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Robert Hamill

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    Category: Poems

    The poetic muse doesn’t strike me often, but …

    Claire de Lune
    a_poem Mature Darkness Poems

    Claire de Lune

    Robert Hamill 24 Oct 20226 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    Impossible to hold, impossible to ignore

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    Paradox
    College Surprises Poems

    Paradox

    Robert Hamill 10 Oct 20226 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    What God wills, will be. Where there's a will, there's a way.

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    A Successful Poem
    Mature Darkness Poems

    A Successful Poem

    Robert Hamill 9 Jun 20176 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    You get what you deserve Anthem of the successful

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    Two Thoughts Wide
    Mature Darkness Mental Aspects Poems

    Two Thoughts Wide

    Robert Hamill 30 Jun 20156 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    Two thoughts wide The universe spanned Checkerboard strips across nature's miracle

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    4 and 20 Years to Go
    College Surprises Poems

    4 and 20 Years to Go

    Robert Hamill 2 Apr 20136 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    I always liked Stephen Stills song, "4 and 20 Years Ago." Now I have, maybe, 4 and 20 years before I go.

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    The Lonely Sentinel at Old Dorsey Church
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    The Lonely Sentinel at Old Dorsey Church

    Robert Hamill 21 Dec 201227 Feb 20244 Comments

    “Leave the GPS in the SUV,” I say to my grandson. We stroll down the old road, abandoned two score years. Since the floods of…

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    Recently deceased hoisted by adults and societyTo cumulus heaven, adding Family myths and hard-earned lessonsTo guide our daily lives. Good and evil tally Yet change…

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    How Do We Think

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    We explore how biological needs give rise to emotion, emotion forms associative patterns, and language both reflects and reshapes our outlook. Discover how the mind weighs emotion against logic in shaping behavior.
    Each step rests on the brain’s All-or-Nothing firing, where near matches are treated as exact— and abstraction gives rise to emergent insight.

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    Updated Jun 25, 2025 President Trump’s recent decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities—without congressional authorization or approval—has once again stirred the unresolved tension at the…

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      Failure of Old Economic Solutions

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      The Lane Between Wall Street and Main Street

    • Morality. Absolute or Relative
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      Morality. Absolute or Relative

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    Tabulators separate ballots into piles for each presidential candidate during a recount in Dane County (Wis.) on December 1, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Getty)