It’s called “the magic hour” Before the sun sinks low When everything is bathed In a warm, golden glow Colours...

. . Farm Air and Poplar Before the air be clearly cool, In Georgia, Monticello, see, Be one precursor of...

Winter Smoke Winter smoke and little houses Drawing blinds against the dark The cold, the crying wind Against a stark...

By Damian Robin ‘Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee, who are born...

For 30 more riddles click here. I. I may not have a large population Compared to China or the United...

Dawn on the Shore An hour before the dawn of day, I walked beside the tranquil bay, Along the sandy...

  Your spirit’s eyes, now opened, see The timeless steps of stone ahead... Old debts weigh down your weakened knee,...

Game Over With my friend P. Modernity, We played a game of strategy. Sipping our hot cups of coffee, We...

Ideology is a disease, Impervious to reason, An infection known to seize One in the election season. It has alas...

Rare Dreams I'm looking through the window of a plane in which I've never been, nor ever will; staring beyond...

Danger: Helping Is Forbidden By Aw "Curbside" Lee It's been a month since he's been seen— the Chinese advocate of...

Night and Moonlight What more can be said about the full moon that hasn’t already been said before? The queen...

. A trail it stumbled on a door, A doubled one, upon a floor, Some fellow just as you and...

Confucius Institutes, which advance the agenda of the Chinese Communist Party, are found at universities in the United States and...

The Backwards Romantic “Most of those once common occasions for poetry seem embarrassingly old fashioned now that piped-in tunes and...

. . Arizona Midnight Strewn across the vault of ink, Runes and constellations link- ing platinum silver fiery space Unfathomed...

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Haiku of Righteous Thought Inspired by Dafa Karma turned virtue Evil eliminated Virtue travels home Foe falls defeated Demon laughter...

Poetry, arguably the most powerful form of communication ever devised by mankind, has died. It was thousands of years old....

  The moon, surrounded by gray lands with floating hills and cliffs of clouds, Spreads fields of light that fade...

  Octave By Erisbawdle Cue There's always something going wrong the pessimistic person thinks. One moment one is going strong...

A Chinese Man Contemplates Quitting the Communist Party To be a communist party member Or not to be, the question...

Why did lyric poetry die? ‘Cause caterpillars cannot fly And no longer morph to butterflies Pegasus now has lost his...

  The sorrows of many pulls upon heart strings To accomp'ny angelic voices that sing Voices so sweet but pain...

The Tears of the Gods An ancient fable tells of how the gods rose from the main Of azure deep...

I. Again the darkling moon is new this night, and cold deserted seas in lunar sleep lay fasting and far...

When you are 62 years old things may begin to be clearer; you begin realise to the full extent what...

Do forgive me strange little man If I’d rather remove your hands Than risk a trip to the clinic For...

Dharmachakra By Sri Wele Cebuda Around the Dharma Wheel spins, around and round it goes. It never pauses nor begins,...

  Heritage, not Hate Today I watched a group of people wait To see an emblem steeped in hate removed...

While we expect for our marines to go into harm's way, and so they do so, and without a hesitation's...

Dedicated to all Falun Gong practitioners who have been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since the peaceful practice, also...

. . To a Brother in Paris Like Sun in the woods, or a cold Summer rain, Would trouble make...

  The captain on this night would have no rest A storm rages and moves in from the West And...

Back  I am an atheist. I don’t believe in God ! Argue this with me or leave ! There is...

Upon seeing "Louis XV of France as a Child" painted by Hyacinthe Rigaud at the Metropolitan Museum of Art  ...

Originally written in Chinese and appearing on Minghui.org.   Straight, dignified and unpolluted by the polluted world; They are determined...

Bound verse, ironically, is quite unbound, For writing it you have nothing to say, Since sense comes after you have...

Your steps, unequal, hasten, departing from the race Where dust’s all that’s awarded, where just the fit survive, Pursuing trifles,...

Tanka By Ue "Bird Claws" Ee In dim morning light, attracting mates, warning males, dawn's choir's singing— liquid-silver jingling— nature's...