Poetry

. Word Witch She’ll tease and tempt with mystic words, __This foxy sorceress. Her syntax soars like sun-bound birds--- __This wizard poetess Casts...

. The Great Sonnet I set myself to write a sonnet. I labored hard and long upon it. Sweet verse...

. Mrs. Cyclops Ain’t really gonna leave. I’ll just pretend, Brontesa. Cy and I are bound. I simply Can’t bear...

. The Democratic Party Dressed for Halloween The Democratic Costume Party is held on Halloween With Hillary as Jezebel, the...

. . Plato’s Pumpkins  A patchwork quilt of pumpkins sown with gourds, odd fellows green and yellow ‘twixt-and-‘tween October’s orbs...

. Extract from DoorWay Canto 3: Constellation of the Virgin DoorWay is the Poet’s journey through Heaven. Having left the...

. Apocalypse Women The Christians gather at the baby’s grave. There are no tall stones in the children’s field. Red...

. Autumn by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), translated by Bruce Phenix The falling leaves seem fallen from afar, as though...

. Reviewed Book: Selected Verse of Émile Nelligan: Québec's Great Lyric Poet, translated with commentary by Ian Allaby, Petra Books,...

. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 7 Part 2: C.B. Anderson, Poetical Gardener If you enjoy this video,...

. The Number 192: Inside the Floor in which we encounter a vision of Hell ’Twas on the 192 at...

. The Reincarnations of Donald J. Trump after Andrew Benson Brown’s Legends of Liberty  . I. 218 B.C. Above the...

. After Brain Death Based on the article “May We Donate Our Organs?” by Drs. Jay Boyd and Paul A....

. Mike Burch Still Around? Good Lord, No… with apologies to J.C. Squire’s Ballade de l’Évolution Créatrice Strange beasts have...

. Excusing Evil A peaceful protest just took place, and some unlucky people died. Hamas just wanted more air space...

. The Word “Let there be light,” He said and light there was. The seething chaos split to day and...

. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 7 Part 1: The Problem with Arts Grants If you enjoy this...

. The Life of the Party The commissar, in his most common clothes, Patrols the margins of their conversations, And...

. Cystolitholapaxy Cystolitholapaxy (si-stow-luh-THAA-luh-pak-see): a procedure to break up bladder stones into smaller pieces and remove them “It’s Cystolitholapaxy for...

. Be Careful What You Ask For “Genie, please make me a banana split.” Poof! “You are a banana split! Just...

. The Truth about Fall Colors  I am October’s most submissive bitch, And just when I believed I’d struck it...

. Quiet Night Thoughts by Li Bai (701-762), translated by Talbot Hook My bed looks over bright moonlight. I muse:...

. Unveiled, They Appear Reminiscence, and longings, and echoes unseal, from the depths in the ground which has covered, concealed,...

. Salome's Soliloquy John the Baptist rebuked Herod Antipas, ruler of Galilee, for an incestuous and adulterous union with his...

. Avoidance I don’t sign up for group Zoom calls __With folks I know are boorish. I don’t go visit...

. Bunker Hill an excerpt from the forthcoming Legends of Liberty, Vol. 2 . The Eve of Battle The midnight...

. Words of Wisdom  “The only true wisdom is knowing  you know nothing.” ---Socrates She knows the what. She knows...

. A Petless State after Katherine Philips' A Married State, 1664 A house with pets affords but little grace. The...

. Congratulations to Society of Classical Poets Member Paul A. Freeman who won the Queen's English Society Poetry Competition. His...

. My Brother in Galilee I had a fearsome dream---I saw my friend -- My teacher-brother---nailed onto a cross. I...

. A Leftist Rebukes Hamas Hey, Hamas, you silly dolts, You need to mow down more adults. Keep fighting for...

. Autumn Winds have Come Again Autumn winds have come again, Whistling wafts are dithering, Trees are shedding leaves like...

. Epiphany It stays in your memory like a pealing bell, A smallish thing, an unimportant fact— The mute suggestion...

. Trump in Asia the carp glows in dark waters, remembering the time that Trump fed him . . White...

. Autumn in Pennsylvania in 2023 In response to Susan Jarvis Bryant’s poem on "Autumn in Texas" If Autumn is...

. Two Bugologues . Moth Onto a wall in chilly gloom I fold myself, all silk and dust, and then,...

. Homage to the Cultural Contributions of Native Americans Columbus bumped into this wondrous land— Out of his ships came...

. Uninvited Guest A man came by my house one day. I smiled and said he couldn’t stay. He smiled...

. The Number 235: The Fall Sludge in extremis  ‘Twas on the 235 at Feltham Station, It happened in the...

. A Psalm of Lament So says the Lord: A voice is heard on high, lamentation, bitter weeping, Rachel weeping...