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  The potato blight and resultant Great Famine struck Ireland from 1845 to 1851. Potato crops didn’t recover until 1852,...

  The Falcon “In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he...

by Andrew Benson Brown James Sale’s HellWard is the first volume of a planned trilogy entitled The English Cantos. If...

  a villanelle My heart goes out to those unknown, Whose life by Time’s cruel hand erased, Their ravaged, riven,...

  Ab Initio Mundi* *ever since the beginning of the world At first the darkness reigned o’er all that was,...

  in memory of my father-in-law, Pietro Lorefice (1938-2020) The bell now tolls, dear Pietro, for this hour When we...

  My marriage failed (they always do.) Emotionally unequipped To work things out without a script, We didn’t try to...

  When the wokest of folk virtually convoke In a year of elections and riots and fear, Uncle Joe from...

. Upon a boat, by ocean bound, Below the sun, upon the sound, The bait, a line, a reel, a...

  Madcapfesto We’ll unlock prison gates and let the inmates saunter out. We’ll tear down wall and rule; we’ll sponsor...

by Joseph S. Salemi The poetic effusions of some people are so incompetent that they cross the line into unexpected...

Winner and Runners-up of The Society of Classical Poets 2020 Haiku Competition Judged by Mike Bryant and Susan Jarvis Bryant...

  A Ditty What happened to the human race? It vanished, friend, without a trace. And what, pray tell, of...

  dedicated to all those braving injustice in Hong Kong with nobility of spirit Muffled voices, anguished cries, Trampled freedom,...

  Hero of Her Heart On February 9, 2007 Sgt. James J. Regan of the 3rd Battalion 75th U.S. Ranger...

  Due to a recent government edict, approximately 5 million Australians must wear masks whenever they leave the house. We...

  Cotton candy is, yes, is angel hair spun out while merry-go-rounds whirl full-speed with satisfaction fully guaranteed in the...

All poems by Bruce Dale Wise The Prisoners in Manacles by Lu “Reed ABCs” Wei The prisoners in manacles in...

  Oh, When I Think Back Oh, when I think back to those halcyon days, When I believed the possibility...

  Taj Mahal Built to commemorate a love that died Four hundred years ago, how sad to say She never...

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, by Joseph Lange (1783? / 1789?); as viewed by a Philistine Consider Lange’s well-known portrait Of...

  Full Lives, Empty Souls after Ecclesiastes 6 There is an evil I have seen in those who live beneath...

by James A. Tweedie On my most recent visit to England in 2017, I paused to record a number of...

  Laocoön To prophesy is not a gift to those So gifted, who can see in subtle signs What is...

translated by Alan Steinle. Introduction and translation copyright ©2020 by Alan Steinle. Skip Introduction and go to poem.   Introduction...

  Rueing Tattoos When young she was drawn to that skin-art taboo of embellishing flesh with a tattoo or two....

  On Consecrated Ground Moses on the Mount; Exodus 3-4 Moshe, a Hebrew truant from His resident Egyptian land Committed...

  Tomoko When the Enola Gay dropped ‘Little Boy’, Tomoko---just a little girl herself--- Was robbed of any hope of...

"During the war, the Indian Army evicted Pakistani intruders and succeeded in recapturing Tiger Hill and other posts as a...

Golden Gloves My father fought in Golden Gloves. Back then The ring was where you slugged your way to hopes....

  A Proposal---July 28, 2020 Upon this date in 1794, The French Revolution concluded in gore, As Robespierre’s head hit...

  How Monkeys Came to Be adapted from a Palestinian folktale Monkeys and people once were one. For monkeys had...

  The Gardener at War Throughout our lives we hustle and we slave __To turn our gardens into magic places...

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish...

  Vera A fine and sunny Summer’s day And now our Vera’s slipped away. Auf Wiedersehen, we’ll meet again; We...

  Alike a trusted hand that comes to rest On harried shoulders to relieve the stress, This allemande fulfills its...

  No Epitaph The lies lie heavy on his chest, Striped red, striped white, now tattered vest And soon to...

  You had to act, because you heard the voices Within your head. Saint Michael came to you, Saints Catherine...

  With Sorrow Do I Leave It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning...

  Enrobed in blue—enthroned and crowned—her Son, __With proffered blessing, safely in her hands— __The Queen of Heaven reigns on...