‘The Vanity of Human Wishes’ by Samuel Johnson
Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious Toil, each eager Strife, And watch ...
Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious Toil, each eager Strife, And watch ...
Jeffrey L. Benson, an artist living in Orland Park, Ill., paints landscapes with architectural elements, in part to preserve the ...
By Bill Coyle Go to the prosperous city, for I have taken pity on its inhabitants, who drink and feast ...
NEW YORK—Thirty-five years since it opened its doors in SoHo, the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery is a rarity in New York ...
By Michael T. Young Traffic, a crowd, the tide flooding the bay, whatever will rise and fall, will begin, then end, ...
In this refashioned version of Homer's Iliad, the mystical hero Achilles clashes with the doubting King Agamemnon over a woman, ...
By Joshua Philipp At night alone, I sometimes dream of a place which seems so far away. Quietly sitting by ...
Like a modern day Norman Rockwell, the monumental works of contemporary realist painter Stone Roberts capture in vivid form and ...
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By Thomas Newton Just as the Renaissance was fueled by The printing press, the Internet has sounded A call for ...
By Thomas Newton The Founding Fathers showed the way and built Our sturdy ships to last through all of time. ...
(Clearwisdom.net) Ancient Chinese people cherished time, which was revealed in their pursuit for the truth and the Dao, the cultivation ...
By Aubrey Henderson I remember vast fields of Helenium; Yellow, trembling, dancing with fireflies, In the fading light of nature’s ...
By Michael T. Young The pine's elected to the maple's post, the fly's buzzword is vetoed by the day, streams ...
On the shores of Gitche Gumee, Of the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood Nokomis, the old woman, Pointing with her finger westward, ...
By Yolanda Marín-Parker Mathematics is The language that nature speaks To the human fool. Fool – man is – for ...
The Wu Wei-ter The Contemporary Artist The Modern Artist On a Wind-brushed Night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf-_d7iaRAs&feature=youtu.be The Art of Zhen, Shan, Ren (Truth, Compassion, Tolerance) International Exhibition is an extraordinarily moving, intimate and inspiring ...
By Joshua Philipp The winds of change, so soft they blow. In the blink of an eye, a thousand years. ...
Li Jinyu is an artist living in Brooklyn, New York. Her paintings are strongly influenced by her practice of Falun ...
By Dan Skorbach I sit with you the silent moon of May, After the chores of day are soundly sleeping. ...
Evan Mantyk is President of The Society of Classical Poets. He is a poet, writer, and English teacher in the ...
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By Evan Mantyk The Apocalypse: what would it look like? Half the people now gone, When the gods’ dike That ...
By Joshua Philipp Just as flowers fall, so shall we all What meaning to find before time makes its call ...
Heaven’s Gate Opens After History’s Long March Over 7,000 years of human civilization, how many heroes have taken the stage? ...
The American poet Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, CA. He spent his first 40 ...
By Evan Mantyk Get this thing out of my mind, It should never undermine, It should go and let me ...
By Joshua Philipp We laid in mud at sorrow’s end, in a land of woeful souls. It’s a place where ...
Poetry is everywhere. It is the lyrics in the songs on the radio, in our national anthems, in the fight ...
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. Lepanto Editor's Note: Don John of Austria, or Don Juan de Austria, (1547-1578) was half-brother to King Philip II of Spain ...
A hunchbacked man, at least a hundred years old Hobbles by as I wait for the train, I brace for ...
So Far Beyond This The God of This World to his Prophet The Flautist of North Station
Helenium Prayer Flags No Cheeks Turn I'm Sorry
Primordial Nostalgia Crossing Samsara Why Do We Live? Look Up, Hannah Reverence
. The Tyger Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame ...
Dear Mary Jane, Thanks for your kind comment. The syllabic overlap between my poem and tanka is just a coincidence;…
When Napoleon had to deal with rioting mobs in Paris, he issued this order to his troops: "Give them a…
A tremendously transcendent meditative piece, with scenic motion skillfully presented by the poet as though he were conducting an orchestra.…
Couldn’t help smiling—with glee, now that those innocent juveniles stand to be tried as terrorists.
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