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Monthly Archives March 31, 2018

‘On Secretaries of State: Falling from Grace’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

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March 31, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise)   On Secretaries of State: Falling from Grace by Brice U. Lawseed Across the World in India, while touring for her book, the former Secretary Clinton, trying to look...

‘The Sun’ and Other Poetry by Alexander King Ream

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March 30, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
4 Comments
The Sun The face above that shone below From space to hover, cast a glow And warmth afforded to the one Who in its path was found; the sun   On Mass Shootings I cut loose the clod from the...

‘Longinus, Spearman’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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March 30, 2018
Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry, Short Stories
18 Comments
Miles hastatus (spearman) of the Legio Decima Fretensis, stationed in Roman Judaea, A.D. 33 Vere, filius Dei erat iste. —Roman centurion at the crucifixion, noted in Matthew 27:54. They say he was the...

‘This Collar, Blue’ and Other Poetry by Zachary Dilks

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March 29, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
27 Comments
This Collar, Blue My elbows leak with grease And all my toes are laid with steel I'm rough of neck My knuckles specked with cuts that never heal The world I mend The swirls on plastic lens paints...

‘See the Music’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

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March 28, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
25 Comments
See the Music Mysterious the inner eye that hears the dancers flying by across the stage in grand jete' as woodwind, horn and cello play And there, just barely in the wings the graceful ballerina...

‘The Ride of Godiva’ by David E. Müller

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March 27, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Short Stories
6 Comments
About the Lady Godiva and her famed naked ride through Coventry Once in the town of Coventry, Leofric Earl had held decree; Too great the tax that he appealed, Greater than his folk could yield. They...
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‘A Tribe of Trolls’ by E.V. Wyler

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March 26, 2018
Humor, Poetry
23 Comments
A tribe of trolls escaped their cage! Now rabid wrath and rancor rage. Hurling hurt from hidden hellholes (most notably, their toilet bowls), they flush their filth across your page … Anonymity sets...

Essay: On George Herbert’s ‘Easter Wings’

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March 25, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Shape Poems
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by Jane Blanchard George Herbert was born into a well-to-do and well-doing family of Montgomery, Wales, in 1593. When he was three years old, his father died, leaving a wife and ten children. Herbert...

‘The Fall’ and Other Poetry by Jenni Wyn Hyatt

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March 24, 2018
Humor, Poetry, Terrorism
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The Fall Now, if you’re sitting comf’tably, then listen to my ballad; it is a Summer evening tale of pizza and of salad. “I’ll take the plates out, love,” I said, "for your hands tend to...

‘The Garrett Loft’ by Leo Yankevich

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March 23, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
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In garret lofts poor artists have quite often painted women bathing, combing hair inside a nearby mirror… __________________________Your eyes soften, and, pale as blossoms or flesh from a pear, your...

‘The Maid of Orleans’ and Other Poetry by Nicky Hetherington

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March 22, 2018
Culture, Poetry, Riddles, Villanelle
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  The Maid of Orleans A villanelle on Joan of Arc As I gazed at the flames of the fire my heart, with all there that day, broke – such strength could not help but inspire. A young woman burnt as...

‘Winter Ends and Spring Begins’ by Wendy Bourke

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March 21, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
16 Comments
  in the woods, I stop in twilight dim … as spring throws off the evening’s hoarfrost coat midst groaning fir and shivering bare limb I hear the spirit whisperings that float on ragged...

ABC Poems: A Poetry Puzzle Challenge

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March 20, 2018
Poetry, Poetry Contests, Popular Poetry Archives
113 Comments
By Amy Foreman A cold and rainy afternoon recently gave rise to this little idea of a poem-puzzle.  I challenged myself to write a poem where each word started with a different letter of the alphabet, in...

Seasonal Sonnets (Acrostic) by Mark A. Doherty

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March 20, 2018
Acrostic, Beauty, Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
Winter’s Nocturn       When angles of the sun are shining low, Intuition tells us we must sleep. Nocturnal tracks appear now in the snow To mark the chilly vigil some must keep. Enlightened...

‘Statues’ and Other Poetry by Charles Bauer

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March 19, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle
24 Comments
Statues A Villanelle Two Buddhas now a lost reality, A crowd chants loudly near a pile of stone; Across the South you won’t find General Lee. The temples fell despite UNESCO’s plea And ISIS’...

‘The Wisest Poem Ever’ by J.J. Bitters

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March 18, 2018
Beauty, Children's, Poetry
18 Comments
  The wisest poem ever Was written by my daughter, Although I’ve never known her To be much of a scholar. She’s only five years old now, But wise beyond her years. My daughter wrote a...

‘Ode to the Great Highland Pipes’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

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March 17, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
29 Comments
For Bill Horn Send up on wings of blood our fathers’ cry, Though the unhearing dead brook not your sound, And flesh yet binds us to the groaning ground, Release your paeans to the boundless sky, And...

‘A Consolation’ by Christine Ann Cuccio

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March 16, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
At night I hear Prokofiev and Liszt and dream of playing baby grands as sly Euterpe lures me towards the melodies of pianists. My fingers cannot meet the demands of Mendelssohn’s complicated...

‘Theological’ and Other Poetry by Andrew Miller

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March 15, 2018
Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
Theological But there’s a God, white-knuckled, jealous, His heart an anvil, and his mind a bomb. Take the crew of The Indianapolis,* Torn limb from sculling limb inside a storm Of sharks. There is no...

‘Sonnet I: Liu Haixiao’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk

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March 14, 2018
Alexandroid, Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry
24 Comments
Sonnet I: Liu Haixiao Mr. Liu Haixiao (pronounced Leo High-shaow) is serving a 16-year prison sentence in Jilin Province, China, where he was arrested for tapping into the local TV network to broadcast...

‘Taiwan in Rough Words’ by Ana Varela

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March 13, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry
A rhupunt A modern place that maintains grace a safer place for all who come The airplanes fly the city sky the mountains high you're never numb never alone away from home in temples roam to...

Three Sonnets by Aidan Chivers

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March 13, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
4 Comments
I. As clear blue symbols dance before my eyes, And I lie still, my head upon the ground, Each part of me, in dappled sunshine crowned, Wants formal shape in selfish compromise, And hides itself in...

‘You Decide’ and Other Poetry by Lorna Davis

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March 12, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment
8 Comments
  You Decide Some know me as Destiny, The weaver of the cloth of Time. Although my looms are never stilled, They say I choose how high you’ll climb, How fast you’ll fall, how great your name; I...

Essay: The Life, Death and Art of Rachel Wetzsteon

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March 11, 2018
Essays, Poetry
14 Comments
By Con Chapman It has been a little more than eight years since poet Rachel Wetzsteon committed suicide at the age of 42 following the end of a three-year romance. At the time of her death Wetzsteon...

Two Sonnets by Edward Hoke

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March 10, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, The Environment
8 Comments
12/03/17 Of all ye gods, that crown Olympus high, Who yet remains that man’s not brought to heel? When aircraft daily pierce great Zeus’s sky, And Neptune’s depths have long since been...

‘The Wintering-Ground’ by Douglas Thornton (with Audio)

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March 9, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, Readings
4 Comments
  Within what hut, My woodland maid, May I remain awhile? Next what fire may my chills Be warmed? Be there A path that leads Past stony piles and tells Us not to walk alone? I do not...

‘Unrequited Love’ by J. Simon Harris

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March 8, 2018
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
  You caught me staring at you yesterday, or so it seemed, for you—you smiled and blushed and all your girlfriends giggled in the hushed and stilted silence of the lecture. They had to have...

‘The Day the Poetry Died’ and Other Poetry by Steven Shaffer

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March 7, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
The Day the Poetry Died Wonder why poetry is in decline, While not ever writing one lyric line? There is no experience more perverse, Than self-indulgent poems in free verse. Your pain, your angst, and...

‘Political Correctness’ by Margaret Coats

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March 6, 2018
Culture, Humor, Poetry
4 Comments
After Joachim du Bellay’s "Les Regrets LXVIII" I hate the Florentines' foul avarice, I hate lewd Sienese profanity, I hate Geneva's glib duplicity, I hate malign Venetian artifice, I hate whate'er...

‘The Neologist’ by Arthur Lamar Mitchell

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March 6, 2018
Humor, Poetry
4 Comments
The neologist bakes the cake, The iconoclast shreds the recipe Deems the structure all a fake, But powerless against euphony, Leaves empty gestures in his wake. Arthur Lamar Mitchell ©...

‘Barney-Hill Moss Revisited’ by Sam Gilliland

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March 5, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
9 Comments
  The unchanging moor, but heeds season’s call To don her different well-coloured weeds, My heart is cold, left lonely; waterfall And bright babbling brook, pretend their proceeds Quell the vast...

‘The Cymbal Player’ and Other Poetry by Martin Elster

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March 4, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
24 Comments
The Cymbal Player As bows and fingers quiver strings, as lungs and lips whip up the air, as notes soar on great falcon wings, one player, seated in his chair like a finch hid in a maple tree, as if...

Thirty-one Sonnets: Renaissance to New Millennial

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March 3, 2018
Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry, Poetry Forms
7 Comments
by Lew Icarus Bede "A sonnet is a coin: its face reveals The soul—its converse, to what Power 'tis due: Whether for tribute to the august appeals Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue, It serve; or,...

‘Self-Love’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges

The Society
March 2, 2018
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
6 Comments
  Self-Love Some tenderhearted people claim We’re deficient self-esteem; Yes, a collective sense of shame Made despondency mainstream. While gloom and sadness are the rage, I suggest the torment...

‘Wordsworth’s Lament’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie

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March 1, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
4 Comments
Wordsworth’s Lament I wandered lonely as a cloud—Oh dear! I watched the dance of daffodils—Oh my! When on my couch in vacant mood I lie I feel their wealthy fluttering draw near. I see them toss...




  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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