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. Conversion The great advantage of the years I stacked up often carelessly And often as a mutineer Against all...

. Some Post-Animated Protestations of Goliath of Gath Firstly, I protest That this protestation Is useless nonetheless. Secondly, I object...

. The Forgotten Earl He thought about the sonnets that he wrote; The time he spent composing metered lines Of...

. The End’s Hard Edge The End Is Near, it always was, Its point is clearer now because Collapsed disturbance...

. WHO Anyone in the world, of any age or background, may participate. Among members of the Society of Classical...

. August. The rose-of-sharon blossoms float like stars Within my reach: I’m lying on the grass Observing sunset fade and...

. Medieval Scam Letter Felicitations from the Holy Land, Where I, as sole survivor of a band Of mercenary soldiers...

. The Sky Within The rolling sea becomes a frothy lather When argent Sister Moon calls forth a tide And...

. Death Musings . 1 On New Year's Day my body fell as dead Before a frightened child who hid...

. The Tortoise and the Hare in limericks A tortoise and hare were a-talkin’. Said Hare: “Why, your slowness is...

. One Law Away Everyone can agree that we all disagree. __We don’t see what we see quite the same....

. The Heavy Launch of the Siegfried Idyll The landing offered just the space required for Wagner and the band...

. . Learn Now, Learn Now, Young Master ‘Learn now, learn now, young master; You soon will take your test....

. Key West Rum, reeling, raunchiness, and revelry, Palms, poincianas, palaces of old--- All lie behind; the Morro Castle’s hold...

. The Number 53: To His Coy Transport Had we but world enough and time, My coy and tardy 53,...

. Henry at Morning Time I’m lost in Greek or Latin, when You break into my life again. “Daddy, look!...

. Seaside Retreat Footsteps move slow through shifting sand; A weather-beaten picket fence Encloses beach verbena fanned By sea oats...

. Crackpot Clown a villanelle     “Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung”  ---P. T. Barnum The...

. Formulas for Failure I’ve seen too much of devastating failure, In almost every avenue of life. One might guess...

. To Michael Burch: The Hillbilly Voice of Liberalism Mike Burch hates the stuff we write, Abuses us at his...

. The Emperor's New Chromosomes The Emperor would be remade; He felt if he could be a maid He’d be...

. Back to Sleep In very early years, now far behind, When I returned to earth at midnight deep From...

. The Sea The sea rolls on, unchanged. Unmarred By earthly wars it stays unscarred. Always as long as man...

. The Jeweler’s Deposition at the Coroner’s Inquest I certainly will tell you what I can. I knew the family—watched...

. On Lies and Liars A Double (Petrarchan) Sonnet . “You are of your father the devil, and your will...

. King Dom’s Dream Kingdom “In death’s dream kingdom…” —T. S. Eliot, “The Hollow Me" Ukrainian Victoria Amelina has died...

. Poorer by the Day a villanelle They pay in promises they will betray; A scam as cold and ancient...

. Sonnet I Our arms are leaves stretched out; our thoughts can bloom The grandest only when we crowd out...

. Melodious Curlew Melodious curlew mottled brown and bister, No longer raise your crescent-shapen beak Towards the waning moon, to...

. Via Appia Beneath the pines of Rome, the wrinkled sibyl will croak your future for eleven cents, and with...

. July 20, 1999 a villanelle for Falun Gong Practitioners after 24 years of persecution Your path is narrow, yet...

. Meditation on the Moon O! think about that strange celestial clump, That ball of dust God found beneath His...

. ***** The Red Hotel has blood on ev’ry floor Where ev’ry room is numbered 666 And blood-greased door knobs...

. Good Friday, Revisiting Glamis "Not in the legions Of horrid Hell can come a devil more damn'd In evils,...

. On Silicon Avenue The lawns on Silicon Avenue were mowed on Wednesdays. All the hedges, too, were cut. On...

. The Park The Park he’d built, which hovered overhead, Went far beyond the scope of any to That time...

. It's Dangerously Close to Too Late Virtually stormed by countless disciples, __trolled by their merchants of Hate, We, who...

. Balderdash? What are these hidden, unseen things? Do angels, demons, float on wings? Such ghostly shapes the full moon...

. A Birthday Prayer Dear God, a new year has begun, My thirty-fourth of blessèd life. You’ve given children, lovely...