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The Power of the Dog
Another by Kipling. The Power of the Dog There is sorrow enough in the natural way From men and women to fill our day; And when we are certain of sorrow in store, Why do we always arrange for more? Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware Of giving your heart to a dog to…
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Awake, My Soul
Awake, my soul Awake, my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run; Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise To pay thy morning sacrifice. Thy precious time mispent, redeem, Each present day thy last esteem ; Improve thy talent with due care, For the great day thyself prepare. In conversation be…
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The Weltbild of Justin Martyr, pt. 1
One of the earliest (surviving) apologetic writers of the early church, Justin Martyr was born to a pagan family in Samaria during the early second century. Seeking wisdom, he studied a variety of philosophical schools before becoming a variety of Middle Platonist–though he still retained principles from his training in Stoicism, Pythagoreanism, and the Peripatetic…
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Moonlight Memorandum
Moonlight Memorandum Machines are no longerslowly combing the red earth. There is no one left to explainthe cones in my eyes to me. I have been given my sentence& it is not a long one though it does include the word quintessential which pleases me. Accordingly, I am no relationto the sky but to the…
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Small is Beautiful, pt. 6
My final post on Small is Beautiful. Other posts on Schumacher can be found here. Schumacher includes another section, on Social Organization, that I won’t survey in detail, primarily because I found it to be the least interesting in the book. I imagine there’s quite a bit of sophistication that I missed, therefore, and don’t…
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The Waking
A quiet poem about noise. The Waking I strolled across An open field; The sun was out; Heat was happy. This way! This way! The wren’s throat shimmered, Either to other, The blossoms sang. The stones sang, The little ones did, And flowers jumped Like small goats. A ragged fringe Of daisies waved; I wasn’t…
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Small is Beautiful, pt. 5
An attempt to get back to writing regularly here, perhaps futile. My last post on Schumacher was in January, so I’ve lost the thread a bit, please bear with me. Previous posts can be found here. One of the things I most appreciate about Schumacher is that he takes the challenge of technology seriously. The…
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Sussex
Restarting my regular poetry posts. I’ve been reading more single-author collections lately, so they’ll likely be less variety, and I also might try to add some commentary on individual poems from time to time. To begin again, a poem about home, which, as Kipling notes, ought to be loved even in its unlovableness. Sussex God…
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Final Selections from Carter’s Traditional Japanese Poetry
Kyogoku Tamekane. On “Spring Rain,” composed when he held a poem contest at his home On an eveningset aglow with the crimsonof plum blossoms,the willow boughs sway softly;and the spring rain falls. Retired Emperor Fushimi. On “wind in the pines” To avoid getting wetI took cover a momentin the shade of pines–where the rain made…
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More Selections from Carter’s Traditional Japanese Poetry
Fujiwara no Teika, “Winter Morning” After a full yearof gazing out, one morningI open my door–to at thin snowfall, frozen–the far edge of loneliness. The Go-Kyogoku Regent and Former Chancellor Fujiwara no Yoshitsune A cricket cries outnear my straw mattress, in the coldof a frosty night–as I spread my robeto spend the night alone. Minamoto…
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