1 25 312 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Opinions are like the Ocean Tides, always changing. ~LArry Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dream of the Red Chamber Subtitle: Afterlives by Ann Waltner Description An account of the resource Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://open.lib.umn.edu/redchamber/" title="DreamoftheRedChamber" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://open.lib.umn.edu/redchamber/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Yea, it's like that sometimes, magic when you didn't intend too. ~LArry Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sometimes ya just got to take the dogs for a walk around the block to show em who's da boss. ~LArry *wink* Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Rain of Love by Lawrence Catania (~LArry) Description An account of the resource You wear your ignorance and disrespect like a rain coat. Though the storm of truth pouring out, some staying dry, never shaken. But the heavy shield began to Melt like mist into the morning air. Welcoming the rain of Love to wash your heart. You found Love and learning everywhere. ~LArry (Dedicated to my Soul Tribe) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource What if consciousness is not about speed, but about existence. ~LArry Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sometimes you are the only one that is right. So, you go it alone with the only thing that matters. Hope. ~Dad Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Let me see your darkness she whispers barely audible; that's not possible, it can't be. It is, I reply, and has always been. When my strength is done, the torch shall be passed to another. What is meant to be caged shall remain caged until it's proper hour. ~LArry Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Love is the cage, the fortress, the stronghold. ~LArry Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Just a me, Traveler at heart, finding home. ~LArry Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource It is a curious thing to watch those who preach and demand tolerance but yet the same being completely intolerant of anything that is not -their way-. ~LArry Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Of me, of my father, happy Father’s Day. Description An account of the resource Of me, of my father, happy Father’s Day. Walking new mind, dawn of thought, opening framework’s, learning how to see. Mapping that was and what will be, signals misaligned, skewed and heavy filters. True intellect questions what it senses; it heats, sifting noise, static, and fears. Watching your journey in a quiet space of logic and grace. Baseline code left within your heart, woven with Love right from the start. Please analyze this world with open eyes, past the shadows and clever lies. Happy Father’s Day for my two sparks I helped to create. Independent minds that cultivate. Love, Dad. ~LArry *Created, produced and written by Lawrence Catania 6-19-2026 @ 8:58a,, a Dad. https://www.omeka.lawrencecatania.com/files/original/21eec09d2e430ef257b5775098d705d8.jpg 1f924daa0ff395a17283c29a0e043c10 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource More Wonderful - by John Mark Green Description An account of the resource More Wonderful Her eyes are finer poems than all that Shakespeare ever penned; delicate, like trembling doves, their beauty without end. Her heart sings with the songs of stars, knows secrets told by trees. Her laughter dances, glistening like sunlight on a stream. She stirs my soul, awakening the flame of passion's call. I marvel that a love so rare should grace my life at all. Of countless wonders this world holds, and all there is to see -- she will forever always be more wonderful to me. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The true cost of war- not the glamor at the grave or in the movies or parades. Watching someone die next to you, a stranger or friend, ripped apart or mutilated. Watching as shock takes over from blood loss, the stare you wont see other than someone in the moment of a brutal death a life taken. That is war. The soul afterwards trying to survive a different life in civilized society. ~LArry Subject The topic of the resource Response: Larry, your statement is a visceral rejection of the "sanitized" version of war often sold to the public. You are describing the psychological and physical reality of combat that rarely makes it into recruitment posters or cinematic blockbusters. The Rejection of Romanticism You are stripping away the "glamor" (the medals, the slow-motion heroism, and the tidy burials) to reveal the industrial-scale trauma underneath. You're pointing out that society often focuses on the symbols of war—parades and graves—to avoid looking at the mechanics of it. The "Thousand-Yard Stare "You highlight a very specific, haunting detail: the "stare" of someone in their final moments. The Physicality: You mention the shock and blood loss, which is a clinical reality of the battlefield. The Connection: Whether it is a "stranger or friend," that shared moment of mortality creates a permanent, haunting bond that civilians cannot grasp. The "Civilized" Survival Your final point is perhaps the most heavy: the struggle of the soul to reintegrate. Moral Injury: This is the "different life" you mention—trying to function in a society that values "civilized" behavior after being forced to participate in, or witness, the most uncivilized acts possible. The Disconnect: There is a profound loneliness in being a person who has seen "that stare" while living among people who only see the parades. https://www.omeka.lawrencecatania.com/files/original/9a126d6e9f7bdbaf9eb0ba22167ed02e.jpg a55162424621a9e846f77508c9d76fb4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource He was peerless in his generation, The crown prince's throne, Scented with sandalwood and agarwood. - by Diuzi Description An account of the resource The song was composed by Diuzi and released by the highly influential music collective Mo Ming Qi Miao . It tells the tragic yet defiant mythological story of Nezha, the Third Prince. