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. I fear my motivation’s dead; there’s no one home inside my head. I’ve looked for it from dusk to...

.   January 25 is the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759–1796). On or near this day, Scots worldwide...

Seven inches, simple dark design My modern mind disdains the notion That the measure of devotion Is the size or...

. My inconsistent pharmacist, Administer that certain cure That can relax my hardened fist In doses sweet with taste impure....

(All poems by Bruce Dale Wise) The Victory of Donald J. Trump in the 2020 U.S. Election by Erisbawdle Cue...

. Benvenuto Cellini’s Salt-Cellar A woman sitting back, just mildly curious To hear a man’s contrived, seductive patter, Waiting to...

. Humility Lo, I have seen the Muses plain. What need Have I to go on living?—’Twas in Rome: I...

. Wokeness by Russel Winick “Amen and Awoman” the Congressman said, The Leftists all thought it was great. What more...

. An Ode to Letters We cannot be sure what the future will hold, But I doubt this prediction will...

  This ode concerns a wealthy gent, To London Town, one day he went. He’d paid to see an Opera,...

Selected by Beverly Stock ---From Liver Pills to stuff that kills, and makes it smooth to die, The last is...

  Dear Edgar, __We’re sorry our response has taken so much time, but it grieves and pains to tell you...

. . The Rub   I’ve had a taste of wonder and I cannot give it back. I’ve seen each...

. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer---A Sonnet Poor Rudolph was a reindeer with a nose resembling a bulb of bright red...

. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” ---Albert Einstein...

. . The Rape of Lady Liberty In Memoriam: November 3, 2020 by Patrick Henry Redivivus They did the awful...

based on a true story My wife’s in bed with lowered head and even lower mood. Her chin’s on her...

. Stages of Arrested Development __The lads who once had wet their beds __Adventured off in brand-new Keds, Exploring every...

_ On Your Marx If humans ran a Human Race, __Karl Marx would not be in it. The human depth...

Poet Susan Jarvis Bryant challenges her fellow poets to adapt a favorite joke into a poem with meter and rhyme....

2 November 2020 Two weeks and counting here I be In clutches of the CCP I don’t delight as I...

  The turkey that we blithely ate Had little cause to celebrate The final Thursday in November. It's customary to...

  Thanksgiving 1984 2020 Wear a mask until you eat and never touch your face. Muzzle up between each bite...

  Cricket The game of Cricket, I’ll relate, Goes back to fifteen fifty-eight, Upon a field in Guildford way, In...

Mozart on His Kegelstatt Trio Quite recently I wrote a little trio While wasting time at skittles with some friends....

_ Pope Urban II Sonnet-Speech, Clermont, 1095 Oh Noblemen, I’m charged by God to warn that Christendom is threatened by...

  On Marriage I married a girl named Sue And alas! She married me too!     As Then, So...

  She was the one who approached me and spoke, Saying my lectures had swept her away. Maybe we could...

  Mary had a little lamb His fleece was white as snow. This little lamb, we’ll call him Stan, Starred...

  A Verse for the Morning After As thieves and pirates count our votes And set us at each other’s...

Post your Election Day poem in the comments section below.    Quatrains They “battle for the soul of the nation”...

The American Revolution: An Epic Poem Chapter I Chapter II by Andrew Benson Brown   Chapter III: The New-World Mercury...

Let's Do It! The surgeon does it in a snip within a stitch of time. The comic does it with...

In British folklore, the Beast of Bodmin Moor is a phantom feral cat. Bodmin Moor (Cornwall, England) is a hub...

Is this a werewolf’s trick, or witch’s treat? A devil’s joke? Humanity’s defeat? Who would have thought we’d live to...

  Nothing Ventured an office romance "What more do you want?" he inquired without guile. ---Can it really be true...

  Now when you get to sixty-five, your memory starts to slip, But when you get to seventy, you have...

  Vocations Always there are things we should be doing; Others, though, are better left unfinished. Also, there are ends...

All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise. Originally published by the SCP 9/26/18 Consumer Rights by Cal Wes Ubideer Accountability, transparency,...

  “Hunter, you’ve disgraced the name of 'Biden.' Your laptop’s in the hands of some porn cop! I’ve told you,...