Where is Home?
Following a coup d’état in 1980, Samuel Doe murdered and subsequently replaced Liberia’s President, William R. Tolbert. Doe reigned for the following 10 years until the notorious Charles Taylor and his National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) attacked Liberia on Christmas Eve, 1989. Civil war ensued for the next 14 years.
Ode to Failure
How I flout at you oh failure!
I sneer and scoff upon you.
teeming, seething, breeding.
Oh, how we have met before
in mystical epic war.
War Reconstruction Lecture Series: A Starting Point
Last Friday, Wilfrid Laurier University held a speaker series with numerous prominent specialists on a given topic. A topic that the media has been quotidianly riddled within the last few years: Iraq and Afghanistan. Accordingly, the lectures purported to question the effectiveness, reasoning, and possible consequences of Canada’s role in reconstructing these war-torn societies.
Blown Over Woe
Yellowing leaves and fallen beliefs
Jet-black ink pens on blue-lined papyrus trees,
The green guise of the political lies
Our hearsay is their present day passé.
A Day Before Today
And Adam said this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man [...]
