Poetry

''A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself...

I used to be politer, but more boring, my friends say. They could take me anywhere. My conversation wasn’t overbearing....

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 (All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Am-air-ica by Eber L. Aucsidew Die Welt proclaimed the biggest drop in CO2 was...

  At last, some time to catch my breath – a rest, a respite in the fight – How many...

From the White Cloud Poetry Society. Translation by Jennifer Zeng, rendition in formal verse by Damian Robin   With all...

  When naming things, you have to use a noun; A verb shows action or a state of being. An...

Sing me a sonnet of spring's first sweet kiss. Let me gaze at splendid colors around. warm sun touching my...

When spring arrives, the wildflow’rs start to grow In woods and fields, and by the country lanes. In reds and...

I am the shining star above-- The perfect ray of light. I am the wisest thought conceived, I am the...

On looking into the mirror one afternoon An old buzzard once came and he knocked on my heart, And politely...

  When cathedral bells toll through the morning and sunlight touches steeples with its glare, and arrows on the town...

Charles the Bold was the last independent Duke of Burgundy. Killed at the Battle of Nancy by the Swiss, his...

  by James Green “Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That...

In the painting, she has turned to look back At where her lover’s  corpse lies in the  ground. Her face...

  Goose Sense A burden and a bore I must have been; As handy as another leg, I'd slouch The...

In dactylic hexameter Turgid the sea as it billows and foams in the face of the tempest. Wind-lifted wave-crests explode...

Ms. Wang Lixuan and her son, Meng Hao, were detained on Oct. 22, 2000. Mother and baby both died at...

In my dreams, I always see you smiling, Your bright eyes twinkling like a million stars. In my dreams, there...

A Cello Knows Amidst the smoke and light and laughter Along the smiles and cheers thereafter A sound is bled,...

April 26 is Poem in Your Pocket Day, part of National Poetry Month. On this day, people are encouraged to...

The lamp holds sway along the shadowed streets A penumbra encircles its sweet shine As night rests softly like a...

Fear A ballad I said to Fear, “Away from here!” And, softly, he withdrew. But, lost in thought, I plain...

From Lost Love & Other Lyrics A casida Sleep, the enemy of inspiration, An unlikely ally that hangs around, With...

  Wee hours, when crickets tune their eerie cords and hoot the yawning owls at twinkling stars; the night-maid roves...

How Can We Know? A villanelle How can we know where we go when we die; Pondering signs, looking up...

Part 1 Between a teardrop and the heart, We sense our feelings weakened, mourn, For sadness as the tones impart...

“The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” ~ Louis L’Amour You are not alone on this...

War Is Natural To rise above the plane of earth Where war continues since my birth, I find that war...

  Heroes, Victims, and Poseidon The metre of ancient Greek poetry succeeds in “achieving a length and complexity that are...

Obituary Late summer, when the bumblebees begin to die, You’ll see them clinging to the petals of a flower For...

Glistening orbs Dance on air Drifting skyward Without a care Iridescent spheres Shimmering bright Reflecting prisms In the sunlight Luminous...

Canto 1 is the provisional name for a sequence of 33 Cantos that James Sale is attempting to write in...

A sonnet of longing and of a glimpse of hope. July 17, 2016. We looked imploring to the starless sky;...

By David B. Gosselin William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564 - died April 23, 1616) is arguably the greatest writer...

Pigeon Cove, MA 1948 Above, the sky, remote and pure, Below, the earth, steadfast and sure. Between the two, the...

  I knew her when I could be called a youth And life had not uncovered certain truths Apparent to...

(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) The Children's Crusade Amendment II of the US Constitution: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary...

Leatherneck, you’re still my childhood hero With tales of firing flack at Jap Zeroes— After training camp in San Diego,...

  Young people go marching, the boys and the girls, They’re thinking like once we did, they’ll change the world....