I saw him standing at the gate of heaven. It was in a dream, but seemed so real I was...

Nothing to see here, they say each breath, People starving, as they feed us to death, Puppets on strings, all...

The Old Brown Carpet Hurray! I don't have to vacuum The old, brown carpet, anymore! At last, I managed to...

Like roaches fighting over baited trap we climbed and clambered, even pushed and shoved while scrambling for some nourishment like...

Exchange They go to take the heart of you, mark your skin & cut you through. With silk knives, their...

My love, accursed, will never let me go. I mourn your loss and all those wasted years. The wars that...

Come, tell me your story, master of prose. Use elements of the proper language To sway me to your side,...

Spirit of green engendered in liberty Sweeping across the glanded glades Tangled tree spirits in tarnished brief Dancing shades of...

Soft warm eyes searching, yearning full plump lips pouting and burning she looks upward in hope and desire burning inside...

A red-tailed hawk on a bridge railing looks fixed, loosed from its master. Reading one haiku, two bowls of strawberries...

As a gentle, outer light shines downward, a different, invisible light — that of spiritual illumination — shines into the...

How beautifully does Pisanello seize upon the Vision of Eustachius in paint, where all conjoins together in a whole to...

No one could recall When, in days of yore, The calm York River Had so breached its shore, Or where...

Department stores are nice But prices there are high If you've got lots of cash They've lots of things to...

Final Drip Sun’s broke through, it’s blinding. The crickets fade away, adjourn. The glowing, steaming mist falters; Creeps down to...

  Duffy Sheridan has been painting since he was a child. His father, also an artist, encouraged him to learn...

No Sweeter Spell Those things that I have told you, little things That no one else knows, things I’ve dared...

We suggest, but do not absolutely require, that poetry be metered in some fashion or have a similar number of...

Translated by Lan Hua The Yu Gong Valley - I Heading into a valley Quite simply traveling With nobody else...

(Featured Image: “Reraise, Douce!” by Timothy Reynolds. Charcoal and pastel, 10 by 11 inches.) NEW YORK—Imagine a place where a...

One Saturday in Boston, The Beacon of the Bay State. Many people went a'walkin' And came upon a mainstay: Disciples...

Steven J. Levin was born in Minneapolis MN in 1964.  His interest in art began early, when as a young...

What He and Michelangelo Know "There on the scaffolding reclines Michael Angelo." -Yeats The Hudson’s sunk in this great vale...

Storage Let us lug in more stuff Storage man mumbles hi First year by in a huff Second year wonder...

I. The greatest writers are the teachers; The paper is their pupil; Each sheet defiantly stretches With a stark blank,...

One Has To "quod idem in poematis, in picturis usu venit in aliisque complaribus, ut delectentur imperiti laudentque ea, quae...

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Momma says you can do it. Fly away, little bird. Momma’s watched over you, fussed And taught you every word....

NEW YORK—On the day of Margaret Thatcher’s death, Nelson Shanks, founder of Philadelphia realist art atelier Studio Incamminati, took another...

Until He Dies With hollow bones a bird learns how to fly Not once despising frame all delicate, But pushed...

Confection Connection The girls were bored and at a loss To find a treat that did not cost An arm,...

Hummingbirds How dramatic of thou hummingbird Glides like a cherub through airs curb Precious gems scatter across and fly To...

Oh sad age, how the years will pass us by, Pass us and then our last visions refuse, Refuse us...

William Storck has painted professionally for over 30 years. His work is in private collections throughout the United States as...

On the Beam At times when my roiled brain becomes serene, I may achieve a state of clarity In which...

The water-birds too are fast asleep upon the Great Lakes of the North. Looking carefully, one finds shepherd's purse on...

You can support the Society of Classical Poets in a variety of ways: I. Participate: Write poetry and submit it;...

If I were dying, would you ask me to stay Until the Divine came to take me away From the...

By Damian Robin The intricately patterned Oxford Town Hall is the latest UK venue for the The Art of Zhen...

As Icarus drowns in the deep-green, wine-dark sea, before the white, round fisher happily ensconced and th' extr'ordinary sailing ship...