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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 i(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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A Sonnet Sequence for Edna St Vincent Millay

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

Caption: More poems in the tradition: Breathng: American Sonnets, Credit: Susan Cook

On her birthday, a Sonnet Sequence "The Rage of the World" .

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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

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

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

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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 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 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...

Looking for the Wounded Deer: Doing Good in the Face of Culturally Sanctioned Aggression

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

A Registered Maine Guide I know searched for a wounded deer - wounded but not felled- he still seeking to do good for evil - as it is perceived by ...

To the First Images Seen of A Black Hole

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

Caption: " Breathing: American Sonnets" (Shermans.com), Credit: Susan Cook

Black holes still doing what they do. Re-visiting Einstein imagining his most important discovery.

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A Poem to the President of the NRA

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

This poem to the President of the NRA has no statistics, no logic, no legal reasoning or principle. Only profound grief and sadness..

Smithsonian Associates: Decoding the Cable Revolution: How 24/7 Politics Shaped a Generation and Our Democracy with Kathryn Cramer Brownell

From: Paul VOGELZANG
Series: Smithsonian Associates Interview Series, Not Old Better Show

Smithsonian Associates: Decoding the Cable Revolution: How 24/7 Politics Shaped a Generation and Our Democracy with Kathryn Cramer Brownell

An American Sonnet for The Woman Who Is a Journalist

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

Caption: From a buddhist center "...the cellular call, compassion..., Credit: Susan Cook

During National Poetry Month, an American Sonnet to bring us to know better the women journalists of Ukraine.

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Shaming and Humiliating By Choice: Roe v. Wade and Denying Consequence

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

Caption: At the 1996 Dem National Convention, at the beginning of the Platform debate, women protested for the right to choose..., Credit: New York Times, August 28, 1996

As 6 Supreme Court Justices end Roe v. Wade, shaming and humiliating Pro-Choice advocates becomes the anti-choice strategy.

How One Doctor Is Prepping for a World Without Roe

From: Tradeoffs

A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade has health care providers scrambling. We talk with an OB-GYN at the University...

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