Fog in the Valley The fog flows down like a flock of pale gulls and the valley of my...

  Winter Storm Watch The sky is still; no flakes appear and yet we know that they will come. Held...

Observations both Literal and Inferred on The Course of Empire, 1833-36, by Thomas Cole   The Savage State THE foreground...

O Thou Fount of Joy, I Praise Thee In my dark night He brought His joy    by an ancient melody....

  Sonnet on the Death of a Friend Throughout our lives we have the love of some Our family, our...

They gathered softly in a field for many miles around to taste in haste the flowers before showers tumbled down...

A mysterious substance is ruling our lives. It flows through our oceans and floats in our skies. “It’s good for...

  For a girl with rosy cheeks I didn’t know when Valentine’s Day was, and didn’t need to. That day...

I saw a grand palace as sculpted by the Genie of the Lamp, adorned with lights so golden, as if...

for E.E. Club Saw Reid   I. Priam, Returning to the Ramparts He’d never say it to my face and...

  I Saw a Giant Train by Red Was Iceblue I saw a giant train come out of blue and...

Chinese Cameo 5 A glinty dental check-up’s made my day – some skiffs of plaque, no ominous decay … A...

  First Prize ($500): Reid McGrath Winning Poems: “Tares in the Wheat” “A Recurring Dream, Vanquished” “Retreating Snow” “Lamenting Our...

  The Shore Forever lost in the ocean the water seeps into my chest I’ve lost myself in the motion...

Though tear gas spiraled through receding light and wrung out tears and mangled up clear sight; and though the bitter...

Rose Window Firs at sunset cast golden geometries As myriad needles swarm like bees And burst into sun-kindled flame –...

  Where Can I Find You? A girl, with hair the colour of honey, giggled while she chased a little...

  Vessel No one can insure candlelight; its flame Precisely burns in flickering waves of gas, Ingesting oxygen while fibers...

The nightingale flutters on its wings And lighting on a branch he sings Voices the song of his spirit Brings...

Maoism “Power comes from the barrel of a gun,” That was the essence of Mao’s logic. Millions have perished under...

Life's Golden Key Like the sparrow, robin and crow sharing in a concrete birdbath, mortals require kindness to grow, pleasantly...

  I. The people of China in ancient times, Knew good was blessed and evil was punished, By Gods who...

In the Shadow of a Mountain In the shadow of a mountain lies a valley, lies my home swaddled by...

  Shadow of the Laogai In the Laogai’s shadow, the ghosts of China stir, Unseen by dreaming eyes as golden...

Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare Some say that Shakespeare didn’t write The many works that bear his name; But surely if that...

  The Day the Persecution Began "The year is 1999, July, A king of terror would come from the sky,”...

He Kept On By Erisbawdle Cue He kept on striving to attain an ideality connected to the good, but grounded...

Just a Dream I. You vowed to descend to the world below, In an agreement that was made. To the...

Tares in the Wheat "No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the...

Youths' Sonnet They view the world through filmy innocence, these youngsters who now hear the future call. Into that forest...

I've had some poems I could submit but now I've got behind a bit, they're packed inside the silent hive...

The British are coming! The whole fourth estate Must wear what is smart For William and Kate. The British are...

To incarnate legally─ No reincarnates can be found In Beijing’s atheist compound─ In this city where dead is dead─ A...

Our Day in the Sun We, each of us, every one Have had our day in the sun Came a...

"...that best portion of a good man's life;     His little, nameless, unremembered acts     Of kindness and of love."...

Life Ravaged forests again take root Life nestling within the sturdy acorn Cannot be throttled Ashes reborn yield bitter fruit...

Dandelions She touched their gray-haired afros tenderly: an urban six year old with kinky hair who pounced on dandelions (bud-vases...

Canadian reservist Corporal Cirillo was killed this day at the War Memorial in Ottawa, while standing in his ceremonial and...

The tip jar was snatched at O Cafe. O! “Somebody just picked it up,” mused the guy at the register....

Fall Haiku New England college towns: Pumpkins, apples, breakfast in a warm café. Swamp-maples afire! Rusty colored barns, silos draped...