Reflections by an American Poet in Florence
Standing atop the Florence’s famous cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, looking out over the wide expanse of terracotta rooftops and...
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By Dave Earnhardt
- 17 hours ago
- 2 min
Hot and Cold
Mrs. Greenlaw modeled endless space for her third-grade students with a mobius strip, which, for its implications about the nature of...
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- 3 days ago
- 2 min
The Feast of Belshazzar by Heinrich Heine
The midnight hour had fallen on The hushed city of Babylon. And yet within its castle walls The vassals thronged throughout the halls....
By Michael R. Burch
- Sep 29
- 1 min
Fascination with Light
Death glides in on calico wings, a breath of a moth seeking a companionable light, where it hovers, unsure, sullen, shy or demure, in the...
By David B. Gosselin
- Sep 28
- 1 min
Lay Down Your Armor
Lay down your armor And play for me your precious lyre; And let me hear Your deepest dreams and frail desires. Lay down your armor And...
By Daniel Leach
- Sep 27
- 4 min
Aesthetic Impressions of an American Poet in Rome
“Go thou to Rome, at once the paradise, the grave, the city and the wilderness,…” Percy Byssche Shelley wrote his beautiful elegy on the...
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- Sep 22
- 2 min
Legend of the Horseshoe by Wolfgang Goethe
When Jesus Christ still walked over the Earth, Outcast, and not yet known by holy birth, Though followed by many an eager youth Who...
By Bruce Meyer
- Sep 22
- 1 min
Telling the Bees About Reverence
They know what I will say. I will tell them how ants covered a dead bumblebee in cherry petals, how they came bearing more than their...
By Adam Sedia
- Sep 15
- 2 min
Sestina: Mushrooms
Metamorphosis Up from the shadowed forest floor you rise, Grim undertakers in the train of death From whose smashed, stinking remnants...
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- Sep 12
- 1 min
Come As You Are by Rabindranath Tagore
Come as you are, forget appearances! Is your hair untamable, your part uneven, your bodice unfastened? Never mind. Come as you are,...
By David B. Gosselin
- Sep 7
- 10 min
Beyond the Lines: Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
A century after its composition, Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” continues to leave readers, academics, poetry...
By Siham Karami
- Sep 7
- 1 min
Triumph of Roses
The young earth hardened, heated, split, then froze, but still could not disorient the rose. We kept the emails, pictures, cards in...