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When in all earnest and with perceived grace, in subtle ways fighting odds that separate us, we have to decide how best we must come close to let the wide world realise it is impossible to keep us away from the importance that is our due since, in resolve firm and solid, there in us,…
Jews dream of David’s reign, of Solomon’s expansive kingdom; Muslims dream of their caliphate, of a glorious empire of conquests. Yet there is a third dream at hand of middle-ground concession, an offspring of compromise, the progeny of goodwill. Let a lucid consensus reflect that there is in each conflict one single right side: that…
Ed. note: Wayne Terwilliger, our Paris correspondent, passed along Jacques Martin’s translation of a sonnet by Arthur Rainbow, the pseudonym of a Franco-American poet keeping a low profile on the Ile St Louis. Rimbaud, According to Rambo Stop those drugs from reaching American soil. Clean up San Francisco and let Tony Bennett sing. Let freedom…
Flower bud canvas surrounds the circle face image with soft plying petals of whisper sound. The post Being Held | Tempest Brew appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online
She. Her brown long hair And her dress, purple. Fairy wear. Shes a girl With glitter on her cheeks. And she walks the beach under the moon and sings in Greek to the old Gods to whom she belongs. Shes a pirate and a gypsy. And a beauty. She is a goddess. Her beauty is…
Born today was he who painted this portrait of a young woman with a water jug. The blue is rich, the geometry superb, and light flowing in from the window a miracle of air and sky. The painting hangs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. As for the other fellow born…
