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‘Sonnet’ by Andrew McDiarmid

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April 22, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
5 Comments
  I face the day with unexpected strength, to know we’ll meet when the sun has disappeared. Your hand in mine we’ll walk the forest’s length, with peace of mind and nothing to be feared. I...

‘A Spot in Time’ by Theresa Rodriguez

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April 20, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
2 Comments
  It is a moment or a spot in time, When time is quieted and put away; A simple thing becoming the sublime, Suspended and eternal in a day And all around me just dissolves to naught; I feel my...

‘Where the Heart Goes’ and Other Poetry by Roy E. Peterson

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April 13, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
13 Comments
Where the Heart Goes Where the heart decides to go, The feet must go along. The heart is first to know A thing is right or wrong. The heart knows who to trust. The heart knows who to fight. The feet...

‘Pachelbel’s Love Song’ by Michael Maibach

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April 7, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
3 Comments
When we listen To his sweet song, Did he then know It'd live this long? A song that gives To every age, A timeless sense Of history's page. Reminding you, Reminding me, Love songs can last Eternity. From...

‘That I Might Learn to Love’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann

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March 30, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Villanelle
18 Comments
That I Might Learn to Love a villanelle That I might learn to love I sorely prayed with hopes that God might teach me by romance as yearning I the empty sky surveyed. Yet lovers marched in cumbersome...

Sonnet ‘1/12/2019’ by Edward Hoke

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March 13, 2019
Love Poems, Poetry
6 Comments
O how I long to hold thee in my arms, And taste again of nature’s sweet reprieve, To cast off masks, false affectations, charms; To savor all I had before you leave. For thee alone I lie awake at...

Three Love Poems by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

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February 27, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
14 Comments
Today the Wind for Elizabeth Today the wind through winter’s unclad bones Drowns in its woeful howl my soul’s discant; Beyond, a distant hunter’s oliphant Salutes the dead beneath their...

‘Making Spirits Bright’ by Frank De Canio

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February 23, 2019
Beauty, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
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  “Jingle Bells, jingle all the way” I sang to her to break the spell of what appeared to be her fell demeanor. Neither would she bray ‘in a one horse open sleigh’ “Hey!” but droned as...

“Though You Behold Me Silent in This Room…” By Joseph Charles MacKenzie

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July 29, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Popular Poetry Archives
81 Comments
For Elizabeth On the Poet’s Eleventh Wedding Anniversary   Though you behold me silent in this room, Know that I walk in fields of fresh-cut hay; Though I be still, my thoughts like roses...
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  1. Joseph S. Salemi on Lyrics of Oliver Goldsmith, Translated into Latin by Joseph S. SalemiJuly 8, 2025

    Thank you for your comments. I've translated several foreign language poems into English for this website, but this is the…

  2. Cheryl A Corey on Lyrics of Oliver Goldsmith, Translated into Latin by Joseph S. SalemiJuly 8, 2025

    To translate any foreign language poem into English makes for an interesting challenge. As far as I know, yours is…

  3. Mark Stellinga on ‘On Never Giving Up’: A Poem by Mark StellingaJuly 8, 2025

    You know how very welcome you are, Brian. I'm very pleased that it helped to strengthen YOUR resolve, and it…

  4. Mark Stellinga on ‘On Never Giving Up’: A Poem by Mark StellingaJuly 8, 2025

    Thank you, Margaret - it's fashioned after several hundred more of the same style - I'm a diehard, rhyme-'n'-meter 'populist',…

  5. Mark Stellinga on ‘On Never Giving Up’: A Poem by Mark StellingaJuly 8, 2025

    Thanks, Roy. Few know this better than Connie and I as we've been restoring all sorts of finer antiques for…

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