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The Ancient Lie: tawddgyrch cadwynog
An ancient lie controls the world, its flag unfurled before the eye: that might is right; the mystery of history is that what light the meagre flame of truth reveals, the winner steals in a rigged game won by a … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, cheating, deceit, defeat, illusion, poetic forms, tawddgyrch cadwynog, victory, Welsh verse forms
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Lose or Win: rhupunt
What may begin as lose or win soon starts to spin outside that frame. It seems like play, this bob and sway: a bright display, almost a game, a wild careen, drifting between two wide extremes, darkness and flame. Always … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, art, beginnings, endings, loss, perspective, poetic forms, rhupunt, victory, Welsh verse forms
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Not My Fate: a ballade supreme
They say that love will break your heart, that trouble waits along the way, discouraging those at the start to risk or even try to play; so many rise and greet the day expecting nothing good or kind, and thus, … Continue reading
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Tagged ballade supreme, conformity, daily poems, fate, poetic forms, victory
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The Wrong Side
We all want to be the victor, to believe that right is always on our side; and to those who would oppose us, any kind of sympathy we would deny. Keeping score, mind on the numbers, so we never lose … Continue reading
Volume is no substitute
Volume is no substitute for power; It’s not the loudest shouts that prove most true. These sounds that shake foundations may undo in minutes what took builders countless hours, but mere feats of destruction can’t compete with the small, quiet … Continue reading