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...

A godly painting held over their heads As they process through a street in Florence, Each face is free from...

“He strove to resuscitate the dead art/Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime"/In the old sense. Wrong from the start  …”...

I Pray It’s Not Too Late I’ve walked in the eye of a hurricane Safe between its walls of rain...

Where lightness finds the passage through the dark the thoroughfare of dimness, where we’ll soar about the sun undone, unborn...

—a sonnet of differing with Keats Behold this naked truth, and say not Beauty: a body splayed, nailed cruelly to...

Wake to this dawn like no day before you. Rise to this morning like no other morn. Night is now...

Clouds skip away from the full shine of the full moon The palace is lit up The maestro lifts his...

April 2013 The snow has thawed; it's Spring again Crickets sing to the beat of rain The sky is dark,...

Faery Dust Anarchy With winds awhistling through the trees and air sprites dancing on the breeze, you'll hear the pipes...

The Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion is the most famous Chinese calligraphy work of Wang Xizhi,...

The Artist's Statement on Horses: I have always believed that nature lends itself to man. The horse has contributed more...

From Dante, to Beatrice In your father’s garden we first met, a pair in exile, two children playing without a...

He's placed dramatically center stage by Benjamin West—Benjamin Franklin. His gray hair flies. He's getting on in age. Electricity coming...

(Minghui.org) Ms. Fu Ying, a Falun Gong practitioner and gifted poet from Liaoning Province, was recently illegally arrested by police...

One night-crawler out on this sparkling court, Dried-up and shriveled, overdone, not red, Neglected to take heed, or to report...

Click here for more riddles I. My mirror image never is that far, I have five different points just like...

They aren’t mine, these flabby folds of flesh. I have no clue why they have chosen me As target of...

The lake cradles symmetries of spring trees. The sky scries the membrane of wide waters: unseen breezes, like me, are...

Woe is a work that seeks to engage its viewers in the universal emotion its title suggests.  This man is...

The urge for civility in war is noble and worthy. In an epic poem written over 2,500 years ago, even...

Is outsourcing to foreign countries a good thing or bad thing? The gradual demise of American manufacturing seems to be...

The End of the Party The blood-red dragon struggles To keep China locked, To keep the whole world huddled, ‘Cow’-towed,...

On "Kaaterskill Creek" by Erik Koeppel for the memory of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The site is downstream from the Kaaterskill...

One of the oil paintings in the Art of Zhen, Shan, Ren International Exhibition is titled “Fortitude” and depicts a...

In Niagara by Frederick Edwin Church, immediately one’s taken in to the great falls. From a remarkably precarious perch, one’s...

“Granma died, my ex tried suicide,” you confide in me, your credabil- ity nil for one more dark excuse is...