Or che ‘l ciel e la terra e ‘l vento tace by Francesco Petrarch
At this hour, when sky and earth and wind are still, When all the birds and beasts are caught in sleep, As night rolls out her starry...
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By Royal Rhodes
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
Hearing Canto V
The spare Italian lesson slipped down along the second ring of grief in the slanted light of that late afternoon, as the 'connoisseur of...
By Adam Sedia
- 7 days ago
- 8 min
Wang Bo’s “Farewell:” An Exemplar of Classical Chinese Poetry and a Lesson for Today
China’s uninterrupted literary tradition of three millennia is truly one of the world’s cultural wonders. Among its long history, the...
By Jason Emerson
- Sep 21
- 1 min
Glastonbury, England: A Memory and an Old Photograph
What intrigued me most that windy day was she, She who sat alone on a bench of stone on the top of Glastonbury Tor, Who cared nothing for...
John H. B. Martin
- Sep 16
- 1 min
Facebook Message & Other Poems
Facebook Message for T A flower is not a flower, it is a flowing. It is that light which drifts through many leaves to finally seem...
By Rowland Hughes
- Sep 8
- 1 min
Images & Other Poetry
Images You spoke of them as if they were real. People who lived in a sepia toned world, pressed like flowers behind polished glass. Part...
By Drew Keane
- Sep 4
- 1 min
Seventy-three
After C. P. Cavafy's "Η διορία του Νέρωνος" (based upon an anecdote in Seutonius’s Life of Nero) His fear dispersed at once when he had...
By Kevin Roberts
- Aug 29
- 2 min
Christine
Listen to a recording of this poem here. No longer light, but not yet dark, We stand here in some space between And listen to a meadow...
D.B. Jonas
- Aug 28
- 1 min
Jeremiad
In all that is possible, there is nothing more wondrous than what is. al-Ghazālī If it’s believing that you’re after, brother, believe...
By Luke Briner
- Aug 23
- 1 min
Longing
May I speak to myself now as to that Astrayéd spouse whose anguished, homesick heart Crashed ‘gainst his visage artful and complex As...
By Daniel Leach
- Aug 15
- 6 min
The Devil at Woodstock
Listen to a recording of this piece here. I was a mere sixteen that Summer day We all piled in a beat-up car and drove To Woodstock, or...
By David B. Gosselin
- Aug 11
- 1 min
The Waterfall
“So noisy are the towns and villages,” remarked The sage as he and his young pupil made Their way across the bustling thoroughfares,...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Aug 6
- 2 min
The Algorithm
The algorithm knows what you want before you do. The algorithm knows you better than you know yourself. The algorithm knew you back...
Translation
- Aug 6
- 3 min
The Veiled Image at Sais by Friedrich Schiller
Listen to the poem here Struck by a burning thirst for knowledge, a youth Travelled through ancient Egyptian lands —to Sais—to breach the...
By Gerald Therrien
- Aug 3
- 1 min
A Midwinter Night’s Dream
Sometimes I dream that winter’s time might wane To let some warmer weather come instead. I’ve heard enough its wild yet wondrous wind...
By Robert Funderburk
- Jul 29
- 1 min
Beware the Heart
The sacrifice of God’s own Son On that appointed tree Before the world and water were Was destined for our Liberty. Like Summer when she...
By W.H. Martin
- Jul 24
- 1 min
Melancholia Aeterna & Other Poetry
Melancholia Aeterna Reflections of Polaris, cast through curving complex – it is the driving prime. We wander with new orientation, as...
By Stewart Burke
- Jul 18
- 1 min
The Cricket Sings of an Absent Lover
The cricket sings of an absent lover’s approach, each footfall tolled in harmony. One must be caged for the luck of others. The cricket’s...
By John Masella
- Jul 12
- 1 min
Memories Now & Other Poetry
Memories Now How does a memory age at present? It sits where it’s made, gaining traction Between us, morphing in swift reaction To the...
By Louis Groarke
- Jul 6
- 1 min
Greek Tragedy
Ruin justice… And your bloodline will weaken, Your descendants fade out. —Hesiod, Works and Days The rose soon fades on Antigone’s cheek,...
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