Before my ambrosial good-morning kiss.
A sonnet about a sleepless night, a night of rapture and love.
Month: February 2020
Aspire to be measured against great men.
A sonnet based on the ‘Man in the Arena’ speech of Theodore Roosevelt.
The two problems with Word of the Decade 2010-2019.
The gender problem is a serious one – if you have the luxury of such problems. And western societies think that they have that luxury.
Eternal love can last only a day.
A sonnet about the paradoxical notion of eternal love when all we have to spend is just a day.
The decline of western societies.
Western culture is in steep decline. Every aspect of what makes the social fabric and character is in decline.
The problem with the architecture of our cities.
The architecture of our cities is ugly. Contrary to our modern version of organizing living and working in cities, cities and towns of past ages were beautiful.
3 plus 1 epigrams to base your life upon.
Short, witty phrases of distilled wisdom have an uncanny charm almost no one can resist — not excluding myself.