Free People In some sense, free people have no needOf poets to give their speech a better voice.But freedom wanes...

. Stones for My Parents I didn’t want to come. How sad it sounded To kneel beneath a hazy sun...

. Whoever Am I? Preface to His Poetry .by Prudentius (c. 4th century AD)translated by Margaret Coats If I see...

. The Hectic Life _Sometimes we get discouraged _With life and all its fuss, Its raucous moments speeding by _Like...

. Death Is But a Passing A death is but a passing from one world into another, A change of...

. Pearls or Swine? Pray show me how to tell a pearl from swine. I have a thirst for sanity...

. Best of the Windy City Nation’s hub and culture center, O’Hare Airport, millions enter. Stunning architecture sites, The awesomeness...

. Elusive Illusive Art Where are the pure, illusive works of artthat bubble upward from the deep unknown?Where in this...

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF6v6ES3FMU . This is song was originally a poem published by the Society of Classical Poets in March, 2018....

. Four Newsy Limericks . A pedophile, if you should see one, Must not be reported. The reason? __It could...

. A Pleased Jaques ---after a soliloquy in Shakespeare's As You Like It At first there is the infant, grinning...

. My Soul Is at Home in the Depths of the Ocean My soul is at home in the depths...

. O Delta Smelt O Delta Smelt of silver scale, O threatened gem of fin and tail, In brackish waters...

. The Lemon Tree We leave the house, the nurtured lawn is gone; The garden still resembles lifeless works Of...

. Out in the Open The slanting rain comes on and on! The cold drops blear and blur the sun...

. Payday Before the crash, the market looked so strong. I doled out cash and credit, buying in While others...

. Magna Lex ---to the choirmaster, a Psalm (19) of David. . I The heavens herald God’s resplendency; The skies...

. Let There Be Light From beyond, there came the Word—a cosmic “Om”That pierced the void with one colossal bang...

. Unnoticed and Unknown Unnoticed and unknown, she passes through The homeless strewn along the downtown street. Unnoticed and unknown...

. Emergent Occasions “And even angels, whose home is heaven, and who are winged too, yet had a ladder to...

. Three Cascading Endings on Fallen Civilizations I. Everywhere, the sands are endless. Look: A joke is made of all...

. Winter Night A full moon fills the sky with lustrous light And gives the vault of heaven in the...

. My Inner Attorney "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only...

. Two Idylls by Bion of Smyrnatranslated by Joseph S. Salemi . Idyll V Great Cypris stood before me in...

. . None for All Backbones wilt and waistlines grow; Brightness dims as diodes glow. It’s history’s course, a simple...

. Healing Hands ---in appreciation of the care provided (free of charge) by the NHS, the National Health Service of...

. Happy ---for B.K. A ground to play, a set to swing, A slide to slide, a bell to ring:...

. Watch Out! Now, “The Three Little Pigs” is a tale More for cautioning than for amusing: Learn its lessons...

. A Hero in My Head Though never even in the war he loomed A hero there.  At least in...

. The Adoration of the Peacock ---on The Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi The...

. https://youtu.be/LRxp0nZS2hM . video by Andrew Benson Brownpoem by Evan Mantyk . The Reincarnations of Donald J. Trump . I....

. Bollical Dogs I have a complaint! T.S. Eliot hogs All the fun with his stories of Jellicle Cats! So...

. Caleb in Canaan  Green fields, walled towns, strong foes, but we are fit To overcome. Forward, I say. It’s...

. The Shepherd God On Autumn eves when solipsistic stars__Peer down on bloody, towering oaksWhose gnarled, twisted branches create bars__Encaging...

. A Freshman Pep Talk ---upon reading “Composers to Listen to While Studying,”by Andrew Benson Brown, in The Epoch Times,...

. Topics Over Time At 10 boys talk about the games in which they’ve played. At 14 they discuss the...

. Kill or Cure? “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patientwhile nature cures the disease.” ---Voltaire . Possible...

. Enduring Sight Our blindest heroes walk among us, here, where legendary blindness gives us sight. King Oedipus still lives,...

. Americans in Florence Ooo David! Whoa, you’re well-hung! But why a foreskin, underslung? Your left hand, do you hold...

. Oh, the Days Oh, the days of poop and vomit! My best dress had drool upon it While I...