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Jul 23, 2018
1 min

''Moments'' & Other Poems

Moments There were moments full of promise, like the petal-scented rainfall of early spring, when to hold you in my arms and to kiss you...

Der Tod das ist die kühle Nacht by Heinrich Heine

Original Translation

Jul 15, 2018
1 min

Der Tod das ist die kühle