. The Recollected Dream When midsummer rain is spearing From storm clouds darkest grey That provide no hint of clearing...

. This photo comes to us from Joshua C. Frank of Texas. Write an ekphrastic poem based on it and...

. What I Learned from Tolkien The darkness comes and all seems bleak and wrong, My calm is rent, right...

. Milking the System We waited, we have waited, and we wait. Delays continue to increase the cost Of doing...

. Illusion At times we can’t tell what we’re looking at. It could be this or else it could be that....

. Carcassonne by Gustave Nadaud (1820-1893) Translated by Joshua C. Frank “At sixty years, I’m getting old, And I’ve been...

. . The Night When most have fled the day and sought their beds Pre-empting stealthy onset of the night;...

. StairWell Canto 10 extract 2 Context: In the 10th Canto of HellWard we met 4 poets condemned to Hell....

. Wanton Wandering Winds Those wanton wandering winds, my darling fair, Whose western currents comb in several ways And lose...

. Paracelsus Creating man demands not much: Combine the four base elements In right amounts; the lodestone’s touch At once...

. 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....

. Last Place Winner after winning the 30-34 age group with a last-place finish in a 5K Inhaling frozen oxygen,...

. I. Lefties, in fact, are cool with using guns. Their Mayakovsky howled The floor is yours, Comrade Mauser! as they came...

. Mid-September Reverie from the book Eternal Spring Moonbeams at midnight and frost on the pole; Wind in the willows...

. The Odyssey Translator's Note: The Odyssey, Book 1, which exemplifies an essential feature of Homer's art as a storyteller,...

. The Salt Spring Island Trolls I have a boat In Fulford Bay. She does not float To my dismay....

. Obedience by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863) translated from Romanesco by Joseph S. Salemi It’s not true, Christians, what you...

. An American Tragedy In his mind the purple walrus __mutated to a bat, its unstable form evolving __till it...

. The Beginning of Wisdom Within the passing noon of our own life, I saw through woodlands dark and traces...

. In Silence I Sing for those affected by the Mill Fire, September 2022 Uplifted to God as with wings...

. The Adjudication “I weep for you,” the Walrus said: __“I deeply sympathise.” With sobs and tears he sorted out...

. The Way of the World Some horrid truth seems now made manifest: __Some nothingness tucked in the human core...

. The Morning’s Crest The morning’s crest is in its youth, The dawn has yet to lose a tooth, The...

. Drunk on Compassion How good it feels to open up your heart And groove on how compassionate you are!...

. For My Queen Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor April 21, 1926 - September 8, 2022 My symbol of nobility,...

. The Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival, falls on Sept. 10 this year. A common tradition is to read riddles...

. Capability Brown Lancelot “Capability” Brown was England’s greatest landscape architect. His name was Capability, A man of great humility,...

. Who Shaves the Barber? shaves all those, and those only, who do not shave themselves.  —Bertrand Russell The barber...

. Cracked Liberty Bell July the 4th—Independence. Many bands play. Parades pass by— Fireworks fly. __Rocket’s red glare . ....

. StairWell Canto 10 extract Context: In the 10th Canto of HellWard we met 4 poets condemned to Hell. Now...

. In Plain Sight Our enemies aren’t rattling at the gate. Our foes aren’t firing shots from foreign ground. They toy...

. Ozymandias Begins I met the monarch of our ancient land, who said, ‘Your skill at sculpting is renowned. The...

. by Susan Jarvis Bryant This is a word of encouragement to all those poets out there who use their...

. Summer Nocturne In steady, humming monotone, With synchronism the crickets drone, And hushedly through the night intone __Their evening...

. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition  Although this mad world’s headed for perdition, Don’t cower or wring hands...

. Seminary Recalling days of vigor and simplicity, of boyish spirits spun from neural gossamer and hardened into granite by...

. Food for Thought A Culinary Tale There once was a man wan and pallid, he Suffered from a mysterious...

. "Yet, do thy worst old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young." ---William...

. “Yet, do thy worst old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.” —William...

. The One Standing Tall for the Poet's father The home is where he lives, his heart is full Of...