A Poem for Saint Patrick’s Day: ‘Slàinte!’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant
. Slàinte! Today we’ll lift the Lenten limitations And don our Gaelic garb of kelly green. Bonhomie and glee and lush libations...
Read moreDetails. Slàinte! Today we’ll lift the Lenten limitations And don our Gaelic garb of kelly green. Bonhomie and glee and lush libations...
Read moreDetails. Happy St. Patrick's Day! Share your St. Patrick's Day Poetry in the comments section below. While writing and posting,...
Read moreDetails. Heights of Passion Passion flowers white and purple Bloom where tendrils curl and cling To the overhanging myrtle Sheltering...
Read moreDetails. Berenice for my mother, Berenice Stone Cook Indebted to a simple spark of life, You missed your chance at...
Read moreDetails. On Sighting a Marsupial "Serve with: Turnip greens" —Joy of Cooking Opossums are so ugly that it isn’t clear...
Read moreDetails. Two Poems for White Day On White Day, March 14, men in Japan present white gifts to women, in...
Read moreDetails. Time Is of the Essence The powers that be in their ivory tower, Make important decisions for sure, While...
Read moreDetails. A White Knight a triolet With fires of hope and spirit bright, who will stand up for what is...
Read moreDetails. A North Indian Summer They ask of me to write a sonnet fine In praise of Summer and her...
Read moreDetails. The Arch of Titus The Arch of Titus was constructed in 81 AD by the Emperor Domitian to commemorate...
Read moreDetails. "I Heard Chapman Speak Out Loud and Bold" by Margaret Coats My title quotes “On First Looking into Chapman’s...
Read moreDetails. Captured As Herbert writes in Love-joy there’s a view of grapes upon a vine. But mine is this- the...
Read moreDetails. Hermes, The Artisan Hermes, son and messenger of Jove, Surveyed the coast, where often he would rove, And found...
Read moreDetails. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaAv09XqwAY . Young Strongbow anonymous American ballad (Words in parentheses are alternate lyrics suggested by other extant versions of...
Read moreDetails. Prudence Huntleigh, Head Librarian theme of “the proverbial uptight librarian” suggested by Brian Yapko She mans the front desk...
Read moreDetails. Yet Another Exhibition Opening "Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too...
Read moreDetails. Ex Nihilo Is a Joke “. . .it starts with an empty universe” ---Stephen Fry, Cosmos, vii An empty...
Read moreDetails. Justification He smashed the windows, grabbed the wares, With rage against society That made him free of any cares...
Read moreDetails. Seeing the Light by Susan Jarvis Bryant . I. Peace Be with You… a pantoum “Peace is possible, truth...
Read moreDetails. Little to Regret When Time has stilled my body __Think of me now and then, Asleep beneath the wattle,...
Read moreDetails. Introduction Today, the communist government of China, the world’s largest nation, is attacking the basic freedom of thought and...
Read moreDetails. Pergola My vines entwined around your posts and beams of weathered wood the sun had silvered gray. My trunk...
Read moreDetails. Memento, Homo… "There is no architecture in New Orleans, except in the cemeteries." —Mark Twain If we should go...
Read moreDetails. The Poem that Built a Nation: Finland and the Kalevala by Adam Sedia Nowhere perhaps is the power of...
Read moreDetails. Trudeau’s Canada Jab them all, Big and small. Small are buffer And must suffer. No opinions, Little minions. Cover...
Read moreDetails. Beneath the Tide The tidal basin ebbs and flows each dayAs if it were a sentient, breathing thing—A pas...
Read moreDetails. Salieri on Mozart More wine, Signore... Should I say mein Herr? I know! French cognac. Spirits help me share...
Read moreDetails. Many poets have been sending in poetry on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Post your poetry directly below. . ....
Read moreDetails. Spring The Spring is coming and each day Earlier falls dawn’s curtain grey Before the star-enchanted world Where, in...
Read moreDetails. From the Tower by Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645) | translated from Spanish by Elwin Wirkala Retired to these deserts...
Read moreDetails. Poem Introduction Lewis Carroll (who lived 1832-1898 and was born Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was a master at humorous wordplay...
Read moreDetails. The Pear Pit I fell into a pear pitupon a summer’s day.I fell into a pear pitand whiled...
Read moreDetails. Come Winter, Come Come Winter, come. Lay this body down to rest. A squalling wind is blowing, north by...
Read moreDetails. Unsettled written upon reading of the CDC refusing to publish data on booster effectiveness I’m niggled and nettled. The...
Read moreDetails. When words are sharp, and clash like iron blades, I swallow swords. I grimace, turn away. You fear I...
Read moreDetails. A Working Man and Wife “…aware of the humanity on the other side of the door.” ---Criselda Vasquez They...
Read moreDetails. Bluer Skies after Ogden Nash Spring ain’t sprung, the grass ain’t growed, The fields ain’t fit for man nor...
Read moreDetails. Shining Armor The knights roll in. They have a rift to heal--- A rift that stokes the embers of...
Read moreDetails. Everlasting I must admit, when I arrived in Hell I was surprised. Not, as you might surmise, Because I...
Read moreDetails. Music of the Contours part of "A Double Unfinished Symphony" sonnet sequence The way that curls sway lovelier than...
Read moreDetailsI suppose you could call it postmodern, though I don’t like that term or what it represents. I don’t think…
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