Nicholas Andriani

Category: Poetry

From the Rooftops of Granada — an excerpt from my manuscript for ‘The Outsider.’ A Confessional Memoir/Novel on Identity, Love, Travel and Revolution in the Arab Spring.

Dec 22, 2017

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Nicholas Andriani

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I mean, it’s not cheating if nothing happens. Oh, but emotions run deep. Which begs the question: What’s worse, an emotional or a physical affair?
Flash Poem “I’m Afraid of You.”

Dec 20, 2017

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Nicholas Andriani

in Art, Author, Confession, Flash Poem, Flash Poetry, love, poet, Poetry, sketch, writing

I’m afraid of you Standing too close We’ll fall into eternity
Rimbaud On Sacrifice and Art

Oct 21, 2017

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Nicholas Andriani

in Art, Book Blog, poet, Poetry, Travel, writing

“I’m now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I’m working at turning myself into a seer. You won’t understand any of this, and I’m almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It…
Sketching Sights: Burma

Jul 1, 2017

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Nicholas Andriani

in Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, asia, Backpacking, Blogging, Culture, Hiking, history, memoir, Poetry, Sketching Sites, tbex, Travel, travel writing, Watercolor

Before the world can truly reveal itself you must take a period of meditation. A time of reflection. To pre-game, to set a cosmic course of action by stating your intentions and making them manifest. This is the driving force behind Sketching Sights. To become one with the elements of each and every environment that strikes me.…
NaNoWriMo : Into the Wild

Nov 4, 2014

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Nicholas Andriani

in Adventure, Africa, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Author, Backpacking, City Guide, Culture, Food, foodie, Gastronomy, gaza, Grece, history, Islam, israel, Istanbul, Jordan, Kansas City, memoir, Middle East, Morocco, NaNoWriMo, palestine, Poetry, Spain, spiritual, tbex, Travel, travel writing, west bank, writing

Earlier this year, I set a goal to finish a solid draft of my memoir and to achieve this mission i’m going into the wild, er, offline… A MONTHLONG period away from social media, the internet, ethernet and all those nets, in an archaic approach to finish this labor of love that i’m damn excited…
Sketching Sights: Burma on My Mind

Aug 12, 2014

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Nicholas Andriani

in Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, asia, Backpacking, Blogging, Culture, Hiking, history, memoir, Poetry, Sketching Sites, tbex, Travel, travel writing, Watercolor

Before the world can truly reveal itself you must take a period of meditation. A time of reflection. To pre-game, to set a cosmic course of action by stating your intentions and making them manifest. This is the driving force behind Sketching Sights. To become one with the elements of each and every environment that strikes me.…