Day 30: My dear friend Maureen McCarthy suggested this beautiful poem, Try to Praise the Mutilated World by Adam Zagajewski. It’s about remembering the good things, which are often small …
In response to the Covid-19 outbreak around the globe, Synkroniciti will be posting a video of a poem every day for forty days. If you would like to participate, please …
We’re going to meet a lot of lonely people in the next week and the next month and the next year. And when they ask us what we’re doing, you …
Is it a world in the making that turns as it whistles to the depths of my being It is burning Suppose it were to appear A bleeding rosary …
He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men …
It was a warship, after all. It was built, designed to glory in destruction, when it was considered appropriate. It found, as it was rightly and properly supposed to, an awful beauty …
That is what death is like. It doesn’t matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn’t matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what …
“How come we play war and not peace?” “Too few role models.” ―Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is much …
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind… War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation …
