‘Driven from Their Homes’ and Other Israel-Inspired Poetry by Brian Yapko
. . Driven from Their Homes Deported and despised. Compelled to leave. 900,000 driven from their homes With pain enough...
Read moreDetails. . Driven from Their Homes Deported and despised. Compelled to leave. 900,000 driven from their homes With pain enough...
Read moreDetails. The Latest Gender Identity He’s fat, but he identifies as skinny, Insisting everybody call him “Mini.” He now, of...
Read moreDetails. Cape Canaveral’s Pioneers Asleep I wonder if the lights across lagoon Waves, little though they are, the lights and...
Read moreDetails. The Universal Horoscope and Zodiac Twelve figures in the blazoned zodiac Set by the gods in their unchanging track...
Read moreDetails. The Song of Everlasting Sorrow Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi (772-846) wrote this poem about Tang Emperor ("Son of...
Read moreDetails. In Spring 2024, UK poets Jeff Eardley and Peter Hartley crossed paths with American poets James A. Tweedie and...
Read moreDetails. Winter into Spring Sonnet The garbage dump outside the town is white as winter’s snowfall claims the castoff chair...
Read moreDetails. Book Reviewed: Legends of Liberty Volume II by Andrew Benson Brown, Bard Owl Publishing, March 2024 by Theresa Werba...
Read moreDetails. Admonition It is a form of madness To long for days of yore. And bitter is the sadness O'er...
Read moreDetails. Poetry Is Warfare A poem is the writer’s battle pleaAgainst asceticism’s barren call.Truth and beauty (air that poets breathe)Needn’t...
Read moreDetails. On the 80th Anniversary of D-Day Humanity once more is under threat,when eighty years ago a Western frontwas opened...
Read moreDetails. Today My Brown Sedan Is Two Today, my brown sedan is two, But I behave as if it's twenty,...
Read moreDetails. To a Cicada So, welcome back, you ancient thing! Some time ago, your tribe took wing; But here you...
Read moreDetails. Under the Umbrella inspired by “Le Parapluie” (“The Umbrella”) by Georges Brassens (1921-1981) Rain fell in waves throughout the...
Read moreDetails. The Harmonies of Holst While doing errands, driving roundabout, I listen to the classic music station. An orchestra plays...
Read moreDetails. . They Say Somebody Said This; It Must Be True! Some people love to share with you news they’ve...
Read moreDetails. The Figure Skater Across the frozen way, stamping, sprinting, faster as hurried steps display something that she'll master her...
Read moreDetails. Before Checkmate “Tis all a Checker board of nights and days Where Destiny with men for Pieces plays: Hither...
Read moreDetails. The Witch Hunt I’ve been a lawyer for a long, long time And seen a lot of things that...
Read moreDetails. Finding the Crime “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime” ---Lavrentiy Beria, Head of the Secret...
Read moreDetails. At Dorr Point Our far too brief excursion about to cease,We walked the woods to Dorr Point—one last partingImmersion...
Read moreDetails. Selling Short The winter wind’s a shot across your brow, An addend to the sense of deficit You wrestle...
Read moreDetails. A Formalist Walks into a Bar... “Dear barkeep, give me something most unsweet,I like my drinks with an astringent...
Read moreDetails. Upon Learning of Trump's Conviction _America is big;__Does things in style:Like setting up a President__And rigging his trial. _America...
Read moreDetails. Phone Home I often talk to radio astronomers, The kind of guys who like to stay anonymous, Who chew...
Read moreDetails. God Knows Tomorrow’s torched and trampled on the street. __We hear the battle cry Of demons dancing to the...
Read moreDetails. Leopold and Loeb Or, the Consequences of Ideas A Frenchman’s thought-experiments Argued by Englishmen until A German stripped pure...
Read moreDetails. Out Walking I hear the heath alive to free A heart from hearthside reverie, _And with my rambling feet...
Read moreDetails. A Tiny Tabby Beside our garden’s scalloped fence, where English Ivy’s vines are dense, we viewed an unexpected sight;...
Read moreDetails. The Devotee She moves from one devotion to the next, From this beloved statue to the text Of some...
Read moreDetails. I Saw a Naked Wood Nymph I sat down in the forest, a picnic in the shade. I saw...
Read moreDetails. Rising with the Sap You would not call them blocks, those obscure streets Where people live. Their driftings trace...
Read moreDetails. Surviving Caligula Setting: Caligula’s Palace, the Palatine Hill, Rome Date: 23 January 794 Ab urbe condita (41 A.D.) The...
Read moreDetails. Love and Vipers for Harrison Butker, the football player criticized for supporting traditional views of women in a commencement...
Read moreDetails. Memorial Day, 1984 2024 “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ---George Orwell Today we honor those...
Read moreDetails. The First and Usually Unspoken Rule of Great Writing The greatest rule of writing is to tell A truth, the truth...
Read moreDetails. He Who Was Omnipotence, omniscience __and there’s omnipresence too. If you possess those qualities, __there’s nothing you can’t do....
Read moreDetails. I Never Do a Happy Dance I never do a happy dance, Or look online to find romance, Speak...
Read moreDetails. Betrayal a villanelle Today she spied the shadow of a snake Slither through the spreading family tree--- A curse her startled...
Read moreDetails. View from the Beach after Robert Frost’s "A Cliff Dwelling" Here hazy seems the azure sky and azure seems...
Read moreDetailsGigi, I'm with you 100% on the 'Cloud' front. Giving instant access to WHOMEVER flips the switch in 'digital space'…
Norma, so great to read your gifts of humor again like the plight of Dwight and such snowmen. I remember…
These were both great. Thankfully, all my toes are intact and I never wear sandals or heels so I related…
Gigi, I'm with you on distrust of the cyberspace elf. What we use to call those spirits in physics and…
What a treat! You have imitated Seuss's style and brought back great memories of a classic with a twist, or…
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