Month: January 2017

  Bubbles I swish the stick To watch a spread of bubbles gleam; Free and delightful they float Almost a ...

by Evan Mantyk WHAT DOES THE classic Chinese story Journey to the West have to do with William Shakespeare’s classic play Hamlet? A ...

  A Strange and Sweet Unrest Awake forever with a sweet unrest . . .” —John Keats, “Bright Star” She ...

Trees, Libraries, and Chinese Communism To wrap a ribbon round a UK tree And tie it into Chinese tyranny, Or ...

“This foyer of the spirit is the seat of a sovereign.” - Anca Rosu The lyric lures release of thought, ...

Ballad: Our Crew of Two When we set forth, the breeze blew fair, The sun shone balmy, warm. Our sheets ...

Song of Ulysses For greatness and glory’s sake For all things rich and noble In proud ships tall let us ...

  Old School I saw two women at a table in a small café Not making eye contact or talking, ...

  “Tourist, see this stained beach in Tripoli Where one and twenty men were forced to kneel Ere cutting down ...

Buyer’s Remorse How long are we allowed to close our eyes To who produces what our money buys? How can ...

The "Greatest Show on Earth" Is Coming to a Close By Sirc de Budalewe The "Greatest Show on Earth" is ...

My Goldfish Has an MFA Roundel for Gillian My goldfish has an MFA; I got official notice just today. Of ...

  Walked the Mountain What shape is that, the mountain's brow? A glacier field, a glacier field! I walked to ...

Rising above the silt and murky mud, Clean and pure is the small pink bud, Supported by a supple stem ...

Shin-Rin-Yoku Forest Bathing You stand beneath this canopy of trees, surrender will, hold still.   You close your eyes and listen ...

Pibroch of the Domhnall   By Joseph Charles MacKenzie Author’s Notes: § The refrains at the end of each stanza ...

  Here is a riddle, a brain-teaser of sorts Rev up your noggin or the answer you’ll miss Mark. Set. ...

  Departure Like escaping through a siege, growing older       Hampers itself with hopes of return; So if, over your bare ...

Fake News By Caud Sewer Bile Fake news is rather difficult to say just what it is. What's fake to ...

  The Terrorists Tears feed the sweeping sands beneath their feet, And blood runs deep into the living ground. The ...

  The gown and the date are set, caterers and florists I’ve met. The hall has been booked, no detail ...

  The Desert We were flying in a desert, an oasis to drink dry. We gorged ourselves on date palms ...

  We may hear some Bible phrase and laugh. __That book has no monopoly on ‘goods’. Some words clang, we ...

By Dusty Grein Dating to the thirteenth century, the terza rima (Italian for "third rhyme") is a classic form of ...

Water Music Just as white as a blanket of new-fallen snow Is the noise of a waterfall cresting a brim ...

The Speaker Unaccustomed to Such Oratory Feats The speaker - unaccustomed to such oratory feats - cleared his throat, a ...

By Evan Mantyk From The Iliad, Beowulf, and Shakespearean literature in the West to the Chinese Classic of Poetry, the ...