I started writing poetry in my early twenties. The poems I wrote were mellow, about the natural buety of the earth I saw around me, thought of God’s love. When I came home from the war my soul was dark, the poetry I wrote was dark, so I stopped writing poetry for several years. As […]
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Poems that plumb the mystery of solidarity
BELOVED BROTHER, BELOVED SISTERPoems for Palestineby Kevin Hadduck114 pp. Blue Heron Poetry. $0-$5 There was a tall, broad-shouldered, white-bearded, man in Montana, who was deep into the wide-open spaces, the trackless forests, and the wildlife. He had filled his office with stuffed animals. The animals never lived, had never been killed. They were the soft, […]
Hannah Senesh archives, including handwritten poems, come to National Library
It’s been 76 years since Hungary-born poet and paratrooper Hannah Senesh, at the age of 23, was parachuted into occupied Europe by the British in an attempt to save Hungarian Jews from the Nazi death camps. Senesh was captured, tortured and executed in Hungary, but her story and poems have lived on. Her archives, which […]
New World Order Statist Soros Speaking to the European Parliament Calls for Multi-Billions in EU ‘Surge Funding’
Without sufficient funding, the EU cannot perform the functions it was designed for nor meet the expectations of the European people. And because it fails to achieve the objectives it has set for itself, the Union loses its legitimacy and the support of its citizens. The refugee crisis illustrates the problem. At least €30 billion […]