Tag: est

• War Poems For National Poetry Month: Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est

  Panama…then Iraq, Somalia, Bosnia, Iraq again, Afganistan–right or wrong, for causes both just and cynical, we’ve been in an exhausting, nearly constant state of war, however distant and vaguely defined, since I graduated from High School in the 1980’s–and that was just a few deep breaths after the war in Viet Nam/ Cambodia/ Laos that…

  JunkChuck

  April 1, 2014

  Poetry

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• My Favorite Christmas Recordings #15 Ray Coniff Singers: Christmas With Conniff

  Bitter, cynical, and borderline misanthropic for most of the year, I reform for the holiday season and from mid-November to the last minute of Epiphany I’m all about the season.  Readers of Old Road Apples will find themselves under a constant barrage of holiday fare this season–from themed essays to book reviews to a countdown…

  JunkChuck

  December 15, 2013

  Commentary, Uncategorized

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