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Haiku   When a newborn cries, locked in a room by itself, does it make a sound?   Fog enshrouds...

Bucket-Kicking Musings “Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” —Mark Twain...

Gray I feel a certain loyalty to gray. Gray days, gray sweaters, cars - gray everything. Gray soothes and calms....

Faith I'm pond scum, someone said today. Some soup primordial, in a bay was struck by lightning. Oh, I see...

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  From A Gallery of Ethopaths Ethopaths fear, as much as cancer, A straight, unvarnished, simple answer. They love the...

  The Teacher to His Students The traffic light turns green. Your car won’t budge. You’re either texting or completely...

A Haiku My mirror shatters and what most clearly matters remains to be seen.   You and Me Some sins...

  The Woke Man’s Person’s Burden "Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and...

Pablo Neruda on the Passing of Joseph Stalin by Wibele Escudar We must be men. That is the law that...

—from A Gallery of Ethopaths The bookshops that we used to see Were citadels of literacy. Classics of grace and...

Natura Naturans “Off with their heads,” the Red Queen said. But she was mostly talk. A true decapitator is The...

The Thoughts of a Dog What really does go on inside the mind Of the domestic dog? To simply say...

These Twins These twins came forth in one amniotic sac. They sensed the danger they had come upon And both...

Winners of the contest can be found here. From the riddle posed by King Solomon to the Philistines to the...

  I lift my eyes and pray to God above, deliver me, dear Lord, from Satan's Hell. I come to...

  The sausage on my plate is rubbery and inoffensive A clever likeness made of turkey meat Not your tastiest...

May Old Glory Always Wave by Roy E. Peterson May Old Glory always wave Above the tumult and the fray....

Judges: Michael Curtis, Amy Foreman, Reid McGrath, Adam Sedia A few words from Judge Michael Curtis: In apology: If you,...

  It comes as no surprise that “golf” When backward spelled is “flog.” For it’s a sport so hard to...

Doomsday… or Not? The Green New Deal is out there, and Bernie says it’s true— there’s only twelve more years...

  The human body is perpetually pregnant with Trillions of microorganisms that hath colonized Its intestinal lair, and like the...

Note: Formal Ballroom Dance competition involves five specific dance forms. This sonnet cycle attempts to introduce and describe them. I...

The Limerick I’d Love to Write by Joe Tessitore There once was a President Trump And many thought he was...

a satirical piece in Sapphic stanzas   Every day they come in a flood: unwanted Big manila envelopes stuffed with...

The clerihew is a kind of epigrammatic verse (normally) consisting of a pair of rhyming couplets. The first line will...

  A New Life an English ode With the blending of two souls, in a dance as old as time...

A truncated quatrain is a form I have invented in an attempt to find some appropriate English form similar—for its...

Fifty years ago . . . (it seems Like only yesterday) . . . the dreams, The hopes, and the...

White Is A Color, Too It seems strange to have to say this After what that great man taught, Yet...

by Lew Icarus Bede The way I dealt with T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland was to write a poem, equally...

A Journey to the East by Evan Mantyk is a historical and poetical fairytale adventure styled after Journey to the...

  With lifeless smiles she's sitting tight in the vase. With painted flowers, leaves and twigs she's like a dressed...

Winners announced here! Write a short poem that begins with one line from any Shakespeare play or poem. The poem...

Riddle No. 1 So astounding is this part— A major muscle, like your heart. And so astonishing its job, Without...

Irrelephant Within the room there’s something big, But management ignores it. A redwood tree, not tiny twig? Concern they haven’t...

  Dust to lust to disgust to trust to must to just to dust.     Wm. Walters is a...

Streamlined In some alternative reality I have remained unmarried, all alone. Would that have been a better way for me...

  —from A Gallery of Ethopaths What generates the half-assed views That this dimwit nation spews? Why are persons mindless...

Epigrams on the Decay within Academia   Liberal Artifice "Progressives," through advanced miseducation, Have shaken our fair land to its...