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. Dementing Torture of Benign           Drugs against Malignancy His life came to its End.  Smell...

. Fire Lurks I recognize, while watching ghastly nightEncircle statesmanship revoltingly,Bright bursts of a spangled pyrotechnic star.America! No star, a...

. The Trail of Hate Amid the upbeat crowd a sudden blast Of noise arose like fireworks kissing skies. Fallacious...

. Storming the Bastille from eyewitness accounts July the twelfth, the City of Light was filled With brigands bought by...

. Gunfight at the Oatcake Corral There’s an old English town known as Fargo, In the dark, rugged hills of...

. A Town The difficulty of describing how This town was then, may only be because So little happened there,...

. The Red Carpet There's nothing left to tease imagination When so-called starlets, vying for attention, Sashay the carpet practically...

. The Expert Class “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see” ---Benjamin Franklin The experts...

. Houses Made of Stone Masvingo, southern Africa’s the place; a backwater, land tired and over-farmed, where army ants cut...

. Promises Made, Promises Kept... Give Me a Break! We know, because they promise us their virtuous intent when allocating...

. The Lord of His Castle Setting: King Stephen’s siege of Newbury Castle, England during the English civil war known...

. A Hurricane by Any Other Name... The lights went out in Mexico today. A fury hit Cancun with no...

. It Goes Without Saying "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they...

. . Battle Hymn of the Republic The Lord doth come; the grapes of wrath are crushed! Behold His fiery...

. American Dream Where Did You Go? American dream, where did you go? Visions grand that I loved so? Land...

. Miss Jewell’s Suicide ---from a story by George Gissing The chipped and mismatched crockery,Two boiled eggs and tepid tea,A...

. Ba’al "And they built the high places of Ba'al to burn their children with fire as burnt offerings to...

. Elder Abuse What’s left to us to say? There’ll be no more debates. We know the truth now. Biden...

.  Soulmate Your spouse ideally is your best friend,Providing love and laughter end to end,Supporting and enhancing all day through,But...

. The Pink of Gentle Hermione and White of John Paul II The lodger pauses, as he leaves, to gaze...

. Again Sir Charles Hallé plays Beethoven’s “Appassionata” Sonata for Henri–Montan Berton and Luigi Cherubini, Paris, ca. 1835 The two...

. Rending the Night Remembering My Army Service in Vietnam . Flying bullets rend the night, Sleeping birds in instant...

. Spanish Moss A thicket hides the remnants of a grange, An antebellum place of ghosts and rue--- A gothic...

. Memento Belli _My father had mementoes of the war; _he kept them in a box above his clothes, _where...

. The Plagiarising Poet A young lad sat in class—geography— Bored and in a peaceful reverie. The school bell blared,...

. Reward for How You Live from Italo Calvino’s Italian folktale “Gesù e San Pietro in Friuli” One night, while...

. Some Words to Catholics about Bergoglio God only knows what’s left to say— Most Catholics drift from day to...

. Periodicity Springfield, Illinois, May-June 2024 All our town has caught cicada fever. Seven broods emerge, the selfsame time. This...

. Sidetracked Life’s troubles come in all varieties,From nagging aches that barely raise a frown,To fearsome packs of deep anxietiesThat,...

. Home Run Oh my God the play we made, And, really quite efficiently. We had two billion pawns we’d...

. Ozymandias after Percy Bysshe Shelley More solitary than an orphan’s reachThat vigil, that the shifting peaks repel,A site of...

. I Hear the Distant Thunder I hear the distant thunder rolling__Across the nighttime sky.Incendiary lightning strikes__Of fire are drawing...

. . Driven from Their Homes Deported and despised. Compelled to leave. 900,000 driven from their homes With pain enough...

. The Universal Horoscope and Zodiac Twelve figures in the blazoned zodiac Set by the gods in their unchanging track...

. In Spring 2024, UK poets Jeff Eardley and Peter Hartley crossed paths with American poets James A. Tweedie and...

. Poetry Is Warfare A poem is the writer’s battle pleaAgainst asceticism’s barren call.Truth and beauty (air that poets breathe)Needn’t...

. On the 80th Anniversary of D-Day Humanity once more is under threat,when eighty years ago a Western frontwas opened...

. Today My Brown Sedan Is Two Today, my brown sedan is two, But I behave as if it's twenty,...

. The Witch Hunt I’ve been a lawyer for a long, long time And seen a lot of things that...

. Finding the Crime “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime” ---Lavrentiy Beria, Head of the Secret...