Beauty

. Memento Belli _My father had mementoes of the war; _he kept them in a box above his clothes, _where...

. Flamingo The S-curve of that sinuous neck,The stern black tip of that great bill,The blue eye with which we...

. Ora Pro Nobis Pray for us. The dead die when we living let them die; We breathing clasp to...

. The Snare Drummer’s Plight The highlight of the evening is Bolero. The snare drummer begins the famous beat, the...

. A Precious Wife Is Like Fine Wine A precious wife is like fine wine, made mellow with the years,...

. . Five Rose Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke translated by Alan Orsborn . The Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke...

. A Sonnet for My Son on Father’s Day You coo her name in buoyant notes of joy Then watch...

. A Sonnet ---for my father, an avid gardener and feeder of wildlife, who recently underwent hip surgery No one...

. The Doctor An expert in each area, this man's The doctor for all things in disrepair— Tea kettles, doorknobs,...

. Distant Thunder Oppressive heat in heavy air; Oppressive light from summer skies; White clouds glow with a garish glare,...

. Meeting Xu Zhimo by Margaret Coats Three Chinese girls behind me in the line Escape King’s College Chapel evensong;...

. Cape Canaveral’s Pioneers Asleep I wonder if the lights across lagoon Waves, little though they are, the lights and...

. The Universal Horoscope and Zodiac Twelve figures in the blazoned zodiac Set by the gods in their unchanging track...

. Winter into Spring Sonnet The garbage dump outside the town is white as winter’s snowfall claims the castoff chair...

. Admonition It is a form of madness To long for days of yore. And bitter is the sadness O'er...

. Poetry Is Warfare A poem is the writer’s battle pleaAgainst asceticism’s barren call.Truth and beauty (air that poets breathe)Needn’t...

. Today My Brown Sedan Is Two Today, my brown sedan is two, But I behave as if it's twenty,...

. To a Cicada So, welcome back, you ancient thing! Some time ago, your tribe took wing; But here you...

. The Harmonies of Holst While doing errands, driving roundabout, I listen to the classic music station. An orchestra plays...

. . They Say Somebody Said This; It Must Be True! Some people love to share with you news they’ve...

. The Figure Skater Across the frozen way, stamping, sprinting, faster as hurried steps display something that she'll master her...

. Before Checkmate “Tis all a Checker board of nights and days Where Destiny with men for Pieces plays: Hither...

. At Dorr Point Our far too brief excursion about to cease,We walked the woods to Dorr Point—one last partingImmersion...

. Selling Short The winter wind’s a shot across your brow, An addend to the sense of deficit You wrestle...

. Out Walking I hear the heath alive to free A heart from hearthside reverie, _And with my rambling feet...

. He Who Was Omnipotence, omniscience __and there’s omnipresence too. If you possess those qualities, __there’s nothing you can’t do....

. I Never Do a Happy Dance I never do a happy dance, Or look online to find romance, Speak...

. View from the Beach after Robert Frost’s "A Cliff Dwelling" Here hazy seems the azure sky and azure seems...

. Eulogy to the First Ms. Brown or a Divine Comedy of Educators . To my aunt—the second daughter of...

. Newman, Alone Newman, thirty, alone, asleep in bed, Groans, yearning for his mother, years now, dead--- Alive, her vivid...

. The Cleft There’s danger for the harmless dove; she swoops Into the cleft of the great mountainside. Her heartbeat...

. Dandelions “...all the days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow....” ---Ecclesiastes 6: 12 . ____As...

. Chelsea a true story from I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris “Behold not everybody's beauty: and tarry not...

. Miss Crespo’s Halloween Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; ‘tis the eye...

. He Lied About His Age 'Twas May of nineteen seventeen, our country now at war. Will had decided to...

. An Incomplete Account of How Things Are __From where I drift, One hundred meters from the shore, The elemental...

. And Yet We Wash Our Hands When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, butthat instead an uproar was...

. Music by Jeff Eardley . Look Homeward, Sweet Afton after Robert Burns Look homeward, Sweet Afton, back to thy...

. A Mother’s Day Sonnet I hope you have a happy Mother’s Day And take a moment out to feel...

. Hookerville School Built just before the Civil War, employed till twenty-nine, This one-room school that stands today withstood the...