Sonnet for an Arabian Autumn After William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 This time of year you will in me perceive When...

  Teaching the Inner Couplets of one Rumi Has left me truly desolate and gloomy. They say he’s great, this...

  This time of year makes it hard to believe in randomness. Maples flame up, then out, visible symmetry undressed...

Often I ponder things unseen Eons of light and mysterious beings The breathtaking fallout as stars collide A silent womb...

A Million Thoughts Based on the Holocaust testimony of Bertha Haberfeld By Surina Patel A million thoughts are rushing through...

Darkness No longer did they see the need For things called books they used to read. Music—no longer symphonies, But...

  Console her with the Atheist’s philosophy: ____Never mind! Your grandma’s dead. It’s Nature’s way of denoting an atrophy ____In...

  Heat waves frolic along the desert’s endless edge I hear the shuffling of camel’s toes The soft landing of...

Riven (A Rannaigheacht Ghairid) Once I dreamed Ospreys soared where salmon teemed. Frigid streams and waterfalls Frosted walls where glaciers...

  After college, in my job search I found A prestigious post in antiquities At the historic museum downtown (As...

  Winter’s Passing Now I can see no sky above your space, For dark clouds hide the blue that may...

Where was it that Alice went, One bright and shining day, A rabbit's lair, beneath the blare, A restless child...

. . Humble Shant My humble shant be free of strife Untroubled see my simple life Skiff and paddle, hat...

  Education:  To Be Continued ... There is no lack of opportunity For education in this spendthrift age, And boys...

  Says Simon Cowell (A Villanelle) “Which came first, the egg or fowl? This is what I’d like to know.”...

  Once Flew and Flown No More Such heights I once had seen and gusts of winds that caught my...

  Time (for Children) Time flies, as everyone knows and time marches on, as the saying goes and time will stand...

  Haiku "You are what you eat!" That's what all of the books say Then I guess I'm nuts!  ...

(thanks for your kindness) How like a star in a darkening sky, appears an unexpected friendly deed. How much more...

Mulched beyond bones, but reprieved, Wolfgang has a home in my mind, and he’s still bereaved. From his pauper’s grave,...

  On Super Bowl LI I went to bed. The Falcon’s made it 28 to 3 and yet I never...

There used to be a limpid lake Home to the finest birds you'd find. We'd watch their glory till daybreak....

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  How Eden weeps to see, the ache of every tortured tree. How Eden doth recoil, at bitter cancer of...

What a Wit is Worth For John Whitworth, poet Oh,  Whitman was a rhymer who enjoyed to play the part Of...

What thoughts has thinking hard put in my brain, that show a different world than my eyes see, before, things...

You’ve not come to a meeting in three years— Within the movement, there are buzzing fears That marriage has ensnared...

  “Vexed by a verb!” I often vent, undeniably discontent. Let my quirky quote be the key to promoting a...

On the Protesters Filled With Hate By Bruce Dale Wise And while American airports were filled with screaming hate, Chief...

First Prize ($500): James Sale, Bournemouth, United Kingdom “In Telling This Story” “Obi-Wan Bin Laden RIP” “Imitating Shakespeare’s Sonnet 107”...

  Bubbles I swish the stick To watch a spread of bubbles gleam; Free and delightful they float Almost a...

by Evan Mantyk WHAT DOES THE classic Chinese story Journey to the West have to do with William Shakespeare’s classic play Hamlet? A...

  A Strange and Sweet Unrest Awake forever with a sweet unrest . . .” —John Keats, “Bright Star” She...

Trees, Libraries, and Chinese Communism To wrap a ribbon round a UK tree And tie it into Chinese tyranny, Or...

“This foyer of the spirit is the seat of a sovereign.” - Anca Rosu The lyric lures release of thought,...

Ballad: Our Crew of Two When we set forth, the breeze blew fair, The sun shone balmy, warm. Our sheets...

Song of Ulysses For greatness and glory’s sake For all things rich and noble In proud ships tall let us...

  Old School I saw two women at a table in a small café Not making eye contact or talking,...

  “Tourist, see this stained beach in Tripoli Where one and twenty men were forced to kneel Ere cutting down...

Buyer’s Remorse How long are we allowed to close our eyes To who produces what our money buys? How can...