the Jewish couple
...The Jewish couple
I have written about this before, but somehow
didn't get it right
My perceived brusqueness made them think of Cracow,
they had fled, their relatives lost in the turbulence
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Categories:
brusqueness, age, allah, allusion, beauty,
Form: ABC
Questions For a Bully
...What is it that makes you so unpleasant
Is brusqueness and lack of tact your totem,
Or, are you eaten up with anger inside
Feel you must treat everyone like a crumb?
Why are your com...
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Categories:
brusqueness, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Quatrain
Choking Back the Tears
...Choking Back The Tears!
This papa did accurately
surmise undeclared war
strong armed lance pierced my armour,
ah...how fondly he recalls
early fatherhood days of yore,
when daddy's first born...
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Categories:
brusqueness, betrayal, conflict, daughter, grave,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Old Jewish Couple
...The Old Jewish Couple
I have written about this before but somehow didn’t get it right
my perceived brusqueness made them think of Cracow they
had fled and all the relatives lost in the turbule...
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Categories:
brusqueness, abuse, angst, holocaust,
Form: Blank verse
October
...October came in nice and benign.
Of sometimes brusqueness gave no sign.
But already she is half through.
Rain and wind are surely due.
I give thanks for each day,
knowing weather's too good to s...
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Categories:
brusqueness, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Faith, Rationality and Islam: a Crisis
...The world shared some turmoil; what went wrong?
that was the question, deplored the argument;
It’s all about Pope Benedict’s address
given to his old university at Regensburg
in Germany where he had ...
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Categories:
brusqueness, faith, history, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative