this is indeed a great war
so all we hear today is cannons’ boomtheir echo forms our terrible surroundfor this whole century the world’s a tombit isn’t that we just ran out of roomfor good intentions our shots will redoundso all...
View Articlefor emancipation day
no count of years may still the hand of fatebut yet the kindly sunrise eases painas those who fought arise to fight againwith little rancour and without debatefor once removed the horrors cease to...
View Articlelash and chain
where no salvation comes from a dead lordwe're cast adrift and there's no guiding starno symbol serves to act as luminarand we have taken a strange one aboardas sign and seal in these realms...
View Articlehot august day
there are deep echoes across the dry wallso sky seems brassy and bereft of cloudwhile goat is nimble and tempts you to fallto stony death where no one will recallhow once you were so youthful and so...
View Articleuncertain of our flame
name after name recorded on the walla sombre history of the long crimeagainst us all now fading into timemade by those giants who to us seem smallthrough urgent years when little could appalour fervent...
View Articlea universal rite
we fall so far that the first sign of lightawakens us to shaking and to painnot ready but we face it all againthere was no comfort in the arms of nightwe got it wrong so gelid is our plightyet these...
View Articlethe last republic
our hearts with humour and with pain are crammedthe world defies our choices and our ragein the republic of the wholly damnedwe spoke and then our thoughts were truly slammedby those who said that with...
View Articlethe final mark
here on the boundary of truth and liewhere ordinary magics have their ruleunderneath heaven permanently coolno one escapes nor is allowed to cryagainst the judgment of the steely skysince every human...
View Articlethe world goes down
we hit the wall and then the world goes downinto the dark and nothing good returnsfor all we’ve done what once was gold is brownas winter comes like satan into townall minds are numb just as the river...
View Articlehuman wit
where in the sunlight all the dirt's dispelledwe take our leave then some will go to sleeptheir blankets piled upon them in a heapwhile in the forest all the spirits gelledanticipating that when we...
View Articleno astrology
where no man argues and no woman fightsfor good or evil we have reached an endof human battles and the stars portendno better indications as the nightsclose in we note their distant blinking lightsas...
View Articlethe turning of the wheel
no matter what we say we do not feelthe pain of others right inside each heartinstead we wait the turning of the wheelfor one more challenge for the last appealwhich was presaged right at the very...
View ArticleStudent Bloopers Fall 2014
Aristotle (born circa 384 B.C. in Stagira) was considered to be an ancient Greek philosopher. Socrates way of thinking was all about the analysis of such, such as; asking questions and making...
View Articleclearer paradigm
no evidence the world is bent in shapea bluish globe with wooly white of cloudthe mountains form a contrast sharp and proudagainst the sea we note the golden capewhile in the sky dark birds seem to...
View Articledessalines at vertières
our meanings come from choices handed downby those who built the towers and raised the skythe folk who farmed the fields and filled the townwho'd made the horrid trip and did not dietheir long hope was...
View Articlecrossing rivers
where crossing rivers can be made to countagainst the value of all we hold dearin spite of all that’s known at the frontierwhere hope and learning are held paramountno one would wait on those who’d...
View Articleno winners at the end
to speak of valour is no great mistakewhen each of us confronts the howling galethose who are ready when the sandbags failknow what is meant when city turns to lakeeach of them is that moment wide...
View Articlethe guilty party
too many answers come down to the samenon-explanation of the simple factwe are the ones who always bear the blamefor all the anger we have one hard nameclear and precise both noble and exacttoo many...
View Articlecome wind or weather
across the silences these words are truethat answer sorrow with a worthy smilebut will not pause to soften nor revileyour efforts nor the feelings that are duethis passing day what is it we reviewamong...
View Articlemastery
to travel takes us back to where we startall journeys have good learning as their endbut no one can go further than their heartwe seek a place from which pain must departleaving us healthier and with a...
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