Month: July 2020

  On Consecrated Ground Moses on the Mount; Exodus 3-4 Moshe, a Hebrew truant from His resident Egyptian land Committed ...

  Tomoko When the Enola Gay dropped ‘Little Boy’, Tomoko---just a little girl herself--- Was robbed of any hope of ...

"During the war, the Indian Army evicted Pakistani intruders and succeeded in recapturing Tiger Hill and other posts as a ...

Golden Gloves My father fought in Golden Gloves. Back then The ring was where you slugged your way to hopes. ...

  A Proposal---July 28, 2020 Upon this date in 1794, The French Revolution concluded in gore, As Robespierre’s head hit ...

All of the below poems were read on May 31, 2020 at The Society of Classical Poets Symposium, which was ...

  How Monkeys Came to Be adapted from a Palestinian folktale Monkeys and people once were one. For monkeys had ...

  The Gardener at War Throughout our lives we hustle and we slave __To turn our gardens into magic places ...

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish ...

  Vera A fine and sunny Summer’s day And now our Vera’s slipped away. Auf Wiedersehen, we’ll meet again; We ...

  Alike a trusted hand that comes to rest On harried shoulders to relieve the stress, This allemande fulfills its ...

  No Epitaph The lies lie heavy on his chest, Striped red, striped white, now tattered vest And soon to ...

  How wild become the eyes! How fine it is to learn! That the beauty in the sky's Cold torch ...

  You had to act, because you heard the voices Within your head. Saint Michael came to you, Saints Catherine ...

  With Sorrow Do I Leave It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning ...

  Enrobed in blue—enthroned and crowned—her Son, __With proffered blessing, safely in her hands— __The Queen of Heaven reigns on ...

on the 21st anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party's launching the persecution of the peaceful practice of Falun Gong on ...

  There’s beauty in the ordinary things like challenges and joys each season brings, the world of work and school, ...

  I Make My Way by Joe Tessitore These times, indeed, have tried my soul. With lightening speed, I’ve lost ...

  It's easier to not exist And yet existence does persist. Although I cannot fathom why, I cannot rest unless ...

  An old friend called on me today, past indiscretions to relive. Long decades passed since we had spoke; he ...

  Coming Home “Thank you for letting me come home,” she said To me the night she died, and I, ...

  Lockdown Leisure with apologies to W.H. Davies In lockdown life, should I but dare To take more time to ...

Your Smart Device a rondeau Your smart device was strange and new; It learned your voice and habits too; It ...

by Adam Sedia John Dryden In 1688, John Dryden, England’s first official poet laureate, was deprived of that title for ...

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The Crowd by Christian J. Weaver The corpses of my former selves Are yawning in the waves. They bob and ...

The King Lying lips win praise and fame, And money, pow’r and wealth; They grant great glory for your name ...

  Editor’s Note: This poem was originally found in The Pebbles and Shells: A Book of Verses ,1909, edited by ...

  Good François Villon, petty thief, Carouser, cutpurse, scholar, sot; Young chronicler of gallows-grief, Escapee from the hempen knot; Depicter ...

  Armageddon a tennos on the current socio-political situation by C.B. Anderson Some of my former friends are now definitively ...

  The Strength Within A tribute to Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Dr. Mike Stroud who, in 1993, became the first ...

  La Ville Lumière—City of Lights, of Dreams, __Of Love: La Ville d’Amour. Whose night is day— __Whose stars are ...

  Caiaphas To the Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana in defense of Father Rothrock High Priest of Israel’s nameless God ...

A Case of Ghosts (Full Fathom Five parodied) In cradling case my fiddle lies, Waiting for the owner’s hand. Strings ...

  Summer in Texas She sashays in on scorching licks of flame that singe the sticky fringes of the day. ...

Fallen Leaves You can't stop leaves from falling in the autumn of their lives, And you can't stop bees returning ...

The American Revolution: An Epic Poem Chapter I by Andrew Benson Brown   Chapter II: Thomas Jefferson in Hell On ...

  All Gone Listening to William Billings' "Chester" I cannot help but weep to sing these words, and by them, ...

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