The Price of The War Once upon a time, a warrior named Cossack Mamai clashed with the enormous bear. Probably, it was the biggest bear that has ever existed. Overwhelmed by its colossal stature, Mamai begs princess Europa, the daughter of Agenor, and her steadfast companion Eagle, to lend their aid in resisting the wrath of nature. In exchange for their valiant efforts, he vowed to deliver the hide of the beast. Europa and Eagle consented to this perilous endeavor. But they paid too dearly for this battle: none of the peaceful initiatives cost as much as this struggle against the ferocious ursine adversary.

* $128 billion have been provided as grants or in-kind support and $69 in the form of concessional loans from princess Europa. Eagle gave a loan of $130 billion in the form of military, humanitarian and financial assistance. ** Inflation accounted for December 2025 *** All characters and other entities appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons or other real-life entities is purely coincidental. **** Scan the QR to see the list of sources

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔓𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔚𝔞𝔯

#solomon #allusion #politics

#wildwalkprompt #spring #freeverse #allusion #poem

Someone wanted me to explain allusion, so in this poem I made sure its about yearning. It mentions the relationship but the cold emptiness of the Spring Misty Morning is an allusion to the fact that it is a place without them.

any easy allusion

New thought, tantrum president as reminscent of “The Squire of Gothos” #tos #startrek #allusion

They never miss! #allusion #allusionspeakeasy #brunch #coloradosprings

Allusion Without Imitation: Learning from Issa Without Echoing Him One of the quiet challenges in writing English-language haiku is how to engage with the classical tradition without lapsing into pastiche or derivation.

A short discussion on Allusion in Haiku and how to do it well.

#haiku #poetry #Allusion #Haikucommentary

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sly and unseen memories of an able body ambush me accompanying image is of a shattered fob watch face in sumi-e ink style.

sly and unseen
memories of an able body
ambush me

#haiku #Poetry #allusion

More here at: kasasagi.blog

barmaid at the tap gives directions with her chin

barmaid at the tap
give directions
with her chin

#Haiku #Poetry #Allusion

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#inkmine #audacious #poem #freeverse #desklamp #allusion

Blue Milk was served by craft services on the shoot of the original Star Wars, which is what led to its secretive working title, Blue Harvest Joke, a reference to a podcast you probably don't listen to.

Omfg #BlueMilk 🤣

#IYKYK

These #StarWars allusions (Michael🪄) in #Andor are pretty winking & oblique, & w/ the exception of the inexplicable bantha toy on Malbagorlorx One (or whatever) I mentioned earlier, these all hit for me. The cats are indifferent.

#nostalgia #metatextual #allusion #homage

Hoo…rah…finds a way #jeffgoldblum #thefly #jurassicpark #vincentprice #movies #film #reference #allusion #pun #wordplay #comedy #humor #dadjoke #funny #USMC #marinecorps #unitedstates #america #military #patriotic #hoorah #semperfi

On peut être diffamé sans être identifiable
#pénal #Diffamation #identifiable #Allusion
www.legalnews.fr/judiciaire/d...

Did Hegseth read Mother Night or is his channeling Howard Campbell a mere 'coincidence?' #Vonnegut #Slaughterhousefive #hilarous #embarassing #selfmocking #allusion

Slaughterhouse Five www.rottentomatoes.com/m/slaughterh...

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Recommended by Tiresias.
#classical #allusion #gender #products

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: "𝑽𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑬𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒔" - 𝑳𝒆 𝑮𝒖𝒊𝒏

What does it mean to embrace "Other"? And how might we understand carpe diem if we truly had "world enough and time?"

waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/way...

#podcast #allusion #sf #scifi #allusion #booksky #edusky

Grateful to guest editor Allyson Whipple for including my allusion haiku in today's Haiku Dialogue

heatwave petrol
she skateboards
through the swan shit

C.X. Turner, UK

#punk #allusion #haiku

youtu.be/jCxgUPFVFkA?...

I've just received an email from Maxianne Berger 😇 and am so touched to find she converted my Allusion haiku for Haiku Dialogue into a couple of haiga. Bless you Maxianne 🙏
#haiga #haiku #allusion

Alude de la chatte

Le mot "alude" désigne un terme ou une référence à quelque chose qui n'est pas explicitement mentionné. C'est souvent utilisé dans un contexte pour suggérer ou faire allusion à une idée ou un concept sans le nommer directement. #terme #reference #allusion #concept #suggestion

Allusionner de la chatte

Faire une référence indirecte à quelque chose sans le nommer explicitement. #Reference #Indirect #Allusion #Communication #Subtilite

Nothing to see here
Nothing to worry about
Confirmation bias
The realm of the unconsciously incompetent
Who needs to worry about icebergs
When we’re unsinkable
Until our world is ripped apart
By a dose of reality

#QuickQuill QQ5ER7 #Allusion #TheTitanic
#PoetryCommunity
#WritingCommunity

When shall we three meet again?
I know not when, but I do know where …
Once more unto the beach, dear friends,
Once more, and we’ll wait for the tide
To sweep in ashore
And then we’ll all be there

#QuickQuill QQ5R7 #Allusion #Shakespearean
#PoetryCommunity
#WritingCommunity
#prose

Just In Time | Candy For Trees from the album Hardshell

Hozier was so real for opening Unreal Unearth with De Selby pts 1 and 2.

