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Ch'i and the Lessons of "Rage": Donald Trump through the lens of Sun Tze and Hannah Arendt

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: The 1918 Truth: Wear a mask., Credit: The Topsham Crier/Charles Crosby

The revelations of Woodward's "Rage" are understood best through Sun Tze, the ancient Chinese text also known as The Art of War and the historical ...

In the Aftermath: An American Sonnet

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Joseph Biden withdraws from the Presidential race.

Why Women Don't Tell, Part 4: What the Media Leaves Out

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Exclusion by the Media of facts about the nature of the exploitation at the center of the Trump trial, and the $130,000 paid to an adult film actr...

Waiting for the Mockingbird: A Citizen's Guide to Protecting the Credibility of Those Who Speak Out

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

The possibility that we can all take part in finding out what is true, just by speaking up, can become very uncertain and maybe one day disappear b...

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"It's A Grand Night for Bailing, Updated" in the Dept. of Poetic Justice (and Reckoning). Lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook!

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: ... the story that belongs to everyone at some time in life- the times when crossing the river is very very difficult to do, no matter how big the boat., Credit: Susan Cook

We've been humming the tune from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "State Fair", again! "It's a Grand Night for Bailing, Updated! The Evangelical version" ...

"I see Trees Standing in Deep Water" From The Department of Poetic Justice (and Poetic Reckoning)

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook

The town of Brunswick, Maine is set to remove 2/3 of the trees on Maine Street because it is too expensive to work around them as they install new ...

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"It's A Grand Night for Bailing!" In the Department of Poetic Justice (some Lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook) !

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: ..And somewhere a Bird Who Is Bound he'll be heard is giving his lawyer a call,,,,.., Credit: Susan Cook

In The Department of Poetic Justice (with lyrics for The Great American Wrongbook ) , remembering another moment of ex, um disclosure!

"A Sonnet for the Waterfall" Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020, Credit: Susan Cook

Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at age 87. " When the spark had finally stopped, ending finally, the luscious waterfall, (the opulent deceit, the ple...

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The Falcon Teaches World Democracies about Intervening in Ukraine: An American Sonnet

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: The falcon may be the new symbol for our National Character..., Credit: Susan Cook

The conviction of the falcon, not the eagle, is the model for Democracies to call upon to Intervene in Ukraine. "An American Sonnet for the Falcon."

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Remembering September 11, 2001: "The Fall"

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets, Credit: Poems by Susan Cook

On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall" (submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...

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Journalist Suppression and Fear for Democracy- Sonnet for the Journalist Who Said 'Wink, Wink'

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Sonnet for Wink, Wink -Susan Cook- There are places here on earth where a wink at the wro...

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Three Poems for Hard Times

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: "We are watching the edge of the world, held by a vision, the persistence of breath...", Credit: Susan Cook

"When Loss and Innocence", "What Courage Wears to Bed", "The Meaning of Life". Poems from the author of "Breathing: American Sonnets"

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Imagining where love came from: Sonnet for the Primordial Gravity Waves

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets (Bookshop.org), Credit: Susan Cook

The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to those who offered proof of the existence of Primordial Gravity Waves. Einstein theorized they were ...

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On the death of Stephen Hawking "Sonnet for The Black Hole" "Sonnet for A Loss"

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Stephen Hawking has died who brought us all to imagine what black holes are and to recognize ourselves in them and him.

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Sonnet for the Higgs Boson. The God particle.

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Upon the passing of Dr Peter Higgs, a Sonnet to explain how the Higgs boson comes into our lives.

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Sonnet for Antoinette

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

This is a sonnet written for Antoinette, the school receptionist at the school in Georgia where a man stood outside, then fired a high powered wea...

Sonnet for What Will Be Well

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Caption: 'shipwrecked, lost everything, all's well...", Credit: Edgar Cook

Poems are solace in times of not knowing. Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well. "There are events that narrowly avoid crossing our paths, eve...

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The Distance of Time: An American Sonnet about Relativity

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

Poetry makes everything accessible, even the Special Theory of Relativity.

The Mass Shooting Sequence: In Memoriam

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

We know too much of the sequence of the aftermath of a Mass Shooting Sequence.

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Taking What Is Not Yours To Take; Giving What's Not Yours To Give

From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide

What leads people to take what is not theirs to take? Or give what is not theirs to give or for that matter, withhold from others? These are questi...

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