‘Herman the Cripple’: A Poem by Margaret Coats
. Herman the Cripple A body helpless in deformity Was mine, though loving parents carried me Full seven years in...
Read moreDetails. Herman the Cripple A body helpless in deformity Was mine, though loving parents carried me Full seven years in...
Read moreDetails. Go Woke, Go Broke Sports Illustrated’s prize was doing great. Big bucks each year from the swimsuit edition. But...
Read moreDetails. The Dead They’re pretty but the dopamine Has hollowed out their pale blue eyes. They sit there, staring, silent,...
Read moreDetails. And Yet We Wash Our Hands When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, butthat instead an uproar was...
Read moreDetails. Music by Jeff Eardley . Look Homeward, Sweet Afton after Robert Burns Look homeward, Sweet Afton, back to thy...
Read moreDetails. Book Reviewed: What Was and Is---Formal Poetry and Free Verse, by Theresa Werba, Bardsinger Books, April 2024 by James...
Read moreDetails. FIRST PLACE . Free to Be the PRC by James A. Tweedie According to the PRC’s unwritten protocol,To be...
Read moreDetails. Rosella My Lone Star mother beams a summer smile As golden as the sun-hugged coastal plains. In snake-proof boots...
Read moreDetails. A Mother’s Day Sonnet I hope you have a happy Mother’s Day And take a moment out to feel...
Read moreDetails. S.W.A.M.P. Soulless, Warped, And Monstrous People look at us as smelly “sheeple.” Easily manipulated. Otherwise, we’re mocked and hated....
Read moreDetails. Hookerville School Built just before the Civil War, employed till twenty-nine, This one-room school that stands today withstood the...
Read moreDetails. Orpheus We want the heroes back so we can learn: Herakles smashed his way to hell and stormed By...
Read moreDetails. 10/7/2023 More than one has risen up against us to destroy us. Rather, in every generation they rise against...
Read moreDetails. All Aboard! a pantoum He’s pumped and ripe to ride the gravy train. He’s armed with cheese and charm...
Read moreDetails. Epicure's Delight A wondrous day, my love, is this— An afternoon of utter bliss! The two of us alone...
Read moreDetails. On Scotland Police were inundated with over 7,000 calls in the first week following the passage of Scotland’s Hate...
Read moreDetails. To a Beet I sing the bristled hedgehog grainno horticulture can explain,with six sly seedlings in its brain:__the unborn...
Read moreDetails. When Less Is More An SCP Poetry Challenge by James A. Tweedie In a recent email exchange with a...
Read moreDetails. The Cropland Though coins, good health, and victualsAre mortal man's essentials,I pray for great fertilityOf that arable land in...
Read moreDetails. A Curse Against a Thief from the Carmina Burana Let the thief who stole my cap be by death...
Read moreDetails. A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part II: The First Reader by Daniel Kemper Keith stands up semi-gracefully in...
Read moreDetails. Truth Is Not Beauty “What is the worst mistake you ever made in bed?” Reply: “My son.” (Actual dialogue...
Read moreDetails. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR0MktU78bA . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His epic-in-progress, Legends of...
Read moreDetails. A Divine Mistake? Dear Father up in Heaven, Why create thou rats. Six times out of seven They even...
Read moreDetails. The Sultan’s Aging Son Recalls the Hippo Hunt “The Hippopotamus Hunt” by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1615-1616 “The sultan...
Read moreDetails. Overkill K.I.S.S. ("Keep it simple, stupid.") My heart enflamed with rapture, burned With passionate desire; yearned For her and...
Read moreDetails. Bridgerton’s DEI vs. Historicity They sacrifice true historicity, So DEI trumps authenticity. But Bridgerton and Netflix, they don’t care,...
Read moreDetails. Reservoir Those who can still see through accreting years Are getting scarce, those who can lift such veil To...
Read moreDetails. Carmen by Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) translated by Bruce Phenix Carmen is thin—a dark-brown line Of bistre rings her gipsy...
Read moreDetails. The Society of Classical Poets Journal XII has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those...
Read moreDetails. Easter Evening Appearance Luke 24 Sealed up within my upper room, Absorbed by morbid discontent And fear, I questioned...
Read moreDetails. May Songs . I. Where does loyalty take its rest? Where is charity’s portraiture, Except in you, sweet virgin...
Read moreDetails. Some Can't See the Beauty Some can’t see the beauty in __A flower or a tree. I call them...
Read moreDetails. The Cartographer of Neverland inspired by a Qatar funded-map, in a Brooklyn public school, that erases Israel I’m late,...
Read moreDetails. Throughout American Academies One hears throughout American academies a strainthat is at once belligerent, intolerant, and strange.It drips with...
Read moreDetails. Lie Low, Jew! Echoes and Irony The Hamas flags are raised on London streets By swarms that seethe with scorn...
Read moreDetails. Third-Degree Burns A young poet who came from Dundee Looked around him and then took a knee, __For the...
Read moreDetails. If I Have Gone To Sleep If I depart in early sleep__And cease to be with you,My thoughts I'd...
Read moreDetails. How Many Wrongs Make a Right? The left rights wrongs by doing wrong, but wrongs so fixed don’t stay...
Read moreDetails. On Student Protestations They protest on behalf of Gaza from afar— Why won’t they do the same regarding Myanmar?...
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