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Wake Up: sonetto rispetto
Wake up! The dawn is rapping at the shutters! There is no time to lose, nor waste away; you must begin to clear out all this clutter that gives you an excuse to sleep all day. Believe this: if the … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, awareness, convenience, dawn, machines, poetic forms, resistance, sonetto rispetto, sonnet
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The River: cautionary verse
These questions that you warn me not to ask, they do not simply fade away unsaid; and while your tacit threat may chill my bones, it will not stop me, until I am dead. What good is bullying, and idle … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, cautionary verse, daily poems, fascism, perseverance, poetic forms, politics, resistance
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Everybody Wants to Change the World …
but (and there’s always a BUT – depending on whose diatribe you’re reading at the time, it might be [and I’m making these up as absurd examples, they’re not real quotes]) … nobody wants to change their underwear. nobody wants … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Statements
Tagged activism, bravery, change, failure, resistance, status quo
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Your Right
for Merle Haggard I’m an easy-going guy as far as that’s concerned I tend to only simmer where another fellow burns Let live and go on living is the lesson that I’ve learned I only ask for the same in … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Songs, Statements
Tagged bullies, coersion, communication, cooperation, Merle Haggard, parties, resistance
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Sisyphus
La lutte elle-même vers les sommets suffit à remplir un coeur d’homme. Il faut imaginer Sisyphe heureux. “The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart swell. Sisyphus must be regarded as happy.” — Albert Camus Each has … Continue reading
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Tagged acceptance, Albert Camus, happiness, resistance, Sisyphus, struggle
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