Atomized The Great Stillness fell throughout the loud town. A quiet dust began to settle down. Where laughter once...

  Baucis and Philemon A Poem for the Day After Valentine’s Day   Dank February’s leavened turf broods green stirrings,...

  To Thine Own Text Be True For My Autocorrect on Valentine’s Day You turn my hope to mope, my...

Listen, Wishin' Star Listen, you cotton pickin’ Wishin’ Star, I know how far up in the sky you are. I...

  Hallmark Holiday Some chocolates in a crimson, heart-shaped box— if ever there’s a thing that says I love you...

Poet Mark F. Stone delivers a speech on reading poetry live on the radio. His remarks were given at the...

  Snow Day Behold! A winning winter’s day! The soul of spring is on display: A vivifying snow is come...

  The Mystery That Is You The gasping hulks of rusted wrecks that share with eyeless scavengers the mysteries of...

  The Vault _The turning sky enwraps the world. Each day, entreating eyes wide-open to This circling vault shall earn...

  Clonmacnoise (Cluain Mhic Nóis) Rocky gray ruins, round tower stronghold, speckling a wide expanse of green, residuum of a...

  Song of the Beelzebots We lure you with our speed and with our flair. We snare you with our...

  Come Spring Come spring, and all the creeping things come back. The gnats and flies (of various kinds). The...

Lydia, De-Tattooed Lady ---with apologies to Groucho Marx The years she spent performing in the sun Have made her epidermis...

  Modern Generation Gap I wish some young folks’ touchiness was less extensive, _So more of them could ponder this...

  A Fishing Tale ---24 November 2025 Young Jeffrey oft went fishing with his dad Sometimes for perch but oftener...

  Beatrice Departs, St. Bernard Arrives: Canto XXXI of Paradise by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns It was...

  Beauty Is a State of Mind A young Masai tribe suitor who is wanting to get married, Must offer...

  The Triumph ---on the three lost legions, and the abrupt end to expansion under Augustus The lovely face of...

  Carnival Quintilla Subtly startling Harlequin, Mutely miming tenderness, Yang you are and I am yin, Thrilled to feel your...

  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...