Stand Strong Together - Seven Variations Of The Same Theme - Seven Poems by M.N. Hopkins

Version # 1

Stand strong together

We determine our own course

Never bend the knee

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Version # 2

Stand strong together

We determine our own course

Our problems to solve

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Version # 3

Stand strong together

We determine our own course

Bureaucrats enslave

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Version # 4

Stand strong together

We determine our own course

No to division

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Version # 5

Stand strong together

We determine our own course

Come together, thrive

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Version # 6

Stand strong together

We determine our own course

We save the union

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Version # 7

Stand strong together

We determine our own course

Our Lands to defend

© 2025  M.N. Hopkins

Note:  I wrote these seven poems in the haiku style of poetry last week and published it for the first time today, the 17th of January, 2024.  I started with Version # 1 and added a different last verse or line which keeps with the theme of the poem but slightly changes the meaning.  This is a practice that I started some time ago.  I ask the reader if he or she would be so kind as to let me know the number of the poem that most resonates with them by leaving a reply in the comment section.

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Hard Times Are Coming - A Quotation by Ursula K. Le Guin

Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (1929–2018) was an American author. She is best known for her works of speculative fiction, including science fiction works.

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I Pray That...A Quotation by I Am Writer 27

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Be Your Soul's Intent - Five Variations Of The Same Theme - Five Poems by M.N. Hopkins

Version # 1

Be your Soul's intent

Not just in words but in deeds

Be the best in you

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Version # 2

Be your Soul's intent

Not just in words but in deeds

Now, love and be loved

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Version # 3

Be your Soul's intent

Not just in words but in deeds

Do good in this world

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Version # 4

Be your Soul's intent

Not just in words but in deeds

Walk the narrow path

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Version # 5

Be your Soul's intent

Not just in words but in deeds

Heal those in need

© 2025 M.N. Hopkins

Note: I wrote these five poems yesterday in the haiku style of poetry and published them for the first time today, the 15th of January, 2025.  The words for the first poem came to me in the wee hours of the morning so I got out of bed and wrote them down.  I started with Version # 1 and added a different last verse or line which keeps with the theme of the poem but slightly changes the meaning.  This is a practice that I started some time ago.  I ask the reader if he or she would be so kind as to let me know the number of the poem that most resonates with them by leaving a reply in the comment section.

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Life Within Us - A Quotation by Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Life - a source within us that we must protect Question a few people at random; ask them if they value life. They will all probably say yes. So why do they squander it, racing around trying to acquire things that aren’t as important as life itself? If they gave a thought first to the source that’s within them, if they tried to protect it and keep it in the greatest purity and light, they would have endless new possibilities for realizing their greatest desires.  Since they have received life, humans believe they can use it as the fancy takes them. Well, they can’t! When they have spent years satisfying their lusts, their ambitions, they find one day that they are exhausted and indifferent. And if they then try to weigh up what they have gained and what they have lost, they will see they have lost an enormous amount for very little gain. Is that intelligent? So, instead of chasing after useless and even harmful things, do your best to keep your life pure, harmonious and luminous. When you have learned how to make it subtler, more intense, you will be able to contact currents and entities in space that will constantly come to support and inspire you. Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov was a Bulgarian philosopher, pedagogue, mystic, and esotericist. A leading 20th-century teacher of Western Esotericism in Europe, he was a disciple of Peter Deunov, the founder of the Universal White Brotherhood.

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Social Happiness - A Poem by M.N. Hopkins

Social Happiness 

A loving, caring structure

Comes about by choice

© 2025  M.N. Hopkins

Note:   This is the third in a trilogy of haiku poems that I wrote yesterday and published for the first time today, the 13th of January, 2025.  All three poems should be read in order to see the progression.  This would be the final step in the process of social reconstruction or perhaps just getting back to our original state of being.  Ponder that.

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