Introductory Note These paraphrased translations represent three short poems composed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a person so well-known...

A Wheelchair They kept their car-doors shut and windows closed, Nor left their house but stayed inside, disposed To hide...

  On Marriage I married a girl named Sue And alas! She married me too!     As Then, So...

  On a Turtle of Broken Jade The tiny turtle made of milky jade Was smuggled by Jun’s parents from...

  She was the one who approached me and spoke, Saying my lectures had swept her away. Maybe we could...

  Thoughts following a visit to the World War 2 National Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. Eugene Ovid Lambert was...

  On Voter Fraud after Li Hongzhi’s poem "On the General Election" by Evan Mantyk Is chivalry dead in the...

  Mary had a little lamb His fleece was white as snow. This little lamb, we’ll call him Stan, Starred...

  Remember, Remember… by Susan Jarvis Bryant No thankful foot falls on the London street In honour of our brave...

Shooting Star Upon the early fall of night my eyes behold a shooting star, electric streak in twilight sea, now...

The complete new translation can found from Hackett Publishing here. My poem sings of one man forced from Troy by...

originally published on November 2, 2020 on MacKenzie Lyric Poetry Where shall they hide now, the merchants of death, Who...

  Perfectionist Inclined Maligned by self-encasing brine, defined By certainty's demise, self-image lies Within a shrine. Perfectionist inclined, I crouch...

  “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing...

  Yearning for Castles and Gargoyles Among the towers never made of ivory, protruding lewdly over walls of mottled stone,...

  Over 100,00 people were killed at Babi Yar between September 29, 1941 and November 6, 1943. Oh, come and...

  Red Skies by Usa W. Celebride Along th’ Atlantic Ocean and around the grand Great Lakes, on the horizon...

  A Verse for the Morning After As thieves and pirates count our votes And set us at each other’s...

  Retired I’ve lost the ship I banked upon to shield me from this stormy world. For I’ve since crossed...

Post your Election Day poem in the comments section below.    Quatrains They “battle for the soul of the nation”...

  Context Is Everything When you attempt to cut some string A hammer doesn’t do a thing— Jackknives matter. When...

The American Revolution: An Epic Poem Chapter I Chapter II by Andrew Benson Brown   Chapter III: The New-World Mercury...

Let's Do It! The surgeon does it in a snip within a stitch of time. The comic does it with...

A Fragmentary Introduction to the Geo-Political America of the Progressive Left Exuding virtue-signaling savoir-faire, "The Vanguard of the Proletariat,” Like...

  Twelve-year old Maxwell Schollenberger was found dead in a home in Annville, Pennsylvania, in May 2020, where he had...

In British folklore, the Beast of Bodmin Moor is a phantom feral cat. Bodmin Moor (Cornwall, England) is a hub...

Is this a werewolf’s trick, or witch’s treat? A devil’s joke? Humanity’s defeat? Who would have thought we’d live to...

  Nothing Ventured an office romance "What more do you want?" he inquired without guile. ---Can it really be true...

  Autumn Ecstasy In ecstasy has autumn come With burning bush, chrysanthemum, And quaking aspens shaking fast While crackling oak...

  A family that I read about Lost everything acquired. Their house, collections, photographs, All vanished in a fire. Thank...

  Now when you get to sixty-five, your memory starts to slip, But when you get to seventy, you have...

  The constant growl of battles down the ways, The daily angst that never seems to stall, The hate of...

  Renowned but wayward Troy, vain Babylon, Harsh Nineveh, and languid Rome were felled; Long ago they exercised dominion, But...

  You’ve grown up in the public school system, and it shows. You are sensitive to the world around you,...

Post your answers in the comments section below. I. A place that never is in its own place And where...

  On voting day, we hope the nation’s __red---a bright vermilion. Let’s count the reasons to choose Trump. __There are...

  Vocations Always there are things we should be doing; Others, though, are better left unfinished. Also, there are ends...

All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise. Originally published by the SCP 9/26/18 Consumer Rights by Cal Wes Ubideer Accountability, transparency,...

  The Immigrant As his ship now departs to cross over the sea, He looks back as he fondly remembers...

  “Hunter, you’ve disgraced the name of 'Biden.' Your laptop’s in the hands of some porn cop! I’ve told you,...