Beauty

It spreads like wildfire when you give a smile. At first you won’t really notice at all, But if you...

Beyond the skies is universal eternity. Nebulous ghosts of dust float around In the black hole of space. A night...

Revised October 18, 2021 A Psalm of Christmas What the heart of the young activist said to the psalmist by...

In darkness, in the mantling of the night, When Earth is calm, and troubling noises cease, I turn with wonder-looking...

Here is a blonde-marked maple tree: Stands by the road so stolidly While mourners make their floral shrines And in...

Whether if my promise be known or not, Of which I spoke when lying on this spot, The weeds have...

Those Catskill Mountain Climbs I've walked from Ayers rock to Sydney I've seen all those majestic sites I've beheld the...

A Sonnet Saluting Lady Snow Snow is a rainfall in frozen repose; Rainbow rich in hues, delicate its shape After...

A godly painting held over their heads As they process through a street in Florence, Each face is free from...

Where lightness finds the passage through the dark the thoroughfare of dimness, where we’ll soar about the sun undone, unborn...

—a sonnet of differing with Keats Behold this naked truth, and say not Beauty: a body splayed, nailed cruelly to...

Wake to this dawn like no day before you. Rise to this morning like no other morn. Night is now...

Clouds skip away from the full shine of the full moon The palace is lit up The maestro lifts his...

April 2013 The snow has thawed; it's Spring again Crickets sing to the beat of rain The sky is dark,...

Faery Dust Anarchy With winds awhistling through the trees and air sprites dancing on the breeze, you'll hear the pipes...

He's placed dramatically center stage by Benjamin West—Benjamin Franklin. His gray hair flies. He's getting on in age. Electricity coming...

The lake cradles symmetries of spring trees. The sky scries the membrane of wide waters: unseen breezes, like me, are...

On "Kaaterskill Creek" by Erik Koeppel for the memory of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The site is downstream from the Kaaterskill...

In Niagara by Frederick Edwin Church, immediately one’s taken in to the great falls. From a remarkably precarious perch, one’s...

Young knucklehead: Today you’ll bruise your thumb To harden you to pains to come; The sun will burn; the heat...

Goddess sleek and draped in white, Flowing wisps of long brown hair, Halo hat of holy light, Cherubs floating everywhere....

How weird and eerily appears, that solar surge, Aurora Borealis, 1865, by Hudson River School's Frederic Edwin Church. The skyscape...

Avocado Grove On dry, withered leafs Until drizzle leaves Sitting silently The fruit’s ripe, big crops Giant green rain drops...

Nearby a wasp lights, twitching its pointed stinger in the summer heat. As I drive my car, an eagle flies...

They operate contrary to the rules of common sense that we hold dear as proof that what we know is...

The Farmer’s Wife He may as well be sitting on a piece Of junk john-boat out on some open lake....

1.  In 373, at Antioch, Jerome asked himself if he were not a disciple of Cicero rather than Christ, his...

Alone, I take a flight to see some friends, I gaze out over ocean from the clouds and marvel, as...

Written in May 2010 / Revised April 2020 Trumpets blast and Heaven opens, light shoots through, Gods of all the...

God of men who’s dressed in white, Beard on face of long brown hair, Halo pattern traced in light, Nimbus...

‘On The Group Of The Three Angels Before The Tent Of Abraham, By Raphael, In The Vatican’ O, now I...

  I This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven’s eternal King, Of wedded...

Ballade for Trains They are no more, the whistles’ longing wails, Retreating like a stately, mournful queen. Where are the...

Below is an excerpt of the last ten stanzas of Lord Byron's ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,’ published originally in the 1810s....

The American poet Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, CA. He spent his first 40...

. Lepanto Editor's Note: Don John of Austria, or Don Juan de Austria, (1547-1578) was half-brother to King Philip II of Spain...