Two Summer Sonnets by James A. Tweedie
. Forever Nine My bare feet merge with weathered, knotty pineAs dripping swimsuit water cools the pier.The day belongs to...
Read moreDetails. Forever Nine My bare feet merge with weathered, knotty pineAs dripping swimsuit water cools the pier.The day belongs to...
Read moreDetails. The Great Legitimizer by Euphrates Moss Up from the barbaric yawp of Beowulf and routing through Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375),...
Read moreDetails. Putin That’s, I’m sure, a vampire: Gnaws on bones, bloody-lipped. —A. S. Pushkin. “Vurdalak,” Songs of Western Slavs (Это, верно, кости гложет Красногубый...
Read moreDetails. Graves “Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and have you rise...
Read moreDetails. Snowfall: Via Negativa “Less is more.” ---Literary Dictum Out on the highway, snow settles in place Covering the tracks...
Read moreDetails. Independence Day? a rondeau Some dared. Some died. With pluck and pride And guts and grit the brave defied...
Read moreDetails. To All Great Eagles Up on High To all great eagles up on high I hope you hear my...
Read moreDetails. Fourth of July Limerick Top left, there’s an oblong that’s blue; add in fifty stars, white in hue. To...
Read moreDetails. America Is Not the Same America is not the same. __I do not recognize it. We all know who...
Read moreDetails. Evra Our grandma Evra was a trifle difficult. If ever sound advice was needed she’d be there, But quiet,...
Read moreDetails. Adams Mountain I gather in from this high place, my shadow sprawled on shivered stone: Dusk drifts down: autumnal...
Read moreDetails. First Steps in a New World for Toribio Moras, age 14, Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1908 The young Castilian boy...
Read moreDetails. . This Silence. Foremost among my woes: _This silence as it grows, __My mind fatigued from listening for your...
Read moreDetails. Virgil Recalls Meeting Beatrice: Canto II of Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns . The light...
Read moreDetails. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 5 Parts I & II: Why Amanda Gorman Is Not a Poet...
Read moreDetails. La Campana Ring, grandfather! And ring for liberty. The bell spoke once and, speaking, croaked and cracked. Our gazes...
Read moreDetails. Miracle of the Book Distance was short, but porters would be needed, And sacks were packed with small necessities....
Read moreDetails. Incensed For days, drawn draperies of fire, pinned close by dry pines, needled us with smells of smoke so...
Read moreDetails. The Number 44: The Cookery Class Now, this is a tale of a cookery class; It happened in Battersea...
Read moreDetails. Le Bal Des Ardents for Joe Salemi On 28th January 1393 in Paris, Queen Isabeau of Bavaria, wife of...
Read moreDetails. Psalm 23: King David’s Version When I was just a hungry sheep __and I was lonely, lost and scared,...
Read moreDetails. Pillar of Salt “By the time Lot reached Zoar, the sun had risen over the land. Then the Lord...
Read moreDetails. As Orwell Warned The Right now gets censored to silence, While schools and the media teach, That speech from...
Read moreDetails. South Vietnam Warfare . Northern Jungle The rat-tat-tat of machine gun Split through the mist of morning sun. The...
Read moreDetails. The Adventures of Verb At six, I had a dictionary Where I would meet a man named Verb, Superb...
Read moreDetails. Darkface at Dusk "Death is swallowed up in victory" ---1 Cor. 15:4 At twilight, as I walked in solitude...
Read moreDetails. Even the 49ers Don’t Play There Anymore Is San Francisco slip-sliding away? Old Navy, Nordstrom, Saks, the Gap, have...
Read moreDetails. Job’s Rant Job 3: 3-10 . May darkness and death’s shadow claim the day When I was sent to...
Read moreDetails. In Extremis ---from the Western wilds Here at the most attenuated ends Of America’s arterial transport map, Where pavement...
Read moreDetails. This Is the Choice The gates of hell Closed from within. No one sends us--- We lock ourselves in....
Read moreDetails. The Deluge From Heaven came the rain; On Earth the waters swelled To wash away each stain The eyes...
Read moreDetails. Reviewed Book: Laughing Matters: Poems with a Wink and a Smile by James A. Tweedie, Duncrest Press, 2023 by...
Read moreDetails. Green I’m talking green: the greening ground Of spring and springing hope eternal; The spectrum’s hidden light unbound And...
Read moreDetails. Pharaoh’s Dream Redux “And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the...
Read moreDetails. The Gallows The trial was quick, the verdict read: “Guilty as charged,” the foreman said. The judge declared the...
Read moreDetails. The Straight-Fishing, Straight-Talking Jiang Ziya Far off in time and place but still on this small globe, By a...
Read moreDetails. Runway Ready An Anorectic at a Playground . Scrawny, lean and teen Miss Annie sat upon her bony fanny,...
Read moreDetails. Distant Thoughts from Nearby I need to turn my dog-ears up __and harken to the quietude ____ignored for many...
Read moreDetails. The House on 58th Street for my father Salvatore J. Salemi (1913-2008) The house on 58th Street stood right...
Read moreDetails. The Test The second is like it, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' —Jesus (Matthew 22:39, NASB1995) Is...
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