Tag: metaphor

• Setting My Sights

  I never qualified on the M16. I couldn’t see the distant targets and I had trouble hitting the ones I could see. I’m trying to think of a point where someone taught me to set the sights on my rifle. I don’t think I ever did so properly and can’t blame myself for that. That…

  Mark

  August 20, 2026

  rant, witness

  aiming, blame, goals, life, metaphor, setting sights, survival mode

• Moving Fingers Writing

  On of my favorite stanzas in poetry is:“The moving finger writes and having writMoves on nor all your piety and witCan lure it back to cancel half a lineNor all your tears wash out a word of it.”(Fitzgerald’s translation from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat) This caused an argument with Stephanie. You see she’s among other things…

  Mark

  June 14, 2024

  Uncategorized

  choices, consequences, destiny, editor, fate, metaphor, piety, proofreader, wit, words, writing