“I Have a Dream”: The Fifty Year Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
“I have a dream that on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that, one day,…
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko Admires Himself: A Review of “A Precocious Autobiography”
Only in Russia is poetry respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder? ~ attributed to Osip Mandelstam Recently I finished a book only…
Open the Gates for Me: A Look at the Life and Times of C.S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis was a British-Irish writer who is best known as the author of The Chronicles of Narnia series as well as his Christian apologetics such as The Screwtape Letters and Mere Christianity.…
The Keys of Canterbury: A Reflection on the Murder of St. Thomas Becket
I recently saw it written that the burden of the Church is too unappealing, too much for anyone to be expected to bear: too much blood, too much sin, too much self-abasement, too strict a…
Under the Shadow-Tree
By Lawrence "Mack" Hall Word Count: 119 Rating: G (suitable for all audiences) Summary: A poem for Remembrance Day/Veteran's Day Author's Note: For David Jones, 1895-1974, Poet, Artist, Pte., Royal Welch Fusiliers *** "One can…
Secret People: A Reflection on Celtic Spirituality
The word “Celt” is believed to come from the Greek word “Keltoi”, meaning “secret people”, and has been used to denote various tribes from central Europe origin who migrated west, mainly across the spectrum of…
The Men That God Made Mad: A Brief History of the Celtic Identity
The Celts: a mysterious and misunderstood culture, whose myths and magic continue to affect us even today, thousands of years after the Greeks first spoke of the blue-painted Keltoi. Who were they, really? As a…
Tribute to An Irish Gentleman
By Joseph Richard Ravitts Word Count: 117 Rating: G (suitable for all audiences) Summary: A poem in honor of Irish politician Charles Parnell. In the nineteenth century, just before the scope of conflicts grew horrid,…
Edinburgh and the Stately Palace of Holyroodhouse
Of all of Britain’s cities, perhaps Edinburgh has the most picturesque views – from Calton Hill to Edinburgh Castle and Arthur’s Seat. Any of those places presents an opportunity to take in panoramic vistas, so…
For the White Rose
Editor's Note: This poem was taken from The White Cockade, a collection of poetry by Charles A. Coulombe available from Tumblar House Publishing. *** All Kings and all pretenders, wherever you may be, the land…