Poems and Prose

Our Voices Journey through the Silence. A Poem

Our Voices Journey through the Silence

 

Our voices journey through the great Silence,

Silence will lend its ear through violence,

Plus the blare of music that plays through walls,

And precious cup that smashes when it falls. …

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Shelly, the English poet, exposes the lust for war of our ruling elite

Percy Shelly, the early 19th century English poet, engaged in the sharpest of polemics in his anti-war poem. He showed the corruption, coldness and lust for war of the ruling elite.

Here is a 10 line extract from the 72 line poem. …

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Ozymandias by Percy Shelly. Presidents and Prime Ministers need to read this poem

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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke. Extracts to live by.

These letters of the celebrated Austrian poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1825 – 1926), to a 19 year-old military student, named Franz Kappus encouraged the young man to pursue inner inqury, art, solitude and passion as a vehicle for inner transformation. …

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