October 29, 2015: China renounces its 35 year old one-child policy, but strict controls continue despite the change.   The...

1 it shows many sides but usually 2 — can boil & bluster & end in a stew — can...

When Fairies Stop Hiding It's at the end of the day, but it's not over just yet- It's time for...

Hints from the Moon (Monday) Beginning with zero, hints from the moon Going through phases, ripe in the womb; Time...

“Red Wall” by Kunlun Zhang: This painting records the personal experience and internal turmoil of the artist, Professor Kunlun Zhang....

Forested deep purity Dusted with a winter's glow; Crystalline perpetuity Takes its place in nature's show. Fresh sunlight plays with...

Images of beheadings and men in orange jumpsuits Haunt me when I wake The black hooded vigilantes in the desert...

Free me from wars? Make my debut? Oh, Mr. Handsome G.I. Joe— your face and a blanket won’t do. Sift...

A news report here provides some background on China Radio Like Radio Free Europe, Which popped the wax Plugs from...

The rustic minuet's small step has since been swept away by all the modern pop and pep and fizzle of...

Laments of the Oppressed My great country, please let me be, What I think and say should be up to...

Updated January 9, 2020 A Quick Sonnet Guide.  A traditional sonnet should have... 14 lines. X Rhyming. The most common...

This poem was inspired by Shen Yun Performing Arts.   Bleak and somber is the flavor du jour; Modernism pervades...

Ode on a Children’s Cemetery Plot 1. Behind the soul-gorged cemetery ground, We discovered a plot of yet more dead,...

Beneath the Mask Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he...

Two young brothers are left at home, All by their lonesome selves, The older one notices a new toy, Sitting...

Secure the yoke and bind the crown. Steady the mouth and tongue for sound. The morning breaks. Our sight is...

When You Have Reached the Bottom By R. Lee Ubicwedas When you have hit rock bottom, you have nothing left...

The Apprentice of the Dead He painted the lines of the country road. He painted the leaves: saffron and gold....

  The warmth of daylight’s veil is cherishingly cast Upon the sacred walls of ancient Angkor Wat, Whose temple towers...

Review By James Sale This weekend two different things coincided. First, I finished reading ‘Poetry Is: Jose Garcia Villa’s Philosophy...

The wind was high that horrid day. The wind blew long and high, and I heard three strange women hum-humming...

  Political Banter Once again it’s that time of year, When political banter seems the rage. When otherwise normal people,...

The God Morpheus vs. The Little Baby Kuppy You'd think in such a fight - no contest To be sure...

To Hell with the Hoi Polloi A droll from the Man of Mode To hell with the hoi polloi, I...

The White Stag By Bard Eucewelis I saw it long ago; so long ago it seems as if it was...

The Golden Mean By Aedile Cwerbus Right living's hard, the ever-urgent prow pursuing storms or pressing up against life's dangers,...

A Sonnet's Beauty A sonnet’s beauty’s mostly in the planning, Not in the writing, reading, even saying. The builder knows...

Volkswagen has admitted to rigging as many as 11 million vehicles with illegal software that cheats on emission tests.  ...

It’s called “the magic hour” Before the sun sinks low When everything is bathed In a warm, golden glow Colours...

. . Farm Air and Poplar Before the air be clearly cool, In Georgia, Monticello, see, Be one precursor of...

Winter Smoke Winter smoke and little houses Drawing blinds against the dark The cold, the crying wind Against a stark...

By Damian Robin ‘Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee, who are born...

For 30 more riddles click here. I. I may not have a large population Compared to China or the United...

Dawn on the Shore An hour before the dawn of day, I walked beside the tranquil bay, Along the sandy...

  Your spirit’s eyes, now opened, see The timeless steps of stone ahead... Old debts weigh down your weakened knee,...

Game Over With my friend P. Modernity, We played a game of strategy. Sipping our hot cups of coffee, We...

Ideology is a disease, Impervious to reason, An infection known to seize One in the election season. It has alas...

Rare Dreams I'm looking through the window of a plane in which I've never been, nor ever will; staring beyond...

Danger: Helping Is Forbidden By Aw "Curbside" Lee It's been a month since he's been seen— the Chinese advocate of...