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. Everyone Knows Fog and smoke! Such confusion we’re subject to! So much danger to me and you From the...

. My Texas Tempest Silver Lining  It’s said that during times of heightened pain Your world contracts. You’ll find it’s...

. Isolde and the Men of Stone Who could believe, except on ancient trust? The stones grew pliant, yielding into...

. Light Side an interpretation of the apology by the DarkSide ransomware hackers Our motives are mercenary, and apolitical.Putin puts...

. The Purloined Lectern by C. Aubre DeWiles It was the fall, November, 2020, in the night. My friend, Earl...

. The Dove Returned The dove returned! The Earth is dry; A golden sun lights up the sky. This ark...

. Two by two, the Uyghur stand in long Lines. They carry nothing to call their own, The final destination,...

. My erstwhile master taught me well And I supposed I could adjust As did the comrades in our cell,...

. Unimaginable written in celebration of the 100th birthday on May 16th of the Poet's mother, Marjorie Tweedie, a resident...

. A Woke Recipe for Disaster a villanelle Heap fresh and zesty chaos on despair. Rub salt in history’s wounds...

. Apophis Apophis is the name of a near-earth asteroid that passed by our planet a few months ago, a...

. Sarah Liang is a veteran reporter with the Hong Kong Epoch Times who was recently assaulted by communist agents....

. The Bunyip’s Spell A native girl of spirit strong, As graceful as the flitting fishes; Went swimming in a...

. Raw Now, listen, if you want to know the truth: The world's a battleground of claw and tooth. ....

. Piteous Fools! The time has comeWhen all men seek to be is numb.The toils of our daily lifeDo overwhelm...

. An Angel Speaks to the Imprisoned Derek Chauvin “Although it has been difficult,__I know you’ll make it through.Of course...

. For a Friend Fighting Cancer And so it seems before the dawn that darkness reigns and hope is gone....

. Entering college is an easy way Of making lots of friends, a herd of mares; Just drink a toast...

. A Sonnet for My Son On Mother’s Day, I simply have to say I’m humbled by my role and...

. At Matins’ hour, the middle of the night,I woke, and soon found I was not alone;A man who seemed...

.For all my lifeI felt alone---Out on the road,As well as home. I saw couples With children near,Filled to the...

. Split a line from a nursery rhyme and use the halves to open and close a poem. Post yours...

. Part II of the Coffee Trilogy. (Part I can be found here.) In the beginning was the Word, and...

. Today I spied you, red in beak and claw.You perched atop a roadside pole to dineOn scaly prey with...

. There once was a very big lie, That our country refused to deny. While we did what they told...

.. Whoever said that change is good Is living in a purple wood Behind a tree behind a bough; A...

. Set your priorities—don't be uncouth—know the Secret to happiness lies in this truth: “Though the Sum of all things...

. Six hundred years before Old Sarum fell, the might of Rome faced down the Gallic tribes on earthen ramparts...

.   "To indulge in hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian tergiversation is not to show your erudition: rather, it is to be superficial.” ---Steven...

Compiled by Roy E. Peterson Readers are encouraged to add other great poets' and writers' epitaphs in the comments section...

. One Fate Ecclesiastes 9:1-6 Shall I portend, and shall I explicate What eyes can see themselves, ere they go...

. Prayer Of people who pray, Routinely or not, He wonders what the case is. Are they of belief Prayer...

by Michael Curtis When next you float down the Yangtze River through Jingzhou City, likely you will notice Guan Yu,...

. "I Lived and languished.” —Andrei Platonov by "Weird” Ace Blues Last year we learned th’ Empire struck back with...

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5FdfL8sVRM Like Abelard and Heloise Like Abelard and Heloise This woman has the gorgeous mind. Her touch of tenderness...

. written while walking out my front door You weren’t born with that thing on your face, So look in...

. Vaticination  Sibylla says, Fear archers of immunity! Beware the vanguard shock troops sharpening double tongues, Whetted with grave authority...

. The Tale of Governor Do-as-I-Say-Not-as-I-Do-som It’s funny how Democracy In many states now colored blue Produces rank hypocrisy, A...

. We’re poets first-and-foremost and agree that meter, rhyme and rhythm oft are spurned; the plethora of poetry we see...

.  Brush with Shame In reference to “Couple accidentally paints over $500,000 artwork,” Ben Cost, New York Post, 4/3/21 The...