When cathedral bells toll through the morning and sunlight touches steeples with its glare, and arrows on the town...

Charles the Bold was the last independent Duke of Burgundy. Killed at the Battle of Nancy by the Swiss, his...

  by James Green “Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That...

In the painting, she has turned to look back At where her lover’s  corpse lies in the  ground. Her face...

  Goose Sense A burden and a bore I must have been; As handy as another leg, I'd slouch The...

In dactylic hexameter Turgid the sea as it billows and foams in the face of the tempest. Wind-lifted wave-crests explode...

Ms. Wang Lixuan and her son, Meng Hao, were detained on Oct. 22, 2000. Mother and baby both died at...

In my dreams, I always see you smiling, Your bright eyes twinkling like a million stars. In my dreams, there...

A Cello Knows Amidst the smoke and light and laughter Along the smiles and cheers thereafter A sound is bled,...

April 26 is Poem in Your Pocket Day, part of National Poetry Month. On this day, people are encouraged to...

The lamp holds sway along the shadowed streets A penumbra encircles its sweet shine As night rests softly like a...

Fear A ballad I said to Fear, “Away from here!” And, softly, he withdrew. But, lost in thought, I plain...

From Lost Love & Other Lyrics A casida Sleep, the enemy of inspiration, An unlikely ally that hangs around, With...

  Wee hours, when crickets tune their eerie cords and hoot the yawning owls at twinkling stars; the night-maid roves...

How Can We Know? A villanelle How can we know where we go when we die; Pondering signs, looking up...

Part 1 Between a teardrop and the heart, We sense our feelings weakened, mourn, For sadness as the tones impart...

“The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” ~ Louis L’Amour You are not alone on this...

War Is Natural To rise above the plane of earth Where war continues since my birth, I find that war...

  Heroes, Victims, and Poseidon The metre of ancient Greek poetry succeeds in “achieving a length and complexity that are...

Obituary Late summer, when the bumblebees begin to die, You’ll see them clinging to the petals of a flower For...

Glistening orbs Dance on air Drifting skyward Without a care Iridescent spheres Shimmering bright Reflecting prisms In the sunlight Luminous...

Canto 1 is the provisional name for a sequence of 33 Cantos that James Sale is attempting to write in...

A sonnet of longing and of a glimpse of hope. July 17, 2016. We looked imploring to the starless sky;...

By David B. Gosselin William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564 - died April 23, 1616) is arguably the greatest writer...

Pigeon Cove, MA 1948 Above, the sky, remote and pure, Below, the earth, steadfast and sure. Between the two, the...

  I knew her when I could be called a youth And life had not uncovered certain truths Apparent to...

(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) The Children's Crusade Amendment II of the US Constitution: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary...

Leatherneck, you’re still my childhood hero With tales of firing flack at Jap Zeroes— After training camp in San Diego,...

  Young people go marching, the boys and the girls, They’re thinking like once we did, they’ll change the world....

    He pressed a rounded stone into my hand. He said, "Take care of this," and turned away To...

  I know why the red rose weeps Why she hides her tears in dew As the summer breezes sweep...

  The Society of Classical Poets is reviving poetry with rhyme and meter and the response has been widespread and...

April Fools Easter: April 1, 2018 In dark Gethsemane I was betrayed By Judas’ kiss. I was arrested, tried, Found...

(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise)   On Secretaries of State: Falling from Grace by Brice U. Lawseed Across the...

. . The Sun The face above that shone below From space to hover, cast a glow And warmth afforded...

Miles hastatus (spearman) of the Legio Decima Fretensis, stationed in Roman Judaea, A.D. 33 Vere, filius Dei erat iste. —Roman...

This Collar, Blue My elbows leak with grease And all my toes are laid with steel I'm rough of neck...

See the Music Mysterious the inner eye that hears the dancers flying by across the stage in grand jete' as woodwind, horn...

About the Lady Godiva and her famed naked ride through Coventry Once in the town of Coventry, Leofric Earl had...

A tribe of trolls escaped their cage! Now rabid wrath and rancor rage. Hurling hurt from hidden hellholes (most notably,...