Iona College graduate; former Naval Officer, CPA, corporate executive, used and rare book dealer; currently writing voluminously, though not really publishing. I have numerous blogs with political, historical, political, and literary topics:
http: //my.opera.com/ct5topaz/blog/ and
http: //www.notesforramey.blogspot.com/ and
http: //www.nationalinterests.blogspot.com/
cover the basics: opera for literary; ramey for personal; national for political. Opera and National are under the topaz name.
Hail worn-out paths and beaten shore!
Mankind has forgotten war.
No longer fear a threat or more;
...
All dead
Enter a dark
Netherworld to receive
Judgment from Pantheon below.
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Drifting! Massing! Rising!
Folding! Roiling! Dropping!
Crashing! Soaking! Pooling!
Ebbing! Leaving! Holding!
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