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. A Note on Iambic Barktameter I have an Australian Shepard named Sunny who loves poetry. I didn’t believe it...

. Bats at Sunset The monster is rotund, vile, enormous, three-muzzled, and barking ---Vasily Trediakovsky, after Virgil The woods are...

. The Calendar You are the festive dregs of January,you liven February with Valentine’s.You are the March that gives spring...

. Moments from Dante’s Inferno Prepared to travel, if the gods allowed, I saw the woods were dreary, dark as...

. Swimming with Dreams and Memory My childhood dreams and memories remain through adulthood and old age. My doll speaks....

. “Newquay, we have a problem” January 9, 2023 We’ve gathered in thousands to witness the blast-off, We’re sipping Champagne...

. Greta's Smorgasbord of Hate I love the pretty trees, the trees love me! They make me dance and sing,...

. Gloucester in July A thousand silent saints and angels Hewn from vertex, plane, and angle Raised by blow of...

. Beatitude Be glad and smile, for they revile, The Truth they mock and put on trial, The Beauty they...

. El Pescado They gloat: the age of Pisces, it is over. They chant to call Aquarius’ forces in. In...

. The Christmas Story An angel of the Lord, Came forth with joyful news, Of Him Who is adored, Messiah...

. Civilisations Forget the Taste of Their Own Tails To see a friend possessed By the time’s ideological incantations, To...

. Bingo Ladies Gray-haired gals meet twice a week, Have their luncheon with the clique At the Wendy’s in Coppell....

. Out, out, brief candle! ---Macbeth I am black-dog blue and blinded by the glitzy gaze of stars. Lucent moons...

. For Sophie Pakaluk Barrows based on The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God by Michael Pakaluk in pie...

. On the Banning of the Word 'Field' by the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work See the...

. For the French Revolution Oh, this shall tell the tale of France’s past: the revolution brought in ‘eighty nine,...

. Be Gone an angry teenage daughter to her absconded mother What irritant incited you to leave And not come...

. Letter from a DC Prison We’d seen the evidence, the ballots dropped In loads of boxes trundled in late-night...

. Antietam It was the bloodbath battle of the Civil War; Scores of men died, by musket, the gore; Was...

. Queen of Jubilees A Queen there was, revered, of global fame--- Elizabeth the Second was her name. For three-score-years-and-ten...

. Mourning Louis XVI We must not say in public that we mourn--- Sit still, Brigitte, and listen to your...

. The Departing Year This night shall stand and stare with wintry rage Through half-closed windows stained in loss and...

. "I Will Mock When Your Calamity Cometh"  "...but ye have set at nought my counsel, and would hear none...

. Xi When Xerxes saw his bridge of boats which spanned The Hellespont destroyed, forthwith he laid Fetters of iron...

. Cambridge Dictionary Women, 2040 In 2040 leftist sports fans Realized their greatest joys, With legendary women’s records Smashed by...

. La Bandera “ never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders” —Benjamin Franklin It was the feast...

. The Babylonian Exile At first it cut much quicker to the bone: The loss of all, our world brought...

. Unholy Orders for defrocked priest Frank Pavone I heard disturbing news: Pope Francis fired a priest For preaching pro-life...

. Shams Shams-i Tabrizi was Rumi’s intimate friend and spiritual mentor. I stayed awake those short midsummer nights When naked...

. . A Broadside Drawn up before us, proud and sure, Costumed in their haute couture, And sporting all the...

. The Winter Cold I so despise the winter cold; I admit it makes me utter all kinds of truly...

. Calendar Poems by Margaret Coats January loves what goblets hold, And February complains of cold. March plows the fields...

. New Year’s Resolution a villanelle by David Whippman And what have you resolved for the new year? I guarantee...

. Same Old New Year   I bid adieu. You shuffle out. A new you shimmies in--- A you without the...

. Her Silent Prayer  for Isabel Vaughan-Spruce  Beneath the whisper of suburban trees One sombre, sunless, British afternoon, A hushed and humble lady stood at ease In thoughts that rose above the earth...

. Two Empty Chairs “We did the NFP bit for awhile ... and have felt revulsion over it ever since....

. “Where Ever-present Joy Knows Naught of Time” ---Dante, Paradiso, Canto X, D.L. Sayers translation a rondeau redouble Where ever-present...

. Crimes Against My Sanity At any-given-time o’clock While tidying my house, I find--- Oh look---is that another sock? It...

. Addiction A ripple imperceptible, like hints of amber in the tiring balsams, swells to waves of apprehension, then imprints...