Well it can be and sort of always is.
Marshall McLuhan described various media in terms of temperature. It seems counter-intuitive at first because he calls TV cold and literature hot. What he is referring to is individual engagement.

TV is cold because the viewer is passive, a victim, images streamed straight to a barely active brain. Literature is hot because one has to actively read it, use ones imagination.

There was an article on a news portal regarding a thief who broke into a Virginia shoe store. This thief had headed for the store without using his head and jumped in feet first as he stole thirteen shoes on display that were all for the right foot. The left shoes was kept in the storage area and the thief either did not know about the left shoe policy and location or in his need for a hurried exit, he did not notice his error. Also, it looks like he probably did not keep count as thirteen shoes would mean one shoe would remain on its own.

Ever lost something or forgotten it then later found it? We all have. So this month we're going to write about this. See the contest tab for the details but then sharpen that ol' pencil and let the words flow. And Have Fun.......stan

The august contest winner is Rula for her rare concrete or form poem. Close runner up was raj. here's rule's poem. Join me in congratulating her

Ok folks, time is running out to enter the August contest.

Admittedly there was sadness too, for the dearly departed Terry Pratchett, and that wistful feeling that comes from reading joyful genius one could only aspire to.

Many thanks to the extraordinary generosity of Ian Thomas Howard who gave me the book, "A Blink of the Screen", a collection of Pratchett's shorter fiction, some previously unpublished. For my non-British friends Glastonbury was a bit like Woodstock.

On this Indian Independence Day, rather than penning more mundane meter, the best tribute to India would be to let the sublime stanzas of this genius – a multi-talented polymath, Nobel Prize in Literature winner, poet, philosopher, composer of national anthems of 2 nations (India and Bangladesh), painter, scholar, administrator, founder of a nature-immersed school (Shantiniketan) and University (Visva-Bharati), man of letters – resoundingly resonate:

Excerpt from Gitanjali – Rabindranath Tagore

Hello
I just wanted to be clear with the contest's subject "Why did I love you"
It's a bit confound (at least for me) if the piece of poem should show regrets for having once loved somebody OR should it answer what were the features that attracted someone to his/her beloved one? Or does either work well for the judges

Joe Geremia, who's posted on Neo for years,
is, as many of you know, very unwell due to
Parkinsons Disease. Joe is experiencing pain
and feels that his time is short. He's still with us,
a gift we celebrate.

He asked me to "Go on Neo and tell them
I said hello." Such a small request.

I told him I would do that for him.