Beauty

  Consider black’s effect; when it’s combined With other colors just a little trace Creates a shade but more will...

The Society of Classical Poets, a New York-based 501(c)(3) non-profit with Members across the nation and around the world, wishes...

  Destined for the Mount Rushmore of Radio Triumphal times are on the way, America’s Anchor Man. We Dittoheads will...

  My father wore his sorrow like a hundred millstone weight. I seldom saw him angry and I never saw...

  The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and...

I recently discarded some unnecessary texts, and among them were two past editions (the 17th and the 20th) of Len...

  Astride the Golden Horn, where Occident __And Orient collide, the silhouettes __of minarets co-mingle with the scent __of spice...

  The captain stood amidst his crew, and wiped the bar for someone new. To make them laugh he'd tell...

  The Dizi Gui (弟子规) is an ancient Chinese text for children that was written in the Qing Dynasty during...

  The room fills with a charming melody— A choir of violins in soaring flight With basses, cellos pulsing—one, two,...

Poet's note: This poem is built upon an episode from Xenophon’s Anabasis, in which the Ten Thousand, Greek mercenaries in...

  When reading Irish hagiography, a few instructions should be borne in mind: First, don’t mistake this for the history...

  When You Love When you love The heart of one, Life makes sense With each new sun. You start...

  Domain of Pain A piercing migraine or a throbbing toothache, A splinter underneath a fingernail, An upset stomach caused...

  The Stranger Above the dark hill in the still Spanish night, The moon, a lone fountain of watery light,...

  Endless Dream I walk the trail, in hopes of reaching you, As winter sheds her tears of crystal ice....

The Climber inspired by and dedicated to Chris Bonington and my erstwhile heroes Don Whillans and Dougal Haston He has...

  At the Cemetery “Drowned together while playing with a sled on the ice of the Saw Mill Pond at...

Solemn Silent Soldiers Rest by Roy E. Peterson, written May 22, 2020 Solemn, silent soldiers rest Beneath the green earth’s...

  17 March 2019 When bleeds the heart with heartache harsh and deep, And coiling loins are toiling, boiling hot,...

  Oh, What Is Prayer? Oh, what is prayer? Is it a mystery, that bridges earth and heaven in a...

by Sultana Raza In April 1820, Keats was already aware that he had tuberculosis, and in spring of that year,...

Hummingbird Communion I watch them play at dawn of day, as molten gold is splashed their way, on feathers flecked...

Clarity and Obscurity Part III Read Part I: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Read Part II: "Concrete" Poetry...

  O do not chasten me with tales of fine __Fresh wells of wisdom and of warriors bold, __Or sacred...

  New York poet Joe Tessitore challenges poets to begin a poem with these words:   My country used to...

all poems by Bruce Dale Wise   The Pilot by Air Weelbed Suc I saw him flying overhead, a pilot...

  https://youtu.be/bYg-ITiEEyM   "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud," also known as "Daffodils," the poem by former British Poet Laureate...

The Argument: The Poet, having escaped the HellWard of European and corrupt politicians, emerges into the penultimate HellWard depth where...

St. Piran (Feast Day: March 5) A rhupunt Irish heathens, Unbelieving, Strapped poor Piran To a stone then Rolled him...

  In the midst of free-verse critics’ Smug, inchoate analytics __Seasoned with self-righteous pedantry, There are poets who are striving...

  Spring Snow Tyrant Winter reaches __Beyond its frozen tomb, Dares cast its icy mantle __On bud and crocus-bloom. Long...

Deep Regrets Dedicated to the memory of the 118 men of the Russian submarine Kursk, which exploded and sank in...

  The Onus of Vernal Duty Surrounding fields and woods unfreeze, The air once more is filled with light, As...

  Donald J. Trump They laugh at him and sneer as if his lack Of faith in modernism’s unholy gods...

  It takes patience to learn patience; It takes courage to be brave. One must first find mental freedom To...

  Vermont in April doesn’t seem to know quite how to dress. She thinks she ought to wear bright, flowery...

We meet Diomedes, the Greek hero of Troy, trapped in a flame with Odysseus in Canto 26 of Dante’s Inferno....

  Winter's Breath The sudden chill of winter's sigh Caresses me when autumn flees. My meager warmth she tries to...