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Epistrophe: Legend (In My Own Time)
The second poem from tonight is: Legend (In My Own Time) by Michael Romani Feeling a little jaded All the memories are faded Of how we blazed across the strings Hoping for the stardom it would bring And now my … Continue reading
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Tagged Clever, Epistrophe, Full Circle, Jukebox Heroes, Legend, Memories, Repartee
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Epistrophe – Stormy Moments
Tonight’s weekly short form poetry workshop featured a form based on a literary device commonly known as an epistrophe. This is, also, sometimes called epiphora or anistrophe. An epistrophe “is the repetition of words or a phrase at … Continue reading
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Tagged Epistrophe, Ghazal, Lightning, Short Form Poetry, Stormy, Thunder
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First Principles: Interests Are Inseparable From Moral Duties
“We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation … Continue reading
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Tagged Armaments, George Washington, History, Individual Interests, Moral Duties, Thomas Jefferson, Trust, War, Witness
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Thought for the Day: Power v. Justice
“Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of … Continue reading
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Tagged Georges Beranos, Governing, Injustice, Justice, Powerful, Resistance
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Ego Push
After giving a poetry reading tonight covering some of the classics from Swinburne to Shakespeare and from Burns to Longfellow, I watched part of a martial arts movie. Watching the movie and thinking on the differences between the realities I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged Burns, Ego, Fantasy, Hell, Hollywood, Home, Karma, Legacy, Longfellow, Martial Arts, Shakespeare, Soul, Swinburne
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Thought For the Day: On Decreasing Class Antagonism
A full belly to the labourer is, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace. -William Cobbett, journalist, pamphleteer, and farmer (1763-1835) To understand more about the life and thoughts of William … Continue reading
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First Principles: Possession and Use of Arms
“[T]o preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.” – Federal Farmer (1787 Richard Henry Lee was a leader during the Revolutionary … Continue reading
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Tagged Anti-Federalist Papers, Arms, Bill of Rights, Liberty, Richard Henry Lee, The People
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Miss You Already
Day 30 presents the interesting challenge of writing a poem about something, anything that happens time and time again. As I thought on this, I realized there were many subjects that might be topical for this poem. Thinking on that, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ballet, Cinderella, Cuddling, Daughters, Father, God, Miss You Already, Missing, Poem A Day, Prayer
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Day 29: For the Most Beautiful
Day 29’s challenge is to write a poem based on words from a poem we might like and words derived from it. Having spent part of the day looking at the art of Ancient Greece and then teaching my princesses … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient Greece, Arninniti, Atana, Beautiful, Bronze, Eva, Helen, Homer, Iliad, Methepon, Odyssey, Paris, Pomegranates, Song of Ilion, Tamarisk, Troy
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Day 28: In Cairo’s Deserted Air
Day 28 of the challenge was to attempt a Skeltonic poem. My attempt is based less on being dipodic as it is on criticism of the Catholic church for taking a very bizarre position and roughly keeping in the same … Continue reading
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Tagged Cairo, Coptic Church, Copts, Feast, Muslim Brotherhood, Poetry, Pope, Pope Francis, Skeltonic, The Beaast, The Least, Umma
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