Category: poetry

Ash Wednesday

     You’ve heard me say, on other occasions and in other places, that I don’t much like contemporary poetry. Nearly all of it strikes me as worthless. Among other things, the disdain contemporary poets show for rhyme and meter suggests that they don’t actually have the chops to write poetry. Someone once compared rhymeless, meterless …

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There Are Days

     Indeed, there are whole geological epochs. But I digress.      This morning, given the chaotic mess into which our nation has descended – what, you didn’t think stolen elections would have consequences? – I found myself in the mood for some Kipling: Macdonough’s Song / Rudyard Kipling Whether the State can loose and bind …

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