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Book Review – Snow by Orhan Pamuk
A great story of an elusive love and heartbreak against a political backdrop in modern day Turkey by the great story teller. An exiled poet Ka returns back to his hometown of Kars to investigate the suicide by young girls … Continue reading
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Tagged Islam, Love, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey, Turks
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“She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that’s best of dark and brightMeet in her aspect and her eyes;Thus mellowed to that tender lightWhich heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one … Continue reading
Book Review – August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn My rating: 5 of 5 starsRussia’s disastrous performance in World War I was one of the primary causes of the Russian October Revolution of 1917, which swept aside the Romanov dynasty and installed a Bolshevik … Continue reading
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Tagged Communism, Germany, Russia, Solzhenitsyn, WorldWar
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A Christmas Poem
I have a list of folks I know,all written in a book And every year when Christmas comes,I go and take a look, And that is when I realize that these names are a part Not of the book they … Continue reading
October
Books litter the bed,leaves the lawn. Itlightly rains. Fall hascome: unpatterned, inthe shedding leaves. The maples ripen. Applescome home crisp in bags.This pear tastes good.It rains lightly on therandom leaf patterns. The nimbus is spreadabove our island. Rainlightly patters on … Continue reading
The Song of Amergin
The “Song of Amergin” and its origins remain mysteries for the ages. The ancient poem, perhaps the oldest extant poem to originate from the British Isles, or perhaps not, was written by an unknown poet at an unknown time at … Continue reading
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