Beauty

. The Stonechat Listens at the Asylum Window I fear I might mistranslate what you said And lose the very...

. Note: Burns Night is when Scotland’s most important bard, Robert Burns (1759-1796), is celebrated, usually with the recitation of Burns’...

. The Problem of Good a Petrarchan sonnet If there’s (the armchair philosopher maintains) A God (most likely writing in...

. . On Alma Tadema’s Coign of Vantage Flora peeks over the marble parapet, a dizzying perch above the azure...

. Ever Flowing Upon the rushing river’s bank I stand, deep water, ever flowing as it goes. The turbulence of...

. John Adams in Heaven John and Abigail Adams are being guided through heaven by John Milton. He takes them...

. Bats at Sunset The monster is rotund, vile, enormous, three-muzzled, and barking ---Vasily Trediakovsky, after Virgil The woods are...

. The Calendar You are the festive dregs of January,you liven February with Valentine’s.You are the March that gives spring...

. Moments from Dante’s Inferno Prepared to travel, if the gods allowed, I saw the woods were dreary, dark as...

. Banish the Thought Who are you? Not me, I know You creep and crimp my edges fray, An apparition...

. Swimming with Dreams and Memory My childhood dreams and memories remain through adulthood and old age. My doll speaks....

. Gloucester in July A thousand silent saints and angels Hewn from vertex, plane, and angle Raised by blow of...

. Beatitude Be glad and smile, for they revile, The Truth they mock and put on trial, The Beauty they...

. El Pescado They gloat: the age of Pisces, it is over. They chant to call Aquarius’ forces in. In...

. The Christmas Story An angel of the Lord, Came forth with joyful news, Of Him Who is adored, Messiah...

. The Wind Listen, listen! Do you hear it?  It is on the march tonight--- The incessant winter wind that...

. Worth Disguised The hammer lifts, the anvil rings, The room with screaming noises brings __A torture, here inflicted. The...

. Bingo Ladies Gray-haired gals meet twice a week, Have their luncheon with the clique At the Wendy’s in Coppell....

. This Side of Eternity I. Imagination, you’re a two-edged sword, The universe your oyster, opened wide; Conceiving all the...

. For Sophie Pakaluk Barrows based on The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God by Michael Pakaluk in pie...

. Be Gone an angry teenage daughter to her absconded mother What irritant incited you to leave And not come...

. The Fluctuations of Modernity and Antiquity a pantoum __Something is ahead, A solemn note on open sky, __It rises...

. Queen of Jubilees A Queen there was, revered, of global fame--- Elizabeth the Second was her name. For three-score-years-and-ten...

. Elegy for an Unremarkable Man Poor Niel is dead. He’d been off sick since May. Cancer, they said, as...

. Thorns Grow with Song It’s time to rend our hearts and look inside The chambered will, into the voices...

. Mourning Louis XVI We must not say in public that we mourn--- Sit still, Brigitte, and listen to your...

. The Departing Year This night shall stand and stare with wintry rage Through half-closed windows stained in loss and...

. The Babylonian Exile At first it cut much quicker to the bone: The loss of all, our world brought...

. The Sky with Birds Just Lately Born Sometimes there’s a sadness in my heart. A stone, a thought, a...

. . A Broadside Drawn up before us, proud and sure, Costumed in their haute couture, And sporting all the...

. A Holy Picnic A small child had a vision in the light Of day, while sitting square upon the...

. Dark Sky Back home, the dark is overborne By a billion busy diodes Emitting artificial light, Thence seeping out...

. Calendar Poems by Margaret Coats January loves what goblets hold, And February complains of cold. March plows the fields...

. Same Old New Year   I bid adieu. You shuffle out. A new you shimmies in--- A you without the...

. Two Empty Chairs “We did the NFP bit for awhile ... and have felt revulsion over it ever since....

. “Where Ever-present Joy Knows Naught of Time” ---Dante, Paradiso, Canto X, D.L. Sayers translation a rondeau redouble Where ever-present...

. Villanelle for Timothy When chains of cold resentment in the end Entangle souls and circle ‘round to bind, There’s...

. On Attending a Holiday Ensemble with My Wife We’re gathered in a colleague’s home, Invited to this performance; Watching...

. Wisdom When young I dreamed of someday being wise, And pictured brilliant input holding sway. But via jolts of...

. St. Joseph's Hymn of Praise Matthew 2: 10-15: “And when the Magi were departed, behold, the angel of the...