Lay your hand in mine dear, ___Lay your hand in mine; If you will lay your hand in mine We...

Ye boundless vaults of heaven without an end, __Thy silvery fields of azure stars unfold Above the earth, and verdurous...

I Taught a Lesson to My Toes I taught a lesson to my toes, They’d overstepped the mark, Escaping time...

a rondeau Cape Disappointment, battered and distressed, Besieged, beset, by brute-force waves hard-pressed As broad and deep Columbia collides With...

Left to Write It isn't difficult to find __the works the masters left behind, and others too have written verse, __some...

. Written: March 27, 2022 A Wedding Sonnet To those true cultivators of Zhen Shen Ren,* There is no common...

My Wife Is Clad in Cloth From Head to Foot My wife is clad in cloth from head to foot....

  Things shifted for them suddenly From seeing their folks in the morn To mourning their folks in the sea....

Three Loves in One We've gathered Love, but only insofar As we have reaped a crop from seeds we've sown....

a Petrarchan sonnet Highlighting midnight across darkened skies flies the Supermoon hidden in all of its glory; though sightless and...

A Life Well Lived a rondeau A life well-lived begins and ends surrounded by the love of friends. The air...

. https://youtu.be/9h-79BVeByw . Open Heart Surgery The best day of your life; a child is born! Start out happy, but...

  Riddle XXXVII From small beginnings I grow great, just keep up the heat and wait, help me become the...

Nobody came today to ask me questions, nor has anyone asked me for anything this afternoon. I have not seen...

(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Venezuelan Woes by Lud Wes Caribee As Socialist experiment Venezuela sinks into far greater...

This villanelle is a tribute to the Rust Belt, and all the communities devastated when corporations close their American plants...

  “Let glorious acts more glorious acts inspire, And catch from breast to breast the noble fire!" —The Iliad, Homer,...

Musical Comedy or Doggerel for Dilettantes The Sonata Like a Classical sonata, our day opens with a theme, Whether thrown...

Canto 3 is the third canto in the sequence of the English Cantos, the first two of which are available...

  Please bring the wine cuz I'm flat broke, I couldn't even buy a can of Coke. But once you...

in tribute to James Sale and in memory of Joe M. Ruggier (1956-2018), who first published this poem in The...

Paradox as Explanatory Paradigm in Norman MacCaig’s ‘Summer Farm’ by Phillip Whidden   Summer Farm Straws like tame lightnings lie...

A Question of Faith The crowd cheered on their betters’ masquerade, Emotions seethed as memes were hatched and grew; Elijah...

  I like to write, and writing's free; Liberates mind of memory. I take a chance to be creative; For...

I See a Friend I see a friend, pull up a stool to talk to this old stupid fool. Both...

Meaningful. Active and interesting. Strong. ___Simply not counting the days, as if stray, ______dreary, unworthy, but making them count, serve,...

  They stood on the porch, Eyes over the land. The young and old man, Making their plans. The old...

  Exodos, Prologos to the Class of 2018 In times uncertain, ask your truest friends For counsel, and take all...

The silent seeds in wild wastes germinate; The gardened apple trees dripping in bloom. Creation calls and hears, each for...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0BeEHXjXIM   The Ghost of Phil Ochs by David Paul Behrens When you see homeless people on the street, When...

  Island City: Auckland I’ve grown to love this place of sea and noise Where buildings have assumed a regal...

  Ode to Cole’s “The Titan’s Goblet” O Grand Enigma! Tower of Life! Thy lofty scene ___Is but the glimpse...

This poem is dedicated in memoriam to Ms. Wang Lixuan. Because she was raising awareness about the repression of peaceful...

The constancy of change is to be wished; To find a partner and to settle down, To build a life,...

Thank you to everyone who participated and made this a great year for rhyming riddles! —Evan Mantyk, Judge First Place...

  Pentadactyl 5-foot dactylic poem with a truncated fifth foot on the odd-numbered lines. With apologies to Pterodactyls. Dactyls are...

The Ballad of the Poor Troubadour I’m past my prime __and I’m out of time— I never made a dime...

An earlier version of this piece was published in The Epoch Times By Evan Mantyk When Jon McNaughton released his...

  ‘Leonardo the Great’ was a painter sublime, Never rushing to brush while to-do-lists claimed time; As commissions part-done, lay...

On the recent and coordinated banning of Alex Jones' media outlet Infowars.com by Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Apple by Seer...