Beauty

. “Upon These Boughs that Shake Against the Cold” ---Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 Her script was always lovely and unique, And...

. There Is a Quiet Place There is a quiet place Where we can go to hide. A place where...

. Advice from the Untalented They smugly said I’d never make much money From playing with my words and making...

. “In God We Trust” The motto for our nation boldly states, “In God we trust,” Which is, of course,...

. Tongues as of Fire If men desire to find belief, to sing It out through throats works best to...

. The Duke D’Alençon Meets Joan of Arc What task from the dauphin comes to me hence? A lowly maid...

. Apollo in Retirement Quite early he approached a humble hut, With saxifrage and canneberge sun-brewed To melt the stone...

. In Praise of Bollywood To India! To visit from afar... My journey there would be a dream fulfilled. To...

. Speechless I have smelt the perfect scent of the flower of a rose, Known intoxicated freedom where frangipani grows....

. Why This Time, Why This Place? When I die And leave this land, Please dear Lord Extend Your hand....

. Judge Not We notice, Signor Alighieri, that You have a rather well developed bent For taking your opponents to...

. Classical Camouflaged __It begins, like all prose poems today, with a bit of narrated diary, as though it were...

. Canzone to the Virgin by Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) Translated by Margaret Coats Virgin beautiful, vested with the sun And...

. Nature at Peace The feeder for our hummingbird. Was torn down by a bear today. She didn’t growl a...

. And Turn Thanks for the twenty seconds of Your crisp, medicinal perspective, Encapsulated in a laugh That shook like...

. From Heathrow to Houston I heard my words would never change a thing From those who had a nose...

. Habakkuk’s Prayer after Habakkuk 3:2, 16-19; excerpts of the prophet’s prayer as he awaited certain destruction of his nation,...

. More than My Queen My Queen has always been a noble force--- A force for good on chilly English...

. Memories of Memorial Day Sad son standing all alone Staring at the marker stone. Father died he never knew---...

. Liberty If skies were ever-blue each lustrous day, If moons were in bold bloom each raven night, If life...

. Simplicity I’m aching for a vague simplicity: Sophistication’s dainties have grown cold And tepid on the plate and suddenly...

. Karl Barth Platz 1999 Perhaps we walked the same worn cobblestones, Between the same sheer walls, shops clean and...

. Press On, Regardless Conduct a full internal audit, Then throw all caution to the wind. Expect a decent measured...

. Sibylline Sonnets for Eastertide See an explanation on what Sibyls are here. The Phrygian Sibyl Speaks portrayed with the resurrection...

. Where Your Treasure Is “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and...

. Nil Carborundum Illegitimi  On dismal days enswathe yourself in rays, Then flash your splash of sunrise with panache. Such...

. Free-Fall My life has been in free-fall since the day that I was born. __Through clouds and sunshine, I...

. May God Excuse Us If life’s a falling knife then catch the handle... Your every move makes enemies and...

. Formal Poetry Against Free Verse "Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Plato in...

. Now Once Again How many years ago, I’ve lost the count, we lay beneath these trees at summer’s end;...

. Culloden, April 16, 1746 In the Winter of 1745, the Jacobite army of Bonnie Prince Charlie passed through my...

. All Are Numbered Moving along the narrow grassy rows Under a sherbet sky, time seems to be The only...

. The Devoted Angler The river follows on its winding way, And in the angler’s camp above the bank Lilt...

. https://youtu.be/6gDs63kyLhc . CREDITS Poetry: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Voice-Over: S.A. Todd Photos/Footage: Photo of Pharaoh by ArchaiOptix, licensed under...

. Some Days in the Life of a Bride of Christ “But he that is joined unto the Lord is...

. Resist Arrest Instead of Arresting Resistance In Denmark, something now is very rotten, As fetid as the food-scraps in...

. Moments in Marble from Michelangelo’s sculptures; above from left are depicted Dusk, Dawn, Night, and Day Day hustles up,...

. "Tomorrow, at Dawn" Sung in English . "Tomorrow, at Dawn" Sung in French . Tomorrow, at Dawn by Victor...

. Euryalus Describes His Mother In Vergil’s Aeneid, the youthful Euryalus volunteers for a dangerous nighttime raid, asking that his...

. A Mother’s Worth A mother’s worth, it glows and gleams in eyes. It beams in grins and giggles sent her...