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WEEK 11: Vallum's Cryptographic Adventure!

For all you spies and double agents, here’s the cipher and hint for Week 11 of Vallum’s Cryptographic Adventure! This is the second-last week to guess the mystery poet correctly to win a snazzy Vallum prize! Good luck!

This week’s poetic cipher: PUTHK BK MEG LHGXM SEGGW UA MEG KTC

And our hint of the week:

"I never was, am always to be,
No one ever saw me, nor ever will
And yet I am the confidence of all
To live and breathe on this terrestrial ball."

MUQUHHUS

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WEEK 10: Vallum’s Cryptographic Adventure!

This week’s poetic cipher:

SEP ZBZ KEG MSBMMGH BC KTIE X LEUKMWP SXP ?

And our hint of the week:

At night they come without being fetched,

And by day they are lost without being stolen.

KMXHK

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WEEK 9: Vallum’s Cryptographic Adventure!

This week’s poetic cipher: SG ETKEGZ MEG KEGGDFGWWK XNZ MEG WUTZ IBIXZX

And our hint of the week:

This thing all things devours;
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays king, ruins town,
And beats mountain down.

MBQG



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WEEK 8: Vallum's Cryptographic Adventure!

This week's poetic cipher: MEGHG XHG CU QXBWK BC MEG IBMP UA MEG ZGXZ

And our hint of the week:

First think of the person who lives in disguise,
Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies,
Next tell me what's always the last thing to mend,
The middle of middle and end of the end?
And finally give me the sound often heard,
During the search for a hard-to-find word.
Now string them together, and answer me this,
Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?  

X KDBZGH


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Who is poetry for?

Article that asks whether or not poets should be accountable, whether or not poetry should be more mainstream...comments??

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jun/02/is-jeremy-paxman-right-new-poetry-inaccessibilty

Bits & pieces

Time passes, we reflect. We have hopes and visions for the future. Past scars are still visible. We move on, leave chaos behind... have a good weekend,      /ez

Vision

(c) Eleni Zisimatos, 2014

I feel you near, in a heartbeat

time passes, we get older

light pours on me

strange how fate has outlined

the path

we tread so careful

I believe you speak, I believe

you are present

now, then