Across a New Dawn
Over 70 people died in the terrorist attacks in Nairobi this week. Among them was the poet Kofi Awoonar. He was set to publish a new book of poetry next year, among them a poem called Across a New...
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Haunted Houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Through the open doors The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that make no...
View ArticleWhile He’s Away: A Poem About Being Gone
By Jason B. Ladd - While I’m away The mission’s first We’ll put our best against their worst But victory will fail to quench my thirst While I’m away - While I’m away The silence settles in The mood...
View ArticleWhile He’s Away: A Poem About Being Gone – 11/11/13
By Jason B. Ladd - While I’m away The mission’s first We’ll put our best against their worst But victory will fail to quench my thirst While I’m away - While I’m away The silence settles in The mood...
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The Road Not Taken BY ROBERT FROST 1874–1963 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it...
View ArticleConfession, and a reflection on choices
It’s January, a brand new year, and I want to get this off my chest: I kind of don’t like the Road Not Taken poem by Robert Frost. I know, I know, I posted it as the Thoughts for Thursday for today....
View ArticleUntouchable
race is every where in my world in a way it has never been before the exchange of money the palm to palm and mouth to mouth of words rings through my mind and body in constant clarity front loaded...
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