“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” – William Faulkner There is a special moment in the life of each one wherein he makes the internal decision to be better than his present …
What is true of truth? Truth is never spoken out of both sides of one’s mouth, neither is it murmured under one’s breath. Truth has but one face. Truth never belittles, dissembles, or schemes. Truth does not paint itself in a certain light; truth is light. Truth needs no defense, neither does it require justifications, …
We stood holding signsUnder the stifling Georgian heat.Rallying for continuity,Expecting nothing that day.Like us, your countrymenCry out, but for revolution—For a break from the iron fistOf tyranny.Hatchett versus Hall, our fight—Faint shades of difference.Liberty versus tyranny, theirs—Nightmarish night versus glorious day.You, Belarusian woman—Scion of white Russia,Far from mother’s armsFar from motherland.Your brethren—oppressed but undaunted,Dismissed but …
“And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.” (King James Version, Revelation 11:15) The book of Revelation has been a curiosity to mankind, particularly in Christian …
The great heart of Belarus awakensTo greet this new day.Her face shines brightlyAgainst centuries of subjectionTo ill-fitting lowness.She rises proudly, casts offHer tattered prisoner’s garmentWorn threadbare by generations of toil.She washes her face, cleans her feetRinses from her handsThe grit and grime of oppression.This morning she knows—Liberty awaits her in the open air.This morning she …
The news came of his arrest—Her light, her love, her lifeGone in an instant.They spoke of thisBut she refused to accept it.This time will be differentThey saidSitting in the moonlightFeeling the electric momentHearing the youthful criesHeeding the call to greater freedom.This time truth shall outLies and hatred,Selfish oppression,A lifelong nightmare.Those who seeShall lock armsStare in …
I used to feel that I live in an alternate reality. I never fit into man’s world. I strove to succeed, to exceed expectations, to be “good” in the eyes of my fellows, but I never found my place. But today I realize that I live not in an alternate reality, I live in reality. …
If you’ve ever seen a time lapse video of plant growth you likely marveled at the beauty and wisdom of life. The flow of life vivifies what would otherwise be an uncoordinated conglomeration of matter and energy. Life surges through the members of the animal and vegetable kingdoms it animates, including mankind, yet man, with …
“To Imagination” by Emily BrontëWhen weary with the long day’s care,And earthly change from pain to pain,And lost and ready to despair,Thy kind voice calls me back again:Oh, my true friend! I am not lone,While thou canst speak with such a tone! So hopeless is the world without;The world within I doubly prize;Thy world, where …
Sonnet 79 by Edmund Spencer Men call you fair, and you do credit it,For that yourself you daily such do see:But the true fair, that is the gentle witAnd virtuous mind, is much more praised of me.For all the rest, however fair it be,Shall turn to naught and lose that glorious hue:But only that is permanent …
Gregory Hake 