‘With Boots On’ and Other Poetry by Lionel Willis
. With Boots On Soon after break of day an old man comes Trudging along the thawing roads of Cottage...
Read moreDetails. With Boots On Soon after break of day an old man comes Trudging along the thawing roads of Cottage...
Read moreDetails. All Out of Hope I am right here, Lord All out of hope. What of me now, Lord? End...
Read moreDetails. Is form in poetry making a comeback? It is according to the BBC. In this BBC podcast series, aspiring...
Read moreDetails. The Chained Oak This tale concerns the fifteenth Earl of Shrewsbury, A member of the English aristocracy. With mighty...
Read moreDetails. . Shhh… Shanghai trembles at the edge of hell As horror wafts and weaves its way through streets. The moon...
Read moreDetails. One Afternoon One hot Arabian afternoon a boom reverberated through my flat and woke my napping wife and children;...
Read moreDetailsJudges Angela Alaimo O’Donnell James Sale . OVERALL WINNER . Papa’s Commedia by Nicholas Walz That was hellish—the hulking chopper...
Read moreDetails. Easter Monday Luke 24: 13 – 35 With hearts eclipsed by Friday’s three-day night And eyes still blinded to...
Read moreDetails. The Prince of Peace He braved each gouging lash and bruising blow Till scourged and bludgeoned flesh was raw...
Read moreDetails. Easter 2022 In silence, night retires with a yawn— Its starlit labor blessed by God’s, “Well done.” And as...
Read moreDetails. Sunrise at the Hollywood Bowl A sleepy son, a father who mourned still. Their first time greeting Easter since...
Read moreDetails. Hymn to Aurora 1 Aurora, rise and cast your curls Of daybreak through the vapor swirls To drape my...
Read moreDetails. Support the Current Thing Don’t ponder on the horrors of our age. Don’t thumb through all those dusty history...
Read moreDetails. Via Dolorosa for those who have suffered abuse. Where does one go to forget? Where does one go to...
Read moreDetails. Sepulcher Jerusalem is built of prayer and quarried stone, From yearning, heartache, sacred scrolls and ancient bone--- The shuls,...
Read moreDetails. Annunciation It’s not really an angel but a voice, Less heard than sensed, an urgent undertone That murmurs in...
Read moreDetails. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Classical Poets Student Edition Adapted by Evan Mantyk to retain the meaning...
Read moreDetails. Rendering Ruins A barn abandoned, left to drift alone, wind torn and breached upon the reef of time; fields,...
Read moreDetails. Tomorrow’s Poets by Enrique González Martínez (1871-1952) translated by Cheryl Corey Tomorrow’s poets will sing beyond all praise In...
Read moreDetails. https://youtu.be/PguXX2PRzvI . CREDITS Poetry: Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) Voice-Over: Katy Mantyk Photos/Footage: “Unveiling the Statue of Liberty Enlightening...
Read moreDetails. The Flowers' Easter Debate Palm Sunday is the Flowers’ Easter, the day when they honored Jesus Christ entering Jerusalem....
Read moreDetails. https://youtu.be/LllN9NflfR8 . Lost Song A compass that won’t point the way, And a map of the faraway skies… I...
Read moreDetails. A Clamshell in Concrete I was a child in kindergarten class. My mother held my hand as we trod...
Read moreDetails. Ode to Spring I see you in the rut of butting rams. __I hear you in the chirruping of...
Read moreDetails. Parallel Man As I was going to the fair, I met a man with silver hair. The more I...
Read moreDetails. Slivered Moon Slivered moon on slippers slides Across the skies on silver tides, Draping cobwebs over trees And coaxing...
Read moreDetails. Love’s Seasons In the heat of the night, when conditions are right, __Gentle lovers will cuddle and spoon. It’s...
Read moreDetails. Birdbrains a villanelle “When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.” ---Carter...
Read moreDetails. (See an explanation on what Sibyls are here.) . The Tyburtine Sibyl The Tyburtine sibyl has the iconographic attribute...
Read moreDetails. Uncle Sam's Tomb after Samuel Coleridge's "The Knight's Tomb" (see below) Where will the grave of that great figurehead...
Read moreDetails. Woman For years I’ve known exactly what it means To own the weight and wonder of my sex--- The...
Read moreDetails. The Short-Lived Triumph of the Junior School's Health & Safety Officer The children wait in line to sanitize Their...
Read moreDetails. He Catches When We Fall! Of all life’s mysteries, The deepest of them all--- Not how high we've risen...
Read moreDetails. Sleep Now the hour has come to lay me down Upon the waters of the river Lethe, To float...
Read moreDetails. Share your poetry on currently unfolding Russo-Ukrainian war in the comments section below. We received a large response on...
Read moreDetails. The Simplest Way to Save the Earth The simplest way for us to save the earth Would be for...
Read moreDetails. The Hypodermic For a poet, the pen is merely part Of the apparatus of addiction. He emulates the frozen...
Read moreDetails. Quarantined Against the wind, our candles out, The smoke will rise, we have no doubt, Yet in the dark...
Read moreDetails. Where Wonders Remain Snow crowns violet mountains that reign over trees, __Whose forests stand verdant and old; It ends...
Read moreDetails. https://rumble.com/embed/vvm2wt/?pub=4 . Identity Crisis I used to think my body was all woman, My fruitful womb refused to be...
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