Pure of any mortal mote ___and boundless (but for sight): The deep dry sky of Autumn ___inscribes the shadows...

  The butterfly, the sea anemone, And snowflake, though possessive of the true Design of grace and perfect symmetry, Seem...

The Coworker A “need-to-know” it’s called in Personnel and I’m just high enough to need to know she’s going through...

After RFK __I’m named for one about whom Lowell wrote That doom was woven in his veins. In June Of...

Painted, woody there it stands, this door behind which kingdom fans. Bright with order, calm with ease, a wooden plank...

by James Sale Wind in the Cave, Finishing Line Press, 2017 Out of Nothing, Shanti Arts Publishing, 2018 Recently in...

Translation by Evan Mantyk "The Ballad of Mulan" was written in the sixth century about a legendary warrior, Hua Mulan,...

. The Country Club To think about a country club Begun for whisky in a tub, Distilled from fields of...

Woman: Why choose the red dress, dear? Reply: To me it's really white, To you it should be clear, Mood...

Check-Mate by a Pawn for my sons We parry, thrust: This game of wits, Where each pawn must Deflect your...

Sonnet for a Cosmetic Company Ah Youth! To whom each maiden plights her troth To coax and woo each winsome...

I. I’ve awed at the Atlantic’s bluest depths, and peered at the Pacific’s deepest blues; the warm blue summer waters...

Lay your hand in mine dear, ___Lay your hand in mine; If you will lay your hand in mine We...

Ye boundless vaults of heaven without an end, __Thy silvery fields of azure stars unfold Above the earth, and verdurous...

I Taught a Lesson to My Toes I taught a lesson to my toes, They’d overstepped the mark, Escaping time...

a rondeau Cape Disappointment, battered and distressed, Besieged, beset, by brute-force waves hard-pressed As broad and deep Columbia collides With...

Left to Write It isn't difficult to find __the works the masters left behind, and others too have written verse, __some...

. Written: March 27, 2022 A Wedding Sonnet To those true cultivators of Zhen Shen Ren,* There is no common...

My Wife Is Clad in Cloth From Head to Foot My wife is clad in cloth from head to foot....

  Things shifted for them suddenly From seeing their folks in the morn To mourning their folks in the sea....

Three Loves in One We've gathered Love, but only insofar As we have reaped a crop from seeds we've sown....

a Petrarchan sonnet Highlighting midnight across darkened skies flies the Supermoon hidden in all of its glory; though sightless and...

A Life Well Lived a rondeau A life well-lived begins and ends surrounded by the love of friends. The air...

. https://youtu.be/9h-79BVeByw . Open Heart Surgery The best day of your life; a child is born! Start out happy, but...

  Riddle XXXVII From small beginnings I grow great, just keep up the heat and wait, help me become the...

Nobody came today to ask me questions, nor has anyone asked me for anything this afternoon. I have not seen...

(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Venezuelan Woes by Lud Wes Caribee As Socialist experiment Venezuela sinks into far greater...

This villanelle is a tribute to the Rust Belt, and all the communities devastated when corporations close their American plants...

  “Let glorious acts more glorious acts inspire, And catch from breast to breast the noble fire!" —The Iliad, Homer,...

Musical Comedy or Doggerel for Dilettantes The Sonata Like a Classical sonata, our day opens with a theme, Whether thrown...

Canto 3 is the third canto in the sequence of the English Cantos, the first two of which are available...

  Please bring the wine cuz I'm flat broke, I couldn't even buy a can of Coke. But once you...

in tribute to James Sale and in memory of Joe M. Ruggier (1956-2018), who first published this poem in The...

Paradox as Explanatory Paradigm in Norman MacCaig’s ‘Summer Farm’ by Phillip Whidden   Summer Farm Straws like tame lightnings lie...

A Question of Faith The crowd cheered on their betters’ masquerade, Emotions seethed as memes were hatched and grew; Elijah...

  I like to write, and writing's free; Liberates mind of memory. I take a chance to be creative; For...

I See a Friend I see a friend, pull up a stool to talk to this old stupid fool. Both...

Meaningful. Active and interesting. Strong. ___Simply not counting the days, as if stray, ______dreary, unworthy, but making them count, serve,...

  They stood on the porch, Eyes over the land. The young and old man, Making their plans. The old...

  Exodos, Prologos to the Class of 2018 In times uncertain, ask your truest friends For counsel, and take all...