‘The Recollected Dream’ by David Watt
. The Recollected Dream When midsummer rain is spearing From storm clouds darkest grey That provide no hint of clearing...
Read moreDetails. The Recollected Dream When midsummer rain is spearing From storm clouds darkest grey That provide no hint of clearing...
Read moreDetails. This photo comes to us from Joshua C. Frank of Texas. Write an ekphrastic poem based on it and...
Read moreDetails. What I Learned from Tolkien The darkness comes and all seems bleak and wrong, My calm is rent, right...
Read moreDetails. Milking the System We waited, we have waited, and we wait. Delays continue to increase the cost Of doing...
Read moreDetails. Illusion At times we can’t tell what we’re looking at. It could be this or else it could be that....
Read moreDetails. Carcassonne by Gustave Nadaud (1820-1893) Translated by Joshua C. Frank “At sixty years, I’m getting old, And I’ve been...
Read moreDetails. . The Night When most have fled the day and sought their beds Pre-empting stealthy onset of the night;...
Read moreDetails. StairWell Canto 10 extract 2 Context: In the 10th Canto of HellWard we met 4 poets condemned to Hell....
Read moreDetails. Wanton Wandering Winds Those wanton wandering winds, my darling fair, Whose western currents comb in several ways And lose...
Read moreDetails. Paracelsus Creating man demands not much: Combine the four base elements In right amounts; the lodestone’s touch At once...
Read moreDetails. To a Cloud You’re a pillow of marshmallow. You balloon and bob and billow As I sprawl beneath the willow __On the grass. You’re a swish of whitest feather....
Read moreDetails. Last Place Winner after winning the 30-34 age group with a last-place finish in a 5K Inhaling frozen oxygen,...
Read moreDetails. I. Lefties, in fact, are cool with using guns. Their Mayakovsky howled The floor is yours, Comrade Mauser! as they came...
Read moreDetails. Mid-September Reverie from the book Eternal Spring Moonbeams at midnight and frost on the pole; Wind in the willows...
Read moreDetails. The Odyssey Translator's Note: The Odyssey, Book 1, which exemplifies an essential feature of Homer's art as a storyteller,...
Read moreDetails. The Salt Spring Island Trolls I have a boat In Fulford Bay. She does not float To my dismay....
Read moreDetails. Obedience by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863) translated from Romanesco by Joseph S. Salemi It’s not true, Christians, what you...
Read moreDetails. An American Tragedy In his mind the purple walrus __mutated to a bat, its unstable form evolving __till it...
Read moreDetails. The Beginning of Wisdom Within the passing noon of our own life, I saw through woodlands dark and traces...
Read moreDetails. In Silence I Sing for those affected by the Mill Fire, September 2022 Uplifted to God as with wings...
Read moreDetails. The Adjudication “I weep for you,” the Walrus said: __“I deeply sympathise.” With sobs and tears he sorted out...
Read moreDetails. The Way of the World Some horrid truth seems now made manifest: __Some nothingness tucked in the human core...
Read moreDetails. The Morning’s Crest The morning’s crest is in its youth, The dawn has yet to lose a tooth, The...
Read moreDetails. Drunk on Compassion How good it feels to open up your heart And groove on how compassionate you are!...
Read moreDetails. For My Queen Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor April 21, 1926 - September 8, 2022 My symbol of nobility,...
Read moreDetails. The Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival, falls on Sept. 10 this year. A common tradition is to read riddles...
Read moreDetails. Capability Brown Lancelot “Capability” Brown was England’s greatest landscape architect. His name was Capability, A man of great humility,...
Read moreDetails. Who Shaves the Barber? shaves all those, and those only, who do not shave themselves. —Bertrand Russell The barber...
Read moreDetails. Cracked Liberty Bell July the 4th—Independence. Many bands play. Parades pass by— Fireworks fly. __Rocket’s red glare . ....
Read moreDetails. StairWell Canto 10 extract Context: In the 10th Canto of HellWard we met 4 poets condemned to Hell. Now...
Read moreDetails. In Plain Sight Our enemies aren’t rattling at the gate. Our foes aren’t firing shots from foreign ground. They toy...
Read moreDetails. Ozymandias Begins I met the monarch of our ancient land, who said, ‘Your skill at sculpting is renowned. The...
Read moreDetails. by Susan Jarvis Bryant This is a word of encouragement to all those poets out there who use their...
Read moreDetails. Summer Nocturne In steady, humming monotone, With synchronism the crickets drone, And hushedly through the night intone __Their evening...
Read moreDetails. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition Although this mad world’s headed for perdition, Don’t cower or wring hands...
Read moreDetails. Seminary Recalling days of vigor and simplicity, of boyish spirits spun from neural gossamer and hardened into granite by...
Read moreDetails. Food for Thought A Culinary Tale There once was a man wan and pallid, he Suffered from a mysterious...
Read moreDetails. "Yet, do thy worst old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young." ---William...
Read moreDetails. “Yet, do thy worst old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.” —William...
Read moreDetails. The One Standing Tall for the Poet's father The home is where he lives, his heart is full Of...
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