The LB Chronicles by Lawrence Burke, Ed.D

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  • Meditations on the Impermanence of Life

    Meditation l: Ozymandias by Percy B Shelley I met a traveler from an antique land,Who said—“Two vast and trunk-less legs of stone; Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand; Half sunk, a shattered visage lies,… Continue reading

  • The Hollow Men by T.S.Eliot : In Memory of AJC; August 1955-September 2025

                     I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaninglessAs wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glassIn our dry cellar Shape without form, shade… Continue reading

  • A Favorite Poem

    Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and… Continue reading

  • Grappling Then and Now with Demons by Seamus Cole

    This article appeared in Quadrant Online, May 19th, 2025. It is re-posted here with the kind permission of the writer, Seamus Cole, and Quadrant Online. I am increasingly reminded that what’s old is also new again” and I suspect great… Continue reading