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Soundtrack for a New Age
Each historical age is determined by the predominant societal position given to the individuals, groups, nations or empires that can produce or have the resources to acquire whatever substance that age equates to its varied definitions of power. The Bronze … Continue reading
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Tagged composition, history, legacies, music, music education, songwriting, soundtracks, time
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No Shaman Left to Heal Our Tribe
Come, dig the grave, but not too deep; the eighties were a shallow time. We spent a decade just to learn how to maintain appearance’s sake and delve with questions, off-the-cuff, in cocktail conversation bluffs. Come, dig the grave, the … Continue reading
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Tagged commercialism, culture, daily poems, history, ignorance, Jim Morrison, music, substance
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Each moment is a threshold
Each moment is a threshold hinged upon an ancient door; we swing between two rooms: the future, and what’s come before. Experience, the lubricant that smooths the rust and squeaks, we start to use, and learn to hoard, before we … Continue reading
When history’s sad lessons fail
When history’s sad lessons fail to find their place in memory’s halls and social constructs name their grail progress alone, foundations fall. Progress to where, and at what cost? The road to ruin remains paved, while freedom’s edifice is lost … Continue reading
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Tagged education, futility, history, legacies, loss, nothingness, progress
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What fools would try to wrest a nation’s fate
What fools would try to wrest a nation’s fate from tyranny imposed by those with wealth who presuppose as theirs the right to rule because none dare to meet them face-to-face, who in religion’s name defy what gods they claim … Continue reading
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Tagged America, democracy, founding fathers, governments, history, nationalism
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In seventeen and forty one
In seventeen and forty one, my family reached these shores; each generation since that time has fought this country’s wars. Against the French, and then the Britons, then in Union blue; the Spanish, Mexican and Natives, when each call came … Continue reading
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Tagged America, history, military, patriotism, personal history, war
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