Poetry

  In the deep of the night do my restless thoughts roam ____To the moon-flooded fields of the sky, And...

  Out of the crooked timber laid by man, No straight foundation may ever be built. While Reason clinkers on...

“. . .  lest when thou hast eaten and art full  . . . then thine heart be lifted up,...

After the above black and white photograph by Jared Carter Who alive remembers who lived there seventy years ago? A...

a villanelle The sun descends into the silent sea. As shadows lengthen in the fading light I journey on to...

Organ Harvest by Damian Robin, published by Fulton Verse, 2018. Read three sonnets from the work here.  by James Sale...

Oak In quiet awe before a solid oak in summer bloom, I thought: to such as these my Saxon kin...

My Soul awoke and yawned and stretched and pushed And seemed desired to break its earthly bounds Too anxious, I...

  My candle burns at both ends Late into the night, And flickers fast, And bounces in my sight. My...

I. But yesterday, your noble fathers bled Upon the fields of France, where countless dead Had found among the vines...

  If seasons pass too fast you'd better run. If they proceed too slow indulge in fun. Sunups are best...

Sail Fever I knew some terms, the merest germs Of illness called ‘Sail Fever’: Tack starboard, port, keep mainsail taut,...

The precious are so  easy to neglect: I let them down, my family and my friends. It’s futile if I...

Where a lamppost spreads a white spot light Nursing silent night with canny purr, A racoon crosses there in sudden...

Nova Scotia and the Clouds of Summer So silently they march along, the clouds of summer, proud and strong; their...

For Elizabeth My morning’s mountain wears the lavish light Of candid clouds and truth-engendered white. Ah, heavens, spread your opalescent...

Alzheimer's Disease I can feel your deep darkness closing in, With its harrowing sense of helplessness, Soon obscenity sours tongues...

Runnymede Revisited Note: Runnymede is the location where King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta. This poem was...

Bristlecone Longevity The beauty of the tree is not how old, Indeed how ancient in its gnarling now, Not in...

Translator's Preliminary Note This is an original translation of a poem by Sappho (630-580 BC), traditionally known as the “old...

Heritage I like to say I’d an Egyptian father If that is too obscure for you, I’d rather Explain it...

Poet’s Note: I wrote this poem in the same metrical form as the song “America the Beautiful” (but without the...

Two Lives by Michael Maibach When soldiers die, They give two lives. The one they had, And the one denied....

Garden Waltz a terza rima sonnet in dactylic pentameter with a truncated foot at the end of each line Radishes...

You pushed Grace hard so you could have your book. She did the layout, made the pdf. I bought the...

The Lord’s Supper They’re gathered round, astonished, full of dread, round him who like a wise man must decide, and...

The Fall Revisited The implications of the fall are endless in their reach; that lowly serpent had such gall, Eve's...

Guess who is not invited to come to a dinner here? Rights are just for some people. Others have to...

It's first of sweaty, sweltering daybreaks of summer new. The fewer trailing steps of parting spring are still moist-fresh with...

“Only fools are positive.”  “You sure about that?” “I’m positive.” ―The Three Stooges “Freedom is the freedom to say that...

  While strolling around an illustrious lair, I was caught by a breeze of regret in the air, For gazing...

Winners announced here. Scroll down and read the comments section to enjoy all of the submissions. What has no subject...

by Dusty Grein Like many of the old French refrain forms, the kyrielle originated in the 15th century with the...

Born at Constantinople in 1762 of a French father and Greek mother, André Chénier grew up in pre-revolutionary France and studied...

03.27.18 A smattering of rain above a hall That holds her earthy fragments, broken, spent, A woman who, in life,...

Written upon reading the book How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World. The beast once foretold for the...

Little Girl She's fishing in a rock pool just abandoned by the sea She's too engrossed within her world to...

Note: Joseph Charles MacKenzie would like to offer a 25% discount on the first edition hardcover of Sonnets for Christ...

by James Sale FORMAL COMPLAINTS by Joseph S. Salemi, Somer Rocks Press, 1997 MASQUERADE by Joseph S. Salemi, Somer Rocks...

(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Confucius Institutes "Three things cannot be hidden long: the sun, the moon and truth."...