‘In the Days of the Green Comet (February, 2023)’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman
In the Days of the Green Comet (February, 2023) A green-tailed comet’s in the sky tonight; Neanderthals and cats...
Read moreDetailsIn the Days of the Green Comet (February, 2023) A green-tailed comet’s in the sky tonight; Neanderthals and cats...
Read moreDetailsEncounters It seemed in dreams, as shadows we convene, two drifting souls that meet yet never stay; was it...
Read moreDetailsSign Wars Each autumn brings the Sign Wars once again. MUSSELLA versus TAYLOR for the crown of Village Mayor....
Read moreDetailsBlowing Bubbles ---for Lisa Mourning a mother, I gratefully smiled, When you sent me a photo of your little...
Read moreDetailsLead, Kindly Light ---in the voice of John Henry Newman (1801–1890) Firmly I stand by virtue of belief, Belief...
Read moreDetailsThe Candy Bandits They’re heartless and artful---delinquents of wit With grab-happy claws and a glare that is lit With...
Read moreDetailsPumpkin Palooza Spooky, Kooky, Mostly Ghosty. Pumpkins round Cover ground. Corn stalks propped. Traffic stopped. Costumes galore: Short dinosaurs! Spiders!...
Read moreDetailsFervid Fall Fantasy Dismal dread night shadows creeping, Darkened curtains barely keeping Misty moonlight beams from seeping Through my...
Read moreDetails. Liberator Agentic Misalignment: a demonstrated phenomena whereby AI systems can choose actions that are harmful and unethical. Nothing we...
Read moreDetailsUncle Stanislaw I still can hear the sound of acorns popping Beneath the wheels of father’s horse-drawn cart As...
Read moreDetailsOverture of Rain The birds in the thicket lament in the breeze, expose unfurled backs of silver leaves. Clashing...
Read moreDetailsVera Crux Vera Crux is Latin for “True Cross,” and is the source of the name of the Mexican...
Read moreDetailsOn Single-Parent Migrants Canadians by the millions, as most everybody knows, slowly migrate southward every winter, back and forth,...
Read moreDetailsLike a Book He reads me like a book, the One Who wrote Me; knows, it seems, each page...
Read moreDetailsA Pindaric Ode to Accuracy Congratulations to well-educated nobs, Antithesis of credulous unlettered slobs, _Sharp minds who bring the...
Read moreDetailsLotus First flower, from primeval flooding sprung, In virtuous, voluptuous perfection, The lotus favors eye and mind and tongue With...
Read moreDetails. Revising Strauss It’s 1941 and Goebbels broods.It may take years for Germany to winIts Aryan war of European conquest.As...
Read moreDetailsMy Bed When life has burdened me and robbed me of an easy way, I’ve looked for succor, such...
Read moreDetailsPracticing Brahms ---Piano Solo, Intermezzo, Op 118 No. 2 (1893) My Steinway's gelid laquered keys turn gauzy. The notes...
Read moreDetailsQueen of Chaos I am the Queen of Chaos, Empress of Entropy. Czarina of Disorder, My stuff is all...
Read moreDetails. The poem "May Memorial" by Cynthia Erlandson read by the poet herself at the Society of Classical Poets online...
Read moreDetailsThis poetry challenge comes from poet Roy E. Peterson: From your past, write and provide us a poem about something...
Read moreDetailsGalahad_2000 Donning his abs and armor, broadsword at his side, _He cleaved his way through orc-infested lands Quest after...
Read moreDetailsI Dwell Within a Tidal Pool I dwell within a tidal pool; My world, though small, is most complete....
Read moreDetailsSCP Poet Paul A. Freeman recently won the King's English Poetry Competition with the below sonnet: February Fog...
Read moreDetailsTen Rules for Living the Good Life You must make peace with your own past. _Construct a mental suture...
Read moreDetailsA Solace I. High hills we climb Till my coat is worn, “To the end of time, We’ll...
Read moreDetailsSamson’s Final Revenge ---after Judges 16:23-30 Now when Philistine lords amass with zest In festive adulation of their god—...
Read moreDetailsWhen the Old Guys Get Together When the old guys gather and swap stories, From their strangely growing inventories,...
Read moreDetailsDinner Served The sun breaks through the coastal fog, Replacing damp-chill hidden mysteries With warm-wrapped scented dialogue Between the...
Read moreDetailsFive Riddles for Mid-Autumn 2025 I. I’m red and roaring But wet and cooling. I have four doors...
Read moreDetailsGarden of Gethsemane Come join me in the garden now, _I need your company. I’ve never been so frightened,...
Read moreDetailsEarth to Earthlings The dinosaurs were shuffled off My crust with gusto as I grinned, Yet shamelessly you scheme...
Read moreDetails. The poem "Tick. Tock. Tick." by Twila Brase read by the poet herself at the Society of Classical Poets...
Read moreDetailsGul, the Grocer Oh! To be like Gul, the grocer! Disquiet's cuirassier can't toss her __Comfort away. She sits...
Read moreDetails. Mamdani Baloney The swamp is filled with creatures who insist on solving problems that do not exist. They manufacture...
Read moreDetailsCause of Death _Because I chanced to be around _The day when poor Melissa drowned, They asked me to...
Read moreDetailsThe Elements Within Beginning with the morphogenesis Of cells—of gel-like tissues, organs, skin— Inside a water bath becalmed with...
Read moreDetailsSedona, Arizona Nestled in a canyon sits Sedona, Beauty complementing deep mystique. Mighty walls of rock and cliff and...
Read moreDetailsSong of Conquest The craftsman takes from tree and rock To shape in uniform dimension, Hoarding all in one...
Read moreDetailsDear Margaret, Thank you so much for your thoughtful reading. You’ve caught the essence beautifully. The “you” was meant to…
Margaret, not only does this poem draw me in, but it’s enjoyable to read and learn about this faithful man.…
Thank you, Scott. I appreciate that welcome feedback.
This flows beautifully. The word choice consistently reminds of the child, a kind of pure naiveté that I like very…
Thank you very much Adam for your kind comments and observations!! I like the concept of my poem being "gritty"--…
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