. The 23 Best Haiku of 2023 Winner and Runners-up of the Society of Classical Poets 2023 Haiku Competition Judged...

. Two Dragon Statues Tây Hồ, Hà Nội, Việt Nam, Constructed 2012 They stand on waves just off West Lake’s...

. Sea Breeze Negative ions aloft, Wafting aloft in the breeze. That mystical, maritime breeze Bestowing a comfort and ease....

. Labyrinthine Bag My wife, bless her heart, went and bought me a bag with tons of compartments, and pouches,...

. Abortion Notes Please bury babies ripped to parts, Especially their tiny hearts. They’re slain in hiding from our sight....

. In Eve’s Footsteps based on “Genesis 2: Teaching its Truth to Women” by Kimberly Hartke “And the Lord God...

. Ponderings on the Porch The chutes of light this autumn day __Beam down between the leaves. Sun’s equinox has...

. In the Park ___It showed up in the green ___Today: that velveteen _Exhaustion that betokens summer’s end, ___Its richness...

. Rhyme Subprime I tend to rant against slant;maybe it’s something I can’t__embrace with affection__or write to perfection but I...

. Poets create marvels of linguistic delights about anything and everything… but what about nothing?  Can your Muse capture the...

. Out of Purgatory There I went blind. I could no longer speak, but as I died, I murmured Mary’s...

. Regional Biases We’ve all eaten dinners on china, But China’s now eating our lunch. A supper in South Carolina...

. A Draft of Death Did Flavius not inform us How a fart fetched fates enormous? After Flavius Josephus’s account...

. Joey’s Doomed! The investigation widens of the traitorous crimes the Bidens __are---and have been---guilty of for years, As liberal...

. One Friend A friend who always wants to learn __Whatever’s going on, Whose warm assistance and concern __Can be...

. The Battle of Athelstaneford King Angus clapperclawed NorthumbriansIn combat close enough to hammer faces;His Pictish troops enacted brutal plansTo...

. The Sum of All Fears “Oppressive government is fiercer than a tiger.” ---Confucius Psst. Be careful what you post...

. Night Bird Singing Birdsong is a conspicuous avian vocalization often used for mate attraction. ---Basic Ornithology Long after midnight,...

. On Being “Chopped” On TV, watching the show “Chopped,” I see Three losing chefs go home each episode; And...

. The Thief He stole my song, my music;He stole my poetry.He broke my holy vesselsAnd felled my sacred tree.He...

. Three Ways of Avoiding Reason . Ambivalence The man who doesn’t want a thing (And then he does) will...

. The Golden Calf a rondeau The golden calf draws shouts of awe From wanton men who bray and caw....

. Cantankerous Limericks on Good English Prose I love a complexly wrought sentence With phrases and colons that went thence...

. Phil S. Rogers captured these photos of a roadrunner seeking relief in his sprinkler during drought-like conditions in Texas....

. Gloom at the Shore Down at the shore of Lake Ontario, Battleship gray under inclement sky, We vied for...

. Under Which Altar Eros, at last, has left the field. The flowers on the bushes yield __to coming winter....

. Meditation on the Myth of Sisyphus Like Sisyphus, whose fate it is to bear A boulder on his back,...

. . Freedom high school algebra class; May 12, 1993 . A breeze blows in; it wisps my hair, And...

. Losing Battles It seems when we declare a war, we rarely win them anymore. So, though much money will...

. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 6 Part 3 of 3: Why Are Trendy Poets Weirdos? Eccentricity vs....

. The Tale of Wanton Ange . The Number 53: Unholy Thoughts Wanton Ange makes her appearance That’s Ange there...

. But What of Us? They have it all,The richest men on earth.No calculator can compute their worth.Yet doomed to...

. Younger Selves I have you leaning up against my side, Our boys and girls around us on the couch....

. Earthquake in Morocco---8 September, 2023 My flight to Casablanca landed late, and through an ill-chanced vagary of Fate I...

. Reflection on the Approach of Another Birthday “He found them in a wilderness, a wasteland…” ---Deuteronomy 32:10 I find,...

. Not Forgetting 9.11 in 2023 New York, the City that I've only seen In flashes, glimpses, footage, faraway, New...

. . Wings of Desire: Canto I of Paradise by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns . God’s glory,...

. Dirge of the Dimwits  “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than   sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”  ---Martin Luther...

. . Blackberry Memories We’d fill our buckets to the brim--- __my brother, sis, and I--- and rush the juicy...

. Perchance to Dream __The sky is wide, __The sea is deep, And when we’ve woken into sleep __A place...