Month: July 2023

. SCP Poet Cynthia Erlandson of Michigan has won the 2023 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Competition.  Her sonnet, "Fire and ...

. Better with Love I thought I was a pleasant sort __When we first met. Not perfect but near sweet ...

. Peace For Our Time "I believe it is peace for our time... Go home and get a nice quiet ...

. The Billboard a pantoum It’s propped along the route I roll— A squatting square against the sky, Atop a ...

. Don't Mess with Texas Gals On My Late Life Wife . Don't mess with my hot Texan. She's Texas ...

. The Misologist “There is no greater evil one can suffer  than to hate reasonable discourse.” ---Socrates He reads the ...

. A Poet's Plight I’ll think of a theme for my next little verse, intriguing and witty, though still must ...

. My Resignation Be still, my Heart, be stiller than the grave. When consciousness dissolves into the sea, This desperate ...

. Forever Nine My bare feet merge with weathered, knotty pineAs dripping swimsuit water cools the pier.The day belongs to ...

. The Great Legitimizer by Euphrates Moss Up from the barbaric yawp of Beowulf and routing through Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), ...

. Putin That’s, I’m sure, a vampire: Gnaws on bones, bloody-lipped. —A. S. Pushkin. “Vurdalak,” Songs of Western Slavs (Это, верно, кости гложет Красногубый ...

. Graves “Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and have you rise ...

. Snowfall: Via Negativa “Less is more.” ---Literary Dictum Out on the highway, snow settles in place Covering the tracks ...

. Independence Day? a rondeau Some dared. Some died. With pluck and pride And guts and grit the brave defied ...

. To All Great Eagles Up on High To all great eagles up on high I hope you hear my ...

. Fourth of July Limerick Top left, there’s an oblong that’s blue; add in fifty stars, white in hue. To ...

. America Is Not the Same America is not the same. __I do not recognize it. We all know who ...

. Evra Our grandma Evra was a trifle difficult. If ever sound advice was needed she’d be there, But quiet, ...

. Adams Mountain I gather in from this high place, my shadow sprawled on shivered stone: Dusk drifts down: autumnal ...

. First Steps in a New World for Toribio Moras, age 14, Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1908 The young Castilian boy ...

. . This Silence. Foremost among my woes: _This silence as it grows, __My mind fatigued from listening for your ...

. Virgil Recalls Meeting Beatrice: Canto II of Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns . The light ...