Month: July 2019

Roots in the Sky, Boots on the Ground: Metaphysical Poems C.B. Anderson, Kelsay Books, 107 pages paperback, ISBN-10: 1949229688 2019, ...

  The Teacher to His Students The traffic light turns green. Your car won’t budge. You’re either texting or completely ...

A Haiku My mirror shatters and what most clearly matters remains to be seen.   You and Me Some sins ...

Dust My soul clings to the dust. Ps. 119.25 How like the dust my soul can be. I see it ...

  Theseus Amazed Around corners through archway and gate Sensing forever the enemy’s mind Poised to avenge the innocents’ fate ...

  inspired by John Masefield’s “Sea-Fever” (1902) I will go down to the bush again, where the days hang crisp ...

  The Woke Man’s Person’s Burden "Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and ...

Króliki (Rabbits) dedicated to Tommy Robinson, who was recently sentenced to more time in prison Króliki they called us (Polish ...

  a modified English Alexandrine An ancient apple tree in my unkempt backyard Has skin pocked like the moon by ...

Believe It True That you have made my world a wondrous garden Fair with your lips, and glad with your ...

Pablo Neruda on the Passing of Joseph Stalin by Wibele Escudar We must be men. That is the law that ...

  Soaked in silence, sunbeams through the shutters, dust floating softly. Stuffy, flecks of mold and rust sticking here and ...

  As fiddle lilts its rhymed refrain it harkens an angelic past. If only we could now regain that sweet ...

She Walked in Beauty a tribute to Gao Rongrong* after Lord Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty” She walked in Beauty, ...

Sonnet IV. Cleve Backster whose work on plant perception gained wide exposure in the 1973 publication The Secret Life of ...

  The taxi driver took us down From great Mohonk, New Paltz and such; And every mile we got to ...

—from A Gallery of Ethopaths The bookshops that we used to see Were citadels of literacy. Classics of grace and ...

Natura Naturans “Off with their heads,” the Red Queen said. But she was mostly talk. A true decapitator is The ...

The Thoughts of a Dog What really does go on inside the mind Of the domestic dog? To simply say ...

Good Captains From daring to despair runs common man. A vane to changing winds is his own mind. One hour ...

Her Love for Him My true love laughs, and angel choirs sing; The mountains echo back his tuneful mirth While ...

These Twins These twins came forth in one amniotic sac. They sensed the danger they had come upon And both ...

A reading of the below poems by the poet:   The Loan a villanelle This life we hold so dear ...

Winners of the contest can be found here. From the riddle posed by King Solomon to the Philistines to the ...

  This interview was conducted by Carol Smallwood with poet Theresa Rodriguez following the release of the first edition of Sonnets by ...

One Love In all the world there’s but one Love, just one. A single substance—like the billow lit From overhead ...

    The man who never cries is like the ship That never sailed, or left the sleepy shores, Who’s ...

Stalks of brown and amber and gold, mighty when young, wither when old. Bleached by the sun and watered daily, ...

  I lift my eyes and pray to God above, deliver me, dear Lord, from Satan's Hell. I come to ...

  The sausage on my plate is rubbery and inoffensive A clever likeness made of turkey meat Not your tastiest ...

May Old Glory Always Wave by Roy E. Peterson May Old Glory always wave Above the tumult and the fray. ...

Translator's Note: "Adiutor Laborantium" is an Irish poem attributed to Colum Cille (521-597), founder of the monastic community on Iona. ...

  Side by side, like toy soldiers under the sky, these seedlings all stand in a row. And on this ...

Judges: Michael Curtis, Amy Foreman, Reid McGrath, Adam Sedia A few words from Judge Michael Curtis: In apology: If you, ...