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...

  Why Did I Kiss You? _I kissed you with no warning. _You softly asked me why. _I said that...

  Bird Song At five a.m. the avian chorus starts So fervently you’d think they had not heard That men...

  Ulysses He stands upon the sandy strand alone. He has been dropped off, stranded, left. A crow caws out...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmgiYCYQqAA     Andrew Benson Brown‘s epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, chronicles the major events of the American Revolution. He writes...

  A Tribute to Scott Adams ---1957-2026 We lost Scott Adams, and his fertile mind. We mourn his passing, but...

  To Once Have Been Immortal A mountain swollen with the impudence of jaunty youth, unfazed by plodding Time, aspires...

  The Bartender He seemed a little out of place when he walked in that night. The bar was pretty...

  The New Satanic Mills "And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded...

  Telling by Not Asking I called up somebody I knew back in school, _Beginning six decades ago. Someone I...

  Leak Oh, versifyingʼs worthless unless you know the what and why Of saying something deep and true, or of...

  Shards How unexpected did that moment come; How swift and sudden did that moment pass. A fleeting touch that...

  When from the Damning Writs When from the damning writs of men’s assize I flee the dock of ignorance...

  Mac Modernist All mortal works are destined to decline, And in this fall, doth poetry align, As all inheritance...

  Thomas Paine Publishes Common Sense   London, 1774 A man walked through the door, escaping rain. His shoes were...

  Seven Sonnets of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo Translated from French and Curated by Adam Sedia Introduction Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo (1903-1937) was born...

  The Measure of a Woman (or a Man) We’re measured in our mother’s womb by ultrasound to check all’s...

  Encounter with My Dead Father I am holding my father’s hand so white, and in silence we walk up...

  Two Sonnets by Nino Martoglio (1870-1921) translated from Sicilian by Joseph S. Salemi   I. Young lady, you who...

  Wall of Ice I have met an icy barrier On this pleasant journey Life That has tried to freeze...

  King of Poets Salaciously Saul slouches on the throne (Backbiting envy never sits upright) Since David’s victories surpass his...