Beauty

. Orpheus We want the heroes back so we can learn: Herakles smashed his way to hell and stormed By...

. To a Beet I sing the bristled hedgehog grainno horticulture can explain,with six sly seedlings in its brain:__the unborn...

. When Less Is More An SCP Poetry Challenge by James A. Tweedie In a recent email exchange with a...

. The Cropland Though coins, good health, and victualsAre mortal man's essentials,I pray for great fertilityOf that arable land in...

. Truth Is Not Beauty “What is the worst mistake you ever made in bed?” Reply: “My son.”  (Actual dialogue...

. The Sultan’s Aging Son Recalls the Hippo Hunt “The Hippopotamus Hunt” by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1615-1616 “The sultan...

. Reservoir Those who can still see through accreting years Are getting scarce, those who can lift such veil To...

. Easter Evening Appearance Luke 24 Sealed up within my upper room, Absorbed by morbid discontent And fear, I questioned...

. May Songs . I. Where does loyalty take its rest? Where is charity’s portraiture, Except in you, sweet virgin...

. Some Can't See the Beauty Some can’t see the beauty in __A flower or a tree. I call them...

. Third-Degree Burns A young poet who came from Dundee Looked around him and then took a knee, __For the...

. Watching My Children at Play in a Graveyard Laughing, the children slip between the stones Laid out in rows...

. Jerzy and Cyla Jerzy, a Polish teen in World War Two, Arrested for suspected membership Of the resistance, faced...

. The Dance __'Tis springtime _And air is a-breezin', Wafting through fair winds that blow. __The blossoms _From flowering jasmine...

. The Knight of Monticello Everywhere and always, Jefferson read. His library stocked a sage’s daily bread. Four volumes, leather-bound,...

. . Theópneustos Greek, “God breathed” . The Word of God is absolute— __Or else, some claim, it’s obsolete. Many...

. A Shakespeare Garden Stroll Of all the blooms, I like the lily best. Might you prefer a deep vermilion...

. Shakespeare's Women for Susan Jarvis Bryant, who has a spiritual home in Stratford-on-Avon It’s April 23rd. The rain is...

. On an Otter He slinks beneath, but not for long; surprise! he sprouts atop the pool to stare: his...

. Rolling the Roads The Days Before Snow Plows . A major storm throughout the night __Of heavy, wet, spring...

. The Moment I’m sure of what will happen when The tide resumes its rise again And drowns the beach:...

. Carpe Diem Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero. (“Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow.”) Horace,...

. The Sound of Dirt   in memory of my granddaughter, Valerie (March 30, 2020 - April 20, 2020) Above uneven...

. If Need Be If lawfare prosecutors aren’t proficient, And Biden family crimes can’t be denied, The ballots that they...

. Snowy Egret Here where sunlight sparkle rinses Cypresses whose balding branches Shoulder epiphytic orchids (Cowhorn, spider, ghost, or scented),...

. The Woods Have Waited Anxiously The woods have waited anxiously for me to reappear. I left them when the...

. To the Evening Breeze When I unbolt the terrace door, He enters quickly, greeting me With kisses on my...

. Lone Musketeer "To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the...

. Poem I of the three Quiet and Peaceful Melody Poems by Li Bai The clouds like swirling clothes, the...

. A Reverie Some days in August there’s a summer hum Of distant outboard motors, or a plane Relentlessly pursuing...

. Old New England Logging Camps My father-in-law oft told me tales __Recalling logging camp— Tough men who cut gigantic...

. Poetry in the Image of God Conjure and weave a calligraphic spell Within the wells of mystic words and...

. A Fitful Veil A wanton wave of pallid hail descends from ashen skies. Its drifts are carried through to...

. The Light Under the Door for GGG, in lieu of roses On school days, dark on winter mornings, my...

. Rudolf Hess Deputy Führer found strangled at Spandau Prison, August 17, 1987 Odd winter whirlwinds occupy my brain With...

. Sapphire Space and Eden Green "...and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to...

. Glimmers Alone in rumination, distant dawn Eludes the desperate aching of my eyes, My senses blunted by a cheerless...

. The Emmaus Highway Each day we wake up and we walk to Emmaus, escaping what has, and what may...

. He Knows Our Hearts The Sunday flocks who sing as glory pours Through fancy glass as lusty organs play,...

. Who Believes in Easter Anymore? "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but...