. Cattleman Sinewed arms and knotted hands, head inclined, intense you peer Toward the heavens, clear-sky eyes Viewing the parade...

. The Color Plaid At Christmastime, when I was just a lad Of eight or nine, my aunt would bring...

. A Travelogue of Wonders My friends, I’m here to speak of wondrous sights. The first, at Alexandria’s port, was...

. The Best Thing… What’s the best thing A man can do For his children--- Just what is true? It's...

. Soft the Morning Starlight Shines Soft the morning starlight shines __Above in black-hued skies, Whose dark aspect, foreboding mien...

. Here We Go Again… by Joseph S. Salemi Oh dear… it looks like the hillbilly software salesman is having...

. The Anarchist’s Wish “all the great men in the world and all the nobility could be hanged, and strangled...

. Evening, Washington Metro Entrained, en masse, an ebb as from a beach: the tide drawn by the Capitol (the...

. Fartgates: Of Biden and Kerry That climate crap (no pun intended)They’re pushing is so much projection,A bellywash that’s open-endedFrom...

. What’s Left to Say? a rhupunt  When women’s plans Are like a man’s, So they act trans, What’s left...

. Limericks for Lame Cowboys A cowboy who came from Seattle, Had a habit of disturbing cattle. __The horse made...

. 1.How odd a fallen snow’s fresh reassurance,Begotten in a winter’s biting cold,But taking edges off a world waxed old,And...

. Moon Before Yule The ashen lantern leavening the skyBegins in languor to proclaim sublimeFestivity to winter’s weather eye. The...

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTgWaNsnpE . . The Odyssey, 21.388-22.125, translated with an eye on Homer's instinctively cinematic style. by Homer, translated by...

. Fugal Harmonies Softly chanted serpentinous neumes, melodic levitation, heavenbound, monotonal meditative sound; a capella in medieval rooms. Then Bach,...

. 10 Best Poems for Funerals by Susan Jarvis Bryant The right poem at a funeral service can make that...

. To My Daughter A woman’s life is hard, they say---and true, Though now not as our mothers understood: They...

. It Was Only a Winter’s Tale based on David Essex's classic 1982 Christmas song The nights are ever short...

. A Harvard Education Who dares to say that Harvard in The present situation No longer is a purveyor of...

. Thanksgiving I’m thankful most for what I can’t describe, Though otherwise I’m clever as can be At secular and...

. Greta Thunberg Meets the Emerald Queen Part II of "The Emerald Queen: A Legend from the Future" One day...

. Unsocial Addictions Why do some people lie, brag, or act mean?It must pump them up, like a jolt of...

. Yet Another Year The birthday bells reverberate __Through haunted towns That lead you to an ancient gate __Beside which...

. There Is a Way? Is there a way for beauty to be painted with a word? Is there a...

. Convictions of My Thoughts and Deeds Convictions of my thoughts and deeds are vapors, not substantial things. There are...

. The Risen Though now the hearth is left to smolder __And light will soon be gone; Fire shall rise...

. Sonnet for Mom (October 21, 1933 - March 28, 2014) I could not see how much she cared for...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iKSrcgV__G0 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uUi588ZCmbQ   https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0fXLunr7NVU https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZRIOZkeWfIA https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RWYPcuIOTMY   . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few...

. Abraham and the Binding of Isaac after Genesis 22 I cannot sleep although the moon is high. I’m numb....

. Art and Belief by Joseph S. Salemi When I consider the question of art and belief, I recall the...

. Lee in the Furnace "He who thinks of Lee Must think of Washington. . ." ---Herman Melville So Oleh,...

. Insouciance When circumstances wear you down Consider this important fact: It’s easier to smile than frown. When autumn leaves...

. Tampering with Permanence  a Seattle pantoum __Here where I live, a cloud looks like a mountain; mountains float. Like...

. Pythagoras, Man of Music Pythagoras was of mathematical mind. No matter where he went, he’d often find Relationships to...

. Voyage to Scotland Constantius II, son of Constantine and emperor from 337 to 361, hoped to glorify Constantinople by...

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. There Are Not Enough Hours in the Day There are not enough hours in the dayto take all of...

. If You Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter If solidified oil with chemical clutter That helps it look yellow and...

. Death in Life, Life in Death: Canto XXXIII of Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns The...

. What Sort of Freedom? What sort of freedom is it that proclaims Its export to the savage and demands...