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One Cause Alone: envelope sonnet

One cause alone cannot sustain our reason. Quite surely in one lifetime are enough good reasons to press on; that is the stuff of all our myths and legends, in their season. Besides, one grows and passes out of childhood; … Continue reading

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Causes Worth Fighting: Petrarchan sonnet

We each must choose the causes worth our fighting from a great myriad of pointless quests designed to breed confusion in our breasts and keep the fuse inside us from igniting. The frivolous is made to seem exciting; it titillates … Continue reading

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Both Kinds of Good

It should be said (at least one time in jest) that in the world exist two kinds of good to separate what matters from the rest, for use by some discerning soul who could in keening the true nature of … Continue reading

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Cannon Fodder

When all else fails (and at some point it will), so all that’s left to us is simply talk, the victors will be those with basic skills for making idle words seem like a walk through all the rhetoric and … Continue reading

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The Wren (Drui-En)

We barely see him there against the leaf, a tiny nondescript and timid soul, but suddenly quite to our disbelief, he calls upon the magic he controls. With cunning and a wealth of secret lore, that shatter our illusions of … Continue reading

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The Owl (Cailleach-Odiche)

Late at night, strange cries break through the vale, And in that echo, the soft beat of wings; A messenger from far beyond the pale, His lesson in the warning that he brings. With glowing eyes he peers through our … Continue reading

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Natural Blues: a blues sonnet

Every fire begins with just a spark. Yes, every fire it starts with just a spark; comes out of nothing, somewhere in the dark. Every morning starts before the dawn. Each morning has its start long before dawn; it stops its sleeping, has to ramble on. Continue reading

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