Beauty

. For My Grandfather While Sharpton praised low bandits for their grace, And Barack preached self-pity with pure glee, You...

. True Grit My favourite movie? If I must decide, I'd pick a classic western above all, those epic films...

. The Odd, Flawed and Awed Inspired by “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Canadian poet Robert W. Service If...

. Butterfly Habit Ungainly butterfly, Misdirected flight. Fascinating random, Unpredictable delight. To and fro… up and down And backwards if...

. Beatrice and the Ineffable Smile: Canto XXIII of Paradise by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns Just as...

. On Second Thought When words fail, __perhaps it’s not the words at all, __but hobbled minds that cannot call...

. Behind the Cathedral Master masons made these bastions their own by blending crafts, attaining structural awe; from Notre Dame,...

. Poems from 'The Still Beloved' ('La Amada Inmóvil') by Amado Nervo (1870-1919) translated from the Spanish by Alan Steinle...

. A Poetic Heretic’s Poetry Tips a villanelle inspired by Dr. Salemi's essay "Poetry As The Philosophers Stone" Don’t listen...

. La Corona A childhood scene recalled by Trump of his mother, Mary MacLeod Trump, in The Art of the...

. Rhymeless in Manama My UK friend said, “Rhyme is old, you need to venture free and bold.” My Turkish...

. Canyon de Chelly Reflections of a Non-Native Visitor . An updraft from the red-rock canyon floor Blows through the...

. Spring’s Here! It’s sprung in the branches and springs home to me, It soars through the sap and the...

. Bach's Amazing Journey In the autumn of 1705, when Johann Sebastian Bach was 20, he set out to travel...

. The Garbageman Adrift amid a world that’s lost all rhyme, Where reason reels from first degree assault, It’s little...

. The Power of One You think that you're alone. There's nothing to be done. But I say, "You have...

. Newness a sonnet corona for Doris   I watch you view the newness of your world. Your widened eyes are...

. The Ballad of the Heroic Mother a true story A toddler into water fell __And sank as quick as...

. On the Divine Mercy Seven times the just man falls, and rises again. ---Proverbs 24:16 by Eustache Deschamps (1346-1406)...

. Land and Lake and Sky Here standing by the margin of a lake, I look into its waters, cool...

. Why Can’t I Marry My Pit Bull? Why can’t I marry my pit bull? He’d make an incredible spouse,...

. Ode to the Turnip Oh, turnip! You’re a vegetable maligned, suggestive of a drunk’s empurpled nose. Baked, or boiled,...

. Bend in the River In looking back, a moment since it seems, the river ran, a fawn, leaping, cavorting;...

. Poet, What Dreamer Thou Art  "I feel more and more every day, that as my imagination strengthens, that I...

. An Unexpected Smile inspired by the coronation of King Charles III  Today I woke before the sun had spread...

. DoorWay Canto 2, Extract The Poet has gone through the ‘DoorWay’ and entered heaven. Here in the second Canto...

. Planets, Gods and Weekdays Alarms are snoozed, and Monday's born. A few more snores as dreams are shorn, And...

. . Sophisticated Lady—Small Town Girl “Sophisticated lady” gropes the table at her bedside, blindly taking random swipes to kill...

. The Sonogram Dodona housed the oracle of Zeus, And there the Greeks sought his prophetic aid (Whose force depended...

. Chicken and Andouille Gumbo Try my gumbo recipe From the land of andouille: ½ cup unsalted butter; ½ cup...

. A Requiem for Suzi She fed the birds, she knew them all by name; She cried to see a...

. Delightfully Mine Of handsome landscapes I admire, How few were planned to please my sight. High skies of which...

. Encapsulations “It’s a shame that the tradition of producing small poetic encapsulations of classic texts seems to have died...

. La Luna The poet compares the moon to Eve, our fallen but redeemed mother, and the sun to Mary,...

. The Window Seat “They don’t read poets till they’re dead.” That’s what my wise-guy father said. “They wait till...

. Beatrice Does Not Smile: Canto XXI of Paradise by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns And now my...

. Awaiting Adulation We all spend our lives awaiting adulations’ late arrival. We’re convinced that’s all we need for our...

. A Novice Speaks to a Guardian Tell me, Oh honoured one, The secret of the Way, Of how to...

. A Picture of Repose A young boy’s seated on a wall that overlooks Capri, an oil painting by Dane...

. Friendship When was it first struck up? Nobody knows. It’s carried us through heydays, drabs, and falls. An unsown...