Where a lamppost spreads a white spot light Nursing silent night with canny purr, A racoon crosses there in sudden...

Nova Scotia and the Clouds of Summer So silently they march along, the clouds of summer, proud and strong; their...

For Elizabeth My morning’s mountain wears the lavish light Of candid clouds and truth-engendered white. Ah, heavens, spread your opalescent...

Alzheimer's Disease I can feel your deep darkness closing in, With its harrowing sense of helplessness, Soon obscenity sours tongues...

Runnymede Revisited Note: Runnymede is the location where King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta. This poem was...

Bristlecone Longevity The beauty of the tree is not how old, Indeed how ancient in its gnarling now, Not in...

Translator's Preliminary Note This is an original translation of a poem by Sappho (630-580 BC), traditionally known as the “old...

Heritage I like to say I’d an Egyptian father If that is too obscure for you, I’d rather Explain it...

Poet’s Note: I wrote this poem in the same metrical form as the song “America the Beautiful” (but without the...

Two Lives by Michael Maibach When soldiers die, They give two lives. The one they had, And the one denied....

Garden Waltz a terza rima sonnet in dactylic pentameter with a truncated foot at the end of each line Radishes...

You pushed Grace hard so you could have your book. She did the layout, made the pdf. I bought the...

The Lord’s Supper They’re gathered round, astonished, full of dread, round him who like a wise man must decide, and...

The Fall Revisited The implications of the fall are endless in their reach; that lowly serpent had such gall, Eve's...

Guess who is not invited to come to a dinner here? Rights are just for some people. Others have to...

It's first of sweaty, sweltering daybreaks of summer new. The fewer trailing steps of parting spring are still moist-fresh with...

“Only fools are positive.”  “You sure about that?” “I’m positive.” ―The Three Stooges “Freedom is the freedom to say that...

  While strolling around an illustrious lair, I was caught by a breeze of regret in the air, For gazing...

Winners announced here. Scroll down and read the comments section to enjoy all of the submissions. What has no subject...

by Dusty Grein Like many of the old French refrain forms, the kyrielle originated in the 15th century with the...

Born at Constantinople in 1762 of a French father and Greek mother, André Chénier grew up in pre-revolutionary France and studied...

03.27.18 A smattering of rain above a hall That holds her earthy fragments, broken, spent, A woman who, in life,...

Written upon reading the book How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World. The beast once foretold for the...

Little Girl She's fishing in a rock pool just abandoned by the sea She's too engrossed within her world to...

Note: Joseph Charles MacKenzie would like to offer a 25% discount on the first edition hardcover of Sonnets for Christ...

by James Sale FORMAL COMPLAINTS by Joseph S. Salemi, Somer Rocks Press, 1997 MASQUERADE by Joseph S. Salemi, Somer Rocks...

(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Confucius Institutes "Three things cannot be hidden long: the sun, the moon and truth."...

Congratulations to the following winners! Thank you to judges Joseph S. Salemi, James Sale, and Damian Robin.   First Place...

To Make a Poet “A man can learn the art of poetry,” You say, “and many learn this art by...

  I may have borne them each, but it was you, Whose shoulders carried weight I never knew, You set...

Form Sonnet Turn the page and write again today Make something come out of an eager mind Make something in...

See notes below for background and allusions. Olivia: Daughter, shall we sit and grieve together, And tie our two bêtes...

A short film by Gleb Zavlanov. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxnDmkKqaF4&feature=youtu.be Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more...

  Everlasting Chesterton The author, G.K. Chesterton: A playful epigramist, A master of the terse bon mot, And witty dithyrambist....

  I Love This Life a rondeau I love this life in spite of all the trying times and every...

Curtain Up! Sunset and the robins sing, nightingales reply song that summer evenings bring, weeping willows sigh from lawns and from...

  The sky boiled, As the earth ruffled, Clouds blew past, And the soil buckled. The dead came forth, And...

These three sonnets come from the newly released poetry book Organ Harvest, by Damian Robin, which exposes the murder of...

by Con Chapman Nyla Matuk and I have a few things in common; we are both poets (or in my...

Canto 2 is part of a sequence of 33 Cantos called The English Cantos that James Sale is attempting to...