Although a huge fan of the Marvel Pantheon, Anthony Edward “Tony” Stark, aka Iron Man, was never my favorite superhero. A creation first conceived by writer-editor Stan Lee and Larry Lieber in Tales Of Suspense #39 (March 1963), his wealthy industrialist background was too similar to Batman’s. The Vietnam war became the backdrop for his [...]

Divinity, creation
Spirit, form
Split apart
Human borne
Standing taut
Where union
Belongs
Embraced thought
Mist or lore
Affect, history
Long since gone
Destiny’s map
Imagination’s form
Epiphany sight
Future’s wisdom
Fraught with calumny
History’s retribution
Prophecy bestowed
Flowing forward
Changed vision
Of mistakes’ present
Gift of insight
Destruction’s end
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Prophecy has always been a controversial subject. Those remembered are of some event predicted to happen in the future, usually by a note-able person from religion, concerning the fate of humanity. If they are woven into biblical text, they become part of religious doctrine in one way or another.
Prophecy has also been made within cultural [...]

She was known by her people as Azula, Queen of Tetachee, first born of King Umbah and his mate, Queen Udna’Dubla. A child marked for great things. When she cast her hazel eyes upon anyone, they would turn deep blue like the cloudless sky, often conveying her thought in a glance. She resembled her father, [...]

This portrait Of George W Bush, which first appeared in the British publication Metro, was painted by artist Jonathan Yeo from a reported nightmare he had of being kidnapped by the Bizarro Superman and taken to the square planet, HTRAE to paint an image of the President that will hang in the White House after [...]

A mote of potential
Encumbered delay
Still paralysis
Entrenched decay
Hopelessly pensive
Husk or foray
Jesters dictum
Fools array
Hidden castles
Moat of cover
Embracing all
Beguiling host
Apart, at play
Holding life’s heart
An island, at bay
Amidst a despairing
Aching soul

Sima Quan, son of Sima Tan, was born near Hancheng, Shaanxi, during the Han Dynasty (approximately 100 BC) into a family of historians, following in his fathers footsteps to the successors of Emperor Wu as Prefect of the Grand Scribes. A student of Confusious Kong Anguo and Dong Zhongshu, his major contribution was the Shiji [...]

I had taken the #6 train downtown to fourteenth street, south on Broadway. An overcast day preceded by a sleepless night of turmoil and doubt as I sat in my living room meditating with a single candle within a multi-petal lotus, as Auroshikha incense filled the room. I never expected to find The Answer, just [...]

Hidden below
Luna’s ray
Room’s secret
Nights display

Fantasy thoughts
Suggested form
Reflected pane
On moonlit floor

Whatever stage
Curiosity flows
Dream’s behest
Shadows grow

Fun or folly
Imaginations show
Beneath the quilt
Of childhood’s glow

“Take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape.”
Heston in Planet Of The Apes (1968)

Charlton Heston, the actor who played Moses and parted the Red Sea in Cecil B. DeMille’s biblical epic adaptation The Ten Commandments 1956, died on April 4th at his home in Beverly Hills at the [...]