quietly devastating history plays. At first glance, it may seem like a companion piece to the more famous Part 1, a continuation of rebellion, tavern wit, and Prince Hal’s coming-of-age story. But Part 2 is darker, slower, and far more reflective. It is a play … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry IV, Part 2 by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Where the Fences Learn Our Names” – Fenced in by a lack of Colour, v.4
Beyond the paling posts the daylight bleeds to bone—a pallid sky that keeps its tongue withdrawn.Fences stand like sentries in a ruined dream,their teeth of iron tasting salt and rot.Moonlight goes thin as linen over fields;the world beyond is muffled, worn to ash. These rails remember rain as rust remembers hands,and paint peels like skin … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Where the Fences Learn Our Names” – Fenced in by a lack of Colour, v.4
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry IV, Part 1 by Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 1 is one of Shakespeare’s richest explorations of power, performance, and identity. At once a political chronicle and a coming-of-age drama, the play stages a kingdom in disorder while asking a deeper question: what does it mean to be fit for rule? Shakespeare answers not with simple heroism, but with ambiguity, irony, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Henry IV, Part 1 by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – Fenced in by a lack of Colour, v.3
Slats hush the meadow’s colour—a palette scrubbed to ash.A lone scarf, saffron and loud,threads the wire like a stubborn note. Hands on wood that tastes of rain,fingers learn the map of gaps:the world beyond made thin as paper,made distant as a half-remembered song. We keep our small bright things close—the ribbon, the scarlet stone—and watch … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Fenced in by a lack of Colour, v.3
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Richard II by Shakespeare
Richard II is one of the most hauntingly elegant of the history plays, not because it is driven by battlefield spectacle, but because it stages the collapse of kingship as an inward, almost ceremonial tragedy. The play is less interested in the mechanics of politics than in the fragile mystique that allows a king to … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – Richard II by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – Fenced in by a lack of Colour, v.2
Beyond the slats the light has gone to grey:a sky that learned to forget its blues,meadows washed down to the pale of bone.Between the posts, a child’s kite drifts—a rag of yellow caught and made a flagof absence; the wind mends nothing. The fence breathes in old paint, in iron salt,tongues of rust tasting at … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – Fenced in by a lack of Colour, v.2
The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – King John by Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s King John is one of the most politically alert of his histories, and also one of the most unsettling. It is a play haunted by uncertainty: uncertain inheritance, uncertain law, uncertain loyalty, uncertain conscience. Unlike the grand sweep of Richard II or Henry V, where kingship can still seem to carry a visible aura, … Continue reading The Adaptable Educator’s Book Review – King John by Shakespeare
Revisionist Poetry – “Puff Brigade” – Ephemeral, v.4
Dandelion fluffs don tiny parachutes,tipping their hats to passing mailmen of air.They hold secret meetings above tire tracks,and whisper folded maps to tomorrow’s gardens. They squat in sidewalk freckles, pint-size anarchists,pop golden heads like pocket-lanterns at dawn.A child steals one, makes a wish—science applauds—while a seed buys a cheerful one-way ticket. Summer sneezes, a sudden … Continue reading Revisionist Poetry – “Puff Brigade” – Ephemeral, v.4
The New Renaissance Mindset 