Poetry

Blasphemy A Reflection On the Murder of Two Women Outside the Gare Saint Charles in Marseilles, France, This Morning, October...

by Jane Blanchard Beatrice, Dante Alighieri’s second guide in La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), makes her literary debut in...

The Teacher to His Students The ghost… the ghost of Hamlet’s father, came To walk the castle walls one moonless...

Reluctant night is slowly retreating The earth in gray, dim shades still hovering, Dawn strides out leisurely to wake each...

“Carlotta Capuccino , ‘Plato’s Ion and the Ethics of Praise,’ takes the . . . view that poetry deploys ‘groundless...

  Scientists of the world were meeting Stars among them they were feting Challenges new they were seeking Of wine...

  Incarnation I: Ego Mater Pulchrae Dilectionis I blossom forth delights on fruitful vine; My grapes are opulent and fair,...

Click here to download the entire book as a pdf file. By Leonard Dabydeen In the fraternity of poetic minds we...

Read about forced organ harvesting in China here. Photograph This man is lost, dead, His organs taken. Dark; hard to...

  Not Every Morning Not every morning is as this one, calm excitement for a future brought by change, so...

  Re-visiting Dante “For Dante it was a strict rule not to rhyme the word ‘Christ’ with any other word...

  Sonnet by Joachim du Bellay (1522-1560) / Translation by Morgan Downs   If all our life is no more...

Walk with me, though both of us May wonder where we go. Talk with me, explore, discuss The things we...

Beneath Brambles A villanelle Beneath the tangled brambles, look around. Vines creeping, smothering, create the dark. A trillium insists her...

Requiem for September (or/ November Is Upon Us) Withering leaves Dying grasses Autumn is here Time Passes Gray skies Chilly...

By Joseph Charles MacKenzie, for the Society of Classical Poets Born in 1939 Samuel Gilliland attended the ancient Dreghorn School...

  Cagney's Last Curtain Call Words shape my lips, words that I shall borrow, Pre-dawn, the sun, yet to fully...

Translation (1) By a hedge, the day before, I met a half-breed shepherdess Full of cheer and sense no less—...

  One afternoon, ‘neath forest tall, where Sunlight dons disguise, I saw a sight few people see (unless they’re telling...

Youths for Prophets, Without Sin As youths for prophets steer a course, Towards our futures of remorse, We forge a...

AMERICAN INCIPITS Ishmael “You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has listened to your affliction. He shall be...

  'Twas so much more on that morn before fall that we all came to mourn as it fell As...

Cloaked in rumors of religion, looming bloodthirst Brings upon world’s drowning morals bouts of horror, As the force of chaos...

  We folks in Florida are quick to extol her amenity: The beach, the surf, the lifestyle announce unique identity....

The New Explorers See this figure? That’s the Spirit Sent up way back when to scout. She rolls around And...

The best way to understand America is through the lens of football esoterica. If you have no clue where you...

Hero for Hire About myself I feel so good I grabbed my club, I donned my hood I found a...

Urban Butterfly What business have you here, In acrid air, to strain Through jagged glass and steel On a cracked...

The Sea My sleeping spirit wakes As the town’s vespers Climb the stairless sky And the sea whispers. The rushing...

Cicada and Mantis You are known to us by your choral song, The clicks and buzzes of an insect throng....

By James Sale Donald Mace Williams Wolfe and Other Poems is an extraordinarily good collection of poems, clearly written by a...

  The bark came off the trunks before the leaves had dropped— the freeze sped up, the shade enlarged, the...

by E. Ducabe Wisler "Pray for Texas." —Ubs Reece Idwal The tropical cyclone named Harvey plastered Houston's plat, ten trillion...

As times turned hard and harder yet, The Queen grew apprehensive— Relentless tides of change had made One luxury expensive....

  Poet's Note: "Back when I was eighteen years old, things were sort of grim with the Vietnam War and...

I may as well be hired as his maid, the way I’m made to clean his toilet seat. Still worse,...

Poetry before Writing “Greece down through the fifth century has aptly been described as a ‘song culture’.” ~ Michael Schmidt...

  Let us raise statues to the Prince of Peace: __Cain’s monuments are powerless to bind __Our hearts in summer’s...

Poetry, as we have discussed in earlier parts of this article series, depends upon the Muses and accessing the deeper...

Proem In rhyming, timing is everything. Rhymes in wrong places make awkward spaces. A rhyme in rhyming knows more than...