Lines Composed Before Finding the ‘Society of Classical Poets’ by Reid McGrath
Untitled Savants like to arrange their stars and push their poets into piles: marble-misers who assign the jars according to...
Read moreDetailsUntitled Savants like to arrange their stars and push their poets into piles: marble-misers who assign the jars according to...
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Read moreDetailsThe Commissars Oppose Falun Gong They were old, had lost their youth, So, like the old, repressed the Truth. They...
Read moreDetailsIn Rembrandt's scene of 1653, Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer, there is much that we can see amidst that...
Read moreDetailsThe Bored Knight A tired knight rode to his castle After a long day of hassle. He bowed to the...
Read moreDetailsThe allegory of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne isn't flawless; yet it is, in places, good. The A itself...
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Read moreDetailsShe could not see the avalanche cascade from foam-flecked marble rapids, being blind, but torrents of egrets and apple...
Read moreDetailsI. The Tin Shant on the hill in Martinique is stoutly situated, unique in design, and built half a century...
Read moreDetailsA miracle, how else to say it then? At first, but ground, absolutely nothing there, A river meandering by,...
Read moreDetailsThe Glass Bottle Tree When the wind blows through, the tree shakes. The glass bottles tip their sunlight Over...
Read moreDetailshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJQTF0bkq8s The Funeral March of a Marionette is by Charles Gounod. The marionette's broken—dead— right off. The funeral procession...
Read moreDetailsCurrency of Compassion Throughout the history of humanity conscious coveting with eyes, insanity anxious and eager to grasp with...
Read moreDetailsWhen the last candles smoldered on the funeral eve, And no echo of condolence rippled midnight silence, I rose in...
Read moreDetails. . Fathers and Grandfathers When we see our Brethren bold, Reach the age called Growing old, Men grow thoughtful,...
Read moreDetailsI walked around the garden, and did think. If I had my own how would I create? With enclosed space...
Read moreDetailsTrue to Nature Men take up arms to battle in the sun, anticipating minor victories won o'er valiant, steadfast foes...
Read moreDetailsThe aspens are turning, my neighbor said. I went to see. Mostly gold, some red, They stood and whirled, their...
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Read moreDetailsPoems from the Hungarian Poetry Reading 9/19/2013 Twenty Years Later By János Vajda (1827–1897) / Translation by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth...
Read moreDetailsI left my gloves at the analyst's He called to say he'd found them Black, he said, lined with cotton...
Read moreDetails“Hello, again!” the sun does say when rising on a morn in May. “Thanks for the break,” replies the moon....
Read moreDetailsThat distant bellow is merely a case Of west wind rushing through the tamarack In a race with itself to...
Read moreDetailsImagine that you were lost in a wilderness and had to find your way out. Fortunately, you have with you...
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Read moreDetailsSeasong I heard the wreathéd coral horn That Triton blew, and less forlorn Did suddenly I feel: I heard the...
Read moreDetailsOn the painting "Le berges d'Arcadie" by Nicolas Poussin The rugged mountains in the distance stand beyond, above the three,...
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Read moreDetailsHeld on May 26, 2014, at Da Tang, in New York, participants read Tang Dynasty poetry, translated poetry previously...
Read moreDetailsBlue and Yellow Barn-Swallows She made a note to note when they arrived. It’s obvious whenev’r they fin’lly do. Over...
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Read moreDetailsCoastal Shingle There, totem-stacked in paratactic charm, The words cascade: Hay.Shavings.Piglets.Straw. I had not sought a sign from Salt Marsh...
Read moreDetailsZhen-Shan-Ren: “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance,” the three main principles of Falun Dafa Zhen-Shan-Ren, Zhen-Shan-Ren… Hear the Truth that sounds like “Zhen,” Rhythm that...
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Read moreDetailsUpdated January 10, 2020 Ascending the Phoenix Terrace in Jinling by Li Bai (701-762) Here phoenix roamed four hundred years...
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Read moreDetailsCynthia Moon Go drag your white skull before blind seas That tumble dazed to your mono-eyed magic Go string...
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