By James Sale This is a curious collection from Douglas Thornton: ambitious, epic in its style, containing many great lines...

“London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down. London Bridge is falling down my fair lady.” During segregation grocery...

  Against the Light Watermarks are visible when held against light whispering quality, distinction, louder than a shout— are also...

If You're a Beggar, Be a Chooser Too (Villanelle) If you're a beggar, be a chooser too, For less is...

Old age recycles the body An infant once pink turns blue Nature recalls with rapid speed To complete life’s circle...

  Technology I am sick of this world Technology has gone wild I miss the peace of mind I used...

Petals in the Winter Three petals on a lily like the snow were held aloft And though the wind through...

This eve set as elegant exhibit of skin deep beauty for old yearning stares, is time’s harsh labor’s brief retreat....

for Claudia Why didn’t Sisyphus simply walk away and climb, unencumbered, up the smooth cleft worn in the undulant hillside,...

Marv’lous Melody I read the words all leaping from the page And hear the joyful rhythm in my head But...

. . Javelin Ekphrastic Out of the air and shot from a thrust, Clout of the spear, forethought where it...

This dieting can be Hell With nary a late-night snack I wage a constant battle When the hunger pangs attack...

  In Defense of the Aesthetic Sense When lovely melodies arouse and wake My dormant bliss, or true words do...

Dedicated to Falun Gong practitioners who have peacefully resisted persecution by the communist regime in China for 17 years, since...

Chapter II: Visions and Dreams (For Chapter I click here.) THE band and locals, totaling fourteen, Retired to rest before...

The waking’s spun with webs of urgent lure And sleep is shriveled dreaming marred by fear. The life allows the...

  C0d0s0 By Leweca Derusbi The Chinese hackers who are known as the Codoso group are infiltrating sites across the...

Lost The angel’s cry, the devil’s kiss: How did you let it come to this? You claimed the darkness too:...

  When the wind blows true through the land Rustled leaves hold trees that withstand Tempered gusts with vicious intent....

Jaded I Lay Jaded I lay prostrate in bands Constructed of my self-frustration: The morning waned; so too my elation,...

This rhyming adaption of the 14th century Arthurian poem is suitable for 4-6 students to perform and only takes about...

Anasazi Mesa castles in the sky Where paintbrush blooms and eagles fly. A people's passage marked in stone; Artifacts of...

Write a quatrain (four-line poem) on the topic of America. Post your submissions into the comments section below with your...

The Pharaoh's People and the Locusts We had our land covered by the locusts. On every leaf the hungry, magnet...

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Cribbed Agency (After a grating entrée) No matter how I madly strove to make sense of the garlic clove the...

. . Lone Cypress, Pebble Beach Crack of stone for rest and bed, Wrack of storm unpressed I tread, Sun...

So turn whereto it dies, Pulse of a draining sun: The face of daylight’s guise The yield that night has...

No one can hate you like a former spouse. It sounds like a country-western song, I know, but no one...

Near rugged shores and inky lochs, Schiehallion prevails. As stronghold of the faeries, she’s the guardian of their tales. And...

  So to Speak My teen-aged son talks not as I do; I cannot teach him, yet I try to....

By Sharon Kilarski | Originally Published in The Epoch Times A sonnet by Betsy Hughes offers unmistakable relief; you can...

April in Washington Around the basin there’s a ring Of cherry trees now blossoming. Showing off the city’s best, They...

  Spirit Where once a spirit, pure and bright, Would sail on gossamer wings of light And pass through realms...

  Our paths vanish; our footsteps fade From forest glades, from wave-damp sands From sunlight’s dazzle and twilight’s shade. Babes...

This Will Not Make the News Today "My mother told me to take nothing stronger than aspirin." —Bruce Dale Wise...

  Though I’m eighty and have survived I’m the oldest man that never lived My life flew by too fast...

2016 Primaries This season, Mr. Trump’s a raging wildfire, a storm ignited by reality TV, fodder for anyone who likes...

Gaunt fades the twilight, nearly gone, a weary world wearing thin Since last the unremembered sun smiled upon the land...

Post your Tiananmen Square poems in the comments section below.   Tiananmen By James Fenton, Hong Kong, 15 June 1989...