As a Shadow
Wayne sat on a plastic chair, t-shirt blood-spattered, blade- ripped halfway down the front, left eye swollen shut, soon to blossom with...
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By David B. Gosselin
- 12 hours ago
- 19 min
The Second Snake: A Dialogue Featuring Adam and Eve
Listen to the full dialogue here. Many years had passed since Adam and Eve took their first bite. The meandering streams of Eden now...
By John Masella
- 6 days ago
- 2 min
Nights Are Nothing
Nights Are Nothing Harems of young people scamper along Paths beside the Navigli waterway. Purple and red neon replace blue day,...
By Ryan P. Tunison
- May 27
- 7 min
A Poet's Prayer: Deeper Truths Behind Longfellow's "A Psalm of Life"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life,” prefaced with the phrase “What the heart of the young man said to the psalmist” treads...
The Editors
- May 27
- 1 min
New Lyre Show: Poetry Fireside Chat #2
The beautiful thing about our modern times is that despite all the craziness, the bad guys no longer fully control the narrative. Five...
D.B. Jonas
- May 25
- 1 min
Ragged Right: Songs of Reticence
I fashioned this verse / who knows from what? - William IX of Aquitaine, Farai un vers de dreyt nïen Here will all the word-strings,...
Translation
- May 5
- 2 min
"Im Fruhling" Set by Franz Schubert
I sit here lonely on a hill Where skies are clear and blue; The sunset casts a glowing veil Over the deep and tranquil dale— I used to...
By Martin McCarthy
- May 2
- 2 min
Erato & Other Poetry
Sunset I am travelling towards you, and the night, like a brown-skinned girl ablaze with emotion, is stepping boldly out of her clothes....
By Craig Dobson
- May 1
- 1 min
Old Nights and Other Poems
Old Nights Was it incubus or succubus who – groggy, doe-eyed – walked me through the fine rain, sleeping? Older now, still wet from then,...
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