Babel: The multilingual, multicultural online journal and community of arts and ideas

by James Schwartz
I cannot rewrite Religion.
Yet I do believe.
Arcing as a fountain.
After hours sacrament to recieve.
I cannot monger War.
My creed is of peace.
After hours in his arms.
Two fountains spurt release.
I cannot turn the Tide.
Droplets dripping from my lip.
A wrestling angel after hours.
Bound by his iron grip.
I cannot deny Decadence.
Drunkenly we do feed.
Arcing as a fountain.
Spilling [...]

I always sit and wonder why the world is just an unfair place…then something hit me…we were all born on a different day, time and way.
Some were born in the rural areas where even the talk of a dispensary is like a dream hence it is never mentioned, others while their mothers struggled to rush [...]

Good Morning!  Pax et Bonum.  My name is Gardenia C. Hung.  I am a returning writer for the Tower of Babel since 1998.  On the tenth anniversary, in 2008, I have been invited to contribute as an author to the Babel Blog and continue to help building the Tower of Babel Online Journal Multilingual and [...]

“Shih” is an insightful, elegant kind of knowledge from Chinese into American English
–Howard Rheingold, They Have a Word for It
This article fosters an awareness of cross-cultural issues inherent in language communication through our perception of the world, non-verbally or verbally whenever we speak, listen, read, and write. Language communication offers cross-cultural insights and [...]