A ‘Septolet’
Putin pardons convicts to attack Ukraine as "Wagner" mercenaries. Mercenaries are shot for fleeing.
Septolet?
The Septolet is a poem consisting of seven lines containing fourteen words with a break anywhere in between the two parts. Both parts deal with the same thought and create a picture.
Let’s write poetry together!
When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
–Ben Harper (b. 1969)
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He didn’t invent it; Stalin did it first, with SMERSH machine guns behind attacking troops.
My mother’s father, a starving youth at the time, was caught taking a potato from a field that had already been harvested and was sent to the frontlines without a gun.
I know of those cases, too. Human lives have never been considered valuable in Russia.
Wrote a longish comment and WP said it could not be posted…
๐ Muri ๐
just when you think it can’t get worse! ๐ช
๐๐๐ป Cindy ๐๐ป๐
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Yikes.
๐ค๐๐ป Sarah ๐๐ป๐ค ~ I know…
For something to transform, the ugliest parts have to come into the light.
I don’t think that’s always true, Maria, but in this case, it certainly seems to be!
~David
Imagine a long train ride – you get off at a stop and you see something. Meanwhile, thousands things have happened and are happening along the ride, that are outside of our perception completely. Our perception is very limited, so we assume that something is a certain way because this is what we see at this moment. Eventually, more things manifest and you may start seeing that that which seemed to be X was actually Y.
sure, but that doesn’t mean that the ugliest parts must come into the light – a child transforms into an adult regardless of ugliness, I’d say.
by transformation i mean a profound change in a state of things – that is when something has been in one state for a period of time and certain processes need to happen for it to transform to another.. turning into an adult is a developmental/biological/social process.
Okay ๐๐ป
Wow.
๐๐๐ป Brandon ๐๐ป๐ ~ yup. Crazy, right?
No end to it. (K)
๐ค๐๐ป Kerfe ๐๐ป๐ค ~ well… there may be… eventually…
But not soon enough.
No, not soon enough
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๐ ๐ Selma ๐ ๐ ~ it’s horrible
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๐ ๐ฅ Sadje ๐ฅ ๐
Hence not the typical soldier of fortune or hired gun.
๐ ๐ Abi ๐ ๐ ~ right
No matter the war
Always a tool either wise.
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