The Ten Best Poems to Analyze
. The Ten Best Poems to Analyze by Adam Sedia The Roman poet Horace famously set forth the twofold purpose...
Read moreDetails. The Ten Best Poems to Analyze by Adam Sedia The Roman poet Horace famously set forth the twofold purpose...
Read moreDetails. Outside Chance I hold my heart out in my handpalm up, the same way one might offerseeds to birds....
Read moreDetails. Old Clem In his novel Great Expectations, Charles Dickens refers to a song sung by blacksmiths at the forge...
Read moreDetails. Third Eye An Ophthalmologic Triptych . The Emergency Room I came because the website told me to, My symptoms...
Read moreDetails. Peacemakers Islam is sometimes referred to as the Religion of Peace Go on, won’t you bless the peacemakers— The...
Read moreDetails. Captain Francisco Menendez Born a Mandinga, on Africa’s west coast, Where farm and hunting toil supported most, But tribal...
Read moreDetails. 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...
Read moreDetails. Puddleplat Place The pill-popping people of Puddleplat Place, __Were a very unhealthy lot. You could tell by the pained...
Read moreDetails. . Peaches, Plums, and the Sistine Chapel . . I. Pondering Prufrock a pantoum . The women come and...
Read moreDetails. Authenticity Some skies stark and vivid, But others milky white. Sometimes lovely azure skies, Or pale with fading light....
Read moreDetails10 Poems on Builders & Buildings by Michael Curtis . Temples and architects, builders and buildings are like poets and...
Read moreDetails. On Me I am a simple Eastern bard __Who moseys by the heather That grows in sweeping fields and...
Read moreDetails. Lachrimosa As winter pushes fall aside And birds complete their southward flight I sit and watch the water glide...
Read moreDetails. The Name We Leave When we first breathe and start to peer, What we will be is still unclear....
Read moreDetails. . Maura H. Harrison is a writer, photographer, and fiber artist from Fredericksburg, VA. She is currently an MFA candidate...
Read moreDetails. You Can't Control Everything You can't control the wind that blows, The destiny of others' souls, Time and tides...
Read moreDetails. Ipse Dixit I say Cogito ergo sum To the animal here in the room. So how do I know...
Read moreDetails. In the Woods by Eduard Mörike (1804-1875) translated from German by Alan Steinle While lying on the grass beneath...
Read moreDetails. Epic poet and poetry video maker Andrew Benson Brown created a bit of excitement with his invented sonnet-haiku or...
Read moreDetails. Poem 101 by Catullus (circa 84-54 BC) translated by Bruce Phenix Conveyed through many countries, over many seas, to...
Read moreDetails. Last Visit to the Beach a sestina The beach, untouched by Time throughout the years As millions of waves...
Read moreDetails. Quilting the News Lots of people still don’t know __that what’s portrayed as “news” is often pieced together to...
Read moreDetails. The Poet’s Good Pen Take up your good pen. Write only words true. Now open your heart--- Your worth...
Read moreDetails. Crosses and Losses I tried to write a poem to acclaim The passion flashing like a lightning strike Between...
Read moreDetails. Contagious Joy a villanelle You always find a way to make me smile. Like sunlight tracing rainbows in the...
Read moreDetails. Vintage Love Love is as a grape when it begins, Unblemished by the bruises and the sins That will...
Read moreDetails. When? I’ll love you when the bee has lost its buzz, When wolf and bear have quit their howl...
Read moreDetails. . February 14, 2024 A heart of burning love, an ashen cross Converge today: the marriage of two kinds...
Read moreDetails. Ash Wednesday Valentines by Charles d’Orléans (1394-1465), translated by Margaret Coats . I. Who’s there? Who comes so early,...
Read moreDetails. I Am the Stone I am the stone The humble stone the barefoot shepherd boy Selected from the muddy...
Read moreDetails. The Southern Cross The caravels escaped at last The roiling tides of Bojador And entered tropic seas far past...
Read moreDetails. Off Switch My brain hurt every time I thought, so then I thought “I’d rather not.” I found the...
Read moreDetails. . Nocturnal Litany I “From all malevolence the night employs….” ---James Agee, “Epithalamium” . From all malevolence the night...
Read moreDetails. Love Sonnet The glint of summer’s evening leaves a glow upon her cheek, so soft and plain and fair—...
Read moreDetails. The Austrian Non Placet Comes in Time (Recess at the papal conclave in Rome, August 1903. One cardinal speaks...
Read moreDetails. The Monster Geryon: Canto XVII of Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns “Behold the stinger...
Read moreDetails. The Screaming Screed and Stench Sister Cindy, Brother Jed, Before the cellphone, rumor spread, "They're speaking on the Common,...
Read moreDetails. Ode to a Dodo inspired by Paul A. Freeman’s "Paradise Island" O tragic fowl of cataclysmic fate, Your magic...
Read moreDetails. Babel There was a time when all the world one tongue Among its peoples shared, and language preened Itself...
Read moreDetails. How Septuagenarian’s Cope Past seventy. Age does prevail. __The day is growing dim. I’ve managed through life’s calms and...
Read moreDetailsCynthia, your poem-long barrage of musical terms (along with the energy of the opening movement) immediately makes me think of…
Cynthia, beautiful poem with vibrant words like "percussive," tympanic," and "pianissimo" that resonate in every verse from August through October.
The sun is present in the zodiac constellation Virgo during August-September, which accounts for the end-of-summer theme here, as well…
What a great way to learn about crickets. I didn't know anything about their life cycle until reading your excellent…
I read this poem as an extended metaphor for the loss of innocence. Some incredible imagery here, as has already…
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