Month: March 2024

. The Emmaus Highway Each day we wake up and we walk to Emmaus, escaping what has, and what may ...

. He Knows Our Hearts The Sunday flocks who sing as glory pours Through fancy glass as lusty organs play, ...

. Who Believes in Easter Anymore? "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but ...

. Peter’s Story a villanelle I’m standing by the Sea of Galilee And Jesus calls for me to come along ...

. Once Once he was finally dead; once just a piece Of meat nailed to the planks of scabrous wood; ...

. Stations of the Cross . I. Pilate Why, Pentheus, Cambyses, why, Why, Antony, in days gone by, Did you ...

. The Lilacs on Good Friday Tumult of noontide long ago dismissed— The rent veil unremembered, and the sun Relit, ...

. The Lamb “And suddenly there was with the angel a heavenly host saying, Glory to God in the highest, ...

. The Book on Lefty McBane McBane could do no wrong—from his debut, late in his rookie season, right on ...

. Distress Signals an extended villanelle Distressing times are coming round again, And all the talking heads now flap their ...

. Reading of Mark F. Stone's poem "The Wisdom of Ric Edelman" by Ric Edelman on his show available here: ...

. Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus I think this velvet dinosaur is fine. Please wrap it up. Does this store still take ...

. Imagine Mountains For the Sesquicentennial of Robert Frost's birth (March 26, 1874 – March 26, 2024) "Let chaos storm! ...

. The Line For Ashes Line is long and moving slowly: Step by step, the high and lowly, Halt and ...

. You Do You God’s willing to let you do you despite the fact it pains Him to since you’ll go where ...

. Deep State Anonymity Ah, the devil. His motive? To deceive __And for us to deny, To dismiss him as ...

. Shades of Vesuvius Seldom does one see horror in a tranche De vie like that in Herculaneum And Pompeii, when a ...

. Limerick Perhaps it’s a marketing trick, or else Iceland’s taking the mick; __for what kind of fun __is an Easter Day ...

. The Whiskey Priest based on The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene I stand condemned because I am ...

. We Are Wrong You shall remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you went out of ...

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. Queen Esther's Lot for the Jewish holiday of Purim (“Lots”) Oh, to be taken from home’s holy ways, Delivered ...

. Victim Shaming Nancy Mace, a U.S. Congresswoman for South Carolina, was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos, former Communications Director for ...

. Change Scrub the rock with glacial ice until the granite’s smooth and bare. Let the river cut through earth ...

. March 21st, Saints Cranmer and Bach Archbishop Thomas Cranmer,  burned at the stake March 21, 1556 . Johann Sebastian ...

. St. Perpetua Eyewitnesses of the atrocity Report that on that Carthage afternoon, Already scourged and gored repeatedly By savage ...

. Words Matter . I. Out of Context Cheats cherry-pick the words that suit their ploy To shame the names ...

. Sanderling What saffron stylus could but trace the rusty scallop of the dancing wing, what sculptor’s chisel sharpened to ...

. To the Passenger Pigeon As once, upon the Great Plains, thundering herds of buffalo, innumerable, held sway, a genocide ...

. St. Patrick's Day 2024  for an Ireland suffering terribly under the weight of forced migration Where is the one ...

. Coffee Limericks . I love to have coffee each morning, Including the act of the pouring: __I smell the ...

. Watching It hardly matters what I’d read (Another plangent exposé Of something solid in the world That bit by ...

. Musician and SCP poet Jeff Eardley performs the traditional Irish tunes "The Tenpenny Bit" and "Kesh Jig" in honor ...

. Infernos on the Pages of Literary Journals That one barbaric yawp might just have been All right, but then ...

. Choices Some lovers only give the rose, __Some only choose to take, Although the florist keeps a bunch __For ...

. Serenade Down dash the splashlets of rain to the ground; Streams from the eaves full and fluent resound. Guests ...

. Native Americans Were Swindled Out of Manhattan in 1634 Knowing Eyes—an aging elder, born in Black Bear County Famed ...

. For Dorothy I have at times sat silent in this chair And furtively cast looks about the room Admiring, ...

. His Stories Were His Legacy Ivan, The Barber, 1882-1963 . Covered in a heavy blanket, __he sat and watched ...

. . Homophonophobic (This poem is so vain and humorous you’ll burst a vein or break your humerus) My editor ...