Month: April 2024

. Some Can't See the Beauty Some can’t see the beauty in __A flower or a tree. I call them ...

. The Cartographer of Neverland inspired by a Qatar funded-map, in a Brooklyn public school, that erases Israel I’m late, ...

. Throughout American Academies One hears throughout American academies a strainthat is at once belligerent, intolerant, and strange.It drips with ...

. Lie Low, Jew! Echoes and Irony The Hamas flags are raised on London streets By swarms that seethe with scorn ...

. Third-Degree Burns A young poet who came from Dundee Looked around him and then took a knee, __For the ...

. If I Have Gone To Sleep If I depart in early sleep__And cease to be with you,My thoughts I'd ...

. How Many Wrongs Make a Right? The left rights wrongs by doing wrong, but wrongs so fixed don’t stay ...

. On Student Protestations They protest on behalf of Gaza from afar— Why won’t they do the same regarding Myanmar? ...

. Watching My Children at Play in a Graveyard Laughing, the children slip between the stones Laid out in rows ...

. To Mr. Evan Mantyk, . I know you lead a busy life curating the Society of Classical Poets and ...

. Jerzy and Cyla Jerzy, a Polish teen in World War Two, Arrested for suspected membership Of the resistance, faced ...

. The Devil’s Trill I.     A heavy meal and three glasses of port Weighed down Tartini when at length ...

. The Dance __'Tis springtime _And air is a-breezin', Wafting through fair winds that blow. __The blossoms _From flowering jasmine ...

. The Knight of Monticello Everywhere and always, Jefferson read. His library stocked a sage’s daily bread. Four volumes, leather-bound, ...

. . Theópneustos Greek, “God breathed” . The Word of God is absolute— __Or else, some claim, it’s obsolete. Many ...

. Lyrics and vocals by Evan Mantyk / guitar by Jeff Eardley . The CCP Song (CCP: Chinese Communist Party) ...

. When the Dragon Spreads Its Wings Millennia, the Dragon stayed at home, Consumed its own, kept dissidence at bay, ...

. A Shakespeare Garden Stroll Of all the blooms, I like the lily best. Might you prefer a deep vermilion ...

. Shakespeare's Women for Susan Jarvis Bryant, who has a spiritual home in Stratford-on-Avon It’s April 23rd. The rain is ...

. Exodus "The entire community of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron in the desert. The ...

. Not Sonnet 18… Yet I strain in vain to sparkle like the Bard. I strive to spill slick iambs ...

. Another Coffee Shop, Another Crush Another coffee shop, another crush, a moment frozen just before my turn, a chance ...

. https://youtu.be/ICEvMGx4WnY . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His epic-in-progress, Legends of ...

. On an Otter He slinks beneath, but not for long; surprise! he sprouts atop the pool to stare: his ...

. Climate: The Movie learn about and watch the movie here It shows there is no basis found in science ...

. Rolling the Roads The Days Before Snow Plows . A major storm throughout the night __Of heavy, wet, spring ...

. The Moment I’m sure of what will happen when The tide resumes its rise again And drowns the beach: ...

. Carpe Diem Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero. (“Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow.”) Horace, ...

. The Sound of Dirt   in memory of my granddaughter, Valerie (March 30, 2020 - April 20, 2020) Above uneven ...

. On Noms de Plume Justin Von Depathos strode across the ballroom floorTo sit with Carlton Vishizwa and Charlotte Genevieve—While ...

. If Need Be If lawfare prosecutors aren’t proficient, And Biden family crimes can’t be denied, The ballots that they ...

. Snowy Egret Here where sunlight sparkle rinses Cypresses whose balding branches Shoulder epiphytic orchids (Cowhorn, spider, ghost, or scented), ...

. . On the Altar of Our Nation I must confess it took a long, long time For Donald Trump ...

. The Woods Have Waited Anxiously The woods have waited anxiously for me to reappear. I left them when the ...

. Miss Pronoun-ciation She know how Grammar Nazis be all anal. Their like theyre fancy, boring words—so banal. When grading ...

. Gallows Lane A lesser charge once meant the pillory, With head and wrists securely set in blocks; For just ...

. The Proud “You are proud because you live in those high, inaccessible cliffs. ‘Who can ever reach us way ...

. To the Evening Breeze When I unbolt the terrace door, He enters quickly, greeting me With kisses on my ...

. A Clock Describes People Their faces do not show the time of day But something called emotion: what that ...

. Empire “We have been nought, we shall be all!” —The Internationale “The Empire is a country for fools” — ...