"The Bard's Breath" is a Winds of Change.NET feature bringing you art, quotes and verse related to our times every Tuesday and Thursday. We all need a bit more than just news to make it through what's coming next: Spirit. Perspective. Faith. Humour. Reminders of humanity, and horror, and the shape of true victory.
We're on it.
Last week's "The Time Has Come" set the stage. I've been saving this one for the day the war began. It's by Tabitha Szalapski, and was featured in WSJ Opinion Journal's Day of Poetry for the War:
"War is hell," while not quite true,Add a cartoon fun doubleheader: see Cox and Forkum's "Last Call," and also Day by Day's cartoon with Powell and the French Foreign Minister...
Expresses how we feel;
And, yet, to war we go anew
To quell a threat that's real.We relish not the death and pain,
The loss of our dear sons;
But when the tyrants' terrors reign:
"Arise, courageous ones!"Arise, rush forward to the fight,
Lift up sweet freedom's call --
If no one stands for what is right,
Oppression conquers all.So to the battle-line and wreak
Destruction swift and sure.
It is not power that we seek,
But life -- for all -- secure.
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