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Posts Tagged ‘Poetry

SHAMEFUL DATES, SHAMELESS PLUGS

August 21, 2024

          January to May has grim reminders from history and what may be learned from them. The first month calls to mind Martin Luther King, Jr. and that despite his sacrifice, racism is as bad as ever. The end of January, in 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and it’s truly shameful if there’s no […]

What’s Love Got to Do with It?

February 15, 2011

Think of Tina Turner’s hit song: “What’s love, what’s love, got-to-do, got-to-do with it…” Cometh Valentine’s Day, and storefronts are sick with every shade of red. Gosh, we’re a loving people. You can tell from our music, literature, rhetoric and scriptures. We sing and rhapodize about it, and look for it in all the wrong […]