by Sultana Raza In April 1820, Keats was already aware that he had tuberculosis, and in spring of that year,...

Hummingbird Communion I watch them play at dawn of day, as molten gold is splashed their way, on feathers flecked...

Clarity and Obscurity Part III Read Part I: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Read Part II: "Concrete" Poetry...

  O do not chasten me with tales of fine __Fresh wells of wisdom and of warriors bold, __Or sacred...

  My Last Duchess The Duke of Ferrara recalls his last wife. by Robert Browning That's my last Duchess painted...

  I. The rats infesting Kathmandu Airport Appear to co-exist in peace with man And have, it seems, since local...

Edmund Spenser by Margaret Coats Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) wrote 121 sonnets of rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee, including 87...

  New York poet Joe Tessitore challenges poets to begin a poem with these words:   My country used to...

I Loved You... I loved you, and I probably still do, and for a while, the feeling may remain, But...

FIRST PLACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96xN0VV7JU The Virus and the Cure by Rob Crisell One hundred years of tyranny, One hundred years of...

all poems by Bruce Dale Wise   The Pilot by Air Weelbed Suc I saw him flying overhead, a pilot...

  https://youtu.be/bYg-ITiEEyM   "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud," also known as "Daffodils," the poem by former British Poet Laureate...

  The Transatlantic Serpent’s Tale Do you recall the time when I was born? A time of ferment---Honest Abe was...

Better Stock Than You after Henry Lawson’s "Prouder Man Than You" by Beverly Stock Your tome of pride be shattered,...

The Argument: The Poet, having escaped the HellWard of European and corrupt politicians, emerges into the penultimate HellWard depth where...

  Tennyson thought it better “to have loved and lost, than…” Well, you know the rest. Of course this begs...

St. Piran (Feast Day: March 5) A rhupunt Irish heathens, Unbelieving, Strapped poor Piran To a stone then Rolled him...

  In the midst of free-verse critics’ Smug, inchoate analytics __Seasoned with self-righteous pedantry, There are poets who are striving...

  Dear Governor, by C.B. Anderson Reopen every workplace, pretty please; Your "cure" has proven worse than the disease. Your...

  Oxford "University"? Its preference now: diversity. The Homers, Ovids, Virgils--- Now peanuts for the squirrels! This "school" now gives...

  Spring Snow Tyrant Winter reaches __Beyond its frozen tomb, Dares cast its icy mantle __On bud and crocus-bloom. Long...

Deep Regrets Dedicated to the memory of the 118 men of the Russian submarine Kursk, which exploded and sank in...

  The Onus of Vernal Duty Surrounding fields and woods unfreeze, The air once more is filled with light, As...

Due to the unprecedented circumstances regarding the CCP virus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Symposium has been moved online. The details of...

  Donald J. Trump They laugh at him and sneer as if his lack Of faith in modernism’s unholy gods...

  It takes patience to learn patience; It takes courage to be brave. One must first find mental freedom To...

  Vermont in April doesn’t seem to know quite how to dress. She thinks she ought to wear bright, flowery...

We meet Diomedes, the Greek hero of Troy, trapped in a flame with Odysseus in Canto 26 of Dante’s Inferno....

  Winter's Breath The sudden chill of winter's sigh Caresses me when autumn flees. My meager warmth she tries to...

"Winner: Humanitarian Award" Mugabe’s universally adored. He made his people multi-millionaires--- Zim dollars are the answer to their prayers. Champion...

  They march in an imaginary parade, All of the dear ones I have ever known, Relatives, friends, impressively arrayed,...

  The Back-to-Work Protesters Limerick by Mark F. Stone Our minders with power and pensions can rob our hopes, while...

  Beyond His Ken based on a true story The plane was in the skies above Beijing When, let us...

  That day a dark, vermillion, winter sky, like a Turner water-colour, was seen reflected in an old pond where,...

  For England & St. George In praise let’s raise our flagons to the conqueror of dragons to the Saint...

  Golf My friends love golf so much But I do not share the allure. There’re many other ways for...

  The statue stands and holds aloft her torch, the Kalahari moon, the Northern Star. A lantern glimmers on a...

Earth Day 2020 Poet's Note: April 22 is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Earth Day is an annual celebration...

  Seven skulls sit side-by-side atop the wall of Erringtide. Their salted sockets watch the wide expanse of waves within...

  The empty sonnet frame’s a puzzle box into whose elaborate maze ideas are dropped. They press its walls and...