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Written in 1914 by Owen Seaman, the poem "Pro Patria" is a call to arms to defend the righteous and noble values that England was deemed to represent. Calling upon God to support the coming actions of the war, based on a gallant national history, "Pro Patria" is an allusion to Horace and was also utilized in Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.

#Wuhan - empowering poems and prose about feelings and such. No doubt we are all afraid of an epidemy. Find some alarming and soothing words in my poems for your soul. We are gonna make it!

This is a collection of poems and prose about the feelings invoked by the coronavirus and the ongoing pandemic. The first part #Wuhan (bit.ly/wuhanpoetry) was mainly about the feeling of the people living through Wuhan's lockdown. As of March 19, Wuhan's lockdown is released. Regardless, people are still afraid and wear masks everywhere.

I lost my wife in 2020 to a brain tumor just a few weeks after we had celebrated our 48th wedding anniversary. “Celebrated” is a word that springs back when pressed down. More subdued than earlier ones, to be sure, that last anniversary was nonetheless a felt celebration of a lifetime together.