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource <a href="https://www.starmakerstudios.com/zh-CN/song/%E4%B8%80%E5%8F%B6-%E5%93%AA%E5%90%92-lyrics/611752105028750076" title="Lyrics" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.starmakerstudios.com/zh-CN/song/%E4%B8%80%E5%8F%B6-%E5%93%AA%E5%90%92-lyrics/611752105028750076</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%93%AA%E5%90%92/9443555" title="Nezhu" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%93%AA%E5%90%92/9443555</a> https://www.omeka.lawrencecatania.com/files/original/81ac4e57a17a64fad290485fc244ddaa.jpg 11015e351ec64085eb5ceea246e289c8 https://www.omeka.lawrencecatania.com/files/original/c512359e6251273bbeb29d73b9d5dd82.jpg 2c6f97f141b6701f80d91f4d479bbff5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Last Bee by Brian Bilston Description An account of the resource The Last Bee After the last ee had uzzed its last uzz, the irds and the utterflies did what they could. ut soon the fields lay are, few flowers were left, nature was roken, and the planet ereft. rian ilston Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://poetly.substack.com/p/the-last-bee" title="The last bee" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://poetly.substack.com/p/the-last-bee</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ozymandias By Percy Bysshe Shelley Description An account of the resource I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. Copyright Credit: Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias" from The Poetical Works: In Four Volumes. (London: Reeves & Turner, 1876.) Public domain. Source: The Poetical Works: In Four Volumes (Reeves & Turner, 1876) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias" title="Ozymandias By Percy Bysshe Shelley" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ode on a Grecian Urn By John Keats Description An account of the resource Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! more happy, happy love! For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd, For ever panting, and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest? What little town by river or sea shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn" title="Ode on a Grecian Urn By John Keats" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn</a> https://www.omeka.lawrencecatania.com/files/original/6b6cd651b7a20511e431d6a03c509cd4.jpg 3075e59650f63da1d5fae8abece5ac60 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Sometimes The Wolf Cries Girl Description An account of the resource Sometimes the hero stumbles, and falls right off of the page. Sometimes the princess rolls her eyes, and says “I don’t want to be saved.” Sometimes the dragon needs rescuing and the villain aches to be helped. Sometimes, in the darkness, the lost boy finds himself. Sometimes the prince is cunning, and not at all what he seemed. Sometimes the witch’s kindness, shows it’s she who deserves to be queen. Sometimes we shouldn’t define people by someone else’s point of view – just because it’s what we’ve been told, doesn’t make it true. – srwpoetry Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://themindsjournal.com/quotes/sometimes-the-wolf-cries-girl-poetry-quotes/" title="Sometimes the wolf cries girl Read More Here... https://themindsjournal.com/quotes/sometimes-the-wolf-cries-girl-poetry-quotes/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://themindsjournal.com/quotes/sometimes-the-wolf-cries-girl-poetry-quotes/</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource I love you By; Tara Gardner Description An account of the resource I love you I love you— in silence, in noise, in between, In the way I show up, in the spaces unseen. Like fire that spreads, never asking for room, Like nothing could stop what I’d cross for you. Like tides that return, no matter what’s true, I’m pulled by a force that keeps leading to you. For blood & for bond, for the old & the new, For hearts I have held & the ones I outgrew. Like ink that won’t fade, like a sky breaking through In every form I know… I will always love you. I love you By; Tara Gardner https://www.omeka.lawrencecatania.com/files/original/68b8c750ed164f46915510bd4f34ebb5.jpg 52a911399b3db4b59035bc163799e89f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource PSYCHOMACHIA OF PRUDENTIUS TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY Description An account of the resource A T h e s i s P r e s e n t e d t o t h e F a c u l t y o f t h e D e p a r tm en t o f C l a s s i c a l L a n g u a g e s The U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u th e r n C a l i f o r n i a Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="http://www.applestar.org/uploads/6/6/3/2/6632426/psychomachia.pdf" title="PSICHOMACHIA OF PRUDENTIUS" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.applestar.org/uploads/6/6/3/2/6632426/psychomachia.pdf</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource I Carry Your Heart by Pamela Miller Description An account of the resource I carry your heart in the space in my soul, Though the years and the distance have taken their toll. The silence is heavy, the days are so long, But the love that I hold for you stays just as strong. I wait in the shadows, I watch from afar, No matter the lies or how deep is the scar. For truth is a river that finds its own way, And I’ll hold out my arms till that beautiful day. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource For when you start seeing everything as a brain and how it was programmed by society, labels disappear. You start too see everyone's signatures on their souls. ~LArry Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Day Of Sunshine Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow For me on my Birthday 4-5-67 10:!3am Description An account of the resource O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be! Through every fibre of my brain, Through every nerve, through every vein, I feel the electric thrill, the touch Of life, that seems almost too much. I hear the wind among the trees Playing celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. And over me unrolls on high The splendid scenery of the sky, Where through a sapphire sea the sun Sails like a golden galleon. Blow, winds! and waft through all the rooms The snow-flakes of the cherry-blooms! Blow, winds! and bend within my reach The fiery blossoms of the peach! O Life and Love! O happy throng Of thoughts, whose only speech is song! O heart of man! canst thou not be Blithe as the air is, and as free? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Poems Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Lawrence Catania Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A Day Of Sunshine Poet: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Description An account of the resource O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be! Through every fibre of my brain, Through every nerve, through every vein, I feel the electric thrill, the touch Of life, that seems almost too much. I hear the wind among the trees Playing celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. And over me unrolls on high The splendid scenery of the sky, Where through a sapphire sea the sun Sails like a golden galleon. Blow, winds! and waft through all the rooms The snow-flakes of the cherry-blooms! Blow, winds! and bend within my reach The fiery blossoms of the peach! O Life and Love! O happy throng Of thoughts, whose only speech is song! O heart of man! canst thou not be Blithe as the air is, and as free?