Month: October 2023

. The Legend of Ole Stingy Jack Do you recall Ole Stingy Jack?Whose tricks cost him a great set back?They ...

. Word Witch She’ll tease and tempt with mystic words, __This foxy sorceress. Her syntax soars like sun-bound birds--- __This wizard poetess Casts ...

. The Great Sonnet I set myself to write a sonnet. I labored hard and long upon it. Sweet verse ...

. Mrs. Cyclops Ain’t really gonna leave. I’ll just pretend, Brontesa. Cy and I are bound. I simply Can’t bear ...

. The Democratic Party Dressed for Halloween The Democratic Costume Party is held on Halloween With Hillary as Jezebel, the ...

. . Plato’s Pumpkins  A patchwork quilt of pumpkins sown with gourds, odd fellows green and yellow ‘twixt-and-‘tween October’s orbs ...

. Extract from DoorWay Canto 3: Constellation of the Virgin DoorWay is the Poet’s journey through Heaven. Having left the ...

. Apocalypse Women The Christians gather at the baby’s grave. There are no tall stones in the children’s field. Red ...

. Autumn by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), translated by Bruce Phenix The falling leaves seem fallen from afar, as though ...

. Reviewed Book: Selected Verse of Émile Nelligan: Québec's Great Lyric Poet, translated with commentary by Ian Allaby, Petra Books, ...

. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 7 Part 2: C.B. Anderson, Poetical Gardener If you enjoy this video, ...

. The Number 192: Inside the Floor in which we encounter a vision of Hell ’Twas on the 192 at ...

. The Reincarnations of Donald J. Trump after Andrew Benson Brown’s Legends of Liberty  . I. 218 B.C. Above the ...

. After Brain Death Based on the article “May We Donate Our Organs?” by Drs. Jay Boyd and Paul A. ...

. Mike Burch Still Around? Good Lord, No… with apologies to J.C. Squire’s Ballade de l’Évolution Créatrice Strange beasts have ...

. Excusing Evil A peaceful protest just took place, and some unlucky people died. Hamas just wanted more air space ...

. The Word “Let there be light,” He said and light there was. The seething chaos split to day and ...

. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 7 Part 1: The Problem with Arts Grants If you enjoy this ...

. The Life of the Party The commissar, in his most common clothes, Patrols the margins of their conversations, And ...

. Cystolitholapaxy Cystolitholapaxy (si-stow-luh-THAA-luh-pak-see): a procedure to break up bladder stones into smaller pieces and remove them “It’s Cystolitholapaxy for ...

. Be Careful What You Ask For “Genie, please make me a banana split.” Poof! “You are a banana split! Just ...

. The Truth about Fall Colors  I am October’s most submissive bitch, And just when I believed I’d struck it ...

. Quiet Night Thoughts by Li Bai (701-762), translated by Talbot Hook My bed looks over bright moonlight. I muse: ...

. Unveiled, They Appear Reminiscence, and longings, and echoes unseal, from the depths in the ground which has covered, concealed, ...

. Salome's Soliloquy John the Baptist rebuked Herod Antipas, ruler of Galilee, for an incestuous and adulterous union with his ...

. Avoidance I don’t sign up for group Zoom calls __With folks I know are boorish. I don’t go visit ...

. Bunker Hill an excerpt from the forthcoming Legends of Liberty, Vol. 2 . The Eve of Battle The midnight ...

. Words of Wisdom  “The only true wisdom is knowing  you know nothing.” ---Socrates She knows the what. She knows ...

. A Petless State after Katherine Philips' A Married State, 1664 A house with pets affords but little grace. The ...

. Congratulations to Society of Classical Poets Member Paul A. Freeman who won the Queen's English Society Poetry Competition. His ...

. My Brother in Galilee I had a fearsome dream---I saw my friend -- My teacher-brother---nailed onto a cross. I ...

. A Leftist Rebukes Hamas Hey, Hamas, you silly dolts, You need to mow down more adults. Keep fighting for ...

. Autumn Winds have Come Again Autumn winds have come again, Whistling wafts are dithering, Trees are shedding leaves like ...

. Epiphany It stays in your memory like a pealing bell, A smallish thing, an unimportant fact— The mute suggestion ...

. Trump in Asia the carp glows in dark waters, remembering the time that Trump fed him . . White ...

. Autumn in Pennsylvania in 2023 In response to Susan Jarvis Bryant’s poem on "Autumn in Texas" If Autumn is ...

. Two Bugologues . Moth Onto a wall in chilly gloom I fold myself, all silk and dust, and then, ...

. Homage to the Cultural Contributions of Native Americans Columbus bumped into this wondrous land— Out of his ships came ...

. Uninvited Guest A man came by my house one day. I smiled and said he couldn’t stay. He smiled ...

. The Number 235: The Fall Sludge in extremis  ‘Twas on the 235 at Feltham Station, It happened in the ...