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Cherished Remnants
Traveler intruding on the jetsam of birds:Let not pass the nest of days forgottenTo ruminate on wet sulfur memories.The feather tucked in between pebble stonesAnd horned twigs hung by the digest of the dayNow vane-barren,Was groomed till that due flight.Be not fooled by unsavory shards of shellAs you know not the fates of yokes contained.Nor…
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Government Ownership of Petroleum
“It is as if the average human assumes that a coercive governance must be established or assigned despite the fact that such a government is often not very efficient or even involved in the outcomes we ultimately want, peace and prosperity.” Block and Sløk-Madsen, Who Should Own the North Pole? In many oil-producing countries, governments…
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Honesty is the Best Policy.
Jagged stones paved the road,On which the people passed.Faceless masses,Raceless, paced… lessOn talk than on walk.Tasteful, the scene,Tasteless the crowd.Taste, the guide. Taste, the reward.The shoe-shiner sitting still,Taking the still scene.Approached by man of plenty,Filled with pomp and nosing like an air dale.‘A shine for a penny?’ he offered,And a penny he received.A penny divides…
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The Serpent of the Stones.
This poem has been adapted from Al-Nabigha Al-Thubiani’s poem, That Al-Safa. The poem is enclosed below. The agéd bard wrote down with quillOf brothers whose land’s now arid.The elder leashed his she-camelTo quench thirst in wells where snakes hid.“Brother, the valley I forbidFor death awaits in shrubs unpruned.”“I will away, and life be rid.”The snake…
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