Author name: Jerold London

Not Yet Anarchy

Photo by Наталия Котович from Pexels Like our land had a spell over itAnd we were caught in the middle.Like there’s so much more to sayMaybe I’ll say it laterWhat silver linings some may mine from Covid-19.Like birds. Talking. And less traffic. No road through the heart is free from danger.Like holding off loss and heartache like a […]

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For Now, Through a Glass Darkly

Photo from Wikimedia A thoughtful ghostWhose words deliverA fire to my heartAnd make it shiverOne William BlakeOnce called a TygerAlight within the night. Indeed:What immortal hand or eyeCould frame that fearful symmetry?Or at its death, throw down its spearsAnd water Earth with Heaven’s tears? A light that shines on many an eyeThrough stained glass.Darkly. “Tyger

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Not Without a Climb

Photo by nappy from Pexels Societies and Empires reconstruct themselvesIf not proactively, then cut like the Grand Canyon. Shogun leads to shogunTo the sun and back. Dynasty to dynastyGreat Wall to Mao to Tiananmen Square. Genghis Khan from son to sonTo Kublai Khan and gone. Hindus to untouchables to SikhsMaharajas to East India to Gandhi and Kashmir. Mohammed

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