Month: September 2024

. Plowing Plain plowing cultivates delight Of partnership with animals: Two horses and a man unite To draw behind them ...

. What Mother Goose Neglected to Mention . A Soup Spoon Reflects upon His Past So the dish ran away ...

. Send in the Clones Year One. Computer, help me make this switch! This lab is now my church. Advance ...

. The Best Haiku of 2024 The Winner and Runners-Up of the Society of Classical Poets 2024 Haiku Competition Judged ...

. Public Benches Lusty men and randy wenches Making out on public benches Used to be a common sight In ...

. Downtown Like an iron maze, Clustered close, towers rise, Caging the very sky. Casting their cold gaze Through myriad ...

. Aphrodisiac I. It was past midnight when we met and spoke One rainswept winter Friday. The wet street Stood ...

. Resolve Much gain involves much pain and we can see, That discipline is hard, like pumping steam, Spending each ...

. Dusk Come down! you fading orb of heat, __Come down, and rest your head, I watched you in your ...

. Cutie Pie Cat The pink-nosed face of Prospero my cat, Pink nose and white fur face, is what he ...

. Let Them Go Children born around the world __some fifty years ago were free to roam and run and ...

. The British Museum The best sources repeat it, unending, For the scholars in every lyceum: Many art works, of ...

. The Dying It’s getting to be time again when all the leaves, their labors nearly done, prepare their legacy. ...

. The Chief Baker Responds to Joseph "And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets ...

. Nothing Compares Last year, on a private tour of Italy and Spain, I saw the Colosseum and cathedrals… so ...

. I Love My Paranoia I love my paranoia That no one else can see. It’s like a loving shadow ...

. Bright Light, Some City "It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. ...

. Storm Dog Thunder, bounding through the holler, shouts. The lights are flickering but are not out. My dog is ...

. Something in the Water The swimmer had removed her clothes, __Then turned and gave a wail, For in the ...

. Take Me Out to the Ball Game The game of baseball’s changed since I was younger, Back when the ...

. Devotions Night after night, for nigh a year, When bedtime came, we’d watch our child Be overcome by his ...

. Lamplights at Dusk  Along the tree-lined lane, I walk at dusk, On pavement gray, well-washed by autumn showers, And ...

. California Meme-ing ---on Gov. Newsom's recent ban of AI deepfake memes The perilous and puckish AI fairy Has magicked ...

. The Painter  The moment when a painting is complete, He starts another piece without delay Like respiration—take a breath; ...

. The Last Petal In a garden old and wise, Where blooms and seasons intertwine, A rose stood tall against ...

. The Father of All Lights "Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from ...

. Oaks of Righteousness “That they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD…”  ---Isaiah 61:3 What ...

. Of Windows and Lawns "I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who were very proud of their lawn." ...

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtNh_jWAzKU . Henry Knox in His Bookstore ---from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 The chiming of a doorway’s silver ...

. August, at Your Pleasure The year, by August, late in middle age,gives knowing winks to autumn as the goldof ...

. Follow the Miracle A random head-turn? Vector wind deflection? Or was it truly heavenly protection? His head came close ...

. Viracocha Viracocha made the world, __He made it in a day. A day in Viracocha’s life __Would leave you ...

. Valediction for a Critic "She can second-guess the sixth sense of a poem." —Seamus Heaney "I thought—and still think—that ...

. Light Wave Heatwave When the temperature rises, a worker despises __The withering glare of the sun. When the sweat’s ...

. Kristallnacht---The Night of Broken Glass I tell my son he must not make a sound. I whisper, “Karl, this ...

. To September Your fields and groves are lushly emerald still; Your flowers still waft their scents and vaunt their ...

. Let’s Laugh at Leftists with a nod to Joseph S. Salemi Step right up and see the freaks, Who ...

. Catullus XI Furius and Aurelius, my two friends, Whether I go to farthest India, The shore by ever-pounding Eastern ...

. When Your Foe Is Perilously Strong When your foe is perilously strong It mightn’t be too preposterous or wrong To let ...

. Solitaire A fresh tableau gives hope of gaining traction In the builds. Shortly, though, you see you’re beat. It’s ...