Category: Dramatic Poetry

  • Weeping Shades of Hades

    Weeping Shades of Hades

    ˗ˏˋ ✸ ˎˊ˗ A WISDOM, that leads to the BELOVED — all mystics search for; That which confers goodness, and is the hope of our highest aspirations, out of the Groves of the living DEAD of the Nether, And the Woods and WEEPING “Shades” of Hades.

  • Poem: Into the Land of Heroes | Wagner, Das Reingold: Vorspiel

    Poem: Into the Land of Heroes | Wagner, Das Reingold: Vorspiel

    INTO THE LAND OF HEROES AND FRIENDS By Dominique Johnson I rise with you,As you do in me.I am shedding my skins,To unfold youSitting on the throne of the slainLight about your pavilion, Brooding deep with three piercing eyes Whisper at this hour the things your two eyes have seen.I saw the well in a…

  • Preludes, Book 1, L. 117: X. The Sunken Cathedral | Claude Debussy, Erich Kunzel

    Preludes, Book 1, L. 117: X. The Sunken Cathedral | Claude Debussy, Erich Kunzel

    Believe that your potentiality is not at its end, That it has no end. Prepare a life towards renewal and hope. Rise up for the trials that still lie ahead. What wonders might you adorn?What shall your life be. . . .

  • The Real Republican Mind: Upholder of Liberty and Virtue

    The Real Republican Mind: Upholder of Liberty and Virtue

    AREPUBLICAN-mind abhors the chains of slavery — mentally, spiritually and physically. The republican believes that “the health (or welfare) of the People should be the Supreme Law” (Salus populi suprema lex esto). The republican rejects anti-secularism, monarchy, theocracy, clericalism, oligarchy, despotism and authoritarianism. The republican comes from a heritage and legacy of revolution and radical…

  • Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: III. Lento, Cantabile Semplice

    Henryk Gorecki – Symphony No. 3, Op. 36: III. Lento, Cantabile Semplice

    So even now though you feel without power, and in shame the world cries, come out from under the rubble and grab hold of it. Though it be unbearable to see the pain, provide the little ones shelter, when the rain comes. Be as Spring to the shadows.

  • Shall I too Fall Asleep?

    Shall I too Fall Asleep?

    Some people tell me I am dramatic. In moments that mean more than they could comprehend! Bewildered by the dreary sleep those are caught in who tell me this, and who could not catch a star if it was bite sized and floated before them before going out. Similarly, they do not seem to grab…

  • Gustav Holst: Saturn, Bringer Of The Old Age

    Gustav Holst: Saturn, Bringer Of The Old Age

    Come forth DREAMER, MIGHT of elder father, so that you may rise again; Dream as you would when in longing, It is from an Old Age your gifts sprang. It was the churning hot elements from the stars that bore you.

  • Solace, Strength and Enlightenment in Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”

    Solace, Strength and Enlightenment in Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”

    The wise say, we shall once return from whence we came. You carry a fearsome strength in you. It is courage. Use it. It is the source of your magic. It is the source of your regeneration, of the resurrection within you. “Rise again, yes, rise again…” (MAHLER, FROM DES KNABEN WUNDERHORN, OF URLICHT OR…