. Second Chances Just know that you’ve been staked a second chance At any time the future’s looking muddy. Put...

. Colors by Kukai (空海) (774-835) translated by Joshua C. Frank Colors, fragrant like the flowers, Fade to ash in...

. The Small Commission When school yearbooks are thrust forth to be signed, We give out life advice. We speak...

. Freedom of Speech vs. the NBA The CCP has raged and seethed, oh joy! Daryl Morey was not playing...

. Brainwashed and Hopeless My old friend is a doctor---very bright, But he just said to me the GOP, Opposed...

. Dementing Torture of Benign           Drugs against Malignancy His life came to its End.  Smell...

. Fire Lurks I recognize, while watching ghastly nightEncircle statesmanship revoltingly,Bright bursts of a spangled pyrotechnic star.America! No star, a...

. A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part V: Nose Blind by Daniel Kemper After a stressful day, because of...

. The Trail of Hate Amid the upbeat crowd a sudden blast Of noise arose like fireworks kissing skies. Fallacious...

. Washington and the Cherry Tree from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 Young George chopped down his father’s cherry tree,...

. Problem Child Barley and hops acquainted, meet, __And yeast completes the marriage. Soon happy news as something brews __With...

. Storming the Bastille from eyewitness accounts July the twelfth, the City of Light was filled With brigands bought by...

. Anniversary Remembrance Sometimes I envy them the lives they lived, the death they died: They perished at the peak...

. Gunfight at the Oatcake Corral There’s an old English town known as Fargo, In the dark, rugged hills of...

. A Town The difficulty of describing how This town was then, may only be because So little happened there,...

. “I Worship My Mistress, for I Have Seen Her Beauty” ---Egyptian Coffin Texts, spell 484---a poem for Linda It...

. The Red Carpet There's nothing left to tease imagination When so-called starlets, vying for attention, Sashay the carpet practically...

. The Expert Class “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see” ---Benjamin Franklin The experts...

. My Patchwork Quilt Somewhere within my closet a patchwork quilt rests there; The patches cut by hands and with...

. Houses Made of Stone Masvingo, southern Africa’s the place; a backwater, land tired and over-farmed, where army ants cut...

. Promises Made, Promises Kept... Give Me a Break! We know, because they promise us their virtuous intent when allocating...

. Becalmed When life is smooth—a gentle breeze On a porch swing—the garden lush. Retirement! Do as I please. Watch...

. Street 3/4 On both sides of this street, there are small stores Of groceries, canned food, medicine, and toys....

. The Lord of His Castle Setting: King Stephen’s siege of Newbury Castle, England during the English civil war known...

. I Need My Coffee  I need my coffee; don’t get in the way Of that which wakes me up...

. A Console Table after a Google entry A console table in the entryway __Provides a focus for a guest...

. A Hurricane by Any Other Name... The lights went out in Mexico today. A fury hit Cancun with no...

. Dandelion Dreams ---to Melody, on the occasion of her fifth birthday I see her, through the window, picking flowers....

. The Convert “Uh, Professor, I don’t get it, Why do people choose to read that? Does it just not...

. It Goes Without Saying "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they...

. . Battle Hymn of the Republic The Lord doth come; the grapes of wrath are crushed! Behold His fiery...

. American Dream Where Did You Go? American dream, where did you go? Visions grand that I loved so? Land...

. Miss Jewell’s Suicide ---from a story by George Gissing The chipped and mismatched crockery,Two boiled eggs and tepid tea,A...

. Endless Dreaming a villanelle I lunge ahead in bed and start to scream. The nightmare’s end is far; I’m...

. Fed Up It’s not just fogies and the aging nanniesThat look askance at all the mixed-up trannies.The everyday American...

. . Militant Books Marshaled ranks of silent books Formed on shelves as in brigade, Fill the wooden dusty nooks...

. The Rise of Washington from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 IT’S TIME! Let’s give our story’s star some space....

. A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part IV: Becoming a Poet Laureate by Daniel Kemper Inflationary times. The invisible...

. Ba’al "And they built the high places of Ba'al to burn their children with fire as burnt offerings to...

. Three Views of Venus "When you’ve got a goddess, make good use of her. —local guide, Green Velvet Bedchamber...