Tag Archives: Dark Times

Singing in Dark Times – #9 in a series – Where Does the World Hurt – Everywhere. A Poem by Warsan Shire. And One More for Good Measure!

March 19, 2020 – 8:32 pm

what they did yesterday afternoon they set my aunts house on fire i cried the way women on tv do folding at the middle like a five pound note. i […]

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Singing in Dark Times – #7 in a Series – Derek Walcott’s Gratitude

March 28, 2017 – 11:55 am

The Morning Moon Still haunted by the cycle of the moon racing full sail past the crouched whale’s back of the Morne Coco Mountain, I gasp at her sane brightness. […]

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Singing in Dark Times – #6 in a Series – Good and Bad Times for Poetry

February 26, 2017 – 3:00 pm

Joy. The other taste in sorrow’s cup Guy Gavriel Kay from The Last Light of the Sun, Penguin Canada, 2004 Motto* In the dark times Will there also be singing? […]

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Singing in Dark Times – #5 in a Series – Why not Sing – Kevin Young

February 12, 2017 – 2:58 pm

Epigraph from Motto In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing About the dark times. Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956, edited by John Willett and […]

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Singing in Dark Times – # 4 in a Series – Today, a Voice That Might Have Been Banished – Emi Mahmoud

February 10, 2017 – 9:58 pm

Epigraph from Motto In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing About the dark times. Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956, edited by John Willett and […]

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Singing in Dark Times – # 3 in a Series – What Do Poets Do? We Praise

February 8, 2017 – 8:56 pm

Epigraph from Motto In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing About the dark times. Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956, edited by John Willett and […]

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Singing in Dark Times – #1 in a Series – Bertolt Brecht and Warsan Shire

February 4, 2017 – 7:49 pm

Epigraph from Motto  In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing About the dark times. Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956, edited by John Willett and […]

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