Poetry

  Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood Moloch: ancient Canaanite god of child sacrifice Is there one in...

  The blind poet awakes and feels his way Into the living room, where light of day Will find his...

  What curve, what contrapposto, shift of weight, Recalls the tusk from which some Gothic hand Had carved the Paris...

  The Crown of Wuhan by Daniel Kemper "Hast thou forgot me then?" says she of dreams, "A Goddess arm'd...

  for Mark F. Stone and all his pets The duck has special properties: Like water off its back; If...

  Candidatus Non Compos Mentis Joe lacks the humility To see the futility Of running for office While fighting senility....

  Unbridled Change O tempora! O mores!... Fuit ista quondam in hac re publica virtus... ---Cicero, First Catiline Oration These...

  The Author He portrays a lonely figure In his cottage by the sea With his pencil and his paper...

  A Soliloquy on Modern Poetry  I write this, a soliloquy Regarding modern poetry. I don’t appreciate the terse Disheveled...

  Waters of Irvine and Annock, flow with my tears, West to the Firth of Clyde and Arran: Soon, soon,...

  "Save daylight!" spoke the powers-that-be, and everyone supined, except for Arizona, see, which steadfastly declined. Hawaii, too, and certain...

  Now breaking through the crust of snow, pale messengers appear To herald with celestial glow the springtime of the...

  NOTE: This event has been canceled due to the CCP virus (COVID-19) pandemic. A new online SCP Symposium has...

  My Coat---a Haiku God pays no heed to disguises He can see through--- I've worn myself out.   The...

This isn’t so much an essay as it is an opinion piece where I shoot off a few words in...

  Who is this finger-waving man--- this millionaire, this communist? Let’s think about him while we can, this grandpa with...

  Orchards Let Light In “Oh to be like ‘The Man who Planted Trees’” There is a grove that in...

  A not infrequent problem that a poetry editor must face is a contributor’s intransigence. Sometimes this resistance is on...

Psalm CIV: Benedic, Anima Mea O praise the Lord, my soul. The aspens sigh As high above Mount Axtell in...

Wake-Up Call "Shoulda," "coulda," "woulda" and "whatever" Are telltales that evince velleity In speakers who most probably will never Instantiate...

On a Bereavement I Mourning Sickness Can anybody say how long it lasts, This numbness that deceives while it relieves...

  20 January 2020 My father died, just yesterday, and mom About a year ago; I’m filled with grief For...

  From Some Nightmarish Vial a villanelle by Evan Mantyk Did it emerge from some nightmarish vial? Is it a...

  On TV, I saw them kneeling __Before their golden cow; Mere worshippers of a flimsy feeling __Desecrating a vow....

  The days we choked on rage and fed on tears, that lit my guts with deep and purple flame—...

  In a time long ago, where the high myrtles grow, Lived a tribe of the Bellenden Range. While below,...

  Icy, biting breezes cut like knives; Sea-spray wave crests crash upon the shore; Silent, unseen clam and crab life...

  Through barren fields, beside the ruins of man, The sunlight hardens stains of blood and gore; Macabre deeds that...

  I have been bid into the House of Song To merry-make at Inspiration’s fest Alas! I fear my raiment...

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translated by Leo Zoutewelle To you my word will be reproached as lie, Maliciously: “who left you so maligned, In...

  The 50¢ Army by Lu "Reed ABCs" Wei The Chinese Communist regime, has recently dispatched some 1600 online trolls...

Natural-Born Jeremiah 17.19 I am a liar, natural-born. I find it more convenient to equivocate or stretch the truth, than...

  A Truly Perfect Love My fingertips caress your hair and I no longer have a care about what happens...

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Aranjuez (ar-ON-wess) has been one of the estates of the royal family of Spain. It is near Madrid and the...

  Five Rivers to Cross I sat down by the river Styx to wait upon Phlegyas, ferryman of old, among...

  By lamplight through the long night hours, he kept his vigil by her side, His love still fresh, though...

  Poland Brave nation, strong and proud you stand, a Boulder in the stream One nation, people hand in hand,...

translations by Alan Steinle Translator's Note: This poem (“Tres cosas”) was originally written in Spanish by Baltasar del Alcázar (1525-1606)....