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Sonnet for the Dead Protester: In Memoriam Rachel Corrie

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

Remembering another Non-violent Protester who died.

American Sonnet: I'm Writing This Now, You Imagining You Will Someday Become an Accomplished Professional

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

Caption: Denigrating Women by demeaning their Accomplishments, Credit: Susan Cook

The Former President Re-posted a comment implying Women advance because of sexual behavior. This denigration his hallmark, does nothing but demean ...

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In the Dept of Poetic Justice! Bannon's New Mic Technique with Lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook!

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

Caption: "...it makes My General levitate or at least he tries.", Credit: Susan Cook

Bannon's free yoga, Pranayama and no more stuffy nose!

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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What Courage Wears to Bed

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

Caption: "...she won't dismiss, hand off or dress down good..., Credit: Susan Cook

The values of a democracy shared through verse not vitriol.

An American Sonnet to a Fire Gone

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

Caption: The epilogue and Frost's "Reluctance" "Ah when to the heart of man/was it ever less than treason/to go with the drift of things...

Everything changes, if only we can see it.

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Hope Is Not the Thing With Feathers

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

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

This Democracy brings us optimism, change and always, hope.

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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.

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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" ...

"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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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..

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