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. A Prayer in Three Quatrains Too well I know, I am a son of error; Too well I know...

. Crystal Spires or Lake of Fire? The day shall come. For some, just like a thief That sneaks unknown....

. Nehemiah Questions Robert Frost About Walls “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” ---Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” “Jerusalem...

. Empty Words There was a time not long agoWhen insults led to deadly duels.Today, on streaming videoI saw men...

. Cicada Serenade Boys hang their beat on the heat of the summer. Sticky days twang with their thick, tinny...

. Dante in Modern Times If I were Dante, and the quest were mine To reprise chapters of his Comedie...

. The High Priest's Homily Once Man, in thrall to ignorance, believed the world was round, But now we know...

. Circling In It’s time (I tell myself) we circled in;Gave up at last the overwrought concernThat pulls us this-way-that...

. For All Who Labor by Christine de Pisan (1364-c. 1430) Lady, fair branch where God’s grace blooms,Our labors, Saint...

. Married to the Mob He’s going out again today. What for? His hundredth chance to settle some old score?...

. Wisdom of Reagan: Government Waste “Government is like a baby: with a big appetite at one end and no...

. Ode to the Zeer Across the Sahel states, the humble zeer, A pear-shaped or full-bellied earthen pot Strains muddy...

. Oversimplification What so many people tend to say or write, Reduces complex issues of today, To merely simple packages...

. The First Fallen Leaf A single leaf begins to fall. He wants to be the first of all. His...

. August Foraging “It’s hot, it’s dry. No fun outdoors; No fungi, flowers, foliage, fruit For us to eat where...

. The Worst of Our Convictions When, finally, the last church shuts its doors; when we run out of new...

. Mainstream News "Just 7% of Americans have 'a great deal' of trust and confidence in the media, and 27%...

. The Mannequins Are Melting The mannequins are melting as we speak Now that the summer heat wave's at its...

. The Web of Sustenance __Voraciously the lion feeds, But leaves the scraps for jackals and hyenas— __To each according...

. The Leper “When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. A man with leprosy came and...

. The Wise Farmer ---based on a Zen parable attributed to Alan Watts A farmer in China was left by...

. It Won’t Happen Here There were anti-Semites in our Congress, And still they said:  “It will not happen here.”...

. Free Verse as Nightmare Surrealism “I thirst for new songs without moons or irises, and without loves that have...

. Prodigious Dreams Let not these Autumn notes lead you amiss. Autumn, indeed, is come (the signs are all around)....

. Knock, Knock! ---free speech in the UK is dead Three more children stabbed---a country mourning The murdering of minors...

. But Who Am I? “But Moses said to God, ‘Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and...

. Sicilian Samurai circa 1700 He made a startling, militant request To journey to Japan—strange land long closed To foreign...

. Chasing Time  "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a...

. Boycott the Bullies ---a pantoum for the real women boxers at the Paris Olympics Don’t let a slappy chap...

. The 2024 Olympics . I. Excusez-moi, s’il vous plait, But having seen your lewd display, I’ve chosen not to...

. In the Shade There Meekly Grows a Plant urushiol (yoo-roo-shee-awl) is the name of the compound in poison ivy...

. Three Small Tabs Upon the men’s room wall at church, A flyer’s there for men who search For healing...

. The Psychopath Addresses the Ladies Auxiliary of the Mental Ward "When an inner situation is not made conscious, it...

. A Heroic Crown of Sonnets in Honor of the Ever Virgin . ---1st Mystery: The Prophecy of Isaiah ....

. The Maze Her little game of make believe has turned into a nightmare maze. Her tears have spilled upon...

. A Ballade to Becoming .. I. Conceptio You may have fame, be well to do, And live beneath a...

. The Vision of George Washington based on the story by Wesley Bradshaw, published in 1880 . I. Message Disclosed...

. Cyprus  July 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the invasion of part of Cyprus by Turkey Land of my...

. My Vacation Trip in Verse by James A. Tweedie One of the comments in response to the recent “On...

. Freedom of Speech vs. the NBA The CCP has raged and seethed, oh joy! Daryl Morey was not playing...