. With what perfection are the seasons spun; When we grow tired of the opulent sun, A wind from the...

. A Box of Chocolates is like Life: (That Mrs. Gump she got it right.) You  never know just what you’ll get,...

. Nature's Magic Some say that there is magic in the night,but it holds no more marvels than the day.The...

. Ode to Hidden Splendor I heard your rolling croon beyond my vision Blooming in the balm of winter’s breeze--- A thrilling spill of crystalline precision Amid the Spanish moss draped...

. The candlelight was dim and spare And Claire was there, lost in prayer And slightly swaying to and fro...

. O, how I wish I could write about pandas, Cute, bamboo-shoot-eating, black and white pandas. Furry and cuddly like...

. The Parting of the Sea Salvation in the parting of the Sea, Its churning waves pierced by a knife...

. The Bibliophile’s Birth Certificate Marius Michel (1846-1925) was one of the most prominent and gifted bookbinders in France. He...

. “And when I see the blood, I will pass over you.” ---Exodus 12:13 As you have commanded, the blood...

. “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” ---Robert Frost An Essay by Adam Sedia To many in...

. The path he takes this early day Is dressed in dew and straws of hay. The morning mist obscures...

. The fire roars and spits within the square Blazing angry red. The rabble looks With savage joy; their whooping...

. Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary?  When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long...

. A kangaroo visiting from Australia beholds the kangaroo court attempting to impeach President Trump for the second time and,...

. Grain If the future were a famine And tomorrow were a blight, Would we close our eyes today in...

I went to my first opera when I was six years old. My mother took me to the world premiere...

inspired by the late John Whitworth’s “The Examiners”  Through the burst of youth and giggles in the balm of budding...

. A touch of wit is worth its writ in gold. We miss you, John, for being ever bold. You...

. “That must have been some cup of coffee!” ---Charles Ellik The coffee spins and I am not the same....

. Memories frozen in pinnacles glow, tattooed in lingering beauty and sorrow now fade by the light of forgotten tomorrows...

. The night before, old furniture And scrap wood set afire Smoke out the winter’s wickedness— An equinoctial pyre Of...

. The Second Roman Empire Those were the days, when Julius Caesar Saw a country and would seize her, And...

. Every one of us makes “To-Do” lists to help us on the way So we won’t forget the many...

. This Brave American, Ashli Babbitt “It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.” —Sophocles, “Antigone”...

. Lenin It’s late. He walks the lonely corridor in this part of the Kremlin with his cat hammocked in...

. “Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.” ---Heinrich Heine  There is diction to spurn...

. A little argument and then they hurt; These liberals are so coy and sensitive. They think they know all...

. Borealis Where Ursa Minor spins about its tail The cold-chill, sabled void of arctic nights Bestirs to life as...

. Lives There the Man after “Breathes There a Man with Soul so Dead” by Sir Walter Scott* by Roy...

. Jelly Guts Rule The book, we’ve been apprised, is most uncool— Young Marco and the farmer by the pool,...

. Oh hail the master puppeteer, Controller of the strings. The altruistic engineer, Sagaciousness he brings. With breathtaking dexterity, He...

. Around the rearview mirror of my car There hangs a gonfalon of love divine. My talisman, my bright and...

. I watched as the convening mist rose twisting through the trees; It changed gray shapes and silhouettes, and shattered...

. Advice from Dante “If you hear nostrums* in the market cried, Behave like men, and not like witless sheep.”...

. . Kismet If I'd been younger, or you not so old, Or we'd met at a different time and...

. I heard the harvested remains Of infants coursing through my veins Will save me from the Wuhan Flu--- I’m...

. Bang! “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”---This...

. Girolamo Savonarola Here we are at circus, you and me and all the others, facing each and every way...

. between friends of 40+ years “Just what about Obama don’t you like?” “I fear his plans will force a...

 . This silver-furred yogi of how to stay fit,  This bespectacled guru of health,  Is a growly voiced sage of nefarious wit;  A hoodwinking...