Poetry

  Canzone at Evening by Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) translated from Italian by Margaret Coats At the hour when heaven rapidly...

  Firefly Behold it glimmer through the trees— A lantern drifting soft and low— It weaves along the evening breeze,...

  Blooming Early or Late? This tyro of six years reads hardly a word. The idea of language displayed on...

  Ancestors Forlorn From elderly to youngest child, Methinks our forebears never smiled! It seems that every picture shows Each...

  Magic Show, North Country The puddling snowbank spills a silver trace, its melt a mirror shattered on the earth....

  Grandbaby Oh little child, you bring the mysteries of rainbows, storybooks, and pixie dust to life with tiny smiles....

  Rhyme Crimes How strange that rhymes for “wife” abound While rhymes for “husband” don’t exist. An “errant” “parent” might...

  Winter Looms Jack Frost has brushed the mountains’ crests And highland nymphs are shivering, The blackened mauve below the...

  Poor Minnesota Normal people have an issue recreating Mogadishu, while destroying each iota of what once was Minnesota. Minnesota...

The classical Chinese original has been versified in English by poet Evan Mantyk and is read by him at the...

  Burnham Beeches A weary pilgrim rests ‘neath ageless trees, Enraptured by a blackbird’s ancient rhyme; The tones of his...

    Milton’s Heavenly Muse words by John Milton (Dec. 9, 1608 - Nov. 8, 1674) musical interpretation for Milton's...

  The SCP has just learned of the recent passing of poet and artist Sally Cook. She had been contributing...

  Civilized Let’s be honest: the world has changed little since it was common knowledge that Jews are humanity’s enemy....

Dead Singer Gear-grind crushed the parrot’s beak and ground the skull to mucous mass. I found this gesture quite unique—...

  All the Colors With all the colors of the rainbow glowing in their hue, I find the one I...

  Ghost Lightning So ominous, this strange, unsettling sight: Sharp lightning pulses pierce the moonless sky In silence as if...

  Perfect Synchronicity He thought back to that hour at dusk’s still height, When bird-song sounded both, outside and in...

  Toads Don’t Fly On toad and frog hunt, evening this, A Friday, tenth of August bliss, Two thousand eighteen....

  At Dawn of Time ---after Genesis 1:1—2:3 At dawn of time God made both heaven and earth. And as...

  Fool’s Paradise The words from fools surround us all— they’re siren calls that can entice our base desires, and...

  Four Rooms in Music’s Mansion   1 _The maestro grasps a complex score, conducts his orchestra without reserve. Connoisseurs...

  The Meteor A Vision ---09.10.25 It cut across the skies, Grim sign to terrorize A world whose conscience dies....

  Sally Forth, Ms. Cook "My holiday shall be That they remember me; My paradise, the fame That they pronounce...

Mark F. Stone reads his poetry at the Society of Classical Poets' in-person Poetry Symposium held in Naperville, Illinois on...

The poem read by the poet himself at the Society of Classical Poets' in-person Poetry Symposium held in Naperville, Illinois...

  The Mission Our mission---to discover signs of life amongst the stars---seemed destined to succeed; for though our sun-strewn galaxy...

  A Genuine Petrarchan Note on William Wordsworth’s Ecclesiastical Sonnets How did it end, then, for Romantic Bill? He labored...

  Victimhood Diet “You can’t hold on to your victimhood and get on with your life. You have to choose...

  Just Hang On! When I was young, I played outside and cousins often were my crew; the big kids...

  Cultural Diversity O, Reason is a Western trait; _Dead white men love logic And dominate the world with it---...

KO ---inspired by the Lyoto Machida-Vitor Belfort Fight, May 12, 2018 Below the jaw---no gentle punch, A flying kick, a...

  Feeble Best We try to earn God’s love but can’t succeed. When on His narrow path, we trip and...

  Ode to My Plumber Bubble, bubble toilet trouble, Fix this problem on the double. Plugged up draining. Will not...

  The Decorator I live to decorate for Christmastide. My summer birthday barely means a thing As I count Christmases...

  The Time to Give Him Thanks In the still and pristine morning, When the flowers bathe in dew, And...

  The Keeper’s Wife “Dear God in Heaven, why have you forsaken me? To take my husband—rest his soul—in your...

Musical Version by Lex McKee     Cetus and Jonah’s Lament "And Jonah was extremely happy about the plant. But...

  Rachel’s Bawbee Rachel: Chancellor Rachel Reeves who will present His Majesty's Government's budget on Nov. 26, 2025 “ae bawbee”:...

  The Ground of Being Consider that our world may be sewn through With sentience, intelligence and thought. The dead...