a poem is a sermon
I hear the highway calling, but I will not catch a ride; Where I’m bound and where roads lead never seem to coincide. For interstates link places that are pretty much the same, and each draw certain travelers, like moths drawn to a flame. The maze of concrete that connects these places on a map […]
My country, our freedom, our way of life – A gift from the gods, or a two-edged knife? Our neighborhood, to be patrolled from within; not defined by what we take out, but what we put in. True ownership lies in accepting the charge Of nurturing a thing, and so, by and large We only […]
“As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.” — Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I To think that it has been two hundred and […]
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