Poetry

  My father wore his sorrow like a hundred millstone weight. I seldom saw him angry and I never saw...

May 4, 2020 Response is Draconian, As if Napoleon’s Back on the emperor’s throne. Except now with “wanna-bes” Ruining economies,...

  The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and...

I recently discarded some unnecessary texts, and among them were two past editions (the 17th and the 20th) of Len...

A Riot Limerick by Joe Tessitore The Most Evil has cast the first brick And his antics make decent folk...

  Astride the Golden Horn, where Occident __And Orient collide, the silhouettes __of minarets co-mingle with the scent __of spice...

  “London BLM riot: Cenotaph vandalised on the 76th anniversary of the D-Day Landing” –UK News headline, June 6, 2020...

  The captain stood amidst his crew, and wiped the bar for someone new. To make them laugh he'd tell...

  Dear Editor, My odes are grandiose and overblown With pudgy gluts of stodgy adjectives In floods of flabby babble...

  The Dizi Gui (弟子规) is an ancient Chinese text for children that was written in the Qing Dynasty during...

  The Director General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom by Sarban Bhattacharya His accent’s weird, his hair is pretty grey,...

  The room fills with a charming melody— A choir of violins in soaring flight With basses, cellos pulsing—one, two,...

Poet's note: This poem is built upon an episode from Xenophon’s Anabasis, in which the Ten Thousand, Greek mercenaries in...

  When reading Irish hagiography, a few instructions should be borne in mind: First, don’t mistake this for the history...

  Video and reading by Rob Crisell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDEnIR5ziHI&t=8s&fbclid=IwAR1pAlRNwLHVVh1LP0RlZIDMEJslUOhD1MZqoCPCHcvxHQtFK9EwlF8sJt8    

  When You Love When you love The heart of one, Life makes sense With each new sun. You start...

  A Grave Sin by Satyananda Sarangi How grave's this sin of man to shatter man! The human touch is...

  Domain of Pain A piercing migraine or a throbbing toothache, A splinter underneath a fingernail, An upset stomach caused...

  Fake Checks by Esca Webuilder As Twitterites do fact-checks, which are really only fake, confusing truths with their opinions...

  The Stranger Above the dark hill in the still Spanish night, The moon, a lone fountain of watery light,...

  Endless Dream I walk the trail, in hopes of reaching you, As winter sheds her tears of crystal ice....

The Climber inspired by and dedicated to Chris Bonington and my erstwhile heroes Don Whillans and Dougal Haston He has...

by David Whippman In 1984, Philip Larkin was asked to become the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. This position...

  At the Cemetery “Drowned together while playing with a sled on the ice of the Saw Mill Pond at...

Solemn Silent Soldiers Rest by Roy E. Peterson, written May 22, 2020 Solemn, silent soldiers rest Beneath the green earth’s...

  17 March 2019 When bleeds the heart with heartache harsh and deep, And coiling loins are toiling, boiling hot,...

  Mastering Magic Set the questing mind on fire with magic, Learn the ancient lore then follow through. Effortlessness must...

  Oh, What Is Prayer? Oh, what is prayer? Is it a mystery, that bridges earth and heaven in a...

by Sultana Raza In April 1820, Keats was already aware that he had tuberculosis, and in spring of that year,...

Hummingbird Communion I watch them play at dawn of day, as molten gold is splashed their way, on feathers flecked...

Clarity and Obscurity Part III Read Part I: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Read Part II: "Concrete" Poetry...

  O do not chasten me with tales of fine __Fresh wells of wisdom and of warriors bold, __Or sacred...

  My Last Duchess The Duke of Ferrara recalls his last wife. by Robert Browning That's my last Duchess painted...

  I. The rats infesting Kathmandu Airport Appear to co-exist in peace with man And have, it seems, since local...

Edmund Spenser by Margaret Coats Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) wrote 121 sonnets of rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee, including 87...

  New York poet Joe Tessitore challenges poets to begin a poem with these words:   My country used to...

I Loved You... I loved you, and I probably still do, and for a while, the feeling may remain, But...

FIRST PLACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96xN0VV7JU The Virus and the Cure by Rob Crisell One hundred years of tyranny, One hundred years of...

all poems by Bruce Dale Wise   The Pilot by Air Weelbed Suc I saw him flying overhead, a pilot...