Tag: 2016

Poem – LA BÊTE DE GÉVAUDAN: 1764-1767 (THE BEAST OF GEVAUDAN) (By Ray Gallucci)

LA BÊTE DE GÉVAUDAN: 1764-1767 (THE BEAST OF GEVAUDAN) (Based partly on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_of_Gevaudan and translations from http://www.dinosoria.com/bete_gevaudan.htm and http://facteurx.chez.com/betegevaudan.htm)     What devastated Central France three centuries ago? “A Wolfman Beast” said those who glanced and dodged this deadly foe.   “La Bête de Gévaudan” – from Hell some thought this demon came. Yet only kids and women killed, no […]

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Poem – The Horse’s Tale (By Ray Gallucci)

THE HORSE’S TALE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Horse)   The story of the Trojan Horse Owes little to Homeric source. Its mention in the Odyssey’s About as brief as brief can be.   It took a Roman to explain (Descendence from the Trojans claim) The tale of Grecian subterfuge, Epitome of classic ruse.   For Virgil in Aeneid’sverse Records events of equine curse, Although […]

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Poem – Shaping the Internal (By Chanacee Ruth-Killgore)

Shaping the Internal   Of course it’s about the words…   their weight, their meaning. Stringing them, placing them, cutting them. Wielding them with passion, fury, and sometimes… regret.   With careful measure given to every syllable, every pause. For words are both weapon and salve. Love and hate. Kind and malicious.   Words take root deep within. They linger long into […]

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Poem – AFTER THE FACT (By Ray Gallucci)

  AFTER THE FACT   The mystery of history Reduces all to sophistry If fecklessly, not skeptically, Accept we its validity.   Did Kennedy form strategy Preventing Cuban tragedy When quarantined Fidel at sea? Or was it serendipity?   Did atom bomb need dropping on To-be-defeated-soon Nippon, Because Japan, to its last man, Would fight invasion hand-to-hand?   Was Civil […]

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Poem – THE MYTH-ING LINK? (By Ray Gallucci)

  THE MYTH-ING LINK? (Based on Genesis of the Grail Kings, by Laurence Gardner, 82001)   Are we the progeny of a race Who weren’t terrestrial, but from space, Who intermarried with Homo clan And so created Cro-Magnon Man?   Are tales Sumerian more than myths (Perhaps 2001’s monoliths)? Were Anunnaki of whom they tell The Greeks’ Atlantean parallel?   […]

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