Month: September 2016

By Conrad Geller Poets demonstrably know nothing about death since it is, in Hamlet’s phrase, “the undiscovered country from whose ...

My Mirror Grinned (Rondeau) My mirror grinned at my first grey. With rearing youth, it’s my first fray. Disturbed, with ...

  There is a tale of seven sisters whose father help up the sky pursued by Orion, carried to the ...

  Today I may dream of stubbled fields shriveled     foretelling of future prospects grim. If tomorrow’s dreams are green, is ...

By Carol Smallwood The pantoum is a poetry form that originated in 15th century Malaysia and drifted West in the ...

  Gathering like large and lazy vultures they asked me, on my travels, where I’m from — my origins, religion ...

. Unexpiring Ekphrastic on the above photo Unexpiring constant Sun, Earth untired responding spun, Surging fire, maternal birth, Urgent sire ...

  The eyes emerge from slumber’s lake of lead, Awakened by the zephyr flying past, In wonderment to witness, overhead, ...

On the shores of Lake Erie, most weak & most weary, a soldier sat sunning, returned from the wars,     And ...

We Shall Never Forget Let the world always remember, That fateful day in September, And the ones who answered duty's ...

  Terror has infected the world today; And this disease is spreading day by day. Fanatics who lack spirituality And ...

By Anonymous Sometimes I sit alone for a while, Watching life go by, Sitting high on a mountain top, Wondering ...

Will Power When God asked Solomon one day     What his heart did most desire, The man said if he had ...

"Games of Gridlock," people proclaim, "court our congress in shifts of shame!" If pay-to-play campaigns unlash a people-to-the-poles backlash, it's ...

  And then we remembered that cruelest spring, when we awoke to find ourselves hollow. Where once we mocked, “O ...

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