Month: December 2023

. On Turning the Page of a New Year---2023-2024 The hour-glass is almost void of sand,a rounding of the sun ...

. A Prayerful Pantoum for the Perpetually Pessimistic  "We'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne."  ---Robert ...

. New Year's Eve So swiftly tick the minutes to the close Of these twelve months, this day, and life ...

. Woke Christmas We dream of Christmas like we used to know, With Santa Claus and sleigh rides in the ...

. After the Stroke Aphasia: an impairment of a previously held ability to produce or understand spoken, written, or signed ...

. Anniversary Pastoral for Benedict XVI Trustworthy Shepherd of all shepherds, hear Today’s renewed appeal in concord made For Benedict, ...

. Mythological Limericks on Defloration . Venus and Adonis Adonis was cute as a berry And Venus was sexy and ...

. They Have Our Genes They have our genes; they’re human beings, Our fifteen frozen embryos. Regardless of your disagreeings, ...

. An Abandoned Cemetery Pines thinly hid them on the forest floor: huge, useless molars, only three or four upright---a ...

. Christmas Medley performed by Jeff Eardley . . Absent Friends The Christmas lights are twinkling on the houses all ...

. The Evening The Times Newspaper Turned Into Jane Eyre My life had become like a broadsheet,__The Telegraph, maybe The ...

. Common Currency There’s little written that cannot be said in some way that misunderstands or read as was not ...

. I Know Them Well Don't preach to me of heaven and of hell expecting me to tremble and to ...

. https://youtu.be/MZLhwCyQLcs . Read the complete translated text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight here. . . Andrew Benson ...

. At The Metropolitan Museum one good reason for the French Revolution Once at the Met, we walked the halls, ...

. To One Outspoken for A.B. If I had but a fraction of the zeal That burns in you like ...

. Christmas 2010 "Love isn't something you find.  Love is something that finds you." ---Loretta Young I hadn't given up ...

. Christmas Hallelujah sung to the melody of “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen When I hear a song of destiny, Of ...

. The Ancient Christmas Tree A Dream Memory . The ridge out the window was blanketed white With snow that ...

. The Ultimate Christmas Gift “Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.” ---Dr. Seuss This gift winks ...

. Author/Composer’s Note: The noël, Il est Né le Divin Enfant (“He is Born, the Divine Christ Child”) is one ...

. . “Even now, in sordid particulars, the eternal design may appear.” ---T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral . Among ...

. Sleigh Rides Do Not a Christmas Make While folks down under get to ride their bicycles __And dine alfresco ...

. The Wisemen and the Shepherds after Eileen Duggan The camels’ footfalls over and around Baked dunes, through pebbled streams, ...

. Christmas by Force The jostling beast increases the distress Of Mary whose first labor has progressed. Joseph of the ...

. Christmas I don’t recall the tree or what we ate With sentiment Dickensian and sweet. The tree was in ...

. . Decay What causes a relationship to fail? Decay sets in when thoughtlessness persists, when selfishness extends beyond the ...

. Midwinter “O blesséd day we now enjoy, from heaven it is granted.  He brings us bliss, He shows Himself ...

. Goodwill Toward Men I’m reeling with the latest headline shock. The Mother of our Savior’s hit the skids. Her reputation’s ...

. Dancing Bear I came late to the party. I should have stayed away. When I walked in, I heard ...

. A Christmas Carol Complete text here: https://classicalpoets.org/2021/12/24/a-christmas-carol-after-charles-dickens-by-talbot-hook/ . . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in ...

. . To a Budding Ode   with apologies to John Keats   . I’m in the mood to crack your odic ...

. Love Nibbles and Bites He saw she was sad; deep inside, he was glad. He smiled, quite mild, and ...

. Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin in reference to the recent storm in Maine In Maine the Governor had to delay ...

. . Reviewed Book: Songs of My Life and Death by Peter Hartley, Grosvenor House Publishing Limited, May, 2023 by ...

. Curse of the Desert Ill-tempered droughts strip lands of foliage sheath. Its barren womb still yields a wilted crust ...

. Red and Green . Red Tomatoes Tomatoes fresh or in a jar Must top the list of red by ...

. Whence Come You, Shepherdess? . Translator's Note: “D’où Viens-tu, Bergère” was one of a number of old songs and ...

. 10 Great Poems for Teaching in High School Classrooms by James Sale . 1. Language with a Twist . ...

. December Oak Leaves Puis çà, puis là, comme le vent varie, A son plaisir sans cesser nous charrie, (The ...