Poetry

. State of the Apple Pie I stepped into the finest restaurant, A destination nearly all would want, My expectations...

. Poetry in the Image of God Conjure and weave a calligraphic spell Within the wells of mystic words and...

. A Fitful Veil A wanton wave of pallid hail descends from ashen skies. Its drifts are carried through to...

. The Light Under the Door for GGG, in lieu of roses On school days, dark on winter mornings, my...

. Thoughts Upon Hearing of the Taiwan Earthquake Big earthquake in Taiwan. My first concern: “Will China take advantage and...

. The Mock Savior's Song also known as the Mobster Quadrille, after Lewis Carroll Saving critters from extinction (lonely lovelies,...

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. Rudolf Hess Deputy Führer found strangled at Spandau Prison, August 17, 1987 Odd winter whirlwinds occupy my brain With...

. Soviet Tactics I Witnessed and Still in Use Today by LTC Roy E. Peterson Outside of the Chinese Communist...

. Sapphire Space and Eden Green "...and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to...

. Hymn to Evolving Faith after C.S. Lewis Lead us, Liberalism, lead us Past hidebound inerrancy; Prick us with your...

. Glimmers Alone in rumination, distant dawn Eludes the desperate aching of my eyes, My senses blunted by a cheerless...

. April Fools’ Day is Dead I’m sad to say this merry day’s no more. It died alongside guts and...

. The Emmaus Highway Each day we wake up and we walk to Emmaus, escaping what has, and what may...

. He Knows Our Hearts The Sunday flocks who sing as glory pours Through fancy glass as lusty organs play,...

. Who Believes in Easter Anymore? "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but...

. Peter’s Story a villanelle I’m standing by the Sea of Galilee And Jesus calls for me to come along...

. Once Once he was finally dead; once just a piece Of meat nailed to the planks of scabrous wood;...

. Stations of the Cross . I. Pilate Why, Pentheus, Cambyses, why, Why, Antony, in days gone by, Did you...

. The Lilacs on Good Friday Tumult of noontide long ago dismissed— The rent veil unremembered, and the sun Relit,...

. The Lamb “And suddenly there was with the angel a heavenly host saying, Glory to God in the highest,...

. The Book on Lefty McBane McBane could do no wrong—from his debut, late in his rookie season, right on...

. Distress Signals an extended villanelle Distressing times are coming round again, And all the talking heads now flap their...

. Reading of Mark F. Stone's poem "The Wisdom of Ric Edelman" by Ric Edelman on his show available here:...

. Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus I think this velvet dinosaur is fine. Please wrap it up. Does this store still take...

. Imagine Mountains For the Sesquicentennial of Robert Frost's birth (March 26, 1874 – March 26, 2024) "Let chaos storm!...

. The Line For Ashes Line is long and moving slowly: Step by step, the high and lowly, Halt and...

. You Do You God’s willing to let you do you despite the fact it pains Him to since you’ll go where...

. Deep State Anonymity Ah, the devil. His motive? To deceive __And for us to deny, To dismiss him as...

. Shades of Vesuvius Seldom does one see horror in a tranche De vie like that in Herculaneum And Pompeii, when a...

. Limerick Perhaps it’s a marketing trick, or else Iceland’s taking the mick; __for what kind of fun __is an Easter Day...

. The Whiskey Priest based on The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene I stand condemned because I am...

. We Are Wrong You shall remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you went out of...

. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Kc7zqehKrdk?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q0bm2-oUmgg?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8I4DU3RTtpM?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jkhvcmfkEsg?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dx4xu3zzFQA?feature=share . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals....

. Queen Esther's Lot for the Jewish holiday of Purim (“Lots”) Oh, to be taken from home’s holy ways, Delivered...

. Victim Shaming Nancy Mace, a U.S. Congresswoman for South Carolina, was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos, former Communications Director for...

. Change Scrub the rock with glacial ice until the granite’s smooth and bare. Let the river cut through earth...

. March 21st, Saints Cranmer and Bach Archbishop Thomas Cranmer,  burned at the stake March 21, 1556 . Johann Sebastian...

. St. Perpetua Eyewitnesses of the atrocity Report that on that Carthage afternoon, Already scourged and gored repeatedly By savage...

. Words Matter . I. Out of Context Cheats cherry-pick the words that suit their ploy To shame the names...