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The God Morpheus vs. The Little Baby Kuppy You'd think in such a fight - no contest To be sure...

To Hell with the Hoi Polloi A droll from the Man of Mode To hell with the hoi polloi, I...

Volkswagen has admitted to rigging as many as 11 million vehicles with illegal software that cheats on emission tests.  ...

Winter Smoke Winter smoke and little houses Drawing blinds against the dark The cold, the crying wind Against a stark...

For 30 more riddles click here. I. I may not have a large population Compared to China or the United...

Ideology is a disease, Impervious to reason, An infection known to seize One in the election season. It has alas...

Rare Dreams I'm looking through the window of a plane in which I've never been, nor ever will; staring beyond...

Poetry, arguably the most powerful form of communication ever devised by mankind, has died. It was thousands of years old....

Do forgive me strange little man If I’d rather remove your hands Than risk a trip to the clinic For...

Tanka By Ue "Bird Claws" Ee In dim morning light, attracting mates, warning males, dawn's choir's singing— liquid-silver jingling— nature's...

The Cherry Blooms in Central Park In Central Park the cherries now Are hung with blooms along the slough, And...

. . Bay from Berkeley Slate blue blustered inland sea Water from the rivers be Sea of salt and rain...

The Lumberman by Bud "Weasel" Rice I saw him resting up against a giant gray-brown stump, the lumberman was pausing...

Burrowed down in leaves of brown piled by the garden wall, our Billy cat dreamed of a rat he’d chased...

  Salazar Sneed Salazar Sneed was a man of great need Who traded holey shoes for a pocket of beads....

Wanderer's Retreat I Across the dive bar floor strode a figure, Tall but slightly slouching, wearing a cloak. His facial...

Thoughts after Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) By Bud "Weasel" Rice Everywhere curious, articulate, perfect and inimitable ... nature does ... leave...

  Winter Storm Watch The sky is still; no flakes appear and yet we know that they will come. Held...

A mysterious substance is ruling our lives. It flows through our oceans and floats in our skies. “It’s good for...

  Vessel No one can insure candlelight; its flame Precisely burns in flickering waves of gas, Ingesting oxygen while fibers...

Shakespeare Wrote Shakespeare Some say that Shakespeare didn’t write The many works that bear his name; But surely if that...

He Kept On By Erisbawdle Cue He kept on striving to attain an ideality connected to the good, but grounded...

Youths' Sonnet They view the world through filmy innocence, these youngsters who now hear the future call. Into that forest...

I've had some poems I could submit but now I've got behind a bit, they're packed inside the silent hive...

The British are coming! The whole fourth estate Must wear what is smart For William and Kate. The British are...

"...that best portion of a good man's life;     His little, nameless, unremembered acts     Of kindness and of love."...

Life Ravaged forests again take root Life nestling within the sturdy acorn Cannot be throttled Ashes reborn yield bitter fruit...

Dandelions She touched their gray-haired afros tenderly: an urban six year old with kinky hair who pounced on dandelions (bud-vases...

The tip jar was snatched at O Cafe. O! “Somebody just picked it up,” mused the guy at the register....

Fall Haiku New England college towns: Pumpkins, apples, breakfast in a warm café. Swamp-maples afire! Rusty colored barns, silos draped...

  "Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my...

  When snow arrives As long forecast, It sets a scene That does not last; But for the while Snow...

The Bored Knight A tired knight rode to his castle After a long day of hassle. He bowed to the...

I. The Tin Shant on the hill in Martinique is stoutly situated, unique in design, and built half a century...

I left my gloves at the analyst's He called to say he'd found them Black, he said, lined with cotton...

“Hello, again!” the sun does say when rising on a morn in May. “Thanks for the break,” replies the moon....

Some People Say Some people say that giraffes were petite and they grew their necks out to properly eat, or...

Blue and Yellow Barn-Swallows She made a note to note when they arrived. It’s obvious whenev’r they fin’lly do. Over...

Ashamed I will no longer be... Ashamed I will no longer be To write an older poetry -- I have...

The cost of insurance was such Its price I could sadly not touch -- So I gave all of that...