The Eight Greatest Poems of William Wordsworth
by Charles Eager William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1770—the same year as gave us Beethoven, Hegel, and...
The Environment
‘A Question of Faith’ by Charles Bauer
A Question of Faith The crowd cheered on their betters’ masquerade, Emotions seethed as memes were hatched and grew; Elijah...
‘Crossing the Swamp by Jon MacNaughton’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise
(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Crossing the Swamp by Jon MacNaughton by Caud Sewer Bile "If freedom of speech...
‘Pika’ by André Le Mont Wilson
The pika climbs the snowless slopes in hope of finding cooler climes. A tailless kin to hares, he shelters under...
‘Am-air-ica’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise
(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Am-air-ica by Eber L. Aucsidew Die Welt proclaimed the biggest drop in CO2 was...
‘You Decide’ and Other Poetry by Lorna Davis
You Decide Some know me as Destiny, The weaver of the cloth of Time. Although my looms are never...
Two Sonnets by Edward Hoke
12/03/17 Of all ye gods, that crown Olympus high, Who yet remains that man’s not brought to heel? When aircraft...
‘Evening Prayer’ by Sandy Stert Benjamin
Budding darkness, in your starkness, void of noise and light, deliver me from what I see ’fore day turns...
‘Why Add to the Suffering?’ by Daniel Magdalen
Nature’s pillars, which have borne Earth’s breath for ages, Are now crumbling into dust... Still, more keep falling, Shattered...
‘The Buds of Life’ and Other Poetry by David Watt
The Buds of Life On Nightly News I saw a sight obscene: A seahorse in embrace with cotton bud,...
‘Desolate Ocean’ by Gleb Zavlanov
The silver masses rising in huge numbers, The ship alone upon the sprawling sea, The snores of men found tossing...
‘Progress’ and Other Poetry by Ann Christine Tabaka
Progress We fill our landfills That we build sky high With electronic gadgets That we must all buy ......
‘Why Take the Suite of Forest Dreams’ (in Triolets) by Angela Porter
This poem is written in response to proposals to sell ancient public forests to private developers in England. https://saveourwoods.co.uk/ ...
‘Dying Muse’ and Other Poetry by Ann Christine Tabaka
Dying Muse Not everyone will survive The muse has sung her last song The end is about to arrive It...
‘A Picnic with a View’ by J. Prescott
Sleep, lying in dry river beds Sold rapidly, buy the shore banks Brains washed from corporate heads Dried and neatly styled on...
‘The Rocky Mountain Pines’ and Other Poetry by Blake Elliott
The Rocky Mountain Pines Written in Rhymed couplets of Anapestic Tetrameter. In the mountains or plains, with the pine in...
‘Dancer’ and Other Poetry by Ayame Whitfield
Dancer the arch of her collarbone a bridge, her legs a throne, the clean and simple lines of her body...
‘The World Is Still Too Much’ and Other Poetry by Cheryl Corey
The World Is Still Too Much Too much, and much too much, it still goes on: The men and...
‘Riven’ and Other Poetry in Traditional Bardic Forms by Elizabeth Spencer Spragins
Riven (A Rannaigheacht Ghairid) Once I dreamed Ospreys soared where salmon teemed. Frigid streams and waterfalls Frosted walls where glaciers...
‘The Earth We’re Leaving Behind’ by Niloufar Behrooz
There used to be a limpid lake Home to the finest birds you'd find. We'd watch their glory till daybreak....
‘How Eden Weeps’ by Mark Sheeky
How Eden weeps to see, the ache of every tortured tree. How Eden doth recoil, at bitter cancer of...
‘On the Sheffield Tree Fellings’ and Other Poetry by Damian Robin
Trees, Libraries, and Chinese Communism To wrap a ribbon round a UK tree And tie it into Chinese tyranny, Or...
‘Departure’ and Other Poetry by James McKee
Departure Like escaping through a siege, growing older Hampers itself with hopes of return; So if, over your bare...
‘The Desert’ and Other Poetry by Tod Benjamin
The Desert We were flying in a desert, an oasis to drink dry. We gorged ourselves on date palms...
‘Witches’ Brew’ and Other Poetry by Susan Martin
Witches’ Brew Round and round the seven seas go, In the putrid poisons throw, Double, double toil and trouble,...
‘Unforeseen Good Fortune’s Heirs Are We’ and Other Poetry by Pat Brisson
Unforeseen Good Fortune’s Heirs Are We There’s little of the Plague that we can find to celebrate except for this...
‘Pacific Trash Vortex’ and Other Poetry by Bob McGinness
Pacific Trash Vortex I don’t care about chemical sludges, I don’t care about plastic debris, the Pacific trash vortex...
‘A Bear in My Living Room’ and Other Poetry by Michael Harmon
A Bear in My Living Room While playing some computer games One day, I heard a noise out in...
‘The Price’ and Other Poetry by Dusty Grein
The Price (a pantoum in iambic pentameter) The sea and sky, once beautiful and clean, They’ve paid the price...
‘2016 Primaries’ and Other Poetry by John W. Steele
2016 Primaries This season, Mr. Trump’s a raging wildfire, a storm ignited by reality TV, fodder for anyone who likes...
Lord Byron’s Romantic Ode to the Ocean
Below is an excerpt of the last ten stanzas of Lord Byron's ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,’ published originally in the 1810s....
Sorry Brian for the delayed response here. I did want to clarify that I have not added anything to "Babi…
Since my anecdotes were what gave Brian the impetus to write this poem, I should add something else about the…
And just a quick follow-up comment, Joe. It seems to me that a site for classical poetry should be able…
Thank you so much, jd! I'm very pleased that you liked them!
Thank you, Yael! "Old skeletons" sounds perfect for Halloween which rapidly approaches! As far as the other type of old…
