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The poem “Wisdom and Sway” by Mark F. Stone read by the poet himself at the Society of Classical Poets online Poetry Symposium on June 28, 2025:
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Video created by Andrew Benson Brown.
. The Inclusivity Policy of a British School ---on a 12-year-old student in Britain being barred from making a speech...
. Yet The withered dune grass slumps beneath a sere Gray frozen sky, as winter tag-teams fall And nighttime frost...
Jason, thank you for your kind words. - JG
Thank you so much, Paul, for finding the poem inspiring. Its method is much more "outline history" than Greene's absorbing…
Thanks, Jeremiah, for bringing up that early work of art about the Cristero conflict. It was published in 1940 while…
Each one of these is a jewel, C.B. I especially like the first and the last ones. Some search for…
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What a great figurative-allegorical picture of our times. And another beautiful video by ABB.
Mark, as I neglected to say when this poem first appeared, it is an apt fable for any community suffering from a domineering leader. That’s what makes it timeless. A great concept on your part, complete with the natural joy of everyone involved when nature brings down pseudo-science.
Well done, Andrew, with relevant drawings from an indeterminate time in the past, yet “not far away,” and still including the even more relevant recent photo, while accompanying the whole with simple music in accord with the lyric genre.
As long as we can determine between genuine science and fraudulent science, like that of flat Earthers and blaming Panadol for autism (processed food and food additives are a more likely culprit, though no one wants to give up their hot dawgs), we should be okay.