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Dreams on a Battlefield...
http://hommearme.blogspot.com
A blog loosely focused on social issues, etc.; it features poetry, social commentary, and other thoughts the writer may have on various issues.
Recent Posts
2012
Human beings seem to think that just because they live on the planet, they are immune to such phenomenon as extinction, and that the world will last for as long as they exist; they believe that anything happening outside of this planet is inconsequen...
Derision and Social Responsibility: To Laugh, or Not to Laugh?
This contemporary world in which we live, forces mankind to confront the after-effects of centuries of abusive and self-destructive behaviours: global warming, the rapid depletion of the world's natural resources, among other things. However, s...
Early Morning Inspiration.
Early Sunday morning, as sleep overtook my desire to stay up, I turned out my lights and went to bed. No sooner had my head touched the pillow, than the first lines of poetry I had written or even thought of in weeks began to fill my brain.&nbs...
A Life Well-Spent
Last evening, my friend Kacy hosted her final evening of "Floetry" before she leaves for Switzerland to pursue further study. Floetry is an event that she conceptualized a few months ago: an evening of family-oriented poetry, where any- and eve...
In Memoriam: Kwame.
For the past few weeks or so, my mind has been on a friend of mine from my high school. The persistence of old memories, and the intense need to satisfy once and for all my hunger for the truth, brought me to Google his name yesterday; the fear I ha...
Gay Rights in Jamaica: At a Standstill?
By now, you may be familiar with the stance of many of Jamaica's leading politicians and government officials on GLBT rights. On the surface, things may seem not to have changed much, if at all; but with increasing pressure from GLBT groups and...
