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Category: Listicles

My attempt at listicles as a literary genre is to blend the structured format of a list with the narrative depth or storytelling. Designed to present information in an easily digestible way, I tackle a wide range of topics, from the profoundly complex to the whimsically trivial. The goal of these listicles is not to create easily shareable and skimmable content, but to offer bite-sized segments of insights or entertainment.

Listicles/Project Finding Beauty

A Way of Looking at Summer

Posted on 06/04/2023 by Khaya Ronkainen

i. Ahh, summer—what would you have me say of you? ii. I emptied myself the darkness of three years to feel à gogo that is my laughter. iii. But what of a strang...

Listicles/Project Finding Beauty

A Way of Looking at Love

Posted on 02/12/2023 by Khaya Ronkainen

1. February’s redeeming quality is not the expensive love flying off the shelves. But Mother Nature as she stands poised, and landscape spellbound by the love s...

Listicles/Writing & Living

On Pouring My Heart Out

Posted on 11/27/2022 by Khaya Ronkainen

Most times I shroud my poems in mystery or hide behind the metaphor, and leave the “about” of the poem for the reader to interpret as they wish. Not this time, ...

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Seasons Defined Seasons Defined
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