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First Principles: Evils Which Are Not Cured In One Way Tend To Find Another Way To Be Cured
“Evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.” – Thomas Jefferson (1791)
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Thought For the Day: Things Turn Out the Best For Those Who Make The Best Of How Things Turn out
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.” – John Wooden
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Tagged Best, John Wooden, Make The Best, People, Things, Thought For the Day, Turn Out
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An Elegy To Common Sense
Poem A Day #11 is to be an elegy. The word prompt is ‘black hole’. Milkwood’s definition of elegy is limited to the following. I would argue that the person who wrote the notecard needs to revisit this. I have … Continue reading
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Tagged America First, American, Attitude, Black Hole, Blindman's Bluff, Border Fence, Borders, Build, Cardinal Rule, Common Sense, Conservative, Country, Death, Defend, Dense, Despotism, Destination, Discrimination, Domestic, Drug Lords, Elegy, Elite, Enemy, Exist, Followers, Foreign, Globalist, Heath, History, Immoral, Legal Immigration, Liberty, Live or Die, Milkwood, MS 13, Nation, National Defense, Oath, Old Hat, Patriot, Patriotic, Platitude, Poem A Day, Poor, Porous Border, Pretense, Primary, Principle, Progressive, Protect, Rule of Law, Secure, Servants, Statesmen, Support, Surrender, Sworn, Terrorist, Thirst, Victimless Crimes
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Leading Toward Significance In Free Verse
Poem A Day #12 is to be written in Free Verse. The word prompt is ‘echo’. Free Verse is: From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/free-verse and https://literarydevices.net/free-verse/: “Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech. A regular pattern of sound or … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Animal, Baby, Chimp, Civil, Closet, Cognitive Revolution, Culture, Early History, East Africa, Free Verse, Games, Great, Handprint, Hominid, Homo Sapiens, Human, Lead, Mankind, Memory, Milkwood, Mother, Mystery, Poem, Poem A Day, Poetry, Science, Secret, Separated, Signature, Significance, Skeleton, Thread, Time, Uncivil, Vers Libre
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First Principles: National Defense Is A Cardinal Duty of All Statesmen
“National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman.” – John Adams (1815) How has the Left Wing of the Democratic Party missed this essential facet of running a government? For a nation to be viable, it must … Continue reading
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Kyrielle of Empowerment
The Milkwood Poem A Day #10 is the Kyrielle. The word prompt for day 10 is ‘element’. “Kyrielle is a French form inspired by a Christian devotional tradition, the Kyrie.” “Like that call-and-response liturgical form, the kyrielle poem has a … Continue reading
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Tagged Calamity, Coup, Desparation, Effort, Element, Empower, Famine, Finest Hour, Four Horsemen, France, God's Plan, God's Will, Grumble, Humanity, Hunger, Kyrie, Kyrielle, Liturgical, Malnourishment, New Life, Overcome, Photograph, Plague, Poem, Poetry, Quatrain, Rebuild, Rubble, Starve, Trouble, War
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Curtain-Fall Triversen
Poem of the Day #9 is the Triversen form. From https://poetscollective.org/poetryforms/triversen/: “The Triversen, (triple verse sentence), is a sentence broken into three lines. It has also been referred to as a “verset”, a surge of language in one breath.” “The … Continue reading
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Tagged Alarm, Call, Curtain-Fall, Dance, Dancer, Dancing, Day, Dream, He, Imposition, Love, Memory, Milkwood, Poeetry, Poem, Pushed Away, Recall, She, Shoes, Show, Think, Times, Together, Triversen, Unfair, Walked Away, Wash Away, Whim, William Carlos Williams
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First Principles: American Colonies Had Long Been Stopped From Abolishing Slavery Or Even Limiting It By Great Britain
“…. (A) disposition to abolish slavery prevails in North America, that many of Pennsylvanians have set their slaves at liberty, and that even the Virginia Assembly have petitioned the King for permission to make a law for preventing the importation … Continue reading
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Tagged Abolish, Benjamin Franklin, Disposition, First Principles, King, Law, Liberty, North America, Pennsylvania, Petition, Repeal, Slavery, Slaves, Virginia
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Thought For the Day: Laughter and Sleep Are the Best Cures For Everything
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything.” – Irish Proverb
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