‘Lockdown’ by Caitlin Venniker
. Lockdown The day sprawls wider than a yawn, a mouth that sucks a ticking clock, a door that lets...
Read moreDetails. Lockdown The day sprawls wider than a yawn, a mouth that sucks a ticking clock, a door that lets...
Read moreDetails. Sonnetized “Why poetry?” My chair leans in his chair And slides me a sabbatical-swelled smirk. The past nine months...
Read moreDetails. Living The Dream “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their...
Read moreDetails. Martin Luther King, Jr. Meets Today’s Left How would the Left see Dr. King Just what reaction would they...
Read moreDetails. I Grieve Bleak Streets I grieve bleak streets where handguns reign in terror Daring inner-city residents To duck and...
Read moreDetails. Let It Bleed My family believes a puzzle piece is missing, that it’s me and if they snap it...
Read moreDetails. A Truthful Triolet I want the truth. I want to trust The words that trip from lips that lied....
Read moreDetails. Obsession an Alfred Dorn sonnet As candles gently glow in amber light The picture centered high upon the wall...
Read moreDetails. Caring Now, while Winter’s noisy emptiness moans In the flue, Dearest, look out at all these Somberly unimpatient silent...
Read moreDetails. Civis Romanus Sum (I am a Roman citizen) As Paul stood bound and for the whip outstretched, He said...
Read moreDetails. The Spirit of the Anti-Mary a poem in honor of Our Lady of Gualalupe in reparation for the crime...
Read moreDetails. The Artist Intuitive journey, subconscious creations refuse to diffuse while the muse makes the choice to infuse mystic magic...
Read moreDetails. The Lost The fog rolled heavy, down to blunt the day, Sharp skyscraper tops dissolved into the gray. Pale...
Read moreDetails. Limerick China’s footballers haven’t a clue why they can’t go and get a tattoo, but I think it might...
Read moreDetails. The A-bomb Dome in Hiroshima The epicentre of the blast was here, This dome, its empty ribcage gaunt and...
Read moreDetails. The View from Space My helmet gone, I float among the stars As weightless as my lungs deprived of...
Read moreDetails. Fleet of Foot Pheidippides A Grecian runner named Pheidippides, From Athens, ran to Sparta with a plea. “We need...
Read moreDetails. https://youtu.be/RMcLVFNbueY . Complete poem text here. CREDITSPoetry: Alan Nordstrom (1939-)Audio/Visual Work: Society of Classical PoetsVoice-Over: Evan MantykPhotos/Footage:“Milky Way with...
Read moreDetails. Cascading Nation Now not so much a nation as a place for pushing through a bruit cacophony of cultures...
Read moreDetails. Sadness Has Silent Feet Sorrow comes on softened steps, __But joy leaps madly in. Where is she with the...
Read moreDetails. St. Joseph’s Admonition Forget yourself, and do what’s right, Remember how you gained your sight, So do not pause...
Read moreDetails. It’s Coming for You! It’s coming to devour you, you know. There’s no escape no matter where you go....
Read moreDetails. The Ninth Day of the Emperor's Wrath a rondeau redoublé The stadium roared at the end of the fight....
Read moreDetails. Good Conscience Under our cauls a sleepless giber lurks, A callous judge of all our selfish smirks Who slices...
Read moreDetails. Sonnet by José de Espronceda (1808-1842) | translated from Spanish by Adam Sedia Fresh, lush, pure, and perfumed luxuriantly, The...
Read moreDetails. https://youtu.be/dYyxThEY71o . An Excerpt from The Western Star for Epiphany, January 6, 2022 The road stretched out forever in...
Read moreDetails. Annuary Stichs Jamesian intricacies swarmed about the voter-counts; a massive fraud had taken place beyond the lovely mounts. Nobody...
Read moreDetails. There are a number of ways to go wrong in poetry. Unfortunately, the Poetry Establishment is only willing to...
Read moreDetails. The Language of Hope The heart forbids the mind to let it go; __Extinguished love has deeper scars, __The...
Read moreDetails. Reviewed Book: A Thing With Feathers, by J. John Nordstrom, independently published, 2021 by Andrew Benson Brown A Thing...
Read moreDetails. Forever Faun In mottled shade of forest stood a faunSo still he seemed to be no living thing;The sun...
Read moreDetails. Unprofitable Servant Bergoglio clarifies his views on the Latin Mass A treasure was mine, but it’s too long ago...
Read moreDetails. Meditations on Ecclesiastes . Inquiry “What profit has a man for all his labor…?” ---Ecclesiastes 1: 3 None knows...
Read moreDetails. The Dark Knight I’ve always held the Queen in high esteem, Her ever-classy, never brassy aura Shines noble splendour...
Read moreDetails. So It Is Written The books that I have owned for many years, Still sitting on my shelves or...
Read moreDetails. Introduction In a second-hand bookshop, located in the French Quarter (New Orleans), I discovered a poetry book by Margaret...
Read moreDetails. Last Christmas I’d rushed there through the afternoon In someone else’s borrowed car Where you, distressed I’d come too...
Read moreDetails. “Lud's Church" or “The Green Chapel” after Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I travel to this place each...
Read moreDetails. For Auld Lang Syne Each New Year’s Day is like a colander Through which we strain and drain away...
Read moreDetails. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4HH4MeT9Mo . Read the complete poem here: https://staging.classicalpoets.org/2013/12/12/two-psalms/#/ CREDITS Poetry: Evan Mantyk (b. 1982) Audio/Visual Work: Society of Classical...
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