Culture

. The Knight of Monticello Everywhere and always, Jefferson read. His library stocked a sage’s daily bread. Four volumes, leather-bound,...

. . Theópneustos Greek, “God breathed” . The Word of God is absolute— __Or else, some claim, it’s obsolete. Many...

. When the Dragon Spreads Its Wings Millennia, the Dragon stayed at home, Consumed its own, kept dissidence at bay,...

. Exodus "The entire community of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron in the desert. The...

. https://youtu.be/ICEvMGx4WnY . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His epic-in-progress, Legends of...

. Rolling the Roads The Days Before Snow Plows . A major storm throughout the night __Of heavy, wet, spring...

. Carpe Diem Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero. (“Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow.”) Horace,...

. The Sound of Dirt   in memory of my granddaughter, Valerie (March 30, 2020 - April 20, 2020) Above uneven...

. Snowy Egret Here where sunlight sparkle rinses Cypresses whose balding branches Shoulder epiphytic orchids (Cowhorn, spider, ghost, or scented),...

. . On the Altar of Our Nation I must confess it took a long, long time For Donald Trump...

. Gallows Lane A lesser charge once meant the pillory, With head and wrists securely set in blocks; For just...

. A Clock Describes People Their faces do not show the time of day But something called emotion: what that...

. Counsel from a Self-Help Guru I haven’t come here purposed with defendingYour excesses or manifold omissions,Or promise all of...

. Lone Musketeer "To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the...

. How to Build a Monster Don’t bother digging corpses up to suture body parts; Don’t seek out full-moon werewolves...

. Old New England Logging Camps My father-in-law oft told me tales __Recalling logging camp— Tough men who cut gigantic...

. Ovid in Tomis Relegated, scorned, I languish here in this drab town. Unwitting, I caught sight of what must...

. Thoughts Upon Hearing of the Taiwan Earthquake Big earthquake in Taiwan. My first concern: “Will China take advantage and...

. Rudolf Hess Deputy Führer found strangled at Spandau Prison, August 17, 1987 Odd winter whirlwinds occupy my brain With...

. Soviet Tactics I Witnessed and Still in Use Today by LTC Roy E. Peterson Outside of the Chinese Communist...

. Sapphire Space and Eden Green "...and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to...

. Glimmers Alone in rumination, distant dawn Eludes the desperate aching of my eyes, My senses blunted by a cheerless...

. The Emmaus Highway Each day we wake up and we walk to Emmaus, escaping what has, and what may...

. He Knows Our Hearts The Sunday flocks who sing as glory pours Through fancy glass as lusty organs play,...

. Who Believes in Easter Anymore? "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but...

. Peter’s Story a villanelle I’m standing by the Sea of Galilee And Jesus calls for me to come along...

. Once Once he was finally dead; once just a piece Of meat nailed to the planks of scabrous wood;...

. Stations of the Cross . I. Pilate Why, Pentheus, Cambyses, why, Why, Antony, in days gone by, Did you...

. The Lilacs on Good Friday Tumult of noontide long ago dismissed— The rent veil unremembered, and the sun Relit,...

. The Lamb “And suddenly there was with the angel a heavenly host saying, Glory to God in the highest,...

. Distress Signals an extended villanelle Distressing times are coming round again, And all the talking heads now flap their...

. Reading of Mark F. Stone's poem "The Wisdom of Ric Edelman" by Ric Edelman on his show available here:...

. Imagine Mountains For the Sesquicentennial of Robert Frost's birth (March 26, 1874 – March 26, 2024) "Let chaos storm!...

. The Line For Ashes Line is long and moving slowly: Step by step, the high and lowly, Halt and...

. Deep State Anonymity Ah, the devil. His motive? To deceive __And for us to deny, To dismiss him as...

. Shades of Vesuvius Seldom does one see horror in a tranche De vie like that in Herculaneum And Pompeii, when a...

. Limerick Perhaps it’s a marketing trick, or else Iceland’s taking the mick; __for what kind of fun __is an Easter Day...

. The Whiskey Priest based on The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene I stand condemned because I am...

. We Are Wrong You shall remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you went out of...

. Queen Esther's Lot for the Jewish holiday of Purim (“Lots”) Oh, to be taken from home’s holy ways, Delivered...