Beauty

  As fiddle lilts its rhymed refrain it harkens an angelic past. If only we could now regain that sweet...

She Walked in Beauty a tribute to Gao Rongrong* after Lord Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty” She walked in Beauty,...

Sonnet IV. Cleve Backster whose work on plant perception gained wide exposure in the 1973 publication The Secret Life of...

  The taxi driver took us down From great Mohonk, New Paltz and such; And every mile we got to...

Good Captains From daring to despair runs common man. A vane to changing winds is his own mind. One hour...

Her Love for Him My true love laughs, and angel choirs sing; The mountains echo back his tuneful mirth While...

These Twins These twins came forth in one amniotic sac. They sensed the danger they had come upon And both...

A reading of the below poems by the poet:   The Loan a villanelle This life we hold so dear...

One Love In all the world there’s but one Love, just one. A single substance—like the billow lit From overhead...

    The man who never cries is like the ship That never sailed, or left the sleepy shores, Who’s...

  I lift my eyes and pray to God above, deliver me, dear Lord, from Satan's Hell. I come to...

May Old Glory Always Wave by Roy E. Peterson May Old Glory always wave Above the tumult and the fray....

Translator's Note: "Adiutor Laborantium" is an Irish poem attributed to Colum Cille (521-597), founder of the monastic community on Iona....

  Side by side, like toy soldiers under the sky, these seedlings all stand in a row. And on this...

Judges: Michael Curtis, Amy Foreman, Reid McGrath, Adam Sedia A few words from Judge Michael Curtis: In apology: If you,...

Dead Poet Of what I was, not much remains, but that which does, indeed still strains to craft and pen...

Kingfishers and Kites Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;...

Disappointment The waiting's not the hardest part: Much worse is when you finally know That what you craved with all...

  The ambit is the noblest cause, A last vestige of Apollo's love, A pursuit freed from any flaws, As...

  Leaf in Fall I feel hard without my love at my side; she is the part of me that...

It’s easy to look without seeing The beauty of life all around; When moments arisen to being Deserve to stir...

  Message in a Bottle A ballad written on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019 While birds above the beachhead soared __and...

  I Spent My Youth with Byron and the Bard I spent my youth with Byron and the Bard, With...

Note: Formal Ballroom Dance competition involves five specific dance forms. This sonnet cycle attempts to introduce and describe them. I...

Cicadas There is, I know, some benefit in this, this cycle of emerging, breeding, dying- so brief a time for...

  A song’s composer’s music might reveal A question or idea in such a way That black notes penned on...

  Birthday Greeting to a Doomed Child a song of lament decrying New York´s “birthday abortion” law, approved January 22,...

  Its coarse name belies this silken treasure, with iridescent dome and spiral apse. Imagination slips in with pleasure, to...

These poems are part of Daniel Galef’s series Imaginary Sonnets. Each sonnet is a verse soliloquy from the perspective of...

  May 2018 How pleasant to recall the light of spring, Which with effulgence breaks the woodland morn, As we...

I Am One, Then "In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of Hell" - Isaiah...

  We are a young ocean. We, __with merry veins once meek and coy, shall fill the belly of this...

  Half man, half monster—I am in a maze. They banished me because of others’ sins. Among these walls, I’m...

. . Song of the Yew, at the University of Georgia, Athens a sprig of General Oglethorpe's ancestral yew was...

  A New Life an English ode With the blending of two souls, in a dance as old as time...

  John Company was the familiar name of the Honourable East India Company which administered India until the Indian Mutiny...

  Solemn Legion of the brave Marching by there grave to grave, Defending faith and family, Fighting wars for our...

The Forlorn Hope—Vicksburg 1863 Back in Vicksburg, the town was surrounded With a battle line twelve miles long. U.S. Grant...

Delimitation To rhyme with proper meter in the cause Of classic forms is nothing anyone Should derogate, but old poetic...

  While driving on an April day along a winding road Through rolling hills, beside the way, I spied a...