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Q  Was yesterday, August 3, 2025 considered 'the 9th of Av?' on the Jewish 
     calendar?

A   Yes, it was.

Q  Why is it considered to be 'a national day of mourning for the Jewish people?'

A   It's the exact date: both the first temple--Solomon's temple, and the

ART a recent HISTORY in blank verse

With photography
figurative art did flee
defeated by ego 'selfie'
Impressions took centre stage
'til 20th century abstract
became the rage
This expressive genre
still ruled the roost
until  digital facility was introduced
&  by AI was traduced

Fate of America

Trump should be defeated with truth and democracy 
Not with weapons and zealous filled idiocy 

Crooks, a young terrorist and short-sighted halfwit 
Who sealed Fredonia’s fate and everyone who lives in it 
Yalda’s fate that gods, angels, and men can’t outwit 
Soon the shouts of people will make the land quake and split 
Even if

A Recent Change Of Mind

That stiff-neckedness; that boulder-like stoneness
The so-called track-travel; that perfection-proneness
The 'looking-down-upon' others as backboneless
That sharp surety of sheer, shadowless shallowness
All came to a standstill like a train on a halt.
I felt something stopping my voluntary vault.

'Take it easy'—I heard the inner self prompting.
'There's a need for reciprocating and bonding.
Perfectionism has high streams of expectations.
Thoughtlessness fills and

A Recent Change of Mind

I once thought of winter as the grave,
Of all the seasons, it wouldn’t behave.
Always bitter, never would it save,
Grimacing and weeping, though quite brave.

Musings of hearths and blazing fires,
Held my thoughts, my heart’s desires.
Warming my bones from Winter’s satires,
Birds chirping from frosty nests despite kindly lairs.

I always felt the chill of the season’s snows,
All the

The Recent Is the Decent

Steve likes to control people's lives.
He could hate men for their bad wives;
Who tries Steve's eyeballs to death drives,
His razor worse than twenty knives!
Thus, Steve's trusted friend Jeremy
Had to become his enemy
Jeremy to face his army 
For being recently The Barmy...

I love Steve's dead sincerity,
Not his love for temerity:
His mad thirst for severity
And voice for

For Veterans of a Recent War

Raise high the chalice for the saddened heart 
At the banquet for the king’s coronation; 
Sing the ballads of valiant warriors to depart. 

They who have returned to guard the rampart. 
Salute their bold stance for God and nation; 
Raise high the chalice for the saddened heart 

More than heroes, our wounded, they fought, 
Who

A Blast From the Recent Past

bursts of blooming life
and peaches ripen so sweet
the sun smiles warmly

Recent Dreams

Recently

My dreams have been

Scarier than reality

Like nails raking down a blackboard

Not the fluffy happy stuff

You wish you never wake up from

Silent One - Poem Inspired By His Recent Write

“SILENT ONE” – inspired poem
I
Musicians unite for a cause, no cause celebre
But small nursing homes not on maps, or Frail Care facilities -
Magically coaxing ancient responses and memories, 
Ancient civilizations, loves village by village, bequeathing antiquities

II
Once, at a prayer meeting, in a troubled land
Four races came praying for rain, their drought’s end
To save quaint farms,

Recent Success

R-ighteous
A-wesome
V-erse
I-n
N-oble 
D-enotation
E-xpresses
R-emarkable

K-nowledge
U-sing
M-essage
A-bout
R-ecent

S-uccess
O-f
N-otable
I-ndividual

Topic: Birthday of poet Ravinder Kumar Soni (May 04) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic

In These Recent Days

It used to be fantastic.
I was happy.
The world was bright.
My future was bright.
Our future was bright.
At least that's how I saw it.

You loved me.
I loved you too.
I was ecstatic to see you every day.
When you weren't there, it hurt.
Your beauty humbled me. I felt unworthy.
Even when I was anxious and afraid,
Fearful that you didn't actually

A Recent Ovwehaul

At my age, I've seen it all, done it all, and heard it all
Only problem is, I just can't remember it all
Brain's filled to the brim
Even store stuff in my limbs
A marvelous specimen after my recent overhaul

A Recent Discovery

“I'll follow you to the ends of the earth” is a very old line
But recently, they've discovered earth is round, will take a long time
Sounds good on paper
But methinks this caper
Could mean death crossing by dinghy the ocean brine

Gratitude For Recent Food

Once upon the notion
Of a shorter India route,
Columbus sailed the ocean
And discovered awesome food!

Surprising avocados,
The corn-grain of the land,
And wholesome sweet potatoes
Delighted western Man.

Peppers shipped to yonder
Created a sensation
As potatoes sated hunger
In many a needy nation.

Pineapples, sweet-marvel
And squashes grew large;
Tomatoes was novel
And green-bean pods.

Flavor-fave vanilla,
Strawberry-red gems,
Plus chocolate, the  thriller
From America, stem.

And peanuts in a

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