‘Premonition’: A Poem by Adam Sedia
. Premonition The sun shines down in undimmed majestyAcross the heavens’ undiminished breadthOn life unsapped, unweighted levityOf loves and laughs ...
. Premonition The sun shines down in undimmed majestyAcross the heavens’ undiminished breadthOn life unsapped, unweighted levityOf loves and laughs ...
. Zips and Zooms The hummingbird both zips and zooms To search for nectar in the blooms Of flowers that ...
. How I Spent My Spring Vacation: Poetry and Photography by James A. Tweedie . It Begins 45 Days Surrounded ...
. Heritage I’ve never asked for anything The living soil does not provide. I don’t want cash; I don’t want ...
. An Ode to Silay Cathedral bells now toll, And horses march the streets, The crowd has filled the hall, ...
. Medusa's Sisters Medusa lost her head and found renown instead. Her living sisters roared, “And why are we ignored ...
. High Society The Cornelius mansion on Park Avenue, New York City, Sunday, August 22, 1886 A derby hat; a ...
. Book Reviewed: Doorway: The English Cantos, Volume III, by James Sale, 2025 by Cynthia Erlandson It’s been several years ...
. Healing by Heart Dear André, let me see your face And cry out with you to lament The rot ...
. Linden She stands against the sunlit sky, _Her beauty plain to see. The birds sing sweet and pleasant songs ...
. Anachronistic Chaucer When April showers, forecast on TV,delayed our pilgrimage to Canterbury,an eating house, clept Hooters, we espiedbeside a ...
. The Luigi Mangione Act We need to contemplate the true impact of The Luigi Mangione Act. Although we sympathize ...
. https://youtu.be/9Qx03HgoXAQ . . Andrew Benson Brown‘s epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, chronicles the major events of the American Revolution. He writes ...
. The Ballad of Shamus Well, Shamus were a likely lad wid a good well-meanin’ ‘eart As strong as O’Malley’s ...
. Bardic Bones Who dug the dust? Who didn’t spare the stones? Who churned the earth that festered with a ...
. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more ...
. The Comedy of Rosalind ---As You Like It I show more mirth than I am mistress of. This forest ...
. On Shen Yun . I. The land of China. Deep in history That like a river flows with people ...
. Voyage Among the Ancients "Tread softly, for here you stand On miracle ground…" ---Lawrence Durrell, "On Ithaca Standing" ( ...
. Two Lyrics by Philodemus of Gadara translated from Greek by Joseph S. Salemi . V.124 Summertime has not yet ...
. Innovative Thinking My long-time love gave me a special gift, a photo of himself when he was young. He ...
. Stone’s Point of View They brought Him to the tomb and rolled me into The right position to seal ...
. Easter Couplets Easter’s more than just about eggs and bunnies;More than what you may have read in the funnies. ...
. Who Are You and Who Am I ---a villanelle Who are you and who am I That you fill ...
. Emmaus We barely saw he’d joined us as we made Our way along the road, so sad, afraid, So ...
. In the Garden of the King In the garden of the King I sit beside a crystal spring. The ...
. Holy Saturday "Call the Sabbath a delight." —Isaiah 58:13 His weary, soulless body needed rest, Not only pierced and ...
. Crucified She pondered horrors of the modern age. He thumbed through piles of dusty history tomes. She craved the ...
. Unless . . . As un-sun darkness swallows up the day, And quake shake rends an empty Holy Place, ...
. Good Friday Rain I wake and hear the rain cascade. Its cleansing drops roll down my pane; They soak ...
. . Lament for Clairac by Théophile de Viau (1590-1626) translated from French by A.Z. Foreman Sun-hallowed walls where I ...
. Poetry Legacy Superb is her poetic contribution, Unique in its design and execution. She hopes the work is widely ...
. Australian poet Clive Boddy sent in the article "How Poetry Changes You and Your Brain" published in Greater Good ...
. Magnolia The south wind’s newfound breath, The spring sun’s waxing ray, Draw from your outward death An opulent array. ...
. "But Fruits Are Not Concealed in Them" ---Friedrich Schiller, "Breath and Depth" We hear the ancient rule: The fools ...
. The Hermit Curses Sharp sunrises cut white streaks on the plain, whet edges on black soil, where all at ...
. Curb Appeal . I. You really couldn't find a better plotOn which to build a house. The yard is ...
. Druthers I’ve never warmed to the absurd idea That I should lean toward being what I ain’t. I’m more ...
. Ovechkin Beats Gretzky He’s the greatest at one task, it’s putting biscuits into baskets. He scores goals from awkward ...
. Cantarella Wine Rome. 1501. Lucrezia Borgia hosts Bishop Giovanni Cavalieri of the Republic of Siena. He is visiting Rome ...
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