Tag Archives: causes

What Now?: Sicilian sonnet

Posted on May 31, 2017 by John

What now? Is there sufficient cause for reaching beyond the edge of darkness? Will we find ourselves subjected to more endless preaching? Are we fit students for any new teaching? And what good any lesson merely bleaching the past of … Continue reading →

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One Cause Alone: envelope sonnet

Posted on May 31, 2017 by John

One cause alone cannot sustain our reason. Quite surely in one lifetime are enough good reasons to press on; that is the stuff of all our myths and legends, in their season. Besides, one grows and passes out of childhood; … Continue reading →

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Martyr Without a Cause

Posted on May 24, 2004 by John

Waken, would-be martyrs seeking causes to in an instant devote life and limb, and cling half-drowned along the upturned raft of culture that leaking, seeks the bottom of the quay. The words that might be spoken now are silenced; upon … Continue reading →

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The Art of War on …

Posted on May 4, 2004 by John

Poverty, Illiteracy, Hunger, Drugs, and ultimately what I’d like to address, Terrorism. Does it appear to anyone but myself that our great “national” causes (that we cast as decisive “battles” since Johnson’s Great Society and its War on Poverty) deal … Continue reading →

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