The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill in speech (6 September 1943)
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When Time Lords Face Judgement
synchronized in a few words
expressed that which cannot be written
meaning that which cannot be known
grasped in an instant of mind time
empires complexities
all their inner workings
secret imperial decrees
never penned secrets
revenue wealth sources
passions weather wars
power fluxes personalities
prosperity soars or falls
birth war rules expansions
neglect change revolutions
kaleidoscopic civilizations
ethnic diversity interactions
walls sanctions
trade interactions
iron clad armies
exploitative polices
who rules centuries?
who time challenges?
exalted megalomaniacs?
play games of empires?
hear ticking clocks?
who measures empires?
who weighs their deeds?
who sentences fates?
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Remember Me
Remember me and look at deeds
Imagined from the air of management;
Deal with mighty powers in an instant,
Hurt nobody now that you’re alive.
Hope is in session with the birds,
Of true feelings the empire is comprised,
The empires of presence,
The empires of life.
Remember me and include me in this world,
Of this reminder be of the dozen
Who knew the wisdom of thoughts
And the wise men acquiring them.
poem by Naveed Akram
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Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
quote by Marcus Aurelius
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Nothing Ever Last
The World's great Empires have gone to decay
They rose and they fell and each had their day
And one Super Power rise as another does fall
And the small will grow great and the great become small.
The Pharoahs and the Aztecs and the Incas as well
And the all conquering Romans too had their glorious spell
And the Spaniards and the British of the recent past
Were known to be great Empires but they too did not last.
The Soviets and Germans great power did command
But their demise not that hard to understand
Since great powers they come and great powers they go
Though nothing lasts forever as history does show.
Genghis Khan and Napoleon and Alexander the Great
These all conquering heroes had their use by date
Though in the history of the World their names living on
The Empires they ruled over like them are long gone.
Un-rivalled for supremacy as the World Super Power of today
By far the most powerful Nation is the U S of A
But as history does tell us nothing ever last
And one day they too will be a power of the past.
poem by Francis Duggan
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Five A.M.
Elan that lifts me above the clouds
into pure space, timeless, yea eternal
Breath transmuted into words
Transmuted back to breath
in one hundred two hundred years
nearly Immortal, Sappho's 26 centuries
of cadenced breathing -- beyond time, clocks, empires, bodies, cars,
chariots, rocket ships skyscrapers, Nation empires
brass walls, polished marble, Inca Artwork
of the mind -- but where's it come from?
Inspiration? The muses drawing breath for you? God?
Nah, don't believe it, you'll get entangled in Heaven or Hell --
Guilt power, that makes the heart beat wake all night
flooding mind with space, echoing through future cities, Megalopolis or
Cretan village, Zeus' birth cave Lassithi Plains -- Otsego County
farmhouse, Kansas front porch?
Buddha's a help, promises ordinary mind no nirvana --
coffee, alcohol, cocaine, mushrooms, marijuana, laughing gas?
Nope, too heavy for this lightness lifts the brain into blue sky
at May dawn when birds start singing on East 12th street --
Where does it come from, where does it go forever?
poem by Allen Ginsberg
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Empires
Empires
On the ancient road I hear roman soldiers’ footsteps, all roads lead back to an empire;
and nothing has changed the poor die in the service of their masters. The Romans took
the elites sons of country they wanted to dictate sent them to Rome trained and sent
them back and they had vassal state. It didn’t always work, loyalty became resentment
and uprising, the kept kings demanded more power. The new empire is doing the same,
sends sons and daughters of the elite, in countries they want to control, to Harvard, we
get the royal household of Jordan. Sometime it backfires and we get Osama Bin Laden.
