Riddling Away What slips and squanders, and has no matter? Leaves one to ponder, and rarely flatters? Is never...

. . Hope What task be done, you thought was not?What asked and sought, forgot, was wrought?What strain was set...

By Sandeep Kumar Mishra and Evan Mantyk English poetry has a rich history dating back at least 1,400 years. Looking...

Note: The brown-headed cowbird, Molothrus ater, rather than raise its own young, lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, which may...

Verification What further evidence will now be needed to assure Us that behind the strictly physical there’s something more, And...

  "For even in the beginning, when arrogant giants were perishing, the hope of the world took refuge on a...

Posting atop the hill beyond the field in rain so thick he barely saw the bodies, the General tilted back...

. Visiting the Ruins of Tintagel Castle I wander through a forest deep __in Cornish countryside And think I see some...

. Sally Cook is both a poet and a painter residing in upstate New York. In addition to the Society...

Spring was near now Spring’s here, come to waken all the flowers and to welcome April showers. Spring was near...

If Romeo Had Received the Letter Part I Romeo (in the catacomb, lying down beside Juliet) The friar’s note said:...

Blue Star Mama painted calm and clouded landscapes Before she wed, blue-green and grassy shapes, But these went by the...

I Watch the Sun I watch the sun, its trek, across the sky. The shadow too to see how it...

  Boston Public Garden On Boston Public Garden's willowed shorebank, two little girls are feeding ducks: they prance from beak...

By Evan Mantyk In the sea of free verse, drifting downward into the bottomless whirlpool of aesthetic relativism, it is hard...

By Cid Wa'eeb El Sur "The end is where we start from." —T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Little Gidding Upon...

  “Doing what deserves to be written, writing what deserves to be read, living to make the world a happier...

White Wolf, Black Wolf: A Cherokee Story A trijan refrain Inside you lives a wolf of white— of patience, peace...

  One Near-Death Experience at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital To be dazed out, phased out, near to dying In a...

After E. T. A. Hoffman "Only connect..." E. M. Forster, Howard's End By Ewald E. Eisbruc The inner structure of the...

We Forget How quickly we forget the people killed, Millions slaughtered to get a lie fulfilled. All those Russians in...

Divided into easy to engage and topical categories such as Beauty, Humor, Anti-Communism, and The Environment, the 2017 Journal features...

  Oak tree like a gnarled arthritic hand jutting into the sky black and bent knobby knuckles, twisted swirls and...

Sleep, lying in dry river beds Sold rapidly, buy the shore banks Brains washed from corporate heads Dried and neatly styled on...

  To me, to rhyme— It is sublime To others But a waste of time To match the sounds Of...

The Theater of the Bush To westward the sun seeks a comfort nocturnal, Her warmth slipping under the covers ahead;...

. . Approaching Spring Above the mountain, under the sky, Canadian Geese, you hear their cry, Over the mountain, hear...

  Are the dead at peace in the ground? wrapped in loam, slow dissolving to earth. Is the mother at...

  Spring is Coming From naked trees, droplets of dew, Drips like tears onto my upturned face. Everything is bleak,...

By Basil Drew Eceu At least four people have been killed and forty injured in a terrorist attack in London...

By Elizabeth Spencer Spragins Poetry has been an integral component of Welsh culture for centuries. Indeed, the Welsh word “bardd”...

A Pantoum The wind, it sings through trees of pine The breeze, it sweeps my senses clear This day shines...

How much wheat can a woodchuck eat? Or cabbage, carrots, and peas, Spinach, parsley, peppers, and kale, Tomatoes, lettuce, n’...

The Rocky Mountain Pines Written in Rhymed couplets of Anapestic Tetrameter. In the mountains or plains, with the pine in...

By James Sale There are nine Muses of poetry, daughters of Zeus or some say Apollo, and the Titaness, Mnenosyne,...

Dancer the arch of her collarbone a bridge, her legs a throne, the clean and simple lines of her body...

  Saint Patrick was a green alien, He came from other parts. He was not a native Irishman But was...

  Celestial Teevee Something that’s always puzzled me: Does the Creator watch us on celestial teevee the way we watch...

By Evan Mantyk Last year, the College Board released a significantly redesigned Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The SAT is used by...

Cold and Uncertain shaken and stirred; Flying through clouds so quickly they’re blurred. Hold, comfort and buckle me in; Make...