Poetry

  Clarence Thomas, American Hero “The mob I now faced carried no ropes or guns. It s weapons were smooth-tongued...

  What America Was Meant to Be We often hear what they said back then, no crown should rule over...

  America: 250 Years Should we commit to celebrate our birth? We’ve run so many laps around the sun, Yet...

  The Second Rain A grandly booming, flashing shower Comes flying in and promptly starts To soak the neighborhood an...

  Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) translated from German by Mary Jane Myers We'll never know...

  The Council of Infinite Opinions A council met where certainty was banned, And every truth was shaped by shifting...

  The SCP Edition of Homer's Odyssey, translated by Michael Solot, is now being released as a historic audiobook---marking the...

  Not Small At All I’ve gained appreciation for the smaller things in life, The uneventful days when all is...

  The Roommate It’s early morning (morning prayer): I hear Her in her room as now and then she sighs...

  Pouting Polly Polly Esther finds her vesture positively snoring. Even worse, her purse looks like a tile of kitchen...

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning Has Second Thoughts How do I hate you? Let me count the flaws: I hate you...

  Then and Now The gallery faces return: I name their names, These powers invading dreams, who being dead Are...

  The Ministry of Twee The Ministry’s role is to banish the soul _In poems the poets send in--- To...

  Breath of Night A sullen breath pervades the night the rhythmic stillness I can hear where peaceful dreams grow...

Among the Redwoods by Edward Rowland Sill (1841-1887) FAREWELL to such a world! Too long I press The crowded pavement...

  Kaddish for My Father Yitgadal v’yitkadash sh’mai rabah… I’ve said the mourner’s kaddish now a thousand times To mark...

  Canceled I reckon the outcome is just So cancel away if you must. It speaks to the fear That...

  The Diamond When Earth was young and life was new An alien forest clothed a land Where dreadful monsters...

  The Dancer The dancer turns elegantly: her pivot light and feathery, her eyes as brilliant as a wren’s, her...

  Chastity ‘My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, And come away.’ ---The...

  Ode I.11 by Horace (circa 84-54 BC) translated from Latin by Mary Jane Myers Locónoé, the gods decree the...

  The Bird with the Ugly Voice I kept a bird whose song was harsh and coarse, A jarring cry,...

  The Dryads The day we found the hoof-prints in the soil And felt the breath of dark, indolic heat,...

  Stories of Saint Anthony   Preaching to the Fish “Proud men have turned away, for they refuse To listen...

  An Englishman to World Cups Past That 1966 World Cup _is but a memory, awarded, so the Scotsmen claim,...

  Faux Pas after Don Paterson When I decanted red, not white, and she called me a fool I bit...

Trip to Italy A Poetry Travel Journal by James A. Tweedie The trip begins on April 8 with a two-week...

  Spring Song Spring sings through the woods, her own special song Sometimes short ’n’ sweet and sometimes too long....

  The Eagle He flies... so quickly, cutting the air’s depth with tawny wings, the messenger of Zeus—the eagle—bold, his...

  Good Night When you brushed and flossed and rinsed your teeth, _You gave nary a thought To a gap...

  Mothiavelli I’m thirsty for the fever of her kiss--- The neon sear---the lethal lick she brings. I burn to...

  Poetic Justices: The Poetry of United States Supreme Court Justices by Adam Sedia In 1979, Justice John Paul Stevens...

  Blur The seconds tick, the minutes race, __The hours fly, __The days flash by, The weeks go at a...

  The Cottage on the Ridge The gray mist lingers in the wooded vale And drifts across the piney hills...

  Poem 5 by Catullus (circa 84-54 BC) translated from Latin by Mary Jane Myers Ah, Lesbia, lust’s our sweet...

  Undeclared College Major Discussing broader options that young women have today, One of my female classmates had a startling...

  The Sowers by Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938) translated from Italian by Joseph S. Salemi Strong lads drive the docile oxen...

  Three Kittens Went to Kitten-Garten Three kittens in kitten-garten. Whose teacher was a dog. They had to write their...

  The Number 217: A Glimpse of Armageddon "And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes" ---Chaucer, Canterbury Tales  It happened...

  The Heart of the Wood At the edge of the wood it is green, With the leaves all aglow...