Breath of Night A sullen breath pervades the night the rhythmic stillness I can hear where peaceful dreams grow...

Among the Redwoods by Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887) FAREWELL to such a world! Too long I press The crowded pavement...

  Kaddish for My Father Yitgadal v’yitkadash sh’mai rabah… I’ve said the mourner’s kaddish now a thousand times To mark...

  Canceled I reckon the outcome is just So cancel away if you must. It speaks to the fear That...

  The Diamond When Earth was young and life was new An alien forest clothed a land Where dreadful monsters...

  The Dancer The dancer turns elegantly: her pivot light and feathery, her eyes as brilliant as a wren’s, her...

  Chastity ‘My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away.’ ---The...

  Ode I.11 by Horace (circa 84-54 BC) translated from Latin by Mary Jane Myers Locónoé, the gods decree the...

  The Bird with the Ugly Voice I kept a bird whose song was harsh and coarse, A jarring cry,...

  The Dryads The day we found the hoof-prints in the soil And felt the breath of dark, indolic heat,...

  Stories of Saint Anthony   Preaching to the Fish “Proud men have turned away, for they refuse To listen...

  An Englishman to World Cups Past That 1966 World Cup _is but a memory, awarded, so the Scotsmen claim,...

  Faux Pas after Don Paterson When I decanted red, not white, and she called me a fool I bit...

Trip to Italy A Poetry Travel Journal by James A. Tweedie The trip begins on April 8 with a two-week...

  Spring Song Spring sings through the woods, her own special song Sometimes short ’n’ sweet and sometimes too long....

  The Eagle He flies... so quickly, cutting the air’s depth with tawny wings, the messenger of Zeus—the eagle—bold, his...

  Good Night When you brushed and flossed and rinsed your teeth, _You gave nary a thought To a gap...

  Mothiavelli I’m thirsty for the fever of her kiss--- The neon sear---the lethal lick she brings. I burn to...

  Poetic Justices: The Poetry of United States Supreme Court Justices by Adam Sedia In 1979, Justice John Paul Stevens...

  Blur The seconds tick, the minutes race, __The hours fly, __The days flash by, The weeks go at a...

  The Cottage on the Ridge The gray mist lingers in the wooded vale And drifts across the piney hills...

  Poem 5 by Catullus (circa 84-54 BC) translated from Latin by Mary Jane Myers Ah, Lesbia, lust’s our sweet...

  Undeclared College Major Discussing broader options that young women have today, One of my female classmates had a startling...

  The Sowers by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938) translated from Italian by Joseph S. Salemi Strong lads drive the docile oxen...

  Three Kittens Went to Kitten-Garten Three kittens in kitten-garten. Whose teacher was a dog. They had to write their...

  The Number 217: A Glimpse of Armageddon "And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes" ---Chaucer, Canterbury Tales  It happened...

  The Heart of the Wood At the edge of the wood it is green, With the leaves all aglow...

  Twelve Labors More Part II. The Music of the Spheres Read Part I here. I. My life continued quiet...

  Today Awake, and do not fade away into your gloom—and stay within your room. Instead, without delay, compel yourself...

  Chaucer's Medieval Hangover Advice and Cure If you should quaff nocturnally too much, and waking, find your mouth’s a...

  April Flowers Bring May Showers You festive blossoms---whose ephemeral lives are poured Ecstatically into youthful grass as you dance...

  O Come, Holy Ghost "The Fear of the Lord Is the Beginning of Wisdom..." ---Proverbs 9:10 O Come, Holy...

Cato of Utica: Canto I of Purgatory by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated from Italian by Stephen Binns Dante and Virgil...

  Cherry Blossom Cherry blossom, cherry blossom, Dancing, lilting in the breeze, Hither speak of pretty whispers, Told to you...

  Home I wandered lonely, not so much a cloud As more a type of fog, as something cool And...

  Tempus Fugit, Carpe Diem, Memento Mori Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus.—Virgil, Georgics There comes a time in every...

Competition Judge and Classical Poets Live creator Andrew Benson Brown discusses the competition requirements and gives some background on odes,...

  Epitaph for a Lost Civilisation "Mine honour is my life; both grow in one: Take honour from me, and...

Advice for Tokyo Rose February, 1943---Tokyo, Japanese Empire. Iva D’Aquino---an expatriate American national---is hired by Kenchiki Oki, on behalf of...

  Beautiful She cracked a throaty Marlboro laugh that piped her spicy liquored breath into my face. Her blouse hung...