‘The Restoration’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko
. The Restoration ---for SJB Words sometimes fail. How best explainThat life can seem eternal rain?That though friends care they...
Read moreDetails. The Restoration ---for SJB Words sometimes fail. How best explainThat life can seem eternal rain?That though friends care they...
Read moreDetails. Be Careful What Ya’ Wish For Well, all o’ ya’ knows when ol’ Paddy McFarland’s _been drinkin’ ‘e’ll spin...
Read moreDetails. Burning the Pieta Thoughts After Viewing Public Cremations at the Pashupatinath Temple Complex in Kathmandu, Nepal ---for Alok With...
Read moreDetails. Dim & Blinding Lights The lights that shine from streets and cities block out all the stars at night....
Read moreDetails. Blood Moon Eclipse (14 March 2025) The Moon’s blood red this morning as it floats within Earth’s shadow, bathing...
Read moreDetails. In line with its mission to preserve humankind’s artistic traditions, the Society of Classical Poets is featuring the best...
Read moreDetails. What the Wind May Do The wind’s come out to exercise today. It tests itself: how long can it...
Read moreDetails. Bohème Opera in a bare and frigid room As winter winds were sweeping, like a broom, Raised an enthusiasm,...
Read moreDetails. The Lilliputians Confront Elon Musk One giant has thoughts that are new and transcendent,It’s clearly a sign that he’s...
Read moreDetails. https://youtu.be/lUU-G7-7nKE . . Andrew Benson Brown‘s epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, chronicles the major events of the American Revolution. He writes...
Read moreDetails. Learning Curves In classrooms smeared with monkey poop__Where questions meet deceit,She heard she came from soupy gloop---__A slab of...
Read moreDetails. Boomerang In the chronicles of hist’ry There we see a vast array Of malicious, scheming tricksters Who themselves became...
Read moreDetails. The Unknown God ---Paul’s Address at the Areopagus (Acts 17:22-31) My dear Athenians, this I surveilled While passing by:...
Read moreDetails. Ode to The New York Times O, soulless source of leftist propaganda Known still throughout the world as “The...
Read moreDetails. How Many Homes? ---January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires Twelve thousand lost, from stricken memories more Schools, churches, meeting places,...
Read moreDetails. Winter Song Hymen, Venus, Graces three, _save me lest I wither like some sap-sucked blasted tree; Hymen, Venus, Graces...
Read moreDetails. Another Old Myth The Ancient One warned Noah's doom was near. Since men possessed with greed kept spilling blood,...
Read moreDetails. Vernal Equinox Germans call this season “frühling.” Spaniards name it “primavera.” Welshmen say the term is “gwanwyn.” Shetland trawlers...
Read moreDetails. Equinox Blues Welcome to spring! The last snow may be past,_and bright blue frames the parting clouds.The sun rides...
Read moreDetails. My Backyard . The Campfire Elisha loves to build a fire; His dog is near, she loves to watch...
Read moreDetails. The Tundra Swan Its full and light and interfolding feathers __Number ten thousand plus, No wonder that the tundra...
Read moreDetails. I Failed I failed so dramatically most early days I failed horribly in most critical ways I failed to...
Read moreDetails. Reflections on a Visit to Saint Augustine With each step up the old Castillo wall I pray The hurricane...
Read moreDetails. Guitar music for "Sheebag Sheemore" performed by Jeff Eardley. . The Session Monday at the Shamrock Inn, So, the...
Read moreDetails. St. Patrick’s Day, 2025 While swathed in swirls of green, some raise a glass Of dark elixir topped with...
Read moreDetails. Simple Simon Responds to Sayings of Captain Obvious English literature tends to be wordy. Many tricks are exceedingly dirty....
Read moreDetails. Opening extract from Canto 9 DoorWay: Arriving in Aquarius The poet, wrenched from love’s bliss with Seraphina in Canto...
Read moreDetails. A Summer Evening The sky begins to cloak its face, Removing every streak of red. Above, two weary flyers...
Read moreDetails. Beyond All Words Can words alone, in skill-scribed shape or form— Inspired by muse or writ with feathered plume—...
Read moreDetails. Eternally Grounded There’s up and down, forward and back, Of opposites we have no lack. We have the dark...
Read moreDetails. Mussolini's Minions ---Segesta, 2012 Entranced, we wander round the temple site.The hot Sicilian sun beats down. I’m frayed,now seek...
Read moreDetails. A Fisherman’s Life The fronds of the palm trees sway in the breeze. A lone tiny boat is bounced...
Read moreDetails. Cherry Tree One summer day not long ago a man planted a tree, With tender love and patience he...
Read moreDetails. Blind Watchmaker A blind watchmaker tinkered for billions of yearswithout blueprints for making his intricate gears.So, he failed many...
Read moreDetails. Pumpkin Spice The scent of Autumn lingers in the air With hints of ginger, cinnamon, and clove; At 42nd...
Read moreDetails. The Core of War a pantoum The trickster charms and arms both sides--- He funds the ally and the...
Read moreDetails. Of Elizabeth Bishop Ms. Bishop is one able–eyed observer;her vision is acute, that’s plain to see.Staring at her, I...
Read moreDetails. An Ode to a Hymn “Like aught that for its grace may be Dear, and yet dearer for its...
Read moreDetails. Kitchen-Sink Musings It’s International Women’s Day today But as a flunkee in biology I’m told I’m far from qualified...
Read moreDetails. Nishijin Weaving In the tranquil heartThere is no scattering ofBlossoms once gathered. ―Satomura Jōha, master of linked verse The...
Read moreDetailsI 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…
In The Cat in the Hat, the Fish is against the Cat's antics, for which he's punished by becoming part…
My sister got one of those annuals based on a girls' weekly comic, one year, and the Cat in the…
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