SOFT I am too soft for the world. Lacking lies, Devoid of disguise To escape the truth That I simply don’t care About an eye for an eye Or a tooth for a tooth. When the cheek turns easily, Is…
Author: Brad Shorr
BEWARE THE IDEAS OF MARCH Winter came And winter went Like the rock-hard fruitcake Aunt Ethel sent. When at long last dear Spring arrived, Hope seemed sure to come alive. Yes, life would be a glorious rhyme With the coming…
Tragedy & Hope, by Carroll Quigley Tragedy & Hope is heavy reading, both literally and figuratively. It’s 1,311 pages of dense, detailed world history, covering events from roughly the mid-1800’s to 1965, with no graphics and only two brief footnotes.…
THE FIELDS I was playing croquet Outside the other day, With the senior league, Everyone wearing white, Limbs lithe, wrinkled but alive, Fending fatigue, The weight of sultry Sarasota air, With the sun now falling, much easier to bear. Next…
WAR I am the only one alone. The others in my kingdom Have heraldry and always Three comrades at their side. Although the Court Jesters Have only each other. But I alone am alone, always alone, In a dungeon, in…