A Riddle by Horus Hardtke
Skin hard as jade, Mouth like a blade, I’m seldom dry, A dross lookst I, And hard to find,...
Read moreDetailsSkin hard as jade, Mouth like a blade, I’m seldom dry, A dross lookst I, And hard to find,...
Read moreDetailsFifty years ago . . . (it seems Like only yesterday) . . . the dreams, The hopes, and the...
Read moreDetailslyrics inspired by the movie Unplanned Ms. Sally loved the parties, spent her nights out "on the town." Her door...
Read moreDetailsWhile driving on an April day along a winding road Through rolling hills, beside the way, I spied a...
Read moreDetailsI Want To Believe I want to believe a scarlet sky Promises sunshine. Don’t know why They say red...
Read moreDetailsNew Day Welcome to a new day. I must go Ahead with life as it presents to me I have...
Read moreDetailsWe shake our heads, and wonder, “Why?” aloud each time some speeding truck plows through a crowd, or grinning...
Read moreDetailsA Poet’s Lament - for Charles Southerland, whose brilliant prose style I so painfully tried to imitate and incorporate Nobody...
Read moreDetailsWhite Is A Color, Too It seems strange to have to say this After what that great man taught, Yet...
Read moreDetailsby Lew Icarus Bede The way I dealt with T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland was to write a poem, equally...
Read moreDetailsby David Watt I recently came across the following “square poem” attributed to Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carrol)....
Read moreDetailsCongratulations to contest winners David Whippman (First Place), Randal Burd (Second Place), Theresa Rodriguez (Third Place), and Dusty Thorne (Fourth...
Read moreDetailsA Journey to the East by Evan Mantyk is a historical and poetical fairytale adventure styled after Journey to the...
Read moreDetailsBunny by Sally Cook Indebted to a simple spark of life, You missed your chance at Europe’s wondrous door. A...
Read moreDetailsI woke this day from napping, and I saw you lying there, Across the room, upon a couch, asleep...
Read moreDetailsWith lifeless smiles she's sitting tight in the vase. With painted flowers, leaves and twigs she's like a dressed...
Read moreDetailsWinners announced here! Write a short poem that begins with one line from any Shakespeare play or poem. The poem...
Read moreDetailsRiddle No. 1 So astounding is this part— A major muscle, like your heart. And so astonishing its job, Without...
Read moreDetailsIrrelephant Within the room there’s something big, But management ignores it. A redwood tree, not tiny twig? Concern they haven’t...
Read moreDetailsDust to lust to disgust to trust to must to just to dust. Wm. Walters is a...
Read moreDetailsSome People Did Something On Rep. Omar's reducing the 9/11 terrorist attacks to "Some people did something" Some people swallowed...
Read moreDetailsStreamlined In some alternative reality I have remained unmarried, all alone. Would that have been a better way for me...
Read moreDetailsThis poem recounts the famous mythical battle, “Centauromachy.” It unfolds in the ancient home of the Lapiths in the...
Read moreDetails—from A Gallery of Ethopaths What generates the half-assed views That this dimwit nation spews? Why are persons mindless...
Read moreDetailsFor Lori Kaye and Riley Howell I sing in praise of Lori Gilbert Kaye. When racist hatred paid a...
Read moreDetailshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9LEnZ9T4F0&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be by John Keats When I have fears that I...
Read moreDetailsEpigrams on the Decay within Academia Liberal Artifice "Progressives," through advanced miseducation, Have shaken our fair land to its...
Read moreDetailsRead the poetry of the recently departed John Whitworth at Trinacria or The Poetry Archive. by Sally Cook Any ordinary...
Read moreDetailsAn Ode to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 50 Years Later A Poetic Summary of Tom Stoppard’s Award-Winning Play As Seen Through...
Read moreDetailsVenting Be angry, and do not sin. —Ephesians 4.26 We're told a large volcano roils and seethes beneath the soil...
Read moreDetailsOn Time’s Memory Time is a sieve of our own brand. A net Made not to catch but to let...
Read moreDetailsThe Fall of the Fourth Estate a rondeau The Media: the Fourth Estate* Performed disgracefully of late: Delivering the news...
Read moreDetailsTranslation by Matthew Wildermuth Note: In the time of its composition—the first decade of the 13th century—Tristan was already a...
Read moreDetailsBirthday Apology William Shakespeare was born April 26, 1564 If all the world’s a stage, and all the men...
Read moreDetailsTowards the End of Chinese Communism Through Shanghai’s packed glissando peaks and Beijing’s glossy miles, As though to keep out counter...
Read moreDetailsHere shut behind an oaken door I stay, left in a room paneled with times long gone, and learn to...
Read moreDetailsGallipoli, 1915 There are none left on earth can ever tell At first hand of this mortal waste of war...
Read moreDetailsI face the day with unexpected strength, to know we’ll meet when the sun has disappeared. Your hand in...
Read moreDetailsO, curse Zahran Hashim and, yes, Abu Mohammad too, for evil at the Shangri-la and Batticalao, just two, of...
Read moreDetailsTosspot tulip, withered, bowed and bent; __Severed stem embedded in a vase. __Natal bed a now-forsaken place. __Glory passed;...
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