. View from the Beach after Robert Frost’s "A Cliff Dwelling" Here hazy seems the azure sky and azure seems...

. The SCP has just learned of the passing of Canadian Member poet Lionel Willis on December 28, 2023. He...

. Eulogy to the First Ms. Brown or a Divine Comedy of Educators . To my aunt—the second daughter of...

. 1. Just off the cuff, I’d cap the alcoholic swill __Before it calls your bluff and saps your will....

. Newman, Alone Newman, thirty, alone, asleep in bed, Groans, yearning for his mother, years now, dead--- Alive, her vivid...

. Two Times Two Is Four Now Kierkegaard once wrote a book, __Entitled Either/Or, But for myself, I only know,...

. Unopened Letters Unopened letters strewn across the floor Addressed to me with your name on the back. Left where...

. The Cleft There’s danger for the harmless dove; she swoops Into the cleft of the great mountainside. Her heartbeat...

. Dandelions “...all the days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow....” ---Ecclesiastes 6: 12 . ____As...

. Chelsea a true story from I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris “Behold not everybody's beauty: and tarry not...

. Miss Crespo’s Halloween Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; ‘tis the eye...

. AI's Promise What is the latest ingenious ability makers have made out as mental agility? Smoothly unveiling the newest...

. King George III Declares War from Legends of Liberty, Volume 2 Note: The British have won a pyrrhic victory...

. Dishing Out Advice Why are there always dishes in the sink? So lazy and undisciplined. You’d think they might...

. He Lied About His Age 'Twas May of nineteen seventeen, our country now at war. Will had decided to...

. Saturn "When we have shuffled off this mortal coil" —Shakespeare "According to medieval thought, the worst planet was Saturn, ...

. Rwanda, April 1994 Inside Nyamata Church the pews are piledwith clothes, the blood that drenched them dull and dry.What...

. An Incomplete Account of How Things Are __From where I drift, One hundred meters from the shore, The elemental...

. Herman the Cripple A body helpless in deformity Was mine, though loving parents carried me Full seven years in...

. Go Woke, Go Broke Sports Illustrated’s prize was doing great. Big bucks each year from the swimsuit edition. But...

. The Dead They’re pretty but the dopamine Has hollowed out their pale blue eyes. They sit there, staring, silent,...

. And Yet We Wash Our Hands When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, butthat instead an uproar was...

. Music by Jeff Eardley . Look Homeward, Sweet Afton after Robert Burns Look homeward, Sweet Afton, back to thy...

. Book Reviewed: What Was and Is---Formal Poetry and Free Verse, by Theresa Werba, Bardsinger Books, April 2024 by James...

. FIRST PLACE . Free to Be the PRC by James A. Tweedie According to the PRC’s unwritten protocol,To be...

. Rosella My Lone Star mother beams a summer smile As golden as the sun-hugged coastal plains. In snake-proof boots...

. A Mother’s Day Sonnet I hope you have a happy Mother’s Day And take a moment out to feel...

. S.W.A.M.P. Soulless, Warped, And Monstrous People look at us as smelly “sheeple.” Easily manipulated. Otherwise, we’re mocked and hated....

. Hookerville School Built just before the Civil War, employed till twenty-nine, This one-room school that stands today withstood the...

. Orpheus We want the heroes back so we can learn: Herakles smashed his way to hell and stormed By...

. 10/7/2023 More than one has risen up against us to destroy us. Rather, in every generation they rise against...

. All Aboard!   a pantoum He’s pumped and ripe to ride the gravy train. He’s armed with cheese and charm...

. Epicure's Delight A wondrous day, my love, is this— An afternoon of utter bliss! The two of us alone...

. On Scotland Police were inundated with over 7,000 calls in the first week following the passage of Scotland’s Hate...

. To a Beet I sing the bristled hedgehog grainno horticulture can explain,with six sly seedlings in its brain:__the unborn...

. When Less Is More An SCP Poetry Challenge by James A. Tweedie In a recent email exchange with a...

. The Cropland Though coins, good health, and victualsAre mortal man's essentials,I pray for great fertilityOf that arable land in...

. A Curse Against a Thief from the Carmina Burana Let the thief who stole my cap be by death...

. A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part II: The First Reader by Daniel Kemper Keith stands up semi-gracefully in...

. Truth Is Not Beauty “What is the worst mistake you ever made in bed?” Reply: “My son.”  (Actual dialogue...