Where Does the Sky Begin or End? Where does the sky begin or end? The sea above, the stars attend?...

  Waiting for Dawn atop Butterfly Mountain A dilapidated lepidopteran dying atop The Mountain of Butterflies holds out her wings...

The wisp of wind that makes the leaves go dance and play above the browning grass, cannot but stir awake...

  A Message in the Halloween Decorations (Based on a True Story) Compressed and clandestine, the Chinese script small, The...

  Unbroken If I should break myself today Unchanged from every burden bare Determined unafraid to say That I shall...

  The Philadelphia Pepper Pot Legend This day in 1777, American soldiers, at Valley Forge, camped. By hunger and winter's...

"More SpongeBob, Mimi"--this I hear a dozen times a day. How much more can I stand to see? No more...

  First Place: Bruce Dale Wise (Prize: $500) Second Place: Damian Robin Third Place: Reid McGrath Honorable Mention: Betsy M....

  Made (by Imprisoned Falun Gong) in China It's mass production everywhere I look, From toys of plastic hope to...

What’s out to kill us makes us more alive. Let’s go escape with me forget our fear, So run with...

  Instruction The tales of Ovid are a theme that suits The Prince, but will not do for your repute....

  Research Guideline Throughout investigative history, a basic principle has long held sway: When we unravel Nature’s mystery, complexity’s the...

  Metaphorical Meditation Musings My thoughts, like waves of ocean's surface swells that roll repeatedly, then crash on shore, neglect...

Imprisonment, torture, pathetic wrong - begat from  a people of age-old culture, wit, classic beauty, artistry and song: practices akin...

  Greeks, Bearing Gifts The coils of wood cascade as worn blades glide from cedar lengths, rough-hewn deformed and coarse,...

What wonder! - In the arcs described by wings Aloft and floating on the fair spring air. In graceful glides,...

  The Rainbow A wave of color binds our sentiments before it fades. For each emotion, is a subtlety in...

  Ballet Lesson The flow has ebbed and left a tidal pool. A little tern wades in with webbed feet...

  Calpurnia’s Paranoia Beware the Ides of March, she said— if you ignore the signs, you’re dead. But Caesar did...

Sparks from nearby campfires Might be stars of paradise Glimpsed through twilight’s window Too briefly for surmise Of their height...

He looked all around him and saw monuments so vast Built with good intentions to endure and hold steadfast Awesome...

  Bounty When apples hang untouched on branches’ bottom, Or beans lie grounded, neither grown nor dead, Or bulbs down-nestle...

  The Persecution of Falun Gong I. Meditating group One clear crisp day at Shanghai In earth’s sunny loop II....

  The pendulum o' th' old grandfather clock goes back and forth, and forth and back, and back and forth,...

  Ode to Matters of Fact The best advice I've ever read -- if you don't breathe you'll soon be...

It spreads like wildfire when you give a smile. At first you won’t really notice at all, But if you...

By Clinton Van Inman Editors who reject classical styles of poetry in submissions usually respond with, “I hate meter, rhythm...

  An English Autumn’s Coming Indoors, a crisp leaf skates on smooth floorboards, gunned by silent puffs from our gapped...

  You came to life from dreams and thoughts and whispers. You were told and you were – forever true....

Beyond the skies is universal eternity. Nebulous ghosts of dust float around In the black hole of space. A night...

Revised October 18, 2021 A Psalm of Christmas What the heart of the young activist said to the psalmist by...

In darkness, in the mantling of the night, When Earth is calm, and troubling noises cease, I turn with wonder-looking...

  In the Play Pit As Cameron stands, cap in hand, The jailers of New Middleland Keep a straight face...

Here is a blonde-marked maple tree: Stands by the road so stolidly While mourners make their floral shrines And in...

  I look upon how much people suffer Wishing Bian Que and Hua Tuo* were now here Predestiny links us...

Whether if my promise be known or not, Of which I spoke when lying on this spot, The weeds have...

Those Catskill Mountain Climbs I've walked from Ayers rock to Sydney I've seen all those majestic sites I've beheld the...

I Think Therefore “I think,” said Descartes, “and therefore I am.” declared many years ago, way before spam. It predated...

A Sonnet Saluting Lady Snow Snow is a rainfall in frozen repose; Rainbow rich in hues, delicate its shape After...