Village There once was a village where everyone shared _whenever another had need. The folks in that place were...

  Thoughts at Daybreak At break of day, you rise up quietly To check on our young daughter, who lies...

  Humpty Dumpty Redux Some say we stole the land we think we own, and that we must return it...

  A Forecast of Fortune Here’s my forecast of fortune for today, The local and the universal too, Informed by...

  The Cupbearer or the Baker? --Genesis 40 A dream goes through a sieve once we awake, With only fragments...

  A Panegyric on the Nativity Babies are cool In spite of the drool And inordinate stool. Babies are cool....

  Tapiola Tapio is the Finnish god of the forest; Tapiola is his home. Only a fool disturbs my sylvan...

  Breath by Breath An orb of light in darkness flickers out To halt the marching steps of eager trust;...

  The War in Heaven ---for the IDF But stranger still and most sublime of all A second vision sweeps...

. The Best Poems of 2025: Winners of the 14th Annual SCP International Poetry Competition Judges C.B. Anderson, Susan Jarvis...

. First Place ($200 Prize) "The Color True" Advika Asthana, 10th grade, Davidson High School, Ohio . Second Place "Refrigerator...

  Mythology and Modernism by Joseph S. Salemi Many years ago I attended a poetry reading by my friend Psyche...

  Canzone Sung from the Mountains   I Above the source of the refreshing fountain, The sloping forest of the...

  Winterberry Robins, cardinals, grouse, and bluebirds, Thrushes, waxwings, and grey catbirds. __Where do they go __In the ice and...

  How to Acquire and Maintain Political Power   Part 1: Acquiring Power Announce that you’re The Savior. _You’ll be...

  A Surviving Maduro Guard Speaks A guard who was protecting Nicolás Maduro said: “We did not hear the Yankees...

  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NtGOhHBi2G0?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/shorts/g3TADmtqtLc?feature=share     Andrew Benson Brown‘s epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, chronicles the major events of the American Revolution. He...

  A Bit Player A dorm in Happy Valley. Solo room, door closed: a nineteen-year-old's cozy womb. Our heroine Helen,...

  Snowshoeing on a Winter Morning A silver flicker in the tangy pine has stirred us: she, engulfed in puffery...

  Politically Incorrect Poem You see, I am a poetess. We of my gender wear a dress. And to some...

  Main Message He got a hug when he arrived, _Another when he left, But that attention felt contrived--- _With...

  Beyond Minneapolis These freedom haters styled as anti-fascists Arrive like clockwork at all ICE events To foment anarchy. These...

  Upon Hiking Eagle Rock Loop, Umpire, AR “Silence breeds creativity.” ---Jason Wood The raucous rush at once absorbed in...

  The Sky Small wonder we placed God up in the sky, Within its infinite and blue construed Eternity and...

  Out at Third We’d been good friends until I kept saying, “Yes!” And she, who felt uneasy, kept saying,...

  Though My Eyes Grow Dim The world that was my senses, Of smell, of taste and sight, With feeling...

  Different Strokes The sin for which old Yahweh leveled Sodom, Though scholars, on this point, may disagree, Is penetrating...

  Violin Vengeance In circumstances that exist no more, A rickety old mill stood near the border Of provinces in...

  The Color True It bruises dusk with velvet shade, Descends where ocean dreams are laid. It clings to wings...

  Rain and Snow on Christmas Day In songs of old and times of yore, _'Tis Snow that rules the...

  Jekyll and/or Hyde When we observe what seems to us to be phenomena that should not co-exist, but somehow...

  Prophesy to the Wind “Prophesy to the wind, prophesy, son of man….” ---Ezekiel 37: 9 Prophesy to the wind---for...

  Qoheleth —Hebrew title for the speaker in Ecclesiastes I know a God-sized hole stays in our souls. The mind...

  Liturgical Loopholes   I. Scheduling Redemption: The Pious Musings of a Serial Sinner I must confess when I transgress...

  America! ---for the one-year anniversary of the second Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, leader of the Free World...

  Threefold Sorrow by Anonymous, 13th century translated from Middle English by Martin Briggs Among my thoughts are always three...

  The Tomb on the Hill The ancient tomb sits brooding all alone Atop a rocky hill, remote and bare....

  Vilnius Opera, 1993 "Those costumes look professional!" he gasps, Goggling the stage through my aunt's high-end glass. Of course...

  Burdens "eternal weight of glory" ---2 Corinthians 4.17 The conifers out back, weighed down with snow, seem like a...

  The Scapegoat Their memories select the bad, forget The good. Their hypersensitivity And need for higher maintenance won't let...