The Number 217: A Glimpse of Armageddon "And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes" ---Chaucer, Canterbury Tales  It happened...

  The Heart of the Wood At the edge of the wood it is green, With the leaves all aglow...

  Twelve Labors More Part II. The Music of the Spheres Read Part I here. I. My life continued quiet...

  Today Awake, and do not fade away into your gloom—and stay within your room. Instead, without delay, compel yourself...

  Chaucer's Medieval Hangover Advice and Cure If you should quaff nocturnally too much, and waking, find your mouth’s a...

  April Flowers Bring May Showers You festive blossoms---whose ephemeral lives are poured Ecstatically into youthful grass as you dance...

  O Come, Holy Ghost "The Fear of the Lord Is the Beginning of Wisdom..." ---Proverbs 9:10 O Come, Holy...

Cato of Utica: Canto I of Purgatory by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated from Italian by Stephen Binns Dante and Virgil...

  Cherry Blossom Cherry blossom, cherry blossom, Dancing, lilting in the breeze, Hither speak of pretty whispers, Told to you...

  Home I wandered lonely, not so much a cloud As more a type of fog, as something cool And...

  Tempus Fugit, Carpe Diem, Memento Mori Sed fugit interea, fugit irreparabile tempus.—Virgil, Georgics There comes a time in every...

Competition Judge and Classical Poets Live creator Andrew Benson Brown discusses the competition requirements and gives some background on odes,...

  Epitaph for a Lost Civilisation "Mine honour is my life; both grow in one: Take honour from me, and...

Advice for Tokyo Rose February, 1943---Tokyo, Japanese Empire. Iva D’Aquino---an expatriate American national---is hired by Kenchiki Oki, on behalf of...

  Beautiful She cracked a throaty Marlboro laugh that piped her spicy liquored breath into my face. Her blouse hung...

  The Wiles of a Woman The wiles of a woman, men, you never should discount. For after all, they...

  Amore If looks could kill I’d be a dead man walking. Your drop-dead beauty has me in its spell....

  To May, the Prince of Months by Eustache Deschamps (1346–1406), translated from French by Margaret Coats Noble month, father...

  FIRST PLACE   Her Matted Hair Based on “Daughter Dies Three Days After Admission to Prison for Practicing Falun...

  Coach “Black Mike” Castronis, Athens Y Camp ---1947-1987 “Enthusiasm” was his word, Win or lose, he bore it well,...

  Mosi-oa-Tunya Mosi-oa-Tunya is ‘The Thunderous Smoke’; twixt Zambia and Zimbabwe it sits; Doc Livingstone, that missionary bloke observed its...

  Creation of Mom God flew through the Halls of Heaven _From His throne into his lab. Angels came to...

  Spontaneous Conjugal Combustion ---a villanelle He simply couldn't turn the other cheek On ceaseless babble drowning out the game....

  The Man in the Moon Was a Very Round Man   The Man in the Moon was a very...

  Fibromytrauma My body’s still and will not settle. It keeps the scores: Muscles. Nerves. “Tough love,” he said. A...

  A Lonely Sliver “The wood is dead,” he pointed out _the windows rimmed with frost; “those columns there—” he...

  Higher Gas Prices Are a Small Price to Pay For years, “Death to America” _is the chant that we...

  Always Ahead We live—but life runs on in restless haste; Through back doors cut in doubt and hidden fear....

  Hamlet's Lawyer Will Shakespeare? Here. These papers are for you. Aye, open them. A summons and complaint! Don’t grumble,...

  On An Old Photograph It was late fall of 1944. Dad was back from Italy, on leave, When no...

  Faust Foresees His End Now, as holy darkness falls And curfew reigns within the walls, To each gatehouse troops...

  À la Carte A crouton on a flaccid salad, Your dinner date adds texture to An otherwise anemic toss,...

  Where the Sweet Bluebonnets Bloom There is one thing a Texas cowboy _Always takes into account: _A cowboy will...

  The Waters _'Tis more than oceanic seas ___That bring me Wonder. I have tasted spray from New York's waterfall,...

  The Pinnacle of Poetry Well under one percent acceptance rate, Submitters wait a year to learn their fate. Yet...

  The First American Sonnets: David Humphreys by Margaret Coats In 1776, the first known sonnet in the United States...

  The Holy Rollers on Poetry We are the Holy Rollers— We live for solemn prayer. With censers of pure...

  Poem 1 by Sappho (circa 630-570 B.C.) translated from Greek by Bruce Phenix Immortal Aphrodite, richly throned, wile-weaving child...

  The Cautionary Tale of Phone Addicted Mimi A girl called Mimi thought it best to give her active brain...

  Look Away “Look away, across the fabled sea,” Our fathers cried, with voices loud and clear, There’s a place...