. https://youtu.be/o4TS45A7KEM . Tools for Writing Classical Poetry ---adapted from the video by Andrew Benson Brown Do you want to...

. DoorWay Canto 7: Flight to The Eyrie In Canto 7, the narrating Pilgrim Poet deviates from the Zodiac, leaving...

. Patient in a Nursing Home Such a frantic brilliance in the flagpole’s banging chain! I’m blind, __confined, ____but now...

. The Worst of Our Convictions When, finally, the last church shuts its doors; when we run out of new...

. Epigrams . Bear in mind that whilst you’re sleeping Your enemies are busy scheming. . If you absorb everything...

. Phoebus I saw the sun catch in your hair, Your silhouette against the glare. I heard your laughter rise...

. Mainstream News "Just 7% of Americans have 'a great deal' of trust and confidence in the media, and 27%...

. An Invitation While treading my locality's __New-slathered pavement grass, There came a flying, loud "hello" __From sprightly Mr. Das....

. Across a Strong Bridge upon the marriage of two friends In a weary world that's grown quite old, Where...

. The Mannequins Are Melting The mannequins are melting as we speak Now that the summer heat wave's at its...

. Stolen Valor ---a poem in unheroic couplets Osama used his wives as human shields When being hunted down by...

. Hope Hope feels so strange these days, at times a bit Like something old that now no longer fits;...

. Mud Our clip-on angel wings are cast from shards of glass, The sorry hymns we sing are drowned in...

. The Web of Sustenance __Voraciously the lion feeds, But leaves the scraps for jackals and hyenas— __To each according...

. The Leper “When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. A man with leprosy came and...

. Lucifer’s Lament They’ve gone too far. They’ve set the bar So high that I’m no longer star Of My...

. Lunatic Paused at a churchyard when it’s eventide I see flit by a bright blue butterfly. Magnolia fragrance wafts...

. Holding Dad's Hands . Friday May 3, 2019 I’m driving fast (at least it’s fast to me,) The nurse’s...

. The Wise Farmer ---based on a Zen parable attributed to Alan Watts A farmer in China was left by...

. It Won’t Happen Here There were anti-Semites in our Congress, And still they said:  “It will not happen here.”...

. Moon Glow The calm of the twilight should bring him some peace. He sees yellow remnants of sun get...

. Paperbark Maples The leaves grow bright with dew; the trunks grow dark. A contrapuntal autumn morning stirs. The smoothest...

. Winter’s Bed Ere the sun should spread its beams We sleep and pray for candied dreams. An angel to...

. Dublin Swans “Wholly serene and sure, with regal composure, allows himself to glide.” ---Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Swan” I...

. Free Verse as Nightmare Surrealism “I thirst for new songs without moons or irises, and without loves that have...

. Prodigious Dreams Let not these Autumn notes lead you amiss. Autumn, indeed, is come (the signs are all around)....

. Knock, Knock! ---free speech in the UK is dead Three more children stabbed---a country mourning The murdering of minors...

. Dante Enters Hell: Canto III of Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns THROUGH ME YOU...

. Washington Assumes Command at Cambridge from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 Devoted Billy Lee, a stalking fox, Observed his...

. But Who Am I? “But Moses said to God, ‘Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and...

. Sicilian Samurai circa 1700 He made a startling, militant request To journey to Japan—strange land long closed To foreign...

. Regime Change Banana republics are known for how they Take power from rulers and give it away To those...

. The Outdoor Concert ---Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Wilton House, 2004 The long thick winding snake must stretch two hundred...

. Beltane Dream Did I pass that way in dreams or waking? For truthfully, it seems to me a dream:...

. Chasing Time  "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a...

. Postmodernism and Poetry: Final Disintegration and Hope for Renewal “The only way forward from Postmodernism is as a reaction...

. Cold Blooded Murder It is a hot and muggy Sort of Texas day. Time to do my stalking And...

. The Loons of Colby Lake a true story As thawing white gave way to budding green, two loons upon...

. The Faltering In time the sharpest mind begrimes with rust and memories are flaked from softened steel. Beliefs once...

. Like Him "But we all, with unveiled faces, looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord,...