‘Contagious Joy’ and Other Valentine’s Day Poetry by James A. Tweedie
. Contagious Joy a villanelle You always find a way to make me smile. Like sunlight tracing rainbows in the...
Read moreDetails. Contagious Joy a villanelle You always find a way to make me smile. Like sunlight tracing rainbows in the...
Read moreDetails. Vintage Love Love is as a grape when it begins, Unblemished by the bruises and the sins That will...
Read moreDetails. When? I’ll love you when the bee has lost its buzz, When wolf and bear have quit their howl...
Read moreDetails. . February 14, 2024 A heart of burning love, an ashen cross Converge today: the marriage of two kinds...
Read moreDetails. Ash Wednesday Valentines by Charles d’Orléans (1394-1465), translated by Margaret Coats . I. Who’s there? Who comes so early,...
Read moreDetails. I Am the Stone I am the stone The humble stone the barefoot shepherd boy Selected from the muddy...
Read moreDetails. The Southern Cross The caravels escaped at last The roiling tides of Bojador And entered tropic seas far past...
Read moreDetails. Off Switch My brain hurt every time I thought, so then I thought “I’d rather not.” I found the...
Read moreDetails. . Nocturnal Litany I “From all malevolence the night employs….” ---James Agee, “Epithalamium” . From all malevolence the night...
Read moreDetails. Love Sonnet The glint of summer’s evening leaves a glow upon her cheek, so soft and plain and fair—...
Read moreDetails. The Austrian Non Placet Comes in Time (Recess at the papal conclave in Rome, August 1903. One cardinal speaks...
Read moreDetails. The Monster Geryon: Canto XVII of Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns “Behold the stinger...
Read moreDetails. The Screaming Screed and Stench Sister Cindy, Brother Jed, Before the cellphone, rumor spread, "They're speaking on the Common,...
Read moreDetails. Ode to a Dodo inspired by Paul A. Freeman’s "Paradise Island" O tragic fowl of cataclysmic fate, Your magic...
Read moreDetails. Babel There was a time when all the world one tongue Among its peoples shared, and language preened Itself...
Read moreDetails. How Septuagenarian’s Cope Past seventy. Age does prevail. __The day is growing dim. I’ve managed through life’s calms and...
Read moreDetails. . I See Dead People Don’t tell me that my mind’s no longer keen And that I should be...
Read moreDetails. . . What Happened to Great Poetry? by Andrew Benson Brown When was the last time you sat down...
Read moreDetails. Bedtime Stories in triolets He’d curl her close and hold her tight and let the words dance in the...
Read moreDetails. Proof of Climate Change The proof of existential crisis climate change is seen In too much snow, too little...
Read moreDetails. Paradise Island Some years ago, from cliff top and from shore,a flock of birds that never touched the skylooked...
Read moreDetails. The Knitted Dress I began with the best of intentions, Though in hindsight I have to confess, That the...
Read moreDetails. My Beatrice III Affording still these glimpses like the first, those moments you were yet without a name; between...
Read moreDetails. A Musical Offering When Bach arrived at Sanssouci, King Frederick said, “Sir, you must be tired. My fortepianos may...
Read moreDetails. The Fall of Time A Haiku Sonnet . Thinning coat of frost Whitening the ground with grief— Love forever...
Read moreDetails. Off Guard Coyotes drag their quarry past the line Drawn in the sand to stop the ghastly game Of...
Read moreDetails. A Temporary Exhibit A million drops of water will be sprayed Across my yard today. And each of them...
Read moreDetails. Masks When tourists arrive in our village, The question that most of them ask, Is, “Why is it all...
Read moreDetails. Left Outside The shopping cart, precisely ordered now while searching for those perfect little lines of lights for decorations---anyhow,...
Read moreDetails. Sunshine Sun, shine on me—come and stay! Dry my tears, send gloom away. Warm my soul, chilled to the...
Read moreDetails. Gawain’s Prayer in the Wilderness …the wildrenesse of Wyrale; wonde ther bot lyte That auther God other gome with...
Read moreDetails. Had I held you in the fields of Hay beside The Wye and on an afternoon that cleared To...
Read moreDetails. In a Home based on Michael Bunker’s grandmother (b. 1909) as described in his book Surviving Off Off-Grid ....
Read moreDetails. The Best Poems of 2023: Winners of the 12th Annual SCP International Poetry Competition Judges Joseph S. Salemi, James...
Read moreDetails. First Place ($200 Prize) "A Star" John Freeborn, Logos Online School, 12th grade student in Concordia, Kansas. . Second...
Read moreDetails. A Wing-stroked Spectacle Segmented sets of starlings sharply elevate towards candescent skies, suspend, then circulate in sync. Their wingspans...
Read moreDetails. A Pro Who Can Con “Truth” is whatever will further the movement. You’re “credible” if you are telling the...
Read moreDetails. A Blanket of Snow from childhood memories of the blizzard of 1949 on a farm near Bonesteel, South Dakota....
Read moreDetails. Unshackling the Spirit I toss and turn at night. I wonder why I’m here. But then with dawn the...
Read moreDetails. Once the Future You were the future once, not long ago. Your sterile walls of concrete, brick, and glass...
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