LITERARY SHARINGS FROM THALIA: POETRY FOR PEACE (2)

As his weekly sharing for July 25, Daffern shares from the room of Thalia here at the Musee des Muses in France, which is dedicated to literature: poetry, drama, novels, philology, short stories, criticism, linguistics, dictionaries.. He reads poems by Goethe, Dylan Thomas, Zbiegnew Herbert, Byron, 3 Triads from the Bards of Britain, plus part of a sermon by John Donne about the “Anima Mentis“ (the soul in the mind) and a passage from Plato’s Timaeus about the nature of the soul. He also reads a passage from Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra about the chimeric nature of love and life. He also reads 3 of his own poems from different times of his own long poetic oeuvre (now over 1000 poems completed and published). He intersperses between each reading comments and asides on the state the world is in and how if we re-access our higher spiritual and intellectual powers (Anima Mentis) we can cooperate together to combat the ignorance, fear, lies and greed that is causing so many problems on the