All empires must fall it’s written in the stars, their outpost Israel, is a sacrilege, losing her
humanity. I hear tired Roman soldiers marching on roads their foes will take when they
come to crush them. Iraq is a civil war waiting to happen, Afghanistan is a lost cause and
Pakistan will never submit to foreign dominance. I hear the footsteps, the new empires’
soldiers, the urban poor, have been promised glory, and shiny medals, as always they die
for a dream not theirs. The ghosts of roman soldiers marches on through the centuries,
nothing has changed in two thousand years.
poem by Oskar Hansen
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The Far Future
AUSTRALIA, advancing with rapid winged stride,
Shall plant among nations her banners in pride,
The yoke of dependence aside she will cast,
And build on the ruins and wrecks of the Past.
Her flag on the tempest will wave to proclaim
’Mong kingdoms and empires her national name;
The Future shall see it, asleep or unfurl’d,
The shelter of Freedom and boast of the world.
Australia, advancing like day on the sky,
Has glimmer’d thro’ darkness, will blazon on high,
A Gem in its glitter has yet to be seen,
When Progress has placed her where England has been;
When bursting those limits above she will soar,
Outstretching all rivals who’ve mounted before,
And, resting, will blaze with her glories unfurl’d,
The empire of empires and boast of the world.
Australia, advancing with Power, will entwine
With Honour and Justice a Mercy divine;
No Despot shall trample—no slave shall be bound—
Oppression must totter and fall to the ground.
The stain of all ages, tyrannical sway,
Will pass like a flash or a shadow away,
And shrink to nothing ’neath thunderbolts hurl’d
From the hand of the terror—the boast of the world.
Australia, advancing with rapid wing’d stride,
Shall plant among nations her banners in pride;
The yoke of dependence aside she will cast,
And build on the ruins and wrecks of the Past.
Her flag in the tempest will wave to proclaim,
’Mong kingdoms and empires her national name,
And Ages shall see it, asleep or unfurl’d
The shelter of Freedom and boast of the world.
poem by Henry Kendall
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Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires.
quote by Paul Harris
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The Last Day (excerpt)
Sooner or later, in some future date,
(A dreadful secret in the book of Fate)
This hour, for aught all human wisdom knows,
Or when ten thousand harvests more have rose;
When scenes are chang'd on this revolving Earth,
Old empires fall, and give new empires birth;
While other Bourbons rule in other lands,
And, (if man's sin forbids not) other Annes;
While the still busy world is treading o'er
The paths they trod five thousand years before,
Thoughtless as those who now life's mazes run,
Of earth dissolv'd, or an extinguish'd sun;
(Ye sublunary worlds, awake, awake!
Ye rulers of the nation, hear and shake)
Thick clouds of darkness shall arise on day;
In sudden night all Earth's dominions lay;
Impetuous winds the scatter'd forests rend;
Eternal mountains, like their cedars, bend;
The valleys yawn, the troubled ocean roar
And break the bondage of his wonted shore;
A sanguine stain the silver moon o'erspread;
Darkness the circle of the sun invade;
From inmost Heaven incessant thunders roll
And the strong echo bound from pole to pole.
poem by Edward Young
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The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.
quote by Joseph Chamberlain
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Empires of paper
Can easily burn their own house
Down, even gold will melt.
haiku by Ken e Hall
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I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
quote by John Boyd Orr
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Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
quote by Eric S. Raymond
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Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.
quote by William Watson
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Some empires died much harder than certain film directors can imagine.
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.
quote by John Boyd Orr
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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
quote by Edward Thorndike
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FizTzle World Poetry
Yet here is another series,
thought I was done,
but I keep coming back,
can I control your mind,
with another mind blowing dream,
hit this hit with a hit maker,
dream dreams tonight,
nobody dogging on me,
cause they can't tell me,
haven't done poetry for years,
but still great as you,
intro-outro-short funny skits,
people say I done change alot,
just tell them I have grown,
It takes more then you know,
the pen-paper-american dreams,
old school age of empires,
if I was me,
I would stop,
but I can't cause it comes in,
then I have to write it.
poem by Tommy Laster
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I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
quote by Martin Scorsese
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