Poetry

Chasing the Devil I’m losing sight of what I want. I’ve lost the things I need. Danger one step ahead...

By Neal Whitman The reckoning at end of day. Upon a bench two minstrels meet to split the payment equally....

A Cold Truth If Love can move mountains I could move the Earth My Heart as a fountain We would...

Seed Pot Seed corn, broodmare, hen: Half the earth is green, half brown. Man must plan for planting in spring...

Postcard Gallery Thumbing through glossies gleaned from countless trips – Old Master paintings, drawings, and prints reduced to four-by-six impressions...

Below is an excerpt of the last ten stanzas of Lord Byron's ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,’ published originally in the 1810s....

Dawn Drums They march again to war, Sniffling, shuffling, voices muffled, Through dawn's uncertain door Youth and man, rich and...

Villanelle Vows All that is in this delightful garden grows, Should happy be, and have immortal bliss.       Edmund Spenser,...

Street Idyll Calm is she who sits in white Because the source of her delight, Wherein the street relucts to...

Poetry For The Common Man No wonder poetry won’t sell, Since authors write it for themselves; And most of it...

Into The Mist This shadow life passing away, mute requiem of falling snow, a prayer to end the mortal day;...

By A. Michaelle Yarbrough The music of the crescendo plays so sweet As she moves across the floor so gracefully...

By Damian Robin In view, he made a start. Filling up his cart, He flogged his horse apart And made...

HEAR the sledges with the bells -- Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells ! How...

By Xuanzang (Translated by Lan Hua) After unstinting effort Of the human frame To reach this mountain shelter Where a...

By Billy Cosby Tonight, whoever watered your fresh sky set the nozzle wide and the evening’s cheeks wear a dark...

(Epoch Times) - Torkom Demirjian is the president and founder of Ariadne Galleries on the Upper East Side. He has...

NEW YORK—News broke this week that Damien Hirst killed 9,000 butterflies to create his latest piece of warped modern art...

By Billy Cosby The Good Earth is frozen over, dogs, but you two are scalding kilns with glassy stares that...

By Damian Robin On a night-lit street, an empty pizza box Staggers against a wall like thrown-off knickers. Its flat...

By Catherine Tufariello Their shrieks careening dizzily between Delight and outrage, the students in the yard Are playing hard, Though...

By Evan Mantyk Gov. Mitt Romney was absolutely correct when he declared that government subsidies to PBS should be cut....

By Aubrey Henderson The sweet silence evades me these long days, When I can close my eyes and hear God...

By Michael T. Young Ice is the past tense of water, is verb condensed to noun, pure speed contracted to...

By Dan Skorbach The tired eyes have earned their time for resting The mind won't think and feet will move...

Poetry should be metered, because metered poetry is, quite simply, better than free verse.  This is for the same reason...

By Chen Z'iang (Translated by Lan Hua) The orchids birthed Through spring And summer both Such luxuriant growth How can...

By Robert Crawford By August I noticed the lack of care, And now in September I feel the despair; The...

In the picture above, a Chinese citizen writes the words "Tui Dang" (literally "Quit Party") signifying his resignation from the...

By Li Bai  (Translated by Lan Hua) In the rickety tower A hundred feet high My hands could pluck The...

By Dan Skorbach If I could talk to trees and meet with mighty lions, If I could ride the winds...

By Aubrey Henderson Reluctantly I emerged from natures Soothing womb; forsaking the assuagement Of community, for the dark lament Emanating...

By Aubrey Henderson You battle with our demons in the dark. You wake up screaming from your troubled dreams. Memories...

By Evan Mantyk There is a dark and forceful urge to blame The nine-eleven terrorist attacks On religion, on security...

In this refashioned version of Homer’s Iliad, the mystical hero Achilles’ clashes with the doubting King Agamemnon over a woman,...

By Joshua Philipp So deep grown were our rings of sin, lost hope had humankind, lost hope for sight of...

Lesson Plans, Readings with Questions, and Sample Essays: Lesson on the Poetry of Bruce Dale Wise (Society of Classical Poets...

By Tom Zart God has always had his poets Who He watches with love from space. But Satan has his...

Translated by Gary Pansey Ridiculing Social Status In Their Proper Places First come officials And then of course their boss,...

Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind, from China to Peru; Remark each anxious Toil, each eager Strife, And watch...