Paul Elisha
Commentator and Host, Poetry Forum-
In an ‘Armistice Day’ address, on November 11th, 1948, its last delivery under that aegis, when it was then re-titled: “Veterans Day,” to include U.S.…
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There’s something strangely illusory in the approach (in less than a month) of the 69th Anniversary of the end of WWII. For those of us in the inexorably…
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At a time when athletics are at the forefront of both academic and professional sports activity in the United States, it’s of special interest to see…
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No matter on what thoroughfare we Americans may reside, there is only one truly two-way street in this country and sadly, too many of us have forgotten…
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In one of his most compelling utterances, Oscar Wilde quipped: “Experience is the name everyone gives to their youthful Mistakes.” If ever this nation was…
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As the beloved piquant paradoxical pin-striper, Yogi Berra, used to pipe – “It’s like deja vu all over again,” it’s precisely that, just two decades or so…
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There’s no denying the heat of resentment that prodded America’s colonial rebellion to its ultimate break with British rule and the formation of a new…
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At this depressing juncture of America’s ongoing history, if for whatever uncharitable reason, someone might want to provide an even more troubling…
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This veteran of too much war and too much talk of it with too little substance, at too great an expense for too many to pay and too few to benefit, has…
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In his powerful book of verse: Divine Madness, the pre-eminent bard and psychologist Paul Pines begins one of his poems thus: find a reedthat breaks…