Beauty

  The Ladies on the Floor Above ---for the pianist NW and her daughters, and AGM, aged just one "And...

  Cycle of Song O Schubert! Praise with Song your blessed Birth; With youthful Skill, no mortal Feats surpass, You...

  It Must Be Spring Again The air is clear and crisp today _While walking through my garden. A morning...

  At the Wine Bar Embrace the riverlike and endless flow, the rush of energy, the burgundy of Cabernet, Petite...

  Blood Miracle Red marrow makes most of the cells of our blood, _A half-trillion plus every day. Though we're...

  The Last of Winter I stand here at the window glass, The scene before me clear and wide, To...

  Reverie I genuflected, claimed a pew. _The nave was silent-dim. Polychrome glimmers, stained glass threw: _a stagy shark’s-tooth scrim....

    The Villa in Durrës The villa lies in shambles, a woman ravaged, spent, stripped of beauty, usefulness, abandoned...

  Nature's Release Her mind would not surrender; The night kept dragging on. Concerns and obligations--- She struggled towards the...

  Spring Storm A stirring in the pine, a tomblike pause, and then a rhythmic misty harmony is tapping on...

  King Cyrus Issues an Edict “Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia: ‘All the kingdoms of the earth hath the...

  When Still Means Free ---upon watching the movie Melania When someone causes one to smile, With radiance mild, and...

  Sister Goddess and the Chimera “In Greek myth, a chimera is a creepy combination of lion, goat, dragon---in humans,...

  Garden Goddess   I. This humble plot of land is bogged in snow And ice, with twigs and brushy...

  Old Bengal A Mystic Play ---for Shivani Muvva Shivani longs for old Bengal, _For palaces and kings, For servants...

  Atomized The Great Stillness fell throughout the loud town. A quiet dust began to settle down. Where laughter once...

  Baucis and Philemon A Poem for the Day After Valentine’s Day   Dank February’s leavened turf broods green stirrings,...

  Snow Day Behold! A winning winter’s day! The soul of spring is on display: A vivifying snow is come...

  Come Spring Come spring, and all the creeping things come back. The gnats and flies (of various kinds). The...

  Winterberry Robins, cardinals, grouse, and bluebirds, Thrushes, waxwings, and grey catbirds. __Where do they go __In the ice and...

  Snowshoeing on a Winter Morning A silver flicker in the tangy pine has stirred us: she, engulfed in puffery...

  Upon Hiking Eagle Rock Loop, Umpire, AR “Silence breeds creativity.” ---Jason Wood The raucous rush at once absorbed in...

  The Sky Small wonder we placed God up in the sky, Within its infinite and blue construed Eternity and...

  Though My Eyes Grow Dim The world that was my senses, Of smell, of taste and sight, With feeling...

  The Color True It bruises dusk with velvet shade, Descends where ocean dreams are laid. It clings to wings...

  Rain and Snow on Christmas Day In songs of old and times of yore, _'Tis Snow that rules the...

  Liturgical Loopholes   I. Scheduling Redemption: The Pious Musings of a Serial Sinner I must confess when I transgress...

  America! ---for the one-year anniversary of the second Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, leader of the Free World...

  Burdens "eternal weight of glory" ---2 Corinthians 4.17 The conifers out back, weighed down with snow, seem like a...

  A Tribute to Scott Adams ---1957-2026 We lost Scott Adams, and his fertile mind. We mourn his passing, but...

  To Once Have Been Immortal A mountain swollen with the impudence of jaunty youth, unfazed by plodding Time, aspires...

  When from the Damning Writs When from the damning writs of men’s assize I flee the dock of ignorance...

  The Measure of a Woman (or a Man) We’re measured in our mother’s womb by ultrasound to check all’s...

  Encounter with My Dead Father I am holding my father’s hand so white, and in silence we walk up...

  Wall of Ice I have met an icy barrier On this pleasant journey Life That has tried to freeze...

  King of Poets Salaciously Saul slouches on the throne (Backbiting envy never sits upright) Since David’s victories surpass his...

  Watercolors Before her was a canvas, white as snow. Beside her, watercolors, bright and clean. For hours, she sat...

  Art and Nature The well is deep Where poets keep Their unused words, And sylvan groves Are treasure troves...

  Star of Wonder We read of three Wise Men at Christmas each year Who left home on a journey...

  Refrigerator Bird “Say the word for penguin.” Jen Jen waited. Silence. Then I guessed: “Refrigerator bird?” Laughter shook the...