tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post1099006195728002878..comments2024-03-11T08:31:04.022-04:00Comments on Bieganski the Blog: Russian Soldiers Must Refuse to Participate in War Crimes: Stanisław Gądecki Metropolitan Archbishop of Poznań, Chairman of the Polish Episcopal ConferenceD Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-91309669346210404102022-03-08T02:59:00.757-05:002022-03-08T02:59:00.757-05:00According to German TV the UK refuses to accept th...According to German TV the UK refuses to accept the refugees.Jerzy Pankiewicznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-23858728897665153172022-03-07T06:18:44.023-05:002022-03-07T06:18:44.023-05:00UK grants 50 Ukrainian refugee visas so farUK grants 50 Ukrainian refugee visas so farJerzy Pankiewicznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-46748419891177342952022-03-07T03:06:39.318-05:002022-03-07T03:06:39.318-05:00https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/02/28/uk...https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2022/02/28/ukraine-poland-border-refugee-damon-pkg-ovn-intl-hnk-vpx.cnn Arwa Damon is there.Jerzy Pankiewicznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-17862264732641065172022-03-06T02:46:34.668-05:002022-03-06T02:46:34.668-05:00Here is another Thomas Hardy poem. He thought abou...Here is another Thomas Hardy poem. He thought about the sadness of things a lot. But he also loved and praised the beauty of the creation.<br /><br />This is a poem that can still make me cry. And I hope so much that Hardy and all the young Drummer Hodges have a wonderful awakening ahead of them, into an earth truly at peace.<br /><br />Drummer Hodge<br />Thomas Hardy - 1840-1928<br /><br />They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest<br /> Uncoffined—just as found:<br />His landmark is a kopje-crest<br /> That breaks the veldt around;<br />And foreign constellations west<br /> Each night above his mound.<br /> <br /><br />II<br /><br />Young Hodge the Drummer never knew—<br /> Fresh from his Wessex home—<br />The meaning of the broad Karoo,<br /> The Bush, the dusty loam,<br />And why uprose to nightly view<br /> Strange stars amid the gloam.<br /> <br /><br />III<br /><br />Yet portion of that unknown plain<br /> Will Hodge for ever be;<br />His homely Northern breast and brain<br /> Grow up a Southern tree,<br />And strange-eyed constellations reign<br /> His stars eternally.sue knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13416482546175572604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8471082069031980581.post-49427636984975182892022-03-05T02:38:19.383-05:002022-03-05T02:38:19.383-05:00The Man He Killed
Thomas Hardy - 1840-1928
...The Man He Killed<br />Thomas Hardy - 1840-1928<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> "Had he and I but met<br /> By some old ancient inn,<br />We should have sat us down to wet<br /> Right many a nipperkin!<br /><br /> "But ranged as infantry,<br /> And staring face to face,<br />I shot at him as he at me,<br /> And killed him in his place.<br /><br /> "I shot him dead because--<br /> Because he was my foe,<br />Just so: my foe of course he was;<br /> That's clear enough; although<br /> <br /> "He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,<br /> Off-hand like--just as I--<br />Was out of work--had sold his traps--<br /> No other reason why.<br /> <br /> "Yes; quaint and curious war is!<br /> You shoot a fellow down<br />You'd treat if met where any bar is,<br /> Or help to half-a-crown."<br /><br />https://poets.org/poem/man-he-killedsue knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13416482546175572604noreply@blogger.com