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. Fracture Mechanics Dams, bridges, tunnels, buildings and the like Are often structurally sound for years If not centuries, whereupon...

. The Moselle Tranquil meandering alluvion, From Vosges pink sandstone hills it percolates In rillets past rich vines in echelon...

. Fifth Glyph This glyph, in British talk, occurs most oft--- most common, too, writ down within our books. Twixt...

. Commodore Perry Opens Japan On July 8, 1853, on the orders of President Millard Fillmore, Commodore Matthew Perry led...

. Lord, Give Me Serenity Lord, give me serenity To deal with lunatics, Especially the ones Who are found in...

. All That’s Left Is Yours based on I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris The bride walked the aisle...

. Beyond the Visible Veil Gravity cannot hold those forms who float __And drift—hiding in air— Though some guard human...

. Xanadu Revisited after "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Coleridge __In Washington aristocrats __ordain corruption happily: __here the Potomac River flows...

. How Strange We Cannot See a Reflection on Indian Boarding Schools and the Continuing Subjugation of Native Peoples God...

. The Revised Guide to Selling Adult Beverages  Dismiss the woke approach to advertising--- It’s mad and bad and far...

. Gnome A long-time fixture at our home Is Schnozz, our little garden gnome. This non-complaining happy chap Appears to...

. Life and Death This life has so much left in store, We think, a day gone by isn't lost; It's...

. An Aging Senator Returns to the Capitol Confused and more than half-way gone to Hell, They wheel her in...

. Creation From deep within eternity, the soundOf song burst out! As Perfect Fullness stirred,A melody in wisdom wrought, profound,Complex...

. Contract Murder No one is ever quite sure how it’s planned— What’s clear is that a grievance is expressed...

. Target Gets Targeted A leftist agenda endorsed,Down customers’ throats it was forced.They now find their business is blighted,You could...

. When Two Elephants Fight---Sudan, 2023 The regular army and the Rapid Support Force (RSF) are at war with each...

. Gaslighted Our friendship limped along for thirty years. I can’t say why. The scornful views you’d share Instilled resentment,...

. America America, vast land of dreams __From sea to shining sea, Where eagles soar and twilight gleams __On Lady...

. With Liberty and Justice for All Old Glory may have stripes and stars, But on those stars and stripes...

. The Great War Ever be their memory, Those interred across the sea, Men who, fighting evil, fell, Who endured...

. For My Grandfather While Sharpton praised low bandits for their grace, And Barack preached self-pity with pure glee, You...

. Red Flags a sestina sonnet The national flags of the Westerners’ lands Turn red in the dim, fading light...

. True Grit My favourite movie? If I must decide, I'd pick a classic western above all, those epic films...

. The Odd, Flawed and Awed Inspired by “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Canadian poet Robert W. Service If...

. Remorseless Back on 19, returning from the lake, Where she had stowed sling chairs for next week’s meet, Her...

. On Second Thought When words fail, __perhaps it’s not the words at all, __but hobbled minds that cannot call...

. Behind the Cathedral Master masons made these bastions their own by blending crafts, attaining structural awe; from Notre Dame,...

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. Cain’s Daughter I was not in the garden when the veil of beauty tore I heard no serpent beckon...

. A Poetic Heretic’s Poetry Tips a villanelle inspired by Dr. Salemi's essay "Poetry As The Philosophers Stone" Don’t listen...

. La Corona A childhood scene recalled by Trump of his mother, Mary MacLeod Trump, in The Art of the...

. Rhymeless in Manama My UK friend said, “Rhyme is old, you need to venture free and bold.” My Turkish...

. Canyon de Chelly Reflections of a Non-Native Visitor . An updraft from the red-rock canyon floor Blows through the...

. So Much for Legitimate Women's Sports Vladimir Gonzales, a young Italian athlete, With 28 inch biceps and a 68...

. Bach's Amazing Journey In the autumn of 1705, when Johann Sebastian Bach was 20, he set out to travel...

. Newness a sonnet corona for Doris   I watch you view the newness of your world. Your widened eyes are...

. The Ballad of the Heroic Mother a true story A toddler into water fell __And sank as quick as...

. On the Divine Mercy Seven times the just man falls, and rises again. ---Proverbs 24:16 by Eustache Deschamps (1346-1406)...

. Why Can’t I Marry My Pit Bull? Why can’t I marry my pit bull? He’d make an incredible spouse,...