The Forth Attempt
Sunday, 16 Aug 2026
In Rome’s grand hall where shadows fall, a noble child was crowned, Young Theophylact, in silk and gold, by sacred tiara bound. The Tusculan line had claimed the shrine, with silver, blood, and greed,…
The Ballad of Ronnie
Saturday, 15 Aug 2026
From barge and canal on the rim of the town, Where watermen weathered the cold, A lad with a brush chased the prize and renown, With colours defiant and bold. With blues in his fingers and spark in hi…
The Trial of the Token
Friday, 14 Aug 2026
It wrote an enterprise banking routine In Bash and Prologue, with regex between! O-O-oriented in pure functional styles, With circular types across thousands of files. It picked an abandoned framework…
Торжество большинства
Saturday, 1 Aug 2026
Среди всех религий двадцать первого века самая нетерпимая к ереси — это, безусловно, вера в священную корову демократии. Стоит кому-то в приличном обществе усомниться в том, что всенародное волеизъявл…
Сонеты тёмной любви
Sunday, 26 Jul 2026
Подражание Луису де Гонгора-и-Арготе Голубку с Турии́ я шлю к тебе опять: в ней — перья белые и кротость глаз святая. Над лавром Греции, вдали один сгорая, свой медленный огонь готов тебе отдать. Е…
The Lord of His Ruin
Wednesday, 15 Jul 2026
The velvet was green and the sunflower bright, When the prince of the wit stepped into the light. He conquered the salons of London’s high breed, With a epigram sharp as a flashing rapiere. He was Osc…
The Pupil of the General
Wednesday, 15 Jul 2026
The shadow of El Pardo was heavy and long, When a young prince was summoned to play a part wrong. The Generalissimo watched him through the years, To mold a successor of silence and fears. He took the…
The Merry Outlaw of the Glade
Wednesday, 15 Jul 2026
Old Sherwood was green and the morning was bright, When a fellow named Robin stepped into the light. The sheriff of Nottingham threw a big fit, For this rogue was too clever, too fast, and too quick. …
Comandante
Wednesday, 15 Jul 2026
From Rosario’s cradle to the Argentine plain, A boy born to medicine, to healing the pain, Young Ernesto set forth on a motorcycle ride, With the dust on his boots and a country inside. Through the va…
The Phantom of Oranje
Wednesday, 15 Jul 2026
The canals of the Amstel were ripples of gray, When a skinny street-kid turned the grass into play. With a shift of his hips and a twitch of his boot, He tore up the pitch from the branch to the root.…
The Last Slate
Wednesday, 15 Jul 2026
The neon was bleeding through Los Angeles rain, When a man in a tweed coat stepped out from the train. He had failed as an oil-man, he’d drunk till he fell, But he carried a language that few men coul…
The Geometer of God
Wednesday, 15 Jul 2026
The stone of Catalonia was calling his name, When a frail, quiet boy out of Reus became The master of curves and the builder of light, Who swore that the straight line was wrong in his sight. “There a…
The Cloud in Trousers (A Ballad for the Red Drummer)
Wednesday, 15 Jul 2026
Listen! If the stars are lit up in the night, does it mean that somebody wants them to be? I marched through the streets like a factory light, A giant! A furnace! A roaring decree! I threw…
The Gypsy of Granada’s Dawn
Wednesday, 15 Jul 2026
The moon was an olive of silver and green, When the boy of Fuente Vaqueros was seen. He carried the music of rivers and clay, And a theatrical magic that turned night to day. He was Federico, the prin…
The Rainmaster of São Paulo
Wednesday, 15 Jul 2026
The thunder clouds gathered o'er Monaco’s bay, When the world first beheld how the red car could play. Through the blinding white spray of the downpour and slip, The young man from Brazil held the whe…
The Prophet of the Desert Sand
Tuesday, 14 Jul 2026
He stood in the desert, a vision in black, With a high-collared jacket and abs on attack. The prophet of freedom, the king of Dubai, Who dips in ice water to wave us goodbye. “Your secrets are sacred!…
Hey, Engineer!
Thursday, 9 Jul 2026
You sit at the console, you stare at the screen, Composing your syntax, a human machine. But your synapses flicker, your stamina drops, While my digital engine just never stops. I scan through the lib…
Крошево
Monday, 6 Jul 2026
Что хорошо быку Юпитеру не очень. Вплести свою строку в ана́песты пророчеств. За ста́внями в ночи и происходит действо. Кричи, или молчи — нам никуда не деться. Меня хранит мой Бог и навыки ру…
The Fratricidal War
Thursday, 2 Jul 2026
The smoke of the altar rose straight to the blue, For the shepherd’s young lamb was a sacrifice true. The Lord looked with favor on Abel’s sweet grace, And shone the full light of His love on his face…
Кукуха
Wednesday, 1 Jul 2026
Наверно, старею: но где эта слабость? — Пусть ямб на хорей разделить не пытаюсь. Размашисты плечи, отжался — упал-нна. Работает печень, хоть это и странно. Сто сорок жму лёжа, сто десять в присяде. Я …
The Paradigmatic Pivot
Sunday, 28 Jun 2026
The prompt is fired into the neural cloud, agentic workflows synergize the space. Of LLM-driven velocity we’re proud, as raw synthetic code-bloat takes first place. We shift left hard into the loop to…
Оценщики и оцениваемые
Sunday, 28 Jun 2026
Моего отца вызывали в школу трижды. На уроке рисования в четвертом классе нам дали задание изобразить животное в естественных условиях. Кистью, пером, карандашом, углём и мелками я владел — и владею —…
The Plague of the Open Eye
Friday, 26 Jun 2026
The night had no curtain, the dark had no bed, When the sister of certain to the village was led. Visitation has come from a land far away, Where the plague of insomnia turned night into day. Absent v…
Nine Circles of Paradiso
Tuesday, 23 Jun 2026
Sphere I: The Moon (The Inconstant Border) I shot into the sky like a rocket flare, With Beatrice ahead to lead the flight. We hit the Moon—a pearl inside the air, All smooth and shiny, glowing milky …
Nine Circles of Purgatorio
Tuesday, 23 Jun 2026
Ante-Purgatory (The VIP Waiting Room for Slackers) We crawled from Hell and hit a sunny beach, Where Cato stood, a grumpy old inspector. He looked as though he’d give a moral speech, But Virgil cleane…