the lotus- cira's writing blog

  Shadow puppets come first and then,  A mist conceals the landscape. Still, with a looming greyness ahead, you keep forward the wide path, encouraged by a consistent longing in the pit of your intestines but growing with a surprising sense of familiarity.  With each step a sound sets in of water flowing hitting a low surface. It starts ringing like a shower stream hitting the drain and intensifies to be a downpour current. You halt; surprised the fog lifts to reveal a decline of earth that travels down to a steamy pond, so clear it reflects an iridescent sky.  The steam continues to lift and to your left, a thin body of water thickens and follows the drops forming a waterfall. The wholeness of this beauty burns the skin, just as it too cleanses it. You dive into this deep bath below the ground.  When you sink to the floor the vision above you is a sea of crystal but just at the surface lays the expired body of a dove with its wings surrendered its corpse is upr...

I was there Somewhere, sleeping in time Waiting for you to pick up on the other line Haggard Hollow Houses Along thin paper roads Even when morning announces We’ll be up, catching toads I was still there Rolling in the lawn If it’s a race, you’ll beat me at it Shy as a fawn Quick as a rabbit I was there When the storm came through Shut every window, hide in the tub It’s too bad how spring always flew I was still there When you swallowed the mud Collapsed are the lungs Long days of silence Cold water runs Baby’s breath, violets I was there We bury the innocence Here a child lies Your mother, how she cries I was still there Empty is your space The periwinkle haze Absent in your thoughts I miss you when december rots

  The Month of March is Women's History Month, originating as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982, as “Women’s History Week.” Throughout the next five years, Congress passed joint resolutions designating a week in March as “Women’s History Week.” In 1987 after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month.” Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. In today's episode, we will examine Jane Austen's presence in feminine literature and 2 other writers who paved the way for modern female authors and artists.  Jane Austen is a very celebrated 19th-century female author, who chose once-provocative and taboo subjects to dissect and poke fun...

  Cira Flannery Garza February 2024 Feminine Rage Through Film and Media According to the novel “Rage Becomes Her- The Power of Women’s Anger ” By Non-Fiction author Soraya Chemaly “ Anger is the demand of accountability, It is evaluation, judgment, and refutation. It is reflective, visionary, and participatory. It's a speech act, a social statement, an intention, and a purpose. It's a risk and a threat. A confirmation and a wish. It is both powerlessness and power, palliative and a provocation. In anger, you will find both ferocity and comfort, vulnerability and hurt. Anger is the expression of hope” This statement by Chemaly applies to much more than Feminine rage in Literature, it applies to Women becoming exhausted and emptied of their patience after centuries of oppression. Whether you identify as male or female, Ask yourself- What frustrates you? And why exactly is it so frustrating? Feminine rage is an aspect of gender expression rendered unappetizing to the feminine im...

"Dead Ends" Between Somewhere and Somewhat,  there is a meaning to my madness A lengthy underground tunnel,  undocumented and unknown Between Nothing and Something,  there is a method to my malice In the shallow puddle of aged sewer water, rain, and a hint of long-lost blood. Between Absence and Presence,  there is a motive to my making. As of this tunnel, I venture. Between nonviable and vitality , there is a magic to my morbidity The echo cackles a little louder now, echo traveling from the beyond and ahead of the end of the tunnel  I have to walk faster to find it. Between Disappearing and Prevailing,  there is a motion to my Immobility Is that a whisper behind me? A message?  A warning in this hollow trail of the unknown?  Between Tonight and tomorrow,  There is a sort of music to my mutism All I can do to entertain, to encourage,  to promote anything in the emptiness of this place,  Between Later and Before, they left me here...

  Nostalgia’s Role in Contemporary Media We all have fond memories and our senses may be strong enough to associate distinct smells, tastes, sounds, and sights that bring us straight back to those times and places, stimulating a sense of comfort and longing. The Hippocampus is an organ attached to the Temporal lobe of the Human brain, where memories are stored, certain conditions like Alzheimer's and Concussions can significantly impact the Hippocampus, causing memory loss. It’s usually between the ages of 2 to 4 that children start making memories and remembering previous events, It’s very uncommon for children below the age of 2 to remember specific details but some Developmental psychologists have hypothesized even newborns can store basic sensory information in the deepest parts of their hippocampus even while in their mother’s womb. However, retrieving that information to active consciousness is still not entirely understood considering the brain is not considered to be finish...

  Language is a powerful tool, that carries communication, the epitome of self-expression. Language is an art while doubling as a science that diversifies in every corner of the world. The Voynich Manuscript (the World’s most mysterious book) was an illustrated codex hand-written in a unique writing system whose pages have been carbon-dated to 1404-1438. The fifteenth century was the latest of the Middle English literature movement, the next century would be the start of the Renaissance movement. One might ask In what way does Mystery as a genre contribute to Modern literature as a whole? Mystery is subjective to curious people, we all wonder why something is in the condition that it’s in and why or, how and what got it there? Mysteries happen all around us, some more serious than others because humans don’t like the feeling of not knowing and letting something they care about go, so artists and writers indulge in this Human want to solve Mysteries into a literature movement. ...