Monthly Archives: September 2014

Warnings Around Us … War … Surrounds Us

The lesson of Japan’s Mount Ontake volcano: catastrophic change is, potentially,

but a moment away … a fine autumn day … turned deadly.

Oh, what a specious … species … are we. With abundant signs of potentially

imminent change all about us, we turn blind eyes … with constancy.

Popular unrest in Hong Kong, a restive lull in the Ukraine and open hostilities

in Iraq and Syria aren’t enough to open eyes … widely.

The lesson of Japan’s Mount Ontake volcano: catastrophic change is, potentially,

near. Please … heed my plea; abnegate nationality … to exalt humanity.

Why Poetry … for a Message … Dramatic?

Harder to write and to read than prose, but poetry
expresses far more elegantly, passionately
and emotively than one may ever, hopefully,
aspire to … prosaically.

A form of written expression … so seemingly … like lyrical hymn,
has been … historically … so seemingly … favored by Him.
To wit, the superlative verse of the great poets, amongst them,
Ovid, Emily, Robert … and the immortal … William.

Shakespeare’s reputation, amongst thoughtful (wo)men
is amongst … the best … of the west.
It is complemented by the east’s, Khalil Gibran;
between them; amongst the best … of the best.

And so it has been that inspired by Him, Willy,
Khalil, Ovid, Robert and Emily, et. al., when expressively
needing to deliver a passionate message … dramatically,
authors know; there’s no better way … than poetically.