‘Uni-verse’ by Alan Nordstrom
Implicitly the Cosmos has design, Just as I hold the pattern in my mind Of how this sonnet’s feet and ...
Month: June 2013
A Sonnet for Falun Dafa Day by Evan Mantyk
Written in May 2010 / Revised April 2020 Trumpets blast and Heaven opens, light shoots through, Gods of all the ...
Painter Erik Koeppel Revives an American Tradition
By Mary Byrom Last year, painter Erik Koeppel left New York City’s big art scene behind. He moved to a ...
Painting: ‘Metamorphosis’ by Steven J. Levin
Steven J. Levin was born in Minneapolis MN in 1964. His interest in art began early, when as a young ...
Sonnet on Giorgione’s ‘Tempest’ by Bruce Dale Wise
Near a brief flash of lightning sits a bird, a white one on a gray and sloping roof, and rests ...
‘Portrait of a God’ by Evan Mantyk
God of men who’s dressed in white, Beard on face of long brown hair, Halo pattern traced in light, Nimbus ...
‘An Oklahoma Nightmare’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise
An Oklahoma Nightmare Leashed from the continent, it flew— on 20 May 2013— and caught the currents of the airy ...
‘Pastoral’ by Brandon Briggs
In meadows green and pastures sweet, My love and I, we first did meet; She watched me tend my flock ...
‘Metamorphic Rock’ by Reid McGrath
Pressure is what the loam feels when, buried and dis-tracted, it cannot function right; when it cannot get at the ...
‘Fredericksburg’ by Claire Marie de la Grange
The Union army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind Fredericksburg is remembered ...
‘Grains of Time’ and Other Poetry by Dino Cass
Grains of Time Somewhere through the hour glass, slip grains of time, eroding fast. Past and present times collide, revealing ...
‘The Ring’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise
The Ring for E. S. and W. S. "my precious," —Gollum, in The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien I ...
‘A Vision at the Portal of Elysium’ by Ed ‘Bear’ C.U. Lewis
I saw him standing at the gate of heaven. It was in a dream, but seemed so real I was ...
Very powerful, especially the last four lines of II.
Quite a breathtaking near-capture of a phenomenon that can never be fully captured -- in words or any other art…
Most oaks don't turn yellow -- they just go from green to brown. Some go scarlet briefly. Putting that aside,…
Are poems already published on this site considered for the prize if resubmitted with the entry fee?
Roy, Hyphenating/juxtaposing words is something I do often to create Pseudo-compound words that (hopefully) create an effect that intensifies what…
