. Red Flags a sestina sonnet The national flags of the Westerners’ lands Turn red in the dim, fading light...

. Target If you’re too young to take a marriage vow, Stuck at an awkward age that won’t allow A dizzy dose...

. True Grit My favourite movie? If I must decide, I'd pick a classic western above all, those epic films...

. Some Satirical Epigrams in hendecasyllabics (essentially trochaic pentameter with a dactyl for the second foot) . Complaint to a...

. The Odd, Flawed and Awed Inspired by “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Canadian poet Robert W. Service If...

. Remorseless Back on 19, returning from the lake, Where she had stowed sling chairs for next week’s meet, Her...

. Butterfly Habit Ungainly butterfly, Misdirected flight. Fascinating random, Unpredictable delight. To and fro… up and down And backwards if...

. Beatrice and the Ineffable Smile: Canto XXIII of Paradise by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns Just as...

. On Second Thought When words fail, __perhaps it’s not the words at all, __but hobbled minds that cannot call...

. Behind the Cathedral Master masons made these bastions their own by blending crafts, attaining structural awe; from Notre Dame,...

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. Cain’s Daughter I was not in the garden when the veil of beauty tore I heard no serpent beckon...

. Abyss  In deepest, darkest depths of my despair I find myself without a saving grace. A pendulum of pain...

. Poems from 'The Still Beloved' ('La Amada Inmóvil') by Amado Nervo (1870-1919) translated from the Spanish by Alan Steinle...

. A Poetic Heretic’s Poetry Tips a villanelle inspired by Dr. Salemi's essay "Poetry As The Philosophers Stone" Don’t listen...

. Reviewed Book: Seven Poems by Jacob Balde (Translated by Karl Maurer) Cooper and Posey, 2023 by Monika Cooper In...

. La Corona A childhood scene recalled by Trump of his mother, Mary MacLeod Trump, in The Art of the...

. Matters of Class . Saying hello The modest o’s the most polite of letters; But is he facing up today...

. Below is the SCP Journal XI Introduction written by lead editor and SCP co-founder Evan Mantyk. After the Introduction...

. Rhymeless in Manama My UK friend said, “Rhyme is old, you need to venture free and bold.” My Turkish...

. Canyon de Chelly Reflections of a Non-Native Visitor . An updraft from the red-rock canyon floor Blows through the...

. So Much for Legitimate Women's Sports Vladimir Gonzales, a young Italian athlete, With 28 inch biceps and a 68...

. Spring’s Here! It’s sprung in the branches and springs home to me, It soars through the sap and the...

. Bach's Amazing Journey In the autumn of 1705, when Johann Sebastian Bach was 20, he set out to travel...

. The Garbageman Adrift amid a world that’s lost all rhyme, Where reason reels from first degree assault, It’s little...

. The Power of One You think that you're alone. There's nothing to be done. But I say, "You have...

. Newness a sonnet corona for Doris   I watch you view the newness of your world. Your widened eyes are...

. The Ballad of the Heroic Mother a true story A toddler into water fell __And sank as quick as...

. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 2: Fake Poets and Hollow Prestige . Audio version available here:...

. FIRST PLACE . Tooth and Claw a pantoum by Susan Jarvis Bryant Observe the tooth and claw of savage deed. Beware the ferric...

. Poetry As The Philosophers’ Stone by Joseph S. Salemi The alchemical art, though long in disrepute, is nevertheless of...

. The Devil Comes to Buckingham from Legends of Liberty: Volume 2 One day as Britons cheered their sovereign’s sight,...

. On the Divine Mercy Seven times the just man falls, and rises again. ---Proverbs 24:16 by Eustache Deschamps (1346-1406)...

. Land and Lake and Sky Here standing by the margin of a lake, I look into its waters, cool...

. Why Can’t I Marry My Pit Bull? Why can’t I marry my pit bull? He’d make an incredible spouse,...

. September 9th 1901… A September evening in old Paris town, The time when Parisians let their hair down. There’s...

. Ode to the Turnip Oh, turnip! You’re a vegetable maligned, suggestive of a drunk’s empurpled nose. Baked, or boiled,...

. Bend in the River In looking back, a moment since it seems, the river ran, a fawn, leaping, cavorting;...

. Poet, What Dreamer Thou Art  "I feel more and more every day, that as my imagination strengthens, that I...

. The Shortfalls of Empirical Knowledge Sorry, Iowa. Each night is different from all previous And therefore not the same...