Poetry

. The Moselle Tranquil meandering alluvion, From Vosges pink sandstone hills it percolates In rillets past rich vines in echelon...

. Fifth Glyph This glyph, in British talk, occurs most oft--- most common, too, writ down within our books. Twixt...

. Sonnet When sitting on a swing my cheeks were chilled, I gazed and saw the dawn, a new spring...

. Commodore Perry Opens Japan On July 8, 1853, on the orders of President Millard Fillmore, Commodore Matthew Perry led...

. Lord, Give Me Serenity Lord, give me serenity To deal with lunatics, Especially the ones Who are found in...

. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 4: Poetry in the Age of AI If you enjoy this video,...

. All That’s Left Is Yours based on I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris The bride walked the aisle...

. Beyond the Visible Veil Gravity cannot hold those forms who float __And drift—hiding in air— Though some guard human...

. The 10 Best Love Poems of 2022 If you are more of an academic poetry lover who stills enjoy...

. Xanadu Revisited after "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Coleridge __In Washington aristocrats __ordain corruption happily: __here the Potomac River flows...

. How Strange We Cannot See a Reflection on Indian Boarding Schools and the Continuing Subjugation of Native Peoples God...

. Half the Night a villanelle My stomach isn’t working right. Bubbles, gurgles, twinges and sighs Kept me up for...

. The Revised Guide to Selling Adult Beverages  Dismiss the woke approach to advertising--- It’s mad and bad and far...

. The “Muse” A sailboat, small, unvarnished wood, her sail a swath, a patch, of red fastened by type-9 yo-yo...

. Gnome A long-time fixture at our home Is Schnozz, our little garden gnome. This non-complaining happy chap Appears to...

. Life and Death This life has so much left in store, We think, a day gone by isn't lost; It's...

. Quattrocento On the Fresco “Madonna del Parto” by Piero della Francesca, Monterchi, Italy, circa 1460 We file into a...

. An Aging Senator Returns to the Capitol Confused and more than half-way gone to Hell, They wheel her in...

. Congratulations to SCP Poet Monika Cooper who took First Place in the 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest held by...

. Creation From deep within eternity, the soundOf song burst out! As Perfect Fullness stirred,A melody in wisdom wrought, profound,Complex...

. Emptiness “There’s emptiness and then there’s emptiness,” the wise old voice inside me sighing said (and maybe not so...

. Come September a pantoum Ohio State’s your home come September, Though we'll be lonely, stuck as empty nesters. Our...

. Contract Murder No one is ever quite sure how it’s planned— What’s clear is that a grievance is expressed...

. The Number 165: Emily Hyatt A Cautionary Tale . Now this is a story that all those should heed...

. Note to a Sloppy Homeowner in response to C.B. Anderson's “Know How to Mow” Increasing rates are musts for...

. To Music Oh, Music, wherein lies your wondrous power To pierce the barren heart and open wide Joy's floodgate...

. Target Gets Targeted A leftist agenda endorsed,Down customers’ throats it was forced.They now find their business is blighted,You could...

. We Must Invest in Self-Investigation __If past mistakes were soft cupcakes ____to scoff at and reject and so avoid...

. When Two Elephants Fight---Sudan, 2023 The regular army and the Rapid Support Force (RSF) are at war with each...

. Elegy "Beauty can pierce one like a pain." —Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks When Mother died, she left me all her...

. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 3: Embrace the Epic, Not the Opaque If you enjoy this video,...

. Gaslighted Our friendship limped along for thirty years. I can’t say why. The scornful views you’d share Instilled resentment,...

. America America, vast land of dreams __From sea to shining sea, Where eagles soar and twilight gleams __On Lady...

. With Liberty and Justice for All Old Glory may have stripes and stars, But on those stars and stripes...

. The Great War Ever be their memory, Those interred across the sea, Men who, fighting evil, fell, Who endured...

. For My Grandfather While Sharpton praised low bandits for their grace, And Barack preached self-pity with pure glee, You...

. Red Flags a sestina sonnet The national flags of the Westerners’ lands Turn red in the dim, fading light...

. Target If you’re too young to take a marriage vow, Stuck at an awkward age that won’t allow A dizzy dose...

. True Grit My favourite movie? If I must decide, I'd pick a classic western above all, those epic films...

. Some Satirical Epigrams in hendecasyllabics (essentially trochaic pentameter with a dactyl for the second foot) . Complaint to a...