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

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. Reservoir Those who can still see through accreting years Are getting scarce, those who can lift such veil To...

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. The Society of Classical Poets Journal XII has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those...

. Easter Evening Appearance Luke 24 Sealed up within my upper room, Absorbed by morbid discontent And fear, I questioned...

. May Songs . I. Where does loyalty take its rest? Where is charity’s portraiture, Except in you, sweet virgin...

. Some Can't See the Beauty Some can’t see the beauty in __A flower or a tree. I call them...

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. Throughout American Academies One hears throughout American academies a strainthat is at once belligerent, intolerant, and strange.It drips with...

. Lie Low, Jew! Echoes and Irony The Hamas flags are raised on London streets By swarms that seethe with scorn...

. Third-Degree Burns A young poet who came from Dundee Looked around him and then took a knee, __For the...

. If I Have Gone To Sleep If I depart in early sleep__And cease to be with you,My thoughts I'd...

. How Many Wrongs Make a Right? The left rights wrongs by doing wrong, but wrongs so fixed don’t stay...

. On Student Protestations They protest on behalf of Gaza from afar— Why won’t they do the same regarding Myanmar?...

. Watching My Children at Play in a Graveyard Laughing, the children slip between the stones Laid out in rows...

. To Mr. Evan Mantyk, . I know you lead a busy life curating the Society of Classical Poets and...

. Jerzy and Cyla Jerzy, a Polish teen in World War Two, Arrested for suspected membership Of the resistance, faced...

. The Devil’s Trill I.     A heavy meal and three glasses of port Weighed down Tartini when at length...

. The Dance __'Tis springtime _And air is a-breezin', Wafting through fair winds that blow. __The blossoms _From flowering jasmine...

. The Knight of Monticello Everywhere and always, Jefferson read. His library stocked a sage’s daily bread. Four volumes, leather-bound,...

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. A Shakespeare Garden Stroll Of all the blooms, I like the lily best. Might you prefer a deep vermilion...

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. Exodus "The entire community of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron in the desert. The...

. Not Sonnet 18… Yet I strain in vain to sparkle like the Bard. I strive to spill slick iambs...

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. https://youtu.be/ICEvMGx4WnY . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His epic-in-progress, Legends of...

. On an Otter He slinks beneath, but not for long; surprise! he sprouts atop the pool to stare: his...

. Climate: The Movie learn about and watch the movie here It shows there is no basis found in science...

. Rolling the Roads The Days Before Snow Plows . A major storm throughout the night __Of heavy, wet, spring...

. The Moment I’m sure of what will happen when The tide resumes its rise again And drowns the beach:...

. Carpe Diem Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero. (“Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow.”) Horace,...