Deconstructing Communism

I. But yesterday, your noble fathers bled Upon the fields of France, where countless dead Had found among the vines...

Two Lives by Michael Maibach When soldiers die, They give two lives. The one they had, And the one denied....

“Only fools are positive.”  “You sure about that?” “I’m positive.” ―The Three Stooges “Freedom is the freedom to say that...

  While strolling around an illustrious lair, I was caught by a breeze of regret in the air, For gazing...

Written upon reading the book How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World. The beast once foretold for the...

(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) The Cat in the Red MAGA Hat by Carb Deliseuwe Eugenior Joseph took girlfriend...

The Devil’s Details There’s a devil in the details, Those traits we like to sort; There’s a devil in the...

  Young people go marching, the boys and the girls, They’re thinking like once we did, they’ll change the world....

  Self-Love Some tenderhearted people claim We’re deficient self-esteem; Yes, a collective sense of shame Made despondency mainstream. While gloom...

  The toys we buy at Christmastime (The decorations, too), Don’t come from elves in Santa’s shop, As we’ve been...

gone the time for finding fault for finger-pointing and assault frantic now the SOS our ship of state is in...

(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Hylas and the Nymphs by Beau Ecs Wilder John William Waterhouse's "Hylas and the...

At Lincoln’s Tomb Springfield, Illinois, 2016 Be glad you cannot rise to life and stand Outside that tomb to die...

By Evan Mantyk Advertising for it is everywhere. If you haven’t seen it, you just haven’t been paying attention. A...

  On President Trump’s First Year in Office An earlier version of this poem was published with an explication in...

  A Great Divide "...to form a more perfect union" I walk to the edge of a great divide and...

  Nature’s pillars, which have borne Earth’s breath for ages, Are now crumbling into dust... Still, more keep falling, Shattered...

  The Exclusive Inclusive I heard about a tender troop, Whose commission was to give Love like a ministry serves...

for Robert Conquest I. Each day Naftaly greets a prison train. Two days ago: spies and reactionaries, yesterday: kulaks from...

The Great Living Hell On Communism Under the radar I fly Thru' an ever more darkening sky Thru' the smoke from the volumes...

When I speak of history I speak well; I leave behind the past where broken bones Lay scattered on blistering...

  Tikkun Olam*  His mouth agape, as though still asking questions, the Tsar lies at the end of his long...

  A Country Song (for my wife's birthday) I'm no longer young and strong and things take me twice as long Might...

  With sun seductive, blinding, thoughts of open rail reminding Of adventures held in albums, slightly faded, fondly worn; I...

(All poems by Bruce Dale Wise) Another Mass Murder in the News by Bilee Wad Curse He was an atheist...

  Let My Footstep Strike the Ground Like a Spear A Villanelle Let my footstep strike the ground like a...

  Commie Carcinomas When least expected they arrive, an avant garde of hordes wielding a deadly pestilence like slashing, bloody...

Meritocracy When the Left tries to cow us and trammel our prowess ____We resort to a stiff upper lip, Well...

Joe Stalin led his country for just short of thirty years— Three decades filled with purges, hunger, suffering and tears....

The Teacher to His Students The ghost… the ghost of Hamlet’s father, came To walk the castle walls one moonless...

Read about forced organ harvesting in China here. Photograph This man is lost, dead, His organs taken. Dark; hard to...

A Villanelle  “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” —George...

The Journal It sat upon his bedside table, closed, And waiting to keep record of each day: The silent pages...

I. My brain just came back from the laundry they tell me it's perfectly clean and it's thinking the way...

This essay was written in 2007 and has remained unpublished until now. by Ludiew E. Sarceb Few of the contemporary...

Unshaken Faith Forward Alliterative verse dedicated to Falun Gong practitioners who have faced persecution in China since July 20, 1999...

  And What Of Art? It used to be that there was a division Between the arts, and each had...

  Three children stood below a tree That sprouted fruit abundantly; They sought to seize the luscious fruit, These hungry...

ADULT AWARDS   1st Place – $500 Josh Lefkowitz, “A Poem of Fact” 2nd Place – $250 Kathleen Hellen, “Everyday...

Written upon watching this video. Note that May Day is the international day honoring workers.     Mayday on May...