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Imagining the Cost: common measure
For those hard up against the wall, imagining the cost they pay for each small victory, compared to what is lost, when those who may yet stand refuse and meekly kneel, or worse, just fold their praying hands against reason’s … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, battle, bravery, common measure, cowardice, hymnal stanza, poetic forms, short hymnal stanza, short measure, war
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A Different Mirror
I was raised on tales of princes, kings and dragon’s hordes; the books they filled engulfed my world with sights that to this day affect me deeply. I can hear the swords (both those of plastic from my youth, and … Continue reading
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Tagged bravery, cowardice, disillusion, dreams, fairy tales, fantasy, honor, illusions, reality
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Chandelier’s Left Wink and Blinding
Ceiling now in staring anguish, once the eyes I found and lost; last few moments, caught myself and wound my winding sheet about it. Words are not the thing for speaking: truth, in little hardened bitters, shows itself as one … Continue reading