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Thought For the Day: We Can Sing the Truth and Name the Liars…We Must Work To Overturn the False Narrative of Tyrants
“A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can’t defuse a bomb… But we are not helpless… We can sing the truth and name the liars… we must work to overturn the false narrative of tyrants.” – Salman Rushdie, writer … Continue reading
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As If Nothing Else Matters
As If Nothing Else Mattersby Michael DoyleHow do you protect Russian speakersBy bombing them into oblivion?Mix up that experiment in your beakerYou say you’re doing this as a guardian?Returning to the homeland of the RusWhile treating the natives as if … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry and Poems
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Boom Goes the Bomb
The challenge for today is to write a poem using alliteration…. hmmmm Boom Goes the Bomb by Michael Romani Bombastically brought – boom goes the bomb As a snowflake shivers, dreading what we deliver Shake it up, wake it … Continue reading
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