Poetry

. Thanksgiving I’m thankful most for what I can’t describe, Though otherwise I’m clever as can be At secular and...

. Greta Thunberg Meets the Emerald Queen Part II of "The Emerald Queen: A Legend from the Future" One day...

. Unsocial Addictions Why do some people lie, brag, or act mean?It must pump them up, like a jolt of...

. Yet Another Year The birthday bells reverberate __Through haunted towns That lead you to an ancient gate __Beside which...

. There Is a Way? Is there a way for beauty to be painted with a word? Is there a...

. Convictions of My Thoughts and Deeds Convictions of my thoughts and deeds are vapors, not substantial things. There are...

. The Risen Though now the hearth is left to smolder __And light will soon be gone; Fire shall rise...

. Sonnet for Mom (October 21, 1933 - March 28, 2014) I could not see how much she cared for...

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. Abraham and the Binding of Isaac after Genesis 22 I cannot sleep although the moon is high. I’m numb....

. Art and Belief by Joseph S. Salemi When I consider the question of art and belief, I recall the...

. Lee in the Furnace "He who thinks of Lee Must think of Washington. . ." ---Herman Melville So Oleh,...

. Insouciance When circumstances wear you down Consider this important fact: It’s easier to smile than frown. When autumn leaves...

. Tampering with Permanence  a Seattle pantoum __Here where I live, a cloud looks like a mountain; mountains float. Like...

. Pythagoras, Man of Music Pythagoras was of mathematical mind. No matter where he went, he’d often find Relationships to...

. Voyage to Scotland Constantius II, son of Constantine and emperor from 337 to 361, hoped to glorify Constantinople by...

. Killing Common Sense The savagery of leftist rage __is getting more intense. There’s no rest from the war they...

. There Are Not Enough Hours in the Day There are not enough hours in the dayto take all of...

. If You Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter If solidified oil with chemical clutter That helps it look yellow and...

. Death in Life, Life in Death: Canto XXXIII of Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns The...

. What Sort of Freedom? What sort of freedom is it that proclaims Its export to the savage and demands...

. You Might Be a Leftist Liberal Democratic Clone You might be a leftist liberal Democratic clone, If you think...

. . Music by Jeff Eardley . . The Return to Ithaca by Brian Yapko This shall not be forever,...

. My Last Delivery as Attending Physician adapting a line from Carl Sandburg Although she’s labored for eleven hours, determination...

. Revolution Puckish Schoenberg, bored with Bach now assaults the tonic scale, pounding (his a frontal shock), on Mozart's coffin,...

. 2 Peter 3 “Consider that our Lord’s patience is directed toward salvation.” ---2 Peter 3:15 For once in church...

. Wayward Their frosty hearts and polished oaken door Slammed shut the night she found her stolen voice. She sang a moonbeam song---a shocking choice In mystic keys that spurned the...

. The Ballad of Baldy McCass Canteen I From Utah to Colorado rode that wily desperado. Sometimes off to wild...

. To Whom It May Concern a common spelling error: “Isreal.” "Woe to those who say of the evil that...

. Remembrance I When I, a boy whom youth made bold, Had bid my land of birth one last adieu,...

. A 2023 Survival Villanelle for Potentially Contentious Thanksgiving Gatherings Keep dinner chatter chirrupy and perky. Don’t prod the pachyderm...

. Spirit of Thanksgiving Past O, noble Spirit of Thanksgiving Past, You are a very strange yet gracious host! Of...

. . The Eve of Thanksgiving ‘Tis the eve of Thanksgiving, and all through the class, The students are wishing...

. Interrogation at the Grassy Knoll: November 22, 1963 Who are you guys? We’re from the CIA. And you? I’m...

. World View Beyond the line where sea and sky collideLie distant lands beyond myopic sightWhere men and women live...

. . Reversing Babel . I. Babel “Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.” ---Genesis 11:1 ....

. Perpetual Emotion “And everybody hates the Jews.” ---Tom Lehrer, National Brotherhood Week Not many people like the Jews; __By...

. “United” Nations? The U.N. won’t condemn Hamas’s slaughter,Supporting those who want Jews underwater.Iran’s a U.N. human rights group head,Though...

. Hero, Leander and Marlowe Setting: Christopher Marlowe’s flat in London. Date: May 29, 1593. At last I see the...

. Wishful Thinking The “investigation” widens of the traitorous crimes the Bidens __are and have been guilty of for years,...