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Such a World: rondel
What sense can you make of such a world where kindness and consideration fail, and ignorance, its angry, hard fist curled, destroys all to build more graveyards and jails? When hatred’s flag has been proudly unfurled, has culture’s last ship … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged #BookofForms, consideration, culture, failure, French verse forms, hatred, kindness, perspective, poetic forms, rondel, society
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Put Away Those Foolish Thoughts
Put away those foolish thoughts, and hide from sight your vain ideals! Instead, seek what the world enjoys: love what beseems a proper role, or find yourself a friendless fool. Survive! Just learn to subliminate; one must pretend, or play-act, … Continue reading
Posted in Statements
Tagged conformance, expectations, friendship, illusions, society, thoughts
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At Shakespeare’s Feet
At Shakespeare’s feet must surely lay the blame: the histories he gave dramatic cause put in the mouths of persons dull and lame an eloquence to hide their actual flaws. With words beyond their likely frame of mind, he put … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged deterioration, history, illusion, language, NaPoWriMo, Shakespeare, society
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Communication for a New Age
This is primarily an intro to several chains-of-thought that make up the bigger picture. They probably will not be chained together in this way once each of them has been fleshed out a bit more. Each historical age is determined … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations
Tagged communication, history, hypotheses, language, personal music, society, substance
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