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. I’m Not Too Keen On China Nowadays I’m not too keen on China nowadays: The moves they’ve made against Taiwan of...

. A Prophecy the East Fulfilled The year 1999, seventh month, From the sky will come a great King of...

. Self Defense When he pulled out his knife I thought I had No choice so I pulled out my...

. To Serve and Protect Of all the events that fill the history of quiet, little–known Uvalde town, there cannot...

. Apology I’m sorry if you feel like you were hurt. Not everyone in life is going to be As...

. Keep Calm and Carry On! “UK heatwave: Temperatures to rise to 41C amid extreme heat warning” ---BBC News  “The...

. The Pale Rider Comes “So then give to Caesar what is his,” our Lord and Master said, __“And to...

. Sumo's Winning Ways Fierce frontal impact clenches victory In less time than an untrained eye can blink, But connoisseurs...

. In the First Degree Had the bullet’s trajectory veered half a foot to the right, It might not have...

. “Hosanna,” All The Children Cried “Hosanna,” all the children cried, And Christ was pleased to open wide For them...

. The Automated Phone System I called up a business But no person answered, I got a phone system With...

. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, Odes, II.8 “The first thing we learn about Barine is that she is in the habit...

. A Hopeless Rondelet  All trust is dead, Killed by lies in love’s disguise. All trust is dead--- It’s buried...

. In the City The city, where the liars are in charge And all the criminals are still at large:...

. Back in My Day I tested my courage---well, no, not really. The heroic stuff had been done before. My...

. Free Verse Let us free verse from "free verse" while we can;A pile of branches does not make a...

. America’s Most Mysterious Monument The first of the anonymously funded Georgia Guidestone’s guidelines: “Maintain humanity under 500,000,000” “The world...

. The Pigeon Once upon a workday morning, sleepy-eyed and loudly yawning, I was splattered without warning by a pigeon...

. O Say, Can You See?   Let’s think as we sink into star-spangled wonder, Intolerable acts were the reason to...

. Anew Whisk me away to the mountainside. __Spirit me far to the glen. For I long to find that...

. A Ballade on Being Commissioned  Twixt Florence and the Holy See Of every artist you could hire You thought...

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHUuaA8DKiQ . On Palestrina's Music Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, Ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus. Psalmus...

. Groomers   The words the school kids speak are not their own--- Fiends mold the untrained brain till every thought...

. On Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Fields Are we just rats within a maze? Perhaps. But then perhaps there’s more to...

. Abiding Senescence My energy and physical abilities Will not again be limitless as once they were. To those more...

. Advice from the Untalented They smugly said I’d never make much money From playing with my words and making...

. Australia in 2022 written on the eve of a federal election where everything is at stake but nothing is...

. “In God We Trust” The motto for our nation boldly states, “In God we trust,” Which is, of course,...

. Tongues as of Fire If men desire to find belief, to sing It out through throats works best to...

. The Duke D’Alençon Meets Joan of Arc What task from the dauphin comes to me hence? A lowly maid...

. An Open Poem to Evil “Gravity is real... it’s hard to keep a bag of shit in the air...

. Apollo in Retirement Quite early he approached a humble hut, With saxifrage and canneberge sun-brewed To melt the stone...

. A Glass for My Father Marie-Maurille de Virot, Mademoiselle de Sombreuil (February 14, 1768—May 15, 1823) My father was...

. On the Extradition of Julian Assange The fiends who wield the power here on earth (The ones who gag...

. Who Bled When all is said and life be trod, One takeaway the Son of God Made clear, when...

. In Praise of Bollywood To India! To visit from afar... My journey there would be a dream fulfilled. To...

. Decolonising the Curriculum – Dual Scenario on Salford University's recent treatment of the sonnet. We must decolonise our poetry...

. What Is “Pro-Choice"? If my child were sent to die, Be chopped to pieces like a pig, To spare...

. Classical Poetry and the Martial Ethos by Andrew Benson Brown . The Heroic Age Towards the end of “Egil’s...

. "Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing" ---Lines On Dreadful Instagram Poetry A halitosis belch of steam Spewed out in words....