Poetry

. Puffins The puffin’s beak is bright: Quince yellow stripes contrast With chests of fluffy white And wings of satin...

. Unchristian I hope you burn in Hell for nasty things You said to me, but if you don’t, I...

. . Poetry for Children by Shaun C. Duncan . To speak of poetry for children might appear redundant at...

. Enlightened Minds Most live life unsure and frightened, bearing burdens they want lightened. Waking, working, living, dying. Wondering why...

. The Barista’s Hands Surprisingly, she knew my name and used the chance to give a fleeting glimpse and catch...

. A Valedictorian’s Address at Harvard, about Claudine Gay written at the request of Brian Yapko, and in deepest appreciation...

. Kintsugi  There is an ancient practice in Japan--- Chipped and broken vessels, dear to hearts, Are mended with a striking golden blend. These...

. The Resistance There’s something in the way you hear __My meanings when I speak; It draws me dangerously near,...

. Ghosts: At the gate of Auschwitz Наш поезд уходит в Освенцим— Сегодня и ежедневно (Our train is departing for...

. Foothold Of hearth and home the better part is not the decorator’s art: not tasteful pillows, painted walls, or...

. Jewish Detractors of Israel Israel’s Jewish detractors, do you experience remorse? How does it feel to be traitors? Low’s...

. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/87O4CNfrZ2M https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ufJcOO-y7Ho?feature=share https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GG9J2oEEiyY?feature=share . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His epic-in-progress,...

. Symbolic Expression As polar opposites these days,The liberals and conservativesExpress opinions different ways. They rarely ever are in sync,Since Liberals...

. The Hunchback The belfry beckons. Once again it’s time. This is my cross, the task I’m forced to bear....

. In The Beginning We’re stuck in the middle, unsure of the ending but guessing the outcome by how things...

. Nero Redivivus Others suppose that he was not killed, but withdrawn instead so that he might be supposed killed...

. On Turning the Page of a New Year---2023-2024 The hour-glass is almost void of sand,a rounding of the sun...

. A Prayerful Pantoum for the Perpetually Pessimistic  "We'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne."  ---Robert...

. New Year's Eve So swiftly tick the minutes to the close Of these twelve months, this day, and life...

. Woke Christmas We dream of Christmas like we used to know, With Santa Claus and sleigh rides in the...

. After the Stroke Aphasia: an impairment of a previously held ability to produce or understand spoken, written, or signed...

. Anniversary Pastoral for Benedict XVI Trustworthy Shepherd of all shepherds, hear Today’s renewed appeal in concord made For Benedict,...

. Mythological Limericks on Defloration . Venus and Adonis Adonis was cute as a berry And Venus was sexy and...

. They Have Our Genes They have our genes; they’re human beings, Our fifteen frozen embryos. Regardless of your disagreeings,...

. An Abandoned Cemetery Pines thinly hid them on the forest floor: huge, useless molars, only three or four upright---a...

. Christmas Medley performed by Jeff Eardley . . Absent Friends The Christmas lights are twinkling on the houses all...

. The Evening The Times Newspaper Turned Into Jane Eyre My life had become like a broadsheet,__The Telegraph, maybe The...

. Common Currency There’s little written that cannot be said in some way that misunderstands or read as was not...

. I Know Them Well Don't preach to me of heaven and of hell expecting me to tremble and to...

. https://youtu.be/MZLhwCyQLcs . Read the complete translated text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight here. . . Andrew Benson...

. At The Metropolitan Museum one good reason for the French Revolution Once at the Met, we walked the halls,...

. To One Outspoken for A.B. If I had but a fraction of the zeal That burns in you like...

. Christmas 2010 "Love isn't something you find.  Love is something that finds you." ---Loretta Young I hadn't given up...

. Christmas Hallelujah sung to the melody of “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen When I hear a song of destiny, Of...

. The Ancient Christmas Tree A Dream Memory . The ridge out the window was blanketed white With snow that...

. The Ultimate Christmas Gift “Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.” ---Dr. Seuss This gift winks...

. Author/Composer’s Note: The noël, Il est Né le Divin Enfant (“He is Born, the Divine Christ Child”) is one...

. . “Even now, in sordid particulars, the eternal design may appear.” ---T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral . Among...

. Sleigh Rides Do Not a Christmas Make While folks down under get to ride their bicycles __And dine alfresco...

. The Wisemen and the Shepherds after Eileen Duggan The camels’ footfalls over and around Baked dunes, through pebbled streams,...