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. The Secret Garden Beyond these ivied walls grows naught but heather Gorse and broom, the moors engulfed by blows...

. There never was a night so long When time went crawling by. The Arctic wind came howling in Across...

. The Commander-in-Chief How Biden sucks---I mean the man, Who being wholly characterless Will criticize Afghanistan "Cowards"---when he can’t face...

. “Come with me, child, past all this camouflage.” “Is there a secret garden there, Grandpa?” “Not quite. It’s just...

. Cheap Sauvignon’s chilled and then swilled just to stave off the pain, While TVs drone on as cons ponder...

Reviewed Book: Legends of Liberty Volume 1, by Andrew Benson Brown, T A J Classics, 2021 by James Sale Legends of...

. Albert Pierrrepoint (1905-1992) served as one of GreatBritain’s chief executioners from 1931 to 1956, duringwhich time he hanged over...

. Debacle in Kabul We all make mistakes and we all have regrets. The mess in Kabul is as bad...

. The gods of ancient Greece return to cast their blight upon our nation. Throughout the eons come and gone,...

. W A R N I N G : __You won’t be forgivenfor the belt road you are livingfor flat...

. The Worst of Rhymes No matter where we choose to sit, A fool, alone, would not admit, We’re living...

. We can’t remember. After years of war that thing once known as “poetry” was lost. We know there was...

. Running round ruins of things long forgot, These tried, tiring times---who can make an end? Can read the scroll...

. Inklings The clues are there. They skulk between the lines. They lurk in spin and smirk in murky spiel. The clues are there. They leer...

. If We Knew It All . . . Where do dreams go when we wake up? Where does time...

. Hagi at My Study Window hagi or bush clover, a symbol of poetry, blooms as summer turns to autumn....

. The Argument: The Poet, with Dante and Virgil, has arrived on the third step of the StairWell, or Purgatory....

. I’m Andrew Cuomo---I get a pass. If you don’t like it, kiss my ass! I’m Andrew Cuomo---I don’t resign....

. Farmer, Unpack the dormant forces quiet days Have put aside and stoke the smothered fire Whose soot fanned out...

. inspired by this video from communist China: https://youtu.be/b4DmTPtAEbg . All their flipping has flopped, So their stance has flip-flopped...

. Three by Heraclitus I Offend yourself with mirrored knowledge (where’s that face you wore at college?) and your sense...

. A hundred tongues of smoke--- Translucent wisps, lithe specters--- __Rise, snaking languidly, Curling, grasping like tendrils At the light...

. Silence is not golden. I’ll differ with you here. __Silence is an awful trap Lined with sharpest fear. Silence...

. in response to Traditionis custodes (“Guardians of the tradition”)---the new motu proprio issued by Pope Francis on July 16,...

. Winners announced here. Write a haiku and post it in the comments section below. The haiku must adhere to...

. You’re glad you’ve nabbed The Covid jab That’s newly fabbed In some large lab Created by The jaundiced eye,...

. Guilty, Guilty, Guilty! That most sagacious Mr. K*Told listeners: “Back in the day—‘The Enlightenment,’ they call it; haw,No way!...

. A widespread distemper in modern life is the insistent need that many people feel to justify themselves and their...

. 23 July 2021 Don't send money.  No food to buy. One scanty meal at work or nothing. Outside the...

. Da Vinci’s lauded “Savior of the World”— Commissioned by the King- Louis of France, * Entombed for years by...

. ⬙ Judged by Cynthia Erlandson See all entrants here. ⬙ . FIRST PLACE WINNER ($100) . A Slight Deviation...

. A Little Respect an appeal to activist athletes at the Olympic games You have the right to speak of...

. O Happy Glass Another soul inside a glass deep red— I think on Provenance, effect and cause: Do you...

. The Lion Who Thought She Was a Zebra a fable East Africa is where this lion’s tale Takes place---a...

. They lie in serried ranks above the strand. These mighty, whirling monsters made of steel. Where once, a couple...

. . They're Here They are the Saintly Source of Good;  __The Keepers of The Truth.  They’re seeking you. You...

. Kilkenny Castle A moat runs dry revealing secrets buried those conquerors and conquered knights had known. The past, a...

. Making All Things Orderly Stare at grey clapboards in unbroken rows That seem to follow the unceasing sound Of...

. in reference to an Epoch Times' exposé We’re in the loop, we’re up the sleeve, we’re near the Party’s...

. Heliotrope Phaeton, son of the god Helios, attempted to drive his father’s celestial chariot. His inexperience caused him to...