Month: June 2022

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHUuaA8DKiQ . On Palestrina's Music Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, Ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus. Psalmus ...

. Our 2023 Haiku Competition is on now HERE. WHO Anyone in the world, of any age or background, may ...

. How to Write Haiku What Makes a Good Haiku? by Margaret Coats The required 5-7-5 syllable form alone does ...

. You are invited to a reading of poetry that shines a light on the plight of ordinary, innocent people ...

. Gleam by Any Means The poem that I seek to write, the piece with flair and form, Which raises ...

. Groomers   The words the school kids speak are not their own--- Fiends mold the untrained brain till every thought ...

. Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) Translated by Elwin Wirkala The king dreams he ...

. On Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Fields Are we just rats within a maze? Perhaps. But then perhaps there’s more to ...

. https://youtu.be/DIhS6QTHh90 . Hosted by British poet James Sale and held by the Society of Classical Poets, the theme of ...

. The Requisite I may have made a great mistake In my pursuit of solitude and grace; Perhaps have stumbled ...

. Abiding Senescence My energy and physical abilities Will not again be limitless as once they were. To those more ...

. “Upon These Boughs that Shake Against the Cold” ---Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 Her script was always lovely and unique, And ...

. There Is a Quiet Place There is a quiet place Where we can go to hide. A place where ...

. Advice from the Untalented They smugly said I’d never make much money From playing with my words and making ...

. Australia in 2022 written on the eve of a federal election where everything is at stake but nothing is ...

. “In God We Trust” The motto for our nation boldly states, “In God we trust,” Which is, of course, ...

. Tongues as of Fire If men desire to find belief, to sing It out through throats works best to ...

. The Duke D’Alençon Meets Joan of Arc What task from the dauphin comes to me hence? A lowly maid ...

. An Open Poem to Evil “Gravity is real... it’s hard to keep a bag of shit in the air ...

. Apollo in Retirement Quite early he approached a humble hut, With saxifrage and canneberge sun-brewed To melt the stone ...

. A Glass for My Father Marie-Maurille de Virot, Mademoiselle de Sombreuil (February 14, 1768—May 15, 1823) My father was ...

. On the Extradition of Julian Assange The fiends who wield the power here on earth (The ones who gag ...

. Who Bled When all is said and life be trod, One takeaway the Son of God Made clear, when ...

. A Modernization of “To His Coy Mistress” You say we should some years delay The coming of our wedding ...

. In Praise of Bollywood To India! To visit from afar... My journey there would be a dream fulfilled. To ...

. Speechless I have smelt the perfect scent of the flower of a rose, Known intoxicated freedom where frangipani grows. ...

. Decolonising the Curriculum – Dual Scenario on Salford University's recent treatment of the sonnet. We must decolonise our poetry ...

. Why This Time, Why This Place? When I die And leave this land, Please dear Lord Extend Your hand. ...

. . My Thoughts Laid Bear  “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the ...

. What Is “Pro-Choice"? If my child were sent to die, Be chopped to pieces like a pig, To spare ...

. Classical Poetry and the Martial Ethos by Andrew Benson Brown . The Heroic Age Towards the end of “Egil’s ...

. "Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing" ---Lines On Dreadful Instagram Poetry A halitosis belch of steam Spewed out in words. ...

. Judge Not We notice, Signor Alighieri, that You have a rather well developed bent For taking your opponents to ...

. Classical Camouflaged __It begins, like all prose poems today, with a bit of narrated diary, as though it were ...

. Canzone to the Virgin by Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) Translated by Margaret Coats Virgin beautiful, vested with the sun And ...

. Jeffrey Epstein in His Cell On nights like this a lesser man might pray; Instead he dreams of islands ...

. Nature at Peace The feeder for our hummingbird. Was torn down by a bear today. She didn’t growl a ...

. A Tribune to Mrs. Malaprop My fellow poets, lend me your arrears! Of arms and divan I sing. Let’s ...

. "Gravitas" On the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 B.C. adapted from Livy’s “Ab Urbe Condita,” Book ...

. Share your poetry on currently unfolding Russo-Ukrainian war in the comments section below.  We received a large response on our ...