. . The Rub   I’ve had a taste of wonder and I cannot give it back. I’ve seen each...

  . Old doors to opportunitiesare gone, so, not one opens.Enticements that were there, just tease,no keys, just slot-less tokens....

. . Ode on ​Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Ganymede and the Eagle Bending down in offering, a Boy extends a shallow bowl;...

  . O hail you lied-to, baffled Yanks,__false-fed with sick afront’ry,If only rigging votes were pranks__not killing your good country....

“Pride Goeth . . . .” “How dare you, sir! Your libel will not stand!” The words flew out across...

. Long the shadow that it casts, Christmas present, o’er our pasts. In its darkness made to bask, Mumbling carols...

. Anno Domini 1348 ‘Tis thirteen months since those twelve ships of death Docked in Messina bearing vicious plague From...

. The Burden of Truth Our founders feared and could foresee that politics might come to be far more intense...

  adapted from a Filipino folktale __Once, when the sun was at its height, A dragonfly thought she’d alight Upon...

. The leaves may shine with colored gloss, But they will fall, forever lost. In this false world, what soul,...

  This is the day for manifesting soul To flesh, for making contemplation real; Incorporeal yet real and whole Advancing...

. Freezing in a Winter Wonderland  to be sung to the melody of "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" I am...

. The Night after Christmas You better not cry. “Deplorable” might be how best to putit, just to underscore the...

 . To miss the mark, to lose my way,to choose the dark, on Christmas Day. No star I see, no...

. Wake up and raise the blinds, to see the light, The colors; hark, the carols, feel the cheers Emerging,...

  Christmas trees and Christmas carols, Christmas lights and reindeer, too.Christmas cards and Christmas presents, wrapped with paper, bows and...

. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer---A Sonnet Poor Rudolph was a reindeer with a nose resembling a bulb of bright red...

X The play of the breeze brings the music of childhood, The tinkle of laughter as light and as clear...

.   The hills that Joseph meditated on were black and just a bit like elephants, but if somehow they...

My day dredges through its habits like chicken wings that flop through flour, like tame lettuce-nibbling rabbits, so to say,...

. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” ---Albert Einstein...

In This Post Christian Era “For he nil falsen no wight, dar I seye, That wol his herte al hoolly...

_ I How will I know you or will you know me?When every bird has hurtled to the ground,When every...

. . The Rape of Lady Liberty In Memoriam: November 3, 2020 by Patrick Henry Redivivus They did the awful...

I set up my beloved theodolite And slowly, gently, aimed it at the moon, Then focused sharply on the lovely...

. Still   “Many eyes go through the meadow,  but few see the flowers in it” ---Ralph Waldo Emerson  I aim and...

  The corpses laid before your cast iron throne will never wake again. Their eyes alone accuse you from the...

The screen is life, The screen is king, The screen is now Our everything. The place we learn, The place...

. Dominion “No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do.”  ---Orson Scott Card,...

The House of Life to Stephen Come in, my friend, and warm yourself; come in out of the cold! The...

based on a true story My wife’s in bed with lowered head and even lower mood. Her chin’s on her...

. The coziest wrap of a cuddle To wear under snow-swollen skies; The grin of a kith-and-kin huddle To glisten...

. . Prince Hamlet Speaks About Election Fraud Prince Hamlet speaks about election fraud:"O villainy! Ho! Let the door be...

  Why are many young persons so bad at writing formal poetry? Why do they struggle and labor and twist...

. Stages of Arrested Development __The lads who once had wet their beds __Adventured off in brand-new Keds, Exploring every...

_ On Your Marx If humans ran a Human Race, __Karl Marx would not be in it. The human depth...

What is One to do with a Useless Man?: Philoctetes: A Myth Retold is a poetic play by Fr. Bruce...

. Strange Election inspired by President Trump's speech on election fraud (below) by Evan Mantyk Strange numbers were appearing in...

The Painting of the Virgin God, seeing in America a child Embracing Faith with jubilation meet, Took up His paints,...

Poet Susan Jarvis Bryant challenges her fellow poets to adapt a favorite joke into a poem with meter and rhyme....