Poetry

  In Defense of Rhyme by Euphrates Moss In May of 2022 the Sydney Morning Herald published a critic's verdict...

  Gun Control ---after Longfellow’s “The Arrow and the Song” I shot a bullet Into the air. It fell to...

  Power of a Pen Really not much of a treasure, You can find them anywhere. They are cheap and...

. The Best Haiku of 2026 The Winner and Runners-Up of the Society of Classical Poets 2026 Haiku Competition Judged...

  One Night in Bangkok   6:00 p.m. One night in Bangkok---and this searching man From Georgia must explore its...

  Invocation Lift up these leaden eyes that slumber still, Cocooned within undreaming restless dark. Celestial Sun, burn through the...

  Enjoy the Peace, Prepare for War “Why can’t we all just get along?” _I see most every day. And...

  Faust Part Two, Act One: 'A Pleasant Landscape' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) translated from German by Josh...

  The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost (1874-1963) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could...

  Reappraisals of Mortality "After the first death, there is no other." — Dylan Thomas The hill is steep That...

  What Is the Measure of My Days? —after Psalm 39:4 When I was young, I saw the old: _The...

  Polar Coordinates Take an angle labeled theta and a radius called r: They teach not only trigonometry. (I know,...

  It Never Lies! The camera tells a candid tale--- _they say it never lies; it makes your crows’ feet...

  The Mahjong Flowers   Orchid Lone in the cold of working solitude, The scholar and the orchid strain to...

  The Martyrdom of Saint Cassian St. Cassian of Imola (Forum Cornelii) was a schoolteacher killed by his own pupils...

  Mind versus Beauty by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) translated from Germany by Eric v.d. Luft Now Mister Mind,...

  Summer Sails Floating through an azure sky, Rhinos, rabbits and dragons fly. Lofty sails puff out like pillows, Catching...

  Aquarius A black cross in my memory, Upon a tangled silver chain, Against his skin of ivory, Glows fire-branded...

  No Body Here on Earth Her cancer broke through chemo’s flame at last. Her lungs held on for months,...

  A Reading of Homer's Odyssey Book 1 (Translated by Michael Solot) https://youtu.be/1knI2sT_g28     Starring: Andrew Benson Brown as...

  Now? How can I keep this now as Now? Past and Future take a bow, Then crunch each Now...

  From California to Louisiana No more the mountains rising blue and gray, nor oceans crashing near to shore on...

  A Pot of Tea __A pot of tea Stirs the mind this winter morning. __A pot of tea Shared...

  I. My cousin has a fuzzy head _But I am bald instead. I cannot give your hand a shake...

  Swallowtails Every year we till and sow our kitchen garden, parsnips in a six-foot line, to catch the glow...

  All Flesh Is Grass “When the ungodly are green as the grass, and when all the workers of wickedness...

  May a Smile Be Your Umbrella May a smile be your umbrella And the wind blow you away. May...

  Flexibility This morning when I was pursuing Just one of my many routines, My son asked why I wasn’t...

  Sabin Howard ---who created A Soldier's Journey at the National World War I Memorial in Washington, D.C. He steps...

  Ode to a Dragonfly High in the torrid, torpid dog-day air A shape, elusive, skeletal, darts by--- Yet elongated,...

  Hobby Horse Not like the winged stallion of Greek fame with Olympic wings aloft from sky to sky. Here,...

  Big Cat Dance In my home state of Michigan _They rip up all the roads To vex the heart...

  Freedom’s Wring _When God seems to fail _The world starts to wail, And saints go marching home Like Sprites...

  Island of Poets Settlers came from Thessaly, eastward sailing Far as Lesbos, loveliest isle regaling Grateful hearts with poetry...

  Military Quatrains, or the Modern Archilochus εἰμὶ δ’ἐγὼ θεράπων μὲν Ἐνυαλίοιο ἄνακτος, καὶ Μουσέων ἐρατὸν δῶρον ἐπιστάμενος. "I am...

  The Secret Rose Somewhere unknown there grows A multifoliate rose Whose petals are arranged In symmetries unchanged By vagaries...

  The Family Archive With moldy hand through tender shards I graze In boxes, old and dusty, some collapsed, And...

  Pedagogy Some claim the moon is made of cheese —No farting, please, it’s unrefined— Whose surface is a softened...

  Who are the Villains? I hate to be a Hollywood belittler, And yet, you ever notice how The stock...

  Isle of Romance O Isle of Romance, what a fanciful thought, _Most surely a sensual place--- Capri, Catalina, Tahiti...