. The Ten Best Poems to Analyze by Adam Sedia The Roman poet Horace famously set forth the twofold purpose...

. Outside Chance I hold my heart out in my handpalm up, the same way one might offerseeds to birds....

. Old Clem In his novel Great Expectations, Charles Dickens refers to a song sung by blacksmiths at the forge...

. Third Eye An Ophthalmologic Triptych . The Emergency Room I came because the website told me to, My symptoms...

. Peacemakers Islam is sometimes referred to as the Religion of Peace Go on, won’t you bless the peacemakers— The...

. Captain Francisco Menendez Born a Mandinga, on Africa’s west coast, Where farm and hunting toil supported most, But tribal...

. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XalCoWn_Rhc?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GKv8ihtSVgI?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/shorts/f81q-LksA8o?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8XvUrH1Q7Ac?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gZLvIRfMrZo?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6fLWboTS_xI?feature=share . . C.B. Anderson was the longtime gardener for the PBS television series, The...

. Puddleplat Place The pill-popping people of Puddleplat Place, __Were a very unhealthy lot. You could tell by the pained...

. . Peaches, Plums, and the Sistine Chapel . . I. Pondering Prufrock   a pantoum  . The women come and...

. Authenticity Some skies stark and vivid, But others milky white. Sometimes lovely azure skies, Or pale with fading light....

10 Poems on Builders & Buildings by Michael Curtis . Temples and architects, builders and buildings are like poets and...

. On Me I am a simple Eastern bard __Who moseys by the heather That grows in sweeping fields and...

. Lachrimosa As winter pushes fall aside And birds complete their southward flight I sit and watch the water glide...

. The Name We Leave When we first breathe and start to peer, What we will be is still unclear....

. . Maura H. Harrison is a writer, photographer, and fiber artist from Fredericksburg, VA. She is currently an MFA candidate...

. You Can't Control Everything You can't control the wind that blows, The destiny of others' souls, Time and tides...

. Ipse Dixit I say Cogito ergo sum To the animal here in the room. So how do I know...

. In the Woods by Eduard Mörike (1804-1875) translated from German by Alan Steinle While lying on the grass beneath...

. Epic poet and poetry video maker Andrew Benson Brown created a bit of excitement with his invented sonnet-haiku or...

. Poem 101 by Catullus (circa 84-54 BC) translated by Bruce Phenix Conveyed through many countries, over many seas, to...

. Last Visit to the Beach a sestina The beach, untouched by Time throughout the years As millions of waves...

. Quilting the News Lots of people still don’t know __that what’s portrayed as “news” is often pieced together to...

. The Poet’s Good Pen Take up your good pen. Write only words true. Now open your heart--- Your worth...

. Crosses and Losses I tried to write a poem to acclaim The passion flashing like a lightning strike Between...

. Contagious Joy a villanelle You always find a way to make me smile. Like sunlight tracing rainbows in the...

. Vintage Love Love is as a grape when it begins, Unblemished by the bruises and the sins That will...

. When? I’ll love you when the bee has lost its buzz, When wolf and bear have quit their howl...

. . February 14, 2024 A heart of burning love, an ashen cross Converge today: the marriage of two kinds...

. Ash Wednesday Valentines by Charles d’Orléans (1394-1465), translated by Margaret Coats . I. Who’s there? Who comes so early,...

. I Am the Stone I am the stone The humble stone the barefoot shepherd boy Selected from the muddy...

. The Southern Cross The caravels escaped at last The roiling tides of Bojador And entered tropic seas far past...

. Off Switch My brain hurt every time I thought, so then I thought “I’d rather not.” I found the...

. . Nocturnal Litany I “From all malevolence the night employs….” ---James Agee, “Epithalamium” . From all malevolence the night...

. Love Sonnet The glint of summer’s evening leaves a glow upon her cheek, so soft and plain and fair—...

. The Austrian Non Placet Comes in Time (Recess at the papal conclave in Rome, August 1903. One cardinal speaks...

. The Monster Geryon: Canto XVII of Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns “Behold the stinger...

. The Screaming Screed and Stench Sister Cindy, Brother Jed, Before the cellphone, rumor spread, "They're speaking on the Common,...

. Ode to a Dodo  inspired by Paul A. Freeman’s "Paradise Island"   O tragic fowl of cataclysmic fate, Your magic...

. Babel There was a time when all the world one tongue Among its peoples shared, and language preened Itself...

. How Septuagenarian’s Cope Past seventy. Age does prevail. __The day is growing dim. I’ve managed through life’s calms and...