‘Bleed, Saxon Blood’: An Alliterative Poem by Theresa Werba
. Bleed, Saxon Blood "Þær wæs sang || and sweg samod ætgædere, fore Healfdenes || hildewisan; gomenwudu || græted,...
Alliterative
‘Autumn Fades’ and Other Poetry on Death by Joshua C. Frank
. Autumn Fades The orange leaves decay to crinkling gray, And sunsets sink and fade the clouds to black. “You’ll...
‘Colors’ by Kukai, Translated by Joshua C. Frank
. Colors by Kukai (空海) (774-835) translated by Joshua C. Frank Colors, fragrant like the flowers, Fade to ash in...
‘Gawain’s Prayer in the Wilderness’: An Alliterative Poem by Joseph S. Salemi
. Gawain’s Prayer in the Wilderness …the wildrenesse of Wyrale; wonde ther bot lyte That auther God other gome with...
A Video Excerpt of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Reading, by Andrew Benson Brown
. https://youtu.be/MZLhwCyQLcs . Read the complete translated text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight here. . . Andrew Benson...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Free PDF
Following the introduction below is a translated version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in PDF made free for...
An Arthurian Interlude in Alliterative Verse, by Rahul Gupta
Rahul Gupta holds a PhD for a thesis on mediaeval Germanic and modern mediaevalist metre and poetics from...
‘Dunblane Cathedral’: A Poem on the 20th Anniversary of a Massacre, by Joseph Charles MacKenzie
. Dunblane Cathedral On the massacre of sixteen children and their teacher at the Dunblane Primary School near Stirling, Scotland,...
‘Lepanto’: Poem by G.K. Chesterton
. Lepanto Editor's Note: Don John of Austria, or Don Juan de Austria, (1547-1578) was half-brother to King Philip II of Spain...
My apologies for your loss, Jason. This seems a fitting tribute and stirs up many emotions when read. Grief can…
James, these memorable insightful poems are thoughtfully constructed. I do not remember seeing poems from you recently when you have…
You're so right, that "prose can't frame" the things a painting, or a poem, can; prose wasn't made for that…
Thank you, Margaret My current favorite pens are made in China and I've only got 3 left. Do they even…
The face that launched a thousand PhDs. I love it! Thanks for the reads, James.
