Ode to Spring
O life-affirming season, mild and fair Yet bursting with life, rousing long-dulled sense, Whose spark of youth electrifies the air Heavy...
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By C. David Hay
- May 18, 2020
- 1 min
Wings
Wings Oh, to catch the winds of flight, And soar where eagles go, To leave the woes of troubled souls Behind me far below. I'd listen to...
By David B. Gosselin
- May 11, 2020
- 1 min
Chinese Mountain Man V: The Foggy Trail
A sage and his disciple stood Before a foggy mountain trail: They thought about their lives and all The mysteries of earth’s dark veil....
By Paul Gallagher
- Apr 27, 2020
- 1 min
Poems After Dickenson
The one who is given Great gifts may thus fall; The thief attained to heaven In the last interval. Love makes all even, Truth, not time,...
By David B. Gosselin
- Apr 6, 2020
- 1 min
Chinese Mountain Man IV: The Mountain Wood
A sage and pupil made their way Into a deep and darkened wood. They searched and wandered places Where for years no traveler would. The...
By Adam Sedia
- Mar 30, 2020
- 1 min
Dawn Herald
Night broods heavy, dark, and still – Its darkest, stillest hour, When the damp, dead airs chill And the starlight glows dour. I roam the...
By Bruce Meyer
- Mar 23, 2020
- 2 min
Dragon Wings & Other Poetry
As close as I could get to the water, I took off my leather sandals to let my toes dangle in the reeds. I lay back with my head on a...
By Michael R. Burch
- Mar 9, 2020
- 1 min
In the Whispering Night
For George King In the whispering night, when the stars bend low till the hills ignite to a shining flame, when a shower of meteors...
By Daniel Leach
- Mar 1, 2020
- 1 min
Supernova
The beautiful old soul, like a dying star, Burns brighter as it nears its seeming end, And fills with glorious light, the regions far...
By David B. Gosselin
- Feb 9, 2020
- 2 min
Chinese Mountain Man: The Phoenix
It was upon a quiet night As graying clouds raced past the moon, A sage and pupil made their way Into a deep and darkened wood. Among ...
By Troy Camplin
- Feb 3, 2020
- 1 min
The Fountains of Vaucluse
The villa of Petrarch sits on a hill Above the rapids tumbling through the rocks. It's ruins now--the broken stones are clocks That tick...
By Bruce Meyer
- Jan 25, 2020
- 2 min
Apiary
The lavender fields are dotted with white boxes squat as houses. In his mesh veil, smoker handy, hands gloved, he slowly removes the...
By T.M. Moore
- Jan 18, 2020
- 2 min
'Cicadas' & 'In Mad River'
Cicada There is, I know, some benefit in this, this cycle of emerging, breeding, dying- so brief a time for knowing any bliss, or making...
By Daniel Leach
- Jan 13, 2020
- 1 min
Norther
The first true norther came today, With raging gusts of wind and rain, And blew the Summer heat away, And with it all of passion’s pain....
By Anish Poddar
- Jan 6, 2020
- 1 min
On Truth
Truth has no need for empty praise By those attired in scholar’s garb, So keenly with the microscopes And scalpels of their intellects...
By Paul Gallagher
- Dec 25, 2019
- 1 min
Perspective and Pin Oak
A pin oak grips its leaves, long turned to brown And hanging against the frosts and deepening chill, Into December still it holds them on...
By David B. Gosselin
- Dec 2, 2019
- 1 min
To Winter (revised)
When Horae’s icy sheets blanket the dale And branches shed their frozen tears, When Earth is covered with her icy veil, We mortals run...
By Gleb Zavlanov
- Nov 18, 2019
- 1 min
Life is Sweet
If you see an ant go marching In his regimented pack, Brittle, beady body arching With that leaf upon his back, Let him be, don’t dare...
By Michael R. Burch
- Nov 10, 2019
- 1 min
Pan
... Among the shadows of the groaning elms, amid the darkening oaks, we fled ourselves ... ... Once there were paths that led to coracles...
By W.D. Clarke
- Nov 4, 2019
- 1 min
November Sings in Minor Chords
November sings in minor chords, in broken light, in maimèd rites, and brings her own ghost rewards to forgotten and forgetful men alike,...
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