Part 1 is haunting as fuck (and partially in IRISH) and Part 2 is a straight up banger.

We refer to De Selby in our song "Just In Time": candyfortrees.bandcamp.com/track/just-i...

-Allēna

#originalsong #allusion

As far as I can tell
The Human Race
Aspires to explore space
We’ve done the Moon
Next up is Mars
But why would we go there?
We already know
It’s inhabited entirely by robots
And toy cars!

#QuickQuill QQ4R7 #Allusion #robotics
#WritingCommunity

It’s all in the book
My autobiography
Never written
Never conceived
Who even knows
What the next chapter may contain?
Or where this one is going?
Or for how long?
Or why?

#QuickQuill QQ3ER7 #Allusion #BookNovel
#WritingCommunity

So much to learn
So much to see
Curb your enthusiasm
Lest you open Pandora’s Box
And then where will you be?

#QuickQuill QQ3R7 #Allusion #GrecoRomanMyths
#WritingCommunity

#QuickQuill #Round7 #Allusion

🤦🏽‍♀️ Please gods of blue sky: an edit button I beg!! 😂😂😂

An echo of another time
A whisper of before
Of gracious moves
And dapper attire
A handsome gent for sure
A rendering of Cary Grant,
Came strolling through the door
#WuickQuill #Round7 #Allusion

a poem with an illustration of a ship and waves. The poem reads: garlands hang as a reminder of the times not long before but tides have turned a compass showed us truth but we, the people twisted the arrow toward troubled waters storms loom on the horizon we deny it can happen ashore during our lifetime past trivial distractions we did not defend from the real danger we fade into the abyss one nation, divided the farce of greatness like, a sinking stone truth tellers, powerless screaming into the void words fell on deaf ears sight on faces of denial no one to oppose? no one will depose? history. repeat. history. delete. history. retweet. who are ““the people”? who are the “we”? sunken, democracy “we” are lost at sea

a poem with an illustration of a ship and waves. The poem reads: garlands hang as a reminder of the times not long before but tides have turned a compass showed us truth but we, the people twisted the arrow toward troubled waters storms loom on the horizon we deny it can happen ashore during our lifetime past trivial distractions we did not defend from the real danger we fade into the abyss one nation, divided the farce of greatness like, a sinking stone truth tellers, powerless screaming into the void words fell on deaf ears sight on faces of denial no one to oppose? no one will depose? history. repeat. history. delete. history. retweet. who are ““the people”? who are the “we”? sunken, democracy “we” are lost at sea

we the people. 🤍 honeybun #wethepeople #poetry #poem #poetrysky #democracy #troubledwaters #writing #oligarchy #allusion

Having Trump and his gang back in Washington feels like when Voldemort and the Death Eaters overtook the Ministry of Magic.

#usapolitics #allusion

Watercolour sketch, a landscape, painted last August while sat on the dry grass under what I though was a random tree in Aldershot, England. The main road through is hidden by the middle foreground shrubs/hedges. The background comprises trees and large bushes with a house roof breaking through the middle.

The rather boring photo I chose to sketch, simply because it was what was in front of me. It was taken on a warm summer's day with blue skies and some fluffy white clouds.

The lone tree I was sat under amid the recently mown grass. It was the only tree with no people sat in its shade, hence my choosing it. A small stone is just visible below the tree.

The plaque on the stone reads: THE CHAPLIN TREE This tree was planted on 16th Decemer 1994 by the Mayor of Rushmoor, Councillor Peter Lillywhite to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin's first stage performance which took place at "The Canteen" in Aldershot in 1894. Donated by E. Finch & Sons.

Sat under a tree
Watercolour sketching
What was in front of me
Just what I could see
Little did I know
I was sat beneath
The Chaplin Tree.

#QuickQuill ~No2 #ER7
#Allusion #CharlieChaplin #Aldershot #UrbanSketching
#AmPainting #Art

I was 16 going on 17
Naive and on the brink
But you are 17 going on 18
Just old enough to drink

I am younger by one number
But I have got good sense
Don't think yours better
Than ears barely wetter
Stop being so damned dense.

QuickQuill 2:7
#allusion to musical