Month: September 2022

. Bergerette by Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), translated by Margaret Coats O shepherdess, my friend,On love alone I live.True love ...

. Lay of the Oak I now recall a lay for you, A Briton’s tale of love made new. A ...

. Vicente el Bisonte (Vincent the Bison)  Vicente el Bisonte used to live in Mexico He said, “I do not ...

. Fire on Ice How shall I serve my anger up to you? Shall I become like one most distant ...

. Ill-used I’ve been ill-used, no other word will do; pristinely packaged, sanitised and new a month ago I stood ...

. Congratulations and Homage to Giorgia Meloni Italy rises up and overthrows The stench of leftist tyranny at last. Rage ...

. The Last Detail Two cocksure, loud–mouthed lads one day set out, Intent on catching perch. “No,” Jim said, “trout.” ...

. Sex in the English Garden Light, feathery Astilbe Sways gently in the breeze Afraid she always will be Faint ...

. Sentimental Song A pad and pen lie by his side __This moonless night of fall. And though he tries ...

. Cruise Control? based on a real incident in San Francisco on April 1, 2022 (though not an April Fool's ...

. The Recollected Dream When midsummer rain is spearing From storm clouds darkest grey That provide no hint of clearing ...

. This photo comes to us from Joshua C. Frank of Texas. Write an ekphrastic poem based on it and ...

. What I Learned from Tolkien The darkness comes and all seems bleak and wrong, My calm is rent, right ...

. Milking the System We waited, we have waited, and we wait. Delays continue to increase the cost Of doing ...

. Illusion At times we can’t tell what we’re looking at. It could be this or else it could be that. ...

. Carcassonne by Gustave Nadaud (1820-1893) Translated by Joshua C. Frank “At sixty years, I’m getting old, And I’ve been ...

. . The Night When most have fled the day and sought their beds Pre-empting stealthy onset of the night; ...

. StairWell Canto 10 extract 2 Context: In the 10th Canto of HellWard we met 4 poets condemned to Hell. ...

. Wanton Wandering Winds Those wanton wandering winds, my darling fair, Whose western currents comb in several ways And lose ...

. Paracelsus Creating man demands not much: Combine the four base elements In right amounts; the lodestone’s touch At once ...

. To a Cloud  You’re a pillow of marshmallow. You balloon and bob and billow As I sprawl beneath the willow __On the grass. You’re a swish of whitest feather. ...

. Last Place Winner after winning the 30-34 age group with a last-place finish in a 5K Inhaling frozen oxygen, ...

. I. Lefties, in fact, are cool with using guns. Their Mayakovsky howled The floor is yours, Comrade Mauser! as they came ...

. Mid-September Reverie from the book Eternal Spring Moonbeams at midnight and frost on the pole; Wind in the willows ...

. The Odyssey Translator's Note: The Odyssey, Book 1, which exemplifies an essential feature of Homer's art as a storyteller, ...

. The Salt Spring Island Trolls I have a boat In Fulford Bay. She does not float To my dismay. ...

. Obedience by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863) translated from Romanesco by Joseph S. Salemi It’s not true, Christians, what you ...

. An American Tragedy In his mind the purple walrus __mutated to a bat, its unstable form evolving __till it ...

. The Beginning of Wisdom Within the passing noon of our own life, I saw through woodlands dark and traces ...

. In Silence I Sing for those affected by the Mill Fire, September 2022 Uplifted to God as with wings ...

. The Adjudication “I weep for you,” the Walrus said: __“I deeply sympathise.” With sobs and tears he sorted out ...

. The Way of the World Some horrid truth seems now made manifest: __Some nothingness tucked in the human core ...

. The Morning’s Crest The morning’s crest is in its youth, The dawn has yet to lose a tooth, The ...

. Drunk on Compassion How good it feels to open up your heart And groove on how compassionate you are! ...

. For My Queen Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor April 21, 1926 - September 8, 2022 My symbol of nobility, ...

. The Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival, falls on Sept. 10 this year. A common tradition is to read riddles ...

. Capability Brown Lancelot “Capability” Brown was England’s greatest landscape architect. His name was Capability, A man of great humility, ...

. Who Shaves the Barber? shaves all those, and those only, who do not shave themselves.  —Bertrand Russell The barber ...

. Cracked Liberty Bell July the 4th—Independence. Many bands play. Parades pass by— Fireworks fly. __Rocket’s red glare . . ...

. StairWell Canto 10 extract Context: In the 10th Canto of HellWard we met 4 poets condemned to Hell. Now ...