Poetry

Shin-Rin-Yoku Forest Bathing You stand beneath this canopy of trees, surrender will, hold still.   You close your eyes and listen...

Pibroch of the Domhnall   By Joseph Charles MacKenzie Author’s Notes: § The refrains at the end of each stanza...

  Here is a riddle, a brain-teaser of sorts Rev up your noggin or the answer you’ll miss Mark. Set....

  Departure Like escaping through a siege, growing older       Hampers itself with hopes of return; So if, over your bare...

Fake News By Caud Sewer Bile Fake news is rather difficult to say just what it is. What's fake to...

  The Terrorists Tears feed the sweeping sands beneath their feet, And blood runs deep into the living ground. The...

  The gown and the date are set, caterers and florists I’ve met. The hall has been booked, no detail...

  The Desert We were flying in a desert, an oasis to drink dry. We gorged ourselves on date palms...

  We may hear some Bible phrase and laugh. __That book has no monopoly on ‘goods’. Some words clang, we...

By Dusty Grein Dating to the thirteenth century, the terza rima (Italian for "third rhyme") is a classic form of...

Water Music Just as white as a blanket of new-fallen snow Is the noise of a waterfall cresting a brim...

The Speaker Unaccustomed to Such Oratory Feats The speaker - unaccustomed to such oratory feats - cleared his throat, a...

By Evan Mantyk From The Iliad, Beowulf, and Shakespearean literature in the West to the Chinese Classic of Poetry, the...

  Color streams burst brightly in a flourish of elation, Each to soar and cover night's condoning, lofty, canvas –...

  Tapestry A Miltonian Sonnet The pattern on the underside confused By snarl and tangle, jumbled, twisting knot. Its warp...

  How Can You Feel Blue? How can you feel blue When you look toward the sky And see the...

For King Charles I of England On the day I asked for a second shirt So my people would not...

  There are no predators in the wood So deer run free who never could And hunting’s forbidden So deer...

  Holiday Horror: A True Story By Lucy Giardino Cortese Twas two weeks before Christmas And all through the house...

To Michael Dana Gioia* By Cal Wes Ubideer The Word within the World that articulates itself does not exist in...

  Unspoilt, unique, a soulful place Ancient oaks all around Scattered acorns sprouting shoots New life emerging from the ground...

. . On the Winter Solstice Winter Winter cold and crass Winter Winter old the grass Fast we go across...

  Scrabble-ism One night I was hangin’ with Len, Eating and watching t.v. All the pizza rolls gone, I then...

By Jane Blanchard On December 5, 1830, Christina Rossetti was born in London to an Italian-English mother married to an...

The first Society of Classical Poets sponsored "Rhyming Poetry Reading" was held at The Tea Garden in Middletown, New York,...

  To the Kurdish Women Soldiers With girlish smiles above costumes of war - you dance, sisters; stamp the pallid...

  Witches’ Brew Round and round the seven seas go, In the putrid poisons throw, Double, double toil and trouble,...

. T.M. Moore is a theologian, poet, and Principal of The Fellowship of Ailbe, a spiritual fellowship in the Celtic...

  Sighs fill the room as Mulan weaves the loom She doesn’t want Father to meet his doom. The Khan...

by Dusty Grein The sestina originated among the troubadours of medieval France's Provence region, and the modern thirty-nine line form...

  Kitty staring at the tipped fishbowl (whoever felled it left not a hair), With no one home, what was,...

  Obi-Wan Bin Laden RIP Let’s remember what God wants: Killing people’s never right, So Obi-Wan Bin Laden then Cannot...

A rondeau on Shen Yun Performing Arts By Evan Mantyk I love the dance that can exalt The human form...

  Ohio State University Attack By Wilbur Dee Case "If you don't like liberal democracy, go to North Africa, the...

  In an Unfinished Honeycomb:  An Old Story As lichen on a rock expands, so you grow in love on...

Unforeseen Good Fortune’s Heirs Are We There’s little of the Plague that we can find to celebrate except for this...

  Dedicated to Falun Gong practitioners who have faced seventeen years of persecution in China. As tempests are blowing, angry...

  Wood Nymph A wood nymph knocked on my door last night           her hair was flaxen gold the ivy trailing...

  Exhale swift, what crimson breeze; Amber crisp and fuchsia Colors adorn leaves on the trees Their coats of misty...

December—not April cruelest, nor June In moon—must be the most romantic month, Why else make men of snow, or gods...