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Monthly Archives June 30, 2017

‘The Equitree’ by Ron L. Hodges

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June 30, 2017
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Education, Poetry
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  Three children stood below a tree That sprouted fruit abundantly; They sought to seize the luscious fruit, These hungry children in pursuit. One child could reach the middle height, One the...

Translations of Mickiewicz and Benn by Leo Yankevich

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June 29, 2017
Beauty, Poetry, Translation
22 Comments
The Akkerman Steppe Original Polish by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) below I launch myself across the dry and open narrows, My carriage plunging into green as if a ketch, Floundering through the meadow...

‘Poem for a Birthday’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook

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June 28, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
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Poem for a Birthday Say that the year is round, and on its top March lighted candles in concentric rows. They drip their wax, which hardens on the heart As birthdays pass, and most of us suppose That...

‘A Shakespeare Reverie’ by James A. Tweedie

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June 26, 2017
Culture, Humor, Poetry, Shakespeare
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Inspired by the Ashland, Oregon, Shakespeare Festival Narrator: William Shakespeare—Shakspere? Shaksper? Shakespear? Shackespeare? Shake-and-Bake-speare?—died but did not Go to heaven. Sent instead...

‘Purple Oxalis Plant’ by Julia Geaney-Moore

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June 26, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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  When dusk settles, the oxalis Stands taller and sweeter, As if to say that all of this Is just Nature’s theater, The butterfly-shaped purple leaves Are an actor's costume, Which fans out in...

Essay: ‘Poetry and the Muses Part 2’ by James Sale

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June 24, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Popular Poetry Archives
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The Muses we understand from Part 1 of this article are the daughters of the future and the past, and more specifically of memory, light, truth and beauty; they are essential for the ‘good life’, and we...

‘What Rumor, What Word?’ and Other Poetry by Neal Dachstadter

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June 23, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry
What Rumor, What Word? On the featured photo above What rumor, what word, O Cloud from the sea? Cumulus, Nimbus: what sayest thou to me? But human and man; the simplest I be, And found ruminating,...

‘Riddle Two’ and Other Poetry by Michelle Tamara Simon

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June 22, 2017
Humor, Poetry, Riddles
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  Riddle Two Now give these lines a gander Be you bold enough to try Find fun, full-fashioned candor Take care. Some smart cells may fry On this surface so smooth In perfect timing we...

‘The Faerie Glade’ By Wandi Zhu

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June 21, 2017
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  In a secluded forest glade, Where sunlight shines and shadows fade, The faeries come to dance and play Upon a bright warm summer’s day. Light are their footsteps, quick their feet On...

Classical Book Review: Dante’s Vita Nuova and Reflections on Divine Love (Folio)

Joshua Philipp
June 20, 2017
Dante, Essays, Poetry, Reviews, Translation
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By Joshua Philipp The Italian poet Dante Alighieri is best known for his journey into hell, purgatory, and heaven which he told of in his "Divine Comedy." But before he took that journey, he took a very...

’27 November 1976: Fort Eustis, Virginia’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

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June 19, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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27 November 1976: Fort Eustis, Virginia By Usa W. Celebride It is an autumn Saturday. I sit amidst the scree, of dry, brown, crackly leaves, against the rough bark of a tree. The Sun casts out long...

‘The Finding’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

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June 18, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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Sonnet XLIV. The Finding Let not this grief across her face invade, Dear God! Thou madest these my one true care! Not Egypt, where we hid Him and He played, Could fade her brightness with its desert...

‘Déja’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden

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June 16, 2017
Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle
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  Déja Do you remember when a piece of art Held truth or meaning in its oil or stone— And beauty even?  Paintings would impart Aesthetic truth and not just some sweet tone Of glowing like a...

‘The Light of New Hope’ and Other Poetry on Terrorist Attacks in England

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June 15, 2017
Poetry, Terrorism
2 Comments
Post your poetry on the recent terrorist attacks in England in the comments section at the end of this post.   The Light of New Hope By Connie Phillips I. Bombings, beheadings, bizarre wanton...

Book Review: Hare Krishna by Mahathi, Prowess Publishing, 2017

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June 14, 2017
Essays, Poetry, Reviews
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By Sandeep Kumar Mishra There are two things that came to my mind when I read the book Hare Krishna by Mahathi: First, in this modern era in which every person thinks himself a poet, the shape, size and...

‘Taking a Gambol’ and Other Poetry by David Watt

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June 13, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
  Taking a Gambol A rabbit’s life’s a gambol, A fortunate existence; Giving time enough to spare For frolics in the bramble, Bunny-hops from here to there, Some chewing for subsistence. But...

Funny Food Poetry Contest Winners Announced

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June 12, 2017
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Thank you to everyone who participated in the Funny Food Poetry Contest, including Judges Michael Curtis, Lorna Davis, William Ruleman, James Sale, and Bruce Dale Wise. We had quite a number of people...

‘Shared Tears’ by Karen Mooney

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June 11, 2017
Poetry, Terrorism
12 Comments
The tears of a nation are shared by us all, We stand with those countries whom terror befalls; The innocent taken, destroyed by the vile, Their heinous objectives we can’t reconcile, Or count them as...

‘I Think I Like You Better Now’ and Other Poetry by Amy Foreman

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June 10, 2017
Beauty, Poetry, Short Stories
27 Comments
I Think I Like You Better Now I think I like you better now; it’s been a little while Since first you took my breath away with just a passing smile. When love was fresh and new and fast, before life took...

‘The Flowers’ and Other Poetry by David Bellemare Gosselin

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June 9, 2017
Beauty, Poetry
2 Comments
The Flowers Upon a morning stroll serene Across many young floral gardens Greeting me on those fields of green Was the red rose who all love pardons. The humming bird about it flutters The bees its...

‘Penelope’s Postscript’ and Other Poetry by Joseph S. Salemi

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June 8, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
23 Comments
Penelope’s Postscript Uncounted days, wrung dry of tears— Lost wanderers do not return: So much for the departed years. Heap up my mangled hopes and fears, Leave Ithaka to mock and spurn Uncounted...

‘Tipton County, Tennessee, 1917’ and Other Poetry and Translations by William Ruleman

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June 7, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation
7 Comments
Tipton County, Tennessee, 1917 My great-grandfather cut down huge black oaks Whose stumps his two young sons helped him uproot, Each some Yggdrasil yielding to the strokes Of manic axes in their mad...

Three Poems on John Keats by Sultana Raza

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June 6, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
20 Comments
Ephemeral Constant With hued music, beautified page. His spheres were thinner than gossamer, Only to beauty, did Keats defer. Was omni-sensory, ahead of his age, Gifted synesthete; few could...

Review: The Lyre Speaks True, James Sale, 2016

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June 5, 2017
Essays, Poetry, Reviews
2 Comments
By Joseph Charles MacKenzie James Sale, whom I happen to consider England’s best on the subject, states: “To write poetry with any degree of power, and to create true beauty without which the effort is...

A Prayer for England by Joseph Charles MacKenzie (with Audio)

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June 3, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Popular Poetry Archives, Readings, Terrorism
80 Comments
  Sonnet IV. Edward the Confessor Edward, the Cross no more on England’s shores Thy people blesses. The light of faith is gone. From stolen thrones the foes of Christ wage wars Against thy...

‘Dying Muse’ and Other Poetry by Ann Christine Tabaka

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June 3, 2017
Beauty, Poetry, The Environment
11 Comments
Dying Muse Not everyone will survive The muse has sung her last song The end is about to arrive It has been following us all along The forest is groaning in pain She sheltered her creatures with...

An Alternative Ending to Romeo and Juliet Part II by Reid McGrath

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June 2, 2017
Culture, Education, Humor, Poetry, Short Stories
6 Comments
Click here to read Part I. Montague (That afternoon, on the outskirts of Verona, at a Club, getting in an afternoon’s worth of pheasant shooting, having needed to get out of town and “think about...




  1. Joseph S. Salemi on A Poem on Gaslighting and Other Poetry by Brian YapkoMay 30, 2023

    The technique of gaslighting has become so common today that it is now standard procedure when left-liberals argue with anyone.…

  2. Mark Stellinga on A Poem on Gaslighting and Other Poetry by Brian YapkoMay 30, 2023

    Brian, even without knowing who some of the characters are, the point you brilliantly make in "Gaslighted" is both nostalgic…

  3. KH on ‘Translation of Marcabru’s L’autrier Just’una Sebissa’ by Joseph S. SalemiMay 30, 2023

    Thanks Joseph for your kind reply. In that case, how should I contact Evan Mantyk about this?

  4. Joseph S. Salemi on ‘Translation of Marcabru’s L’autrier Just’una Sebissa’ by Joseph S. SalemiMay 30, 2023

    I'm sorry, but I don't know. Mr. Mantyk chooses all illustrations for the SCP, so perhaps he could tell you.…

  5. Susan Jarvis Bryant on A Poem on Gaslighting and Other Poetry by Brian YapkoMay 30, 2023

    Brian, these two magnificent poems are a linguistic tonic for the weary soul worn down by today’s relentless barrage of…

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