Remembering 11-11
Kate Carruthers On Passing the New Menin Gate by Siegfried Sassoon Who will remember, passing through this Gate, The unheroic Dead who fed the guns? Who shall absolve the foulness of their…
poetry
possum – magic – lithe
These are the words I threw out to David Niall Wilson when he asked for three words upon which he could base a poem. Many others responded too and the…
Powerful words?
While re-reading this poem I began to consider just how much power those words have in my life – may, might, should, could, would, must. How many times have I…
My Country
With such diverse and extreme weather occurring in Australia it seems like a good time to revisit a poem that talks about this. We are currently suffering from extreme heat…
Explaining the times we face
In these days of gloom, doom and constant bad news it seems hard to take it all in. But sometimes it is not just a recitation of the facts we…
The Poetry of D.H. Rumsfeld – Recent works by the secretary of defense. – A fabulous collection taken straight from the DOD website
On the Slate website Hart Seely has collected some of the truly classic poems of our time – they are taken from briefings listed on the Dept of Defense website.…