Poetry

Near a brief flash of lightning sits a bird, a white one on a gray and sloping roof, and rests...

God of men who’s dressed in white, Beard on face of long brown hair, Halo pattern traced in light, Nimbus...

An Oklahoma Nightmare Leashed from the continent, it flew— on 20 May 2013— and caught the currents of the airy...

In meadows green and pastures sweet, My love and I, we first did meet; She watched me tend my flock...

Pressure is what the loam feels when, buried and dis-tracted, it cannot function right; when it cannot get at the...

The Union army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind Fredericksburg is remembered...

Grains of Time Somewhere through the hour glass, slip grains of time, eroding fast. Past and present times collide, revealing...

The Ring for E. S. and W. S. "my precious," —Gollum, in The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien   I...

I saw him standing at the gate of heaven. It was in a dream, but seemed so real I was...

Nothing to see here, they say each breath, People starving, as they feed us to death, Puppets on strings, all...

The Old Brown Carpet Hurray! I don't have to vacuum The old, brown carpet, anymore! At last, I managed to...

Like roaches fighting over baited trap we climbed and clambered, even pushed and shoved while scrambling for some nourishment like...

Exchange They go to take the heart of you, mark your skin & cut you through. With silk knives, their...

My love, accursed, will never let me go. I mourn your loss and all those wasted years. The wars that...

Come, tell me your story, master of prose. Use elements of the proper language To sway me to your side,...

Spirit of green engendered in liberty Sweeping across the glanded glades Tangled tree spirits in tarnished brief Dancing shades of...

Soft warm eyes searching, yearning full plump lips pouting and burning she looks upward in hope and desire burning inside...

A red-tailed hawk on a bridge railing looks fixed, loosed from its master. Reading one haiku, two bowls of strawberries...

How beautifully does Pisanello seize upon the Vision of Eustachius in paint, where all conjoins together in a whole to...

No one could recall When, in days of yore, The calm York River Had so breached its shore, Or where...

Department stores are nice But prices there are high If you've got lots of cash They've lots of things to...

Final Drip Sun’s broke through, it’s blinding. The crickets fade away, adjourn. The glowing, steaming mist falters; Creeps down to...

No Sweeter Spell Those things that I have told you, little things That no one else knows, things I’ve dared...

Translated by Lan Hua The Yu Gong Valley - I Heading into a valley Quite simply traveling With nobody else...

One Saturday in Boston, The Beacon of the Bay State. Many people went a'walkin' And came upon a mainstay: Disciples...

What He and Michelangelo Know "There on the scaffolding reclines Michael Angelo." -Yeats The Hudson’s sunk in this great vale...

Storage Let us lug in more stuff Storage man mumbles hi First year by in a huff Second year wonder...

I. The greatest writers are the teachers; The paper is their pupil; Each sheet defiantly stretches With a stark blank,...

One Has To "quod idem in poematis, in picturis usu venit in aliisque complaribus, ut delectentur imperiti laudentque ea, quae...

Momma says you can do it. Fly away, little bird. Momma’s watched over you, fussed And taught you every word....

Until He Dies With hollow bones a bird learns how to fly Not once despising frame all delicate, But pushed...

Confection Connection The girls were bored and at a loss To find a treat that did not cost An arm,...

Hummingbirds How dramatic of thou hummingbird Glides like a cherub through airs curb Precious gems scatter across and fly To...

Oh sad age, how the years will pass us by, Pass us and then our last visions refuse, Refuse us...

On the Beam At times when my roiled brain becomes serene, I may achieve a state of clarity In which...

The water-birds too are fast asleep upon the Great Lakes of the North. Looking carefully, one finds shepherd's purse on...

If I were dying, would you ask me to stay Until the Divine came to take me away From the...

As Icarus drowns in the deep-green, wine-dark sea, before the white, round fisher happily ensconced and th' extr'ordinary sailing ship...

Unicorns on New Mown Lawns Quintessential qualities quite quickly quantified Each reason for the morning winds that oh so slowly...

People always offer opinions and advice, As to what you should or shouldn’t do, Though they can barely manage themselves,...