‘Dear Editor’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant
Dear Editor, My odes are grandiose and overblown With pudgy gluts of stodgy adjectives In floods of flabby babble ...
Month: June 2020
A Dizi Gui Translation: Chinese Children’s Poetry
The Dizi Gui (弟子规) is an ancient Chinese text for children that was written in the Qing Dynasty during ...
A Poem on the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom, and Other Related Poetry
The Director General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom by Sarban Bhattacharya His accent’s weird, his hair is pretty grey, ...
‘Elegy on a Strauss Waltz’ by Adam Sedia
The room fills with a charming melody— A choir of violins in soaring flight With basses, cellos pulsing—one, two, ...
‘Parade of the Ten Thousand’ by Rupert Palmer
Poet's note: This poem is built upon an episode from Xenophon’s Anabasis, in which the Ten Thousand, Greek mercenaries in ...
‘On Reading Irish Saints’ Lives’ by T.M. Moore
When reading Irish hagiography, a few instructions should be borne in mind: First, don’t mistake this for the history ...
To Thomas and Paul and Scott, Thank you , gentlemen, for reading my work and for your extremely supportive comments.…
The wording and flow of this poem make me really feel the 'subtle power source' the scene. You perfectly embody…
There is certainly something strange driving Humankind to wage wars, but still respond to the innate animal fears to which…
Indeed, building upward seems to have long been a trend to establish some kind of primitive superiority over the world…
Yes! Ozymandias was a definitive inspiration for this poem. Whereas Shelley focused more on the futility of remaining in the…
