By Daniel Leach1 day ago1 minThree Traditional Haikus by Daniel LeachThe branch seems to float In sky’s image in water— Both are reflections. The desolation, To one with a quiet soul, Is like a refuge. Like...
Fr. Dwight Longenecker1 day ago5 minListening to "Dry Salvages"T.S. Eliot protested at the critics’ tendency to interpret literary works through the lens of the writer’s biography, but hypocritically,...
By Jeffrey Essmann1 day ago2 minThree Stages SquaredAfter Christina Rossetti’s "Three Stages" 1. I fastened all my wishes on a star, Although the physics that it satisfied Presumed the...
By Craig Dobson3 days ago2 minLate Imperial WoesI anxiously wait by the phone, My favourite villa’s up in smoke, Barbarians are nearing Rome. I’m rich in titles, yet I’m broke. Great...
By Rowland Hughes6 days ago2 minFalling Through Water & Mountain StreamFalling Through Water Your eyes face a fading light, searching the sway of a young man whose footprints are shadows on a dark sea. You...
Translation7 days ago2 minLonging by Friedrich SchillerIf I could escape this valley Where the gloomy vapors creep, By some wonder finally flee, My soul would blessedly weep! Gazing upon this...
By Adam SediaJun 1425 minBeyond the Lines: Wordsworth’s “Ode” (Intimations of Immortality)Wordsworth contends with Blake as “the poet of childhood.” His particular strain of Romanticism saw in the innocence of childhood a...
By Johnny PayneJun 132 minTrois Matelots du Port de BrestThree ships sailed on a sea’s soft swell, a small sea, but one full of wrecks. In those wrecks, drowned men, their spent bones and from...
By Martin McCarthyJun 92 minForever & Other PoemsForever We are way out here on the edge of town, and a breathless, gushing ocean clings to your tidewash of shards. We are way out here...
Fr. Dwight LongeneckerJun 46 minListening to "East Coaker"In the introduction to this five part series I proposed that there were three elements of Eliot’s poetry that were necessary to best...
By Caitlin JohnstoneJun 26 minI MarvelI marvel at the way elderly couples can walk together with such delicateness that it’s like they’re holding the fate of the world in...
John H. B. MartinJun 21 minDanaëWe have been promised gold like this before … But, now it glows on trees, we can't ignore it. One day we'll harvest it … Or mine it,...