Literary Foxholes – 11th July 2026

In opposition trenches
Writers formulate their opuses
Moulded around languages
The falling bomb focuses

Revealing who they really are
It’s the biggest battle of nerds
It’s all written across the page
Played in this theatre of words

Inspired by Existential Comics #632


Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

The Start-Up Of You

Attending to improvement, day by day
You’re in the business of building
Your company is more than play
But your whole life you are gilding


My poem Under The Cover got published at the Edge of Humanity magazine

Second Thought – 22nd September 2024

Burn all the books
It’s a cultural revolution
All the thoughts thought
Provided no solution

Dump it in the trash
Far away from winning
The sign says “not in use”
Start again at the beginning

With a second thought
Philosophy is stupid
Is it a world of facts?
Or is it only reputed?

Inspired by Existential Comics 551


Today I’m feeling:

Not too bad today, at least in the morning. I got up at a reasonable time, partly in preparation for going back to school tomorrow at the normal time.

I spent a few hours at Utopia reading and writing and could get myself into the flow for that which felt good.

By afternoon, though I ran out of energy and napped and have been lazy and run down since. I hope that feeling doesn’t carry over to tomorrow.

Health:

Physical: 6
Mental: 7

Today I’m grateful for:

Noey being back from overseas and bringing me a couple of small gifts and making my coffee today. It was good to see her again and it sounded like she had a great time on her travels.

The best thing about today was:

Hmm – today felt like a day of two halves, the first with energy and positivity and whilst I still felt positive later, my lack of energy was disappointing. So nothing in particular stands out to me today.

Something I learned today?

I made my first poetry Instagram post today and will start learning more about it and give it a go to try and get some more eyes on my writing somehow. With no friends or followers added yet, though I have had zero views in 8 hours!

I also updated my MacBook and iPhone, which now means that I can mirror the iPhone and write directly from my keyboard into this app. This makes writing a lot easier and I would only have been able to do it before by paying for the premium option.

Review your acts, Good and bad.

By following students on Instagram, I found out that today is Rista’s birthday and so I sent her birthday wishes. She’s a nice, lively kid and I like her a lot.