Month: June 2021

. Ferdinand the Freestyler Angela Jackson is the Poet Laureate of Illinois and Jacqueline Jackson is a poet frequently published ...

. The Carnelian Ring: A Still-Life Footfalls echo in the memoryDown the passage which we did not takeTowards the door ...

. A teardrop's such a little thing, __and yet its burden varies depending on the weight of the __emotions that ...

. Ill Wind The wind, no friend, assaults us so unkindly And suffers nothing to abate its force, Though boys ...

. A Sign of the Spirit Poet’s note: These heroic couplets paraphrase the conclusion of a recent sermon for which ...

. The Society of Classical Poets Journal IX has been published. It features poetry selected from poetry published on the ...

. Set forth your true and lively word, O Lord, Amidst this false and deadly earthen tongue With which we ...

. All criticism of me is now hate speech, not "opinion"--- A forced agreement tyranny, for good. A new dominion ...

. My eyes espied a little bird And in his mouth… a little worm, That screamed a scream but no ...

. To take a walk each day is good of course, But not in June, beware, for this I know: ...

. Listen to "Arrow Song" by Gunny Markefka, with lyrics from Longfellow. "Arrow Song" is from his album Arrow Songs, ...

. Edgar Allan Poe was known for strange and mysterious tales, in poetry and prose. Perhaps fittingly, the circumstances surrounding ...

. The Hanging Tree The story of these bones is clear--- More than one deer was butchered here, Hung from ...

. In black and white terms, I would say, __You’re all more white than olive, Take Einstein, Rothschild, Proust, Bizet--- ...

. . The Blackbird So what can make this joyous songbird sing That cannot but proclaim its blackbirdhood? In fairest ...

. Grimm   The days of steering princesses from danger With sweet salvation’s life-sustaining kiss From shining-armored knight or regal stranger Are now considered horribly remiss. Young damsels in ...

. Contemplating Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer He stands enwrapped in luminous shadowed light, A woven cord of gold ...

. When the statues were felled the crass multitude cheered. Historians wept while the rioters yelled. Society crumbled. Debate disappeared. ...

. “Daddy! There’s the big yellow ‘M’!” “May I take your order ple---?” “One Big Mac, Coke and fries!” Dad  ...

. Our Father loves us, one and all. He lifts us when our spirits fall. He knows the song of ...

  Raison Du Jour Reason is like tea.It’s best at four o’clock,Which is an hour before cocktailsAnd two hours before ...

. It was only a two stone cat, Now what do you think about that? If it sat on your ...

. . Winners Announced Here. . CONTEST: Begin with a favorite line from another poem, (or other literature) and "take ...

  Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, cameTo bless new student housing on The Mound.Despite his title and his royal name,Despite ...

. No Letters "An odd thought strikes me: we shall receive no letters in the grave." ---Dr. Johnson, from Boswell’s ...

. The CCP Position on the Origin of Covid Point to their part Of the globe, And you’re a racist ...

. Francesco, is it you? Be confident. Sorgue vineyard pathways never were too dusty __For you—plump face and figure lusty. ...

. Logic Class As class convenes I quickly indicate in clear logician's diction of my eagerness to share my disposition ...

. A Can of Worms I saw it in the writing on the wall. I couldn’t help but read between ...

. False statements spurn. Let’s shut them out completely. Quash so–called free speech. Cancel all you can. Do people think deplorables ...

. Persons devoted to formal, metrical poetry are susceptible to a specific disease, much in the same way as light-skinned ...

Reviewed Book: The Gift of Life: An Epic in Verse by Amanda Hall, 2021. by Margaret Coats So long as ...

. When soldiers die,They give two lives.The one they had, And one denied: The spouse not met,The child unknown,The life unsaved,The ...

. The mystic steed gave chase to red-eyed day, His forelock flying in the morn’s raw gust. Providence, my constant ...

. Storage and Retrieval In the dank cellar of the human mind Are stored a lifetime’s worth of rusted tools ...

. “I want answers. I want all the words the poem whispers to be made flesh, to sit opposite me, ...

. Fostering Faith Will you slip through the system’s wide cracks Like a ball down a driveway’s storm drain? Will ...

. Hardship and Destiny to the Class of 2021 The time is now at hand; the bow is bent To ...

. Will this reclaim the long-lost Muse perched on the tree of I.O.U.’s? Can I now join Miss E. B. ...

. The Summer's ushered in to close Spring's tale;New chapters are revealed in nature's story. The seasons' story arc will ...