POETRY OF THE TIMES FROM THE GRECO-PERSIAN WAR UNTIL TODAY

This podcast about J. P. Linstroth’s poetry explores two of his recent poems. One poem, “Little Blue Rabbit” published in Dissident Voice (March 1st, 2026), and the second, “Emperatori Pars Ve Gharb (The Persian Empire and The West)” in The New Verse News (March 6th, 2026). Both poems examine different aspects of American society, the former concerning our failed immigration policies and the vulnerabilities of the innocent by focusing on a young Hispanic boy taken into custody by ICE (Immigration Customs and Enforcement) and the latter poem dedicated to our armed forces in the Unted States, making historical comparisons to the Greco-Persian Wars (499-449 BC) and the modern war with Iran. In essence, the latter poem, “Emperatori”, is a warning in regard to our own civil strife and internal divisions in the United States, which anyone familiar knows that the Greco-Persian War then followed a Greek civil war between Athenians and Spartans, known as the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) and as such, we as a country need to be mindful of our own civil discord dividing the United States at the present time. Even so, for many reasons, the present-day US-Israeli-Iran War is justified because of the evil theocratic regime in Iran for killing by some estimates as many as 30,000 of its own citizens in the past year alone. What the author, J. P. Linstroth wants to emphasize is understanding how history repeats itself, especially if historical lessons are not learned and perhaps to remind ourselves of the reasons why.