‘The English Cantos: Volume 2: StairWell. Canto 3 Ex-Wife’ by James Sale
. The Argument: The Poet, with Dante and Virgil, has arrived on the third step of the StairWell, or Purgatory....
Read moreDetails. The Argument: The Poet, with Dante and Virgil, has arrived on the third step of the StairWell, or Purgatory....
Read moreDetails. I’m Andrew Cuomo---I get a pass. If you don’t like it, kiss my ass! I’m Andrew Cuomo---I don’t resign....
Read moreDetails. I stand upon the Bridge of Sighs as teardrops fill my weary eyes and think of life that used...
Read moreDetails. Farmer, Unpack the dormant forces quiet days Have put aside and stoke the smothered fire Whose soot fanned out...
Read moreDetails. inspired by this video from communist China: https://youtu.be/b4DmTPtAEbg . All their flipping has flopped, So their stance has flip-flopped...
Read moreDetails. Three by Heraclitus I Offend yourself with mirrored knowledge (where’s that face you wore at college?) and your sense...
Read moreDetails. A hundred tongues of smoke--- Translucent wisps, lithe specters--- __Rise, snaking languidly, Curling, grasping like tendrils At the light...
Read moreDetails. an excerpt When battle rages hot, the charge will sound. An army must not let itself break ranks, Although...
Read moreDetails. Silence is not golden. I’ll differ with you here. __Silence is an awful trap Lined with sharpest fear. Silence...
Read moreDetails. in response to Traditionis custodes (“Guardians of the tradition”)---the new motu proprio issued by Pope Francis on July 16,...
Read moreDetails. When softly my sustaining comfort stirs Herself to offer solace coveted, Advancing toward the left side of my bed...
Read moreDetails. Rondeau The rondeau echoes its refrain in a subtle way, just as rain at times will fall, not in...
Read moreDetails. Winners announced here. Write a haiku and post it in the comments section below. The haiku must adhere to...
Read moreDetails. You’re glad you’ve nabbed The Covid jab That’s newly fabbed In some large lab Created by The jaundiced eye,...
Read moreDetails. Guilty, Guilty, Guilty! That most sagacious Mr. K*Told listeners: “Back in the day—‘The Enlightenment,’ they call it; haw,No way!...
Read moreDetails. A widespread distemper in modern life is the insistent need that many people feel to justify themselves and their...
Read moreDetails. 23 July 2021 Don't send money. No food to buy. One scanty meal at work or nothing. Outside the...
Read moreDetails. Rain Song by Klaus Groth (1819-1899) Pour, O rain, pour down to earth, Give my childhood dreams rebirth, When...
Read moreDetails. Da Vinci’s lauded “Savior of the World”— Commissioned by the King- Louis of France, * Entombed for years by...
Read moreDetails. ⬙ Judged by Cynthia Erlandson See all entrants here. ⬙ . FIRST PLACE WINNER ($100) . A Slight Deviation...
Read moreDetails. While Waiting Through the Night This morning, searching on the laptop, I Found notes I made upon the night...
Read moreDetails. Lucky It stormed around our house last night, The lightning turned the black sky bright. Tornadoes came to join...
Read moreDetails. A Little Respect an appeal to activist athletes at the Olympic games You have the right to speak of...
Read moreDetails. O Happy Glass Another soul inside a glass deep red— I think on Provenance, effect and cause: Do you...
Read moreDetails. The Lion Who Thought She Was a Zebra a fable East Africa is where this lion’s tale Takes place---a...
Read moreDetails. They lie in serried ranks above the strand. These mighty, whirling monsters made of steel. Where once, a couple...
Read moreDetails. . They're Here They are the Saintly Source of Good; __The Keepers of The Truth. They’re seeking you. You...
Read moreDetails. Kilkenny Castle A moat runs dry revealing secrets buried those conquerors and conquered knights had known. The past, a...
Read moreDetails. Making All Things Orderly Stare at grey clapboards in unbroken rows That seem to follow the unceasing sound Of...
Read moreDetails. in reference to an Epoch Times' exposé We’re in the loop, we’re up the sleeve, we’re near the Party’s...
Read moreDetails. Heliotrope Phaeton, son of the god Helios, attempted to drive his father’s celestial chariot. His inexperience caused him to...
Read moreDetails. With How Sad Steps from a Philip Sidney sonnet With how sad steps, O Moon, you climb the skies!...
Read moreDetails. Nest Egg The things for which I hoped have come and gone: The power to express a cogent thought;...
Read moreDetails. —like his saddle, hat, and spurs No silver on this cowboy’s working saddle; borne bedrolls, stray calves, and dry...
Read moreDetailsby Adam Sedia Contemporary poetry is plagued by several characteristic vices: obscurity, banality, nihilism---each a topic for examination in its...
Read moreDetails. Each view deemed inconvenient is a fake, no matter if deep down you know it’s true. When one lot...
Read moreDetails. Am I, am I beautiful? Surely my face qualifies: Forehead pearly bright to rise Over sweetest lips cerise. Tell...
Read moreDetails. https://youtu.be/9VRUjxFxQ2A?list=PLfUp4UiBMcEZC4Hgnr33FpijP5W5mRNo6&t=102 “A star!” the wise man shouted, “Look, a star!” forgetting the hour and his solitude, or else too...
Read moreDetails. O Say Can It Be? "How long you been suckin’ up oxygen, friend? For seventy years? Well now that’s...
Read moreDetails. Brimstone I sniff a whiff of brimstone in the tone Of smooth effusions oozing from his tongue. A lick of sulfur clings like stale cologne To slickest syntax eloquently...
Read moreDetailsHi. Thank you very much, Mr Anderson, for your profound and poetic message of reassurance.
Hi Margaret. Thank you very much for taking the time to provide such in depth and nicely articulated feedback, I…
The poem has intriguing features, Brian, not yet much discussed because your social and emotional thrust takes the center of…
As I thought at the time, and told you not long after, Paul, these poems give an excellent perspective of…
Roy, thank you for this pleasant, tranquil poem. Of the things you mention, I choose fountains, writing pens, malls, and…
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