. Supply and Demand Infinite happiness isn’t available. Something so precious just isn’t that scalable. Boundless dismay, though, is much...

. Where Virtue Dies In the city of Washington, where virtue dies in the immoral sewage as it putrefies, those...

. Dante in Modern Times If I were Dante, and the quest were mine To reprise chapters of his Comedie...

. Recipe for a Poem Scraped clean of glib and warty observation, On pristine paper place one piercing thought. Add...

. Coupled in Rhyme She sees me better than I do, so in her sight I strive to be worthy...

. The High Priest's Homily Once Man, in thrall to ignorance, believed the world was round, But now we know...

. Clouds Over Skye Vast mounting clouds rise over peak and vale; Their shifting billows filter noonday´s beams, Which pierce...

. Circling In It’s time (I tell myself) we circled in;Gave up at last the overwrought concernThat pulls us this-way-that...

. For All Who Labor by Christine de Pisan (1364-c. 1430) Lady, fair branch where God’s grace blooms,Our labors, Saint...

. Garden Party The sparrows near the feeder flit and preen While predators politely quit the scene. A mockingbird is...

. Married to the Mob He’s going out again today. What for? His hundredth chance to settle some old score?...

. Wisdom of Reagan: Government Waste “Government is like a baby: with a big appetite at one end and no...

. "Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument." ---John Milton, "On Shakespeare" First Prize: $2,000....

. “Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.” —John Milton, “On Shakespeare” First Prize: $200....

. Observation ____Comes morning, __And fog fills the forest Where bluebirds are wet on the wings. ____The toadstools __Are soaking...

. Ode to the Zeer Across the Sahel states, the humble zeer, A pear-shaped or full-bellied earthen pot Strains muddy...

. Autumn Fades The orange leaves decay to crinkling gray, And sunsets sink and fade the clouds to black. “You’ll...

. Oversimplification What so many people tend to say or write, Reduces complex issues of today, To merely simple packages...

. The First Fallen Leaf A single leaf begins to fall. He wants to be the first of all. His...

. Hard To Tell With attributes that only those who know him understand, A countenance deceptive, and a being hard...

. It’s Only a Thought It’s only a thought to help pass the night, But what if our love should...

. Leave Above the land, suspended, green and grand and splendid, we furnish food for trees, whisper with the breeze...

. Tranquil Tokonoma One thing a perfect purple rose cannot Accomplish is a type of sadness.  Man Is best at...

. August Foraging “It’s hot, it’s dry. No fun outdoors; No fungi, flowers, foliage, fruit For us to eat where...

. Emergence A child within the chrysalis, __awaiting to emerge. __Fruition and desire, __hoping to converge. The years prove long...

. New Directions, or Deviations? by Joseph S. Salemi Many years ago I read an account of a discussion between Ezra...

. https://youtu.be/o4TS45A7KEM . Tools for Writing Classical Poetry ---adapted from the video by Andrew Benson Brown Do you want to...

. DoorWay Canto 7: Flight to The Eyrie In Canto 7, the narrating Pilgrim Poet deviates from the Zodiac, leaving...

. Patient in a Nursing Home Such a frantic brilliance in the flagpole’s banging chain! I’m blind, __confined, ____but now...

. The Worst of Our Convictions When, finally, the last church shuts its doors; when we run out of new...

. Epigrams . Bear in mind that whilst you’re sleeping Your enemies are busy scheming. . If you absorb everything...

. Phoebus I saw the sun catch in your hair, Your silhouette against the glare. I heard your laughter rise...

. Mainstream News "Just 7% of Americans have 'a great deal' of trust and confidence in the media, and 27%...

. An Invitation While treading my locality's __New-slathered pavement grass, There came a flying, loud "hello" __From sprightly Mr. Das....

. Across a Strong Bridge upon the marriage of two friends In a weary world that's grown quite old, Where...

. The Mannequins Are Melting The mannequins are melting as we speak Now that the summer heat wave's at its...

. Stolen Valor ---a poem in unheroic couplets Osama used his wives as human shields When being hunted down by...

. Hope Hope feels so strange these days, at times a bit Like something old that now no longer fits;...

. Mud Our clip-on angel wings are cast from shards of glass, The sorry hymns we sing are drowned in...

. The Web of Sustenance __Voraciously the lion feeds, But leaves the scraps for jackals and hyenas— __To each according...