‘The New Headmasters’: A Poem on British Boarding Schools, by Lucius Falkland
. The New Headmasters As I sat, that afternoon, upon his kneeWhile he read a “witty” book and I faux-laughedI’m...
Read moreDetails. The New Headmasters As I sat, that afternoon, upon his kneeWhile he read a “witty” book and I faux-laughedI’m...
Read moreDetails. Pollinator When swift spring breezes suddenly excitethe conifers out back, they really comealive in dips and bows and surges...
Read moreDetails. The Ego Lingers Longer Than The Mind The ego lingers longer than the mind, It dares to whisper yearnings...
Read moreDetails. Headspace It’s easy to detect folks’ disrespect, And hope your feats will make them feel quite small. But better...
Read moreDetails. Back to the Greenwood The spring has come to England once again But I am far away and cannot...
Read moreDetails. The Society of Classical Poets Journal XIII has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those...
Read moreDetails. There’s Nothing to Regain ---on the terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam town, in Kashmir, India Their hapless screams...
Read moreDetails. Premonition The sun shines down in undimmed majestyAcross the heavens’ undiminished breadthOn life unsapped, unweighted levityOf loves and laughs...
Read moreDetails. Zips and Zooms The hummingbird both zips and zooms To search for nectar in the blooms Of flowers that...
Read moreDetails. How I Spent My Spring Vacation: Poetry and Photography by James A. Tweedie . It Begins 45 Days Surrounded...
Read moreDetails. Heritage I’ve never asked for anything The living soil does not provide. I don’t want cash; I don’t want...
Read moreDetails. An Ode to Silay Cathedral bells now toll, And horses march the streets, The crowd has filled the hall,...
Read moreDetails. Medusa's Sisters Medusa lost her head and found renown instead. Her living sisters roared, “And why are we ignored...
Read moreDetails. High Society The Cornelius mansion on Park Avenue, New York City, Sunday, August 22, 1886 A derby hat; a...
Read moreDetails. Book Reviewed: Doorway: The English Cantos, Volume III, by James Sale, 2025 by Cynthia Erlandson It’s been several years...
Read moreDetails. Healing by Heart Dear André, let me see your face And cry out with you to lament The rot...
Read moreDetails. Linden She stands against the sunlit sky, _Her beauty plain to see. The birds sing sweet and pleasant songs...
Read moreDetails. Anachronistic Chaucer When April showers, forecast on TV,delayed our pilgrimage to Canterbury,an eating house, clept Hooters, we espiedbeside a...
Read moreDetails. The Luigi Mangione Act We need to contemplate the true impact of The Luigi Mangione Act. Although we sympathize...
Read moreDetails. https://youtu.be/9Qx03HgoXAQ . . Andrew Benson Brown‘s epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, chronicles the major events of the American Revolution. He writes...
Read moreDetails. The Ballad of Shamus Well, Shamus were a likely lad wid a good well-meanin’ ‘eart As strong as O’Malley’s...
Read moreDetails. Bardic Bones Who dug the dust? Who didn’t spare the stones? Who churned the earth that festered with a...
Read moreDetails. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more...
Read moreDetails. The Comedy of Rosalind ---As You Like It I show more mirth than I am mistress of. This forest...
Read moreDetails. On Shen Yun . I. The land of China. Deep in history That like a river flows with people...
Read moreDetails. Voyage Among the Ancients "Tread softly, for here you stand On miracle ground…" ---Lawrence Durrell, "On Ithaca Standing" (...
Read moreDetails. Two Lyrics by Philodemus of Gadara translated from Greek by Joseph S. Salemi . V.124 Summertime has not yet...
Read moreDetails. Innovative Thinking My long-time love gave me a special gift, a photo of himself when he was young. He...
Read moreDetails. Stone’s Point of View They brought Him to the tomb and rolled me into The right position to seal...
Read moreDetails. Easter Couplets Easter’s more than just about eggs and bunnies;More than what you may have read in the funnies....
Read moreDetails. Who Are You and Who Am I ---a villanelle Who are you and who am I That you fill...
Read moreDetails. Emmaus We barely saw he’d joined us as we made Our way along the road, so sad, afraid, So...
Read moreDetails. In the Garden of the King In the garden of the King I sit beside a crystal spring. The...
Read moreDetails. Holy Saturday "Call the Sabbath a delight." —Isaiah 58:13 His weary, soulless body needed rest, Not only pierced and...
Read moreDetails. Crucified She pondered horrors of the modern age. He thumbed through piles of dusty history tomes. She craved the...
Read moreDetails. Unless . . . As un-sun darkness swallows up the day, And quake shake rends an empty Holy Place,...
Read moreDetails. Good Friday Rain I wake and hear the rain cascade. Its cleansing drops roll down my pane; They soak...
Read moreDetails. . Lament for Clairac by Théophile de Viau (1590-1626) translated from French by A.Z. Foreman Sun-hallowed walls where I...
Read moreDetails. Poetry Legacy Superb is her poetic contribution, Unique in its design and execution. She hopes the work is widely...
Read moreDetails. Australian poet Clive Boddy sent in the article "How Poetry Changes You and Your Brain" published in Greater Good...
Read moreDetailsA cute poem that is playful and half-serious, very much like John Donne's seduction poem "The Flea." That poem is…
Light verse is always a treat, and you've given us three witty, pithy gems. "Varicosely" is a clever pun. "Rejection…
One of my favorite stories from one of my favorite saints, set charmingly to verse. Just the right length, too,…
I'm glad to see accentual alliterative verse appear here, the purest English form. You capture the spirit of the Old…
What I like most about both of these is that they stimulate thought. "The Limits of Hospitality," while on its…
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