Beauty

. Elysium O golden hour, soft denouement of day, O mystic time of quietude and peace, When boughs and rushes...

. Bergerette by Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), translated by Margaret Coats O shepherdess, my friend,On love alone I live.True love...

. Lay of the Oak I now recall a lay for you, A Briton’s tale of love made new. A...

. Fire on Ice How shall I serve my anger up to you? Shall I become like one most distant...

. Congratulations and Homage to Giorgia Meloni Italy rises up and overthrows The stench of leftist tyranny at last. Rage...

. The Last Detail Two cocksure, loud–mouthed lads one day set out, Intent on catching perch. “No,” Jim said, “trout.”...

. Sex in the English Garden Light, feathery Astilbe Sways gently in the breeze Afraid she always will be Faint...

. Sentimental Song A pad and pen lie by his side __This moonless night of fall. And though he tries...

. The Recollected Dream When midsummer rain is spearing From storm clouds darkest grey That provide no hint of clearing...

. What I Learned from Tolkien The darkness comes and all seems bleak and wrong, My calm is rent, right...

. Milking the System We waited, we have waited, and we wait. Delays continue to increase the cost Of doing...

. Carcassonne by Gustave Nadaud (1820-1893) Translated by Joshua C. Frank “At sixty years, I’m getting old, And I’ve been...

. . The Night When most have fled the day and sought their beds Pre-empting stealthy onset of the night;...

. StairWell Canto 10 extract 2 Context: In the 10th Canto of HellWard we met 4 poets condemned to Hell....

. To a Cloud  You’re a pillow of marshmallow. You balloon and bob and billow As I sprawl beneath the willow __On the grass. You’re a swish of whitest feather....

. Last Place Winner after winning the 30-34 age group with a last-place finish in a 5K Inhaling frozen oxygen,...

. Mid-September Reverie from the book Eternal Spring Moonbeams at midnight and frost on the pole; Wind in the willows...

. The Beginning of Wisdom Within the passing noon of our own life, I saw through woodlands dark and traces...

. The Morning’s Crest The morning’s crest is in its youth, The dawn has yet to lose a tooth, The...

. Drunk on Compassion How good it feels to open up your heart And groove on how compassionate you are!...

. For My Queen Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor April 21, 1926 - September 8, 2022 My symbol of nobility,...

. Capability Brown Lancelot “Capability” Brown was England’s greatest landscape architect. His name was Capability, A man of great humility,...

. Who Shaves the Barber? shaves all those, and those only, who do not shave themselves.  —Bertrand Russell The barber...

. Cracked Liberty Bell July the 4th—Independence. Many bands play. Parades pass by— Fireworks fly. __Rocket’s red glare . ....

. StairWell Canto 10 extract Context: In the 10th Canto of HellWard we met 4 poets condemned to Hell. Now...

. Ozymandias Begins I met the monarch of our ancient land, who said, ‘Your skill at sculpting is renowned. The...

. Summer Nocturne In steady, humming monotone, With synchronism the crickets drone, And hushedly through the night intone __Their evening...

. Seminary Recalling days of vigor and simplicity, of boyish spirits spun from neural gossamer and hardened into granite by...

. Food for Thought A Culinary Tale There once was a man wan and pallid, he Suffered from a mysterious...

. The One Standing Tall for the Poet's father The home is where he lives, his heart is full Of...

. The Death of the Leviathan The monster finally meets its doom: Sound out the death-knell, light the pyre! The...

. The Shade Tree While out for a walk with my toddler, late, In the city I have come to...

. The 22 Best Haiku of 2022 Winner and Runners-up of the Society of Classical Poets 2022 Haiku Competition Judged...

. Requiem for Eurydice The sunlight dims before my eyes, __My fingertips lose yours, And as my whispered farewell flies,...

. The Grieving of Autumn Be tender toward your own yearnings, When the grieving of autumn returns. When the brown...

. A Villanelle for Robert Hoogland Hoogland was imprisoned for calling his daughter female Their mouths are gagged, their hands...

. Ode to Poets of the Past I do agree with the sights__that I have seen:the warm and comfortable steps__where...

. Daedalus Icarus, you have disobeyed, As all men do, and dearly paid. Too recklessly your heart did fly Between...

. An Old Man's Wallet His wallet holds the scraps of yesterday with faded photos dearest to his heart; A...

. On Rainy Nights On rainy nights, in pensive thought, I claim the respite I have sought but seldom found...