Lawrence Hall
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The Empires That Might Have Been
“The empires of the future will be empires of the mind.”
-attributed to Winston Churchill
Empires of the mind – what a glorious dream
A world of laboratories and libraries
Of beauty through truth, music, words, and art
The free exchange of ideas and discoveries
Ministers of state might have launched missives, not missiles
In polished meter instead of heavy prose
And the worst of enemies would have shared
Champagne and verse on a veranda at dusk
While their children scampered in search of fireflies
Then giggled secrets on the porch of St. Michael’s Church
Mar 11, 2022
Mar 11, 2022 at 9:40 PM UTC
Lawrence Hall
[email protected]
https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com
The Empires That Might Have Been
“The empires of the future will be empires of the mind.”
-attributed to Winston Churchill
Empires of the mind – what a glorious dream
A world of laboratories and libraries
Of beauty through truth, music, words, and art
The free exchange of ideas and discoveries
Ministers of state might have launched missives, not missiles
In polished meter instead of heavy prose
And the worst of enemies would have shared
Champagne and verse on a veranda at dusk
While their children scampered in search of fireflies
Then giggled secrets on the porch of St. Michael’s Church
A reflection, prompted by Mr. Putin's madness, on all the hopes of the post-war world from 1945 to perhaps 1963.