Urban Butterfly What business have you here, In acrid air, to strain Through jagged glass and steel On a cracked...

The Sea My sleeping spirit wakes As the town’s vespers Climb the stairless sky And the sea whispers. The rushing...

Cicada and Mantis You are known to us by your choral song, The clicks and buzzes of an insect throng....

By James Sale Donald Mace Williams Wolfe and Other Poems is an extraordinarily good collection of poems, clearly written by a...

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  The bark came off the trunks before the leaves had dropped— the freeze sped up, the shade enlarged, the...

by E. Ducabe Wisler "Pray for Texas." —Ubs Reece Idwal The tropical cyclone named Harvey plastered Houston's plat, ten trillion...

As times turned hard and harder yet, The Queen grew apprehensive— Relentless tides of change had made One luxury expensive....

  Poet's Note: "Back when I was eighteen years old, things were sort of grim with the Vietnam War and...

I may as well be hired as his maid, the way I’m made to clean his toilet seat. Still worse,...

Poetry before Writing “Greece down through the fifth century has aptly been described as a ‘song culture’.” ~ Michael Schmidt...

  Let us raise statues to the Prince of Peace: __Cain’s monuments are powerless to bind __Our hearts in summer’s...

Poetry, as we have discussed in earlier parts of this article series, depends upon the Muses and accessing the deeper...

Proem In rhyming, timing is everything. Rhymes in wrong places make awkward spaces. A rhyme in rhyming knows more than...

A Villanelle  “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” —George...

by Cause Bewilder for Joshua Philipp Grave statue after statue falls with strict impunity. Memorials and monuments yield to community....

Higher Purpose Is there any higher purpose As they walk with faces down? Are they sure of destination As they...

Passing of the Seasons When snow has melted, chill has gone, and winter turns to spring, The tender buds grow...

Nesting Season Little sleep. The night heat did not relent. You startle me up as day breaks over the tent...

. He viewed the world with perfect form But upside down, not as the norm He lifted those who’d been...

  I used to find it hard to lose at chess. I'd watch in disbelief the check and mate, think...

George and the Dragon In the Yorkshire dialect “Nah, sithee,” said Granny, “Just set thee dahn ‘ere, An’ I’ll tell...

The Journal It sat upon his bedside table, closed, And waiting to keep record of each day: The silent pages...

Meadows of Corn It seems but bland to every passing eye, These regal meadows dressed in ripened corn; They dance...

Argument The following poem is a dramatic monologue in four sections, based on a brief passage in a barbarian legal...

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  To Solitude Come, Solitude, my first and truest friend! Long hours of careless converse burden me, And I have...

  What heights within my mind descend? To fall on peaks where faith shall end, As summits fail to comprehend,...

  Windmill Song Alone it shudders on a hill, Defiant in the wind. A strong south gale could topple it,...

On Visiting the Tea Garden in Middletown, New York I. A harried daddy with two kids in tow, Maneuvering through...

By C.B. Anderson Anyone writing formal poetry today has to be grateful for the arsenal of fixed forms—most of them...

A Villanelle To breathe the beaming silence of the sky I long, when dawn’s chill wakes my eyes, and see...

  Untitled All older statues want to come alive, Those Greek and Roman ones, and Christian, too. Their skeletons and...

I. My brain just came back from the laundry they tell me it's perfectly clean and it's thinking the way...

A Lifetime Day drifts into evening Evening into night All around me darkness With only stars for light Dawn awakes...

Upon the release of the Society’s How to Write Classical Poetry   When feeling some compulsion to compose, One wonders which...

For Elizabeth On the Poet’s Eleventh Wedding Anniversary   Though you behold me silent in this room, Know that I...

  The Devil's New Mission The Devil went to every single school Across America to find a Faust— But no...

This essay was written in 2007 and has remained unpublished until now. by Ludiew E. Sarceb Few of the contemporary...

The important events in the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus (84-54 B.C.) are recounted through the poems he has left....