‘Says Simon Cowell (A Villanelle)’ and Other Poetry by Agnes Bookbinder
Says Simon Cowell (A Villanelle) “Which came first, the egg or fowl? This is what I’d like to know.”...
Read moreDetailsSays Simon Cowell (A Villanelle) “Which came first, the egg or fowl? This is what I’d like to know.”...
Read moreDetailsOnce Flew and Flown No More Such heights I once had seen and gusts of winds that caught my...
Read moreDetailsTime (for Children) Time flies, as everyone knows and time marches on, as the saying goes and time will stand...
Read moreDetailsHaiku "You are what you eat!" That's what all of the books say Then I guess I'm nuts! ...
Read moreDetails(thanks for your kindness) How like a star in a darkening sky, appears an unexpected friendly deed. How much more...
Read moreDetailsMulched beyond bones, but reprieved, Wolfgang has a home in my mind, and he’s still bereaved. From his pauper’s grave,...
Read moreDetailsOn Super Bowl LI I went to bed. The Falcon’s made it 28 to 3 and yet I never...
Read moreDetailsThere used to be a limpid lake Home to the finest birds you'd find. We'd watch their glory till daybreak....
Read moreDetailsRelated How to Write a Sonnet How to Write a Haiku How to Write a Rondeau How to Write a...
Read moreDetailsHow Eden weeps to see, the ache of every tortured tree. How Eden doth recoil, at bitter cancer of...
Read moreDetailsWhat a Wit is Worth For John Whitworth, poet Oh, Whitman was a rhymer who enjoyed to play the part Of...
Read moreDetailsWhat thoughts has thinking hard put in my brain, that show a different world than my eyes see, before, things...
Read moreDetailsYou’ve not come to a meeting in three years— Within the movement, there are buzzing fears That marriage has ensnared...
Read moreDetails“Vexed by a verb!” I often vent, undeniably discontent. Let my quirky quote be the key to promoting a...
Read moreDetailsOn the Protesters Filled With Hate By Bruce Dale Wise And while American airports were filled with screaming hate, Chief...
Read moreDetailsFirst Prize ($500): James Sale, Bournemouth, United Kingdom “In Telling This Story” “Obi-Wan Bin Laden RIP” “Imitating Shakespeare’s Sonnet 107”...
Read moreDetailsBubbles I swish the stick To watch a spread of bubbles gleam; Free and delightful they float Almost a...
Read moreDetailsby Evan Mantyk WHAT DOES THE classic Chinese story Journey to the West have to do with William Shakespeare’s classic play Hamlet? A...
Read moreDetailsA Strange and Sweet Unrest Awake forever with a sweet unrest . . .” —John Keats, “Bright Star” She...
Read moreDetailsTrees, Libraries, and Chinese Communism To wrap a ribbon round a UK tree And tie it into Chinese tyranny, Or...
Read moreDetails“This foyer of the spirit is the seat of a sovereign.” - Anca Rosu The lyric lures release of thought,...
Read moreDetailsBallad: Our Crew of Two When we set forth, the breeze blew fair, The sun shone balmy, warm. Our sheets...
Read moreDetailsSong of Ulysses For greatness and glory’s sake For all things rich and noble In proud ships tall let us...
Read moreDetailsOld School I saw two women at a table in a small café Not making eye contact or talking,...
Read moreDetails“Tourist, see this stained beach in Tripoli Where one and twenty men were forced to kneel Ere cutting down...
Read moreDetailsBuyer’s Remorse How long are we allowed to close our eyes To who produces what our money buys? How can...
Read moreDetailsThe "Greatest Show on Earth" Is Coming to a Close By Sirc de Budalewe The "Greatest Show on Earth" is...
Read moreDetailsMy Goldfish Has an MFA Roundel for Gillian My goldfish has an MFA; I got official notice just today. Of...
Read moreDetailsWalked the Mountain What shape is that, the mountain's brow? A glacier field, a glacier field! I walked to...
Read moreDetailsRising above the silt and murky mud, Clean and pure is the small pink bud, Supported by a supple stem...
Read moreDetailsShin-Rin-Yoku Forest Bathing You stand beneath this canopy of trees, surrender will, hold still. You close your eyes and listen...
Read moreDetailsPibroch of the Domhnall By Joseph Charles MacKenzie Author’s Notes: § The refrains at the end of each stanza...
Read moreDetailsHere is a riddle, a brain-teaser of sorts Rev up your noggin or the answer you’ll miss Mark. Set....
Read moreDetailsDeparture Like escaping through a siege, growing older Hampers itself with hopes of return; So if, over your bare...
Read moreDetailsFake News By Caud Sewer Bile Fake news is rather difficult to say just what it is. What's fake to...
Read moreDetailsThe Terrorists Tears feed the sweeping sands beneath their feet, And blood runs deep into the living ground. The...
Read moreDetailsThe gown and the date are set, caterers and florists I’ve met. The hall has been booked, no detail...
Read moreDetailsThe Desert We were flying in a desert, an oasis to drink dry. We gorged ourselves on date palms...
Read moreDetailsWe may hear some Bible phrase and laugh. __That book has no monopoly on ‘goods’. Some words clang, we...
Read moreDetailsBy Dusty Grein Dating to the thirteenth century, the terza rima (Italian for "third rhyme") is a classic form of...
Read moreDetailsSuch beautiful poems, Adam. I especially love the villanelle. I've never written a sestina, but I can see how challenging…
I love your description of the firefly. And, "Its lamp recalls a distant shore, / A beacon lost to time's…
I especially liked your ashes to ashes, toe to toe poem, Gigi. A friend of mine lost his second toe…
I once wrote a 9,000-word horror story called Snow Man, and a horror 'sonnet' about Frostie the Snowman. What is…
Thanks, Gigi. Here in Mauritania, where most books you find in shops are in French, The Cat in the Hat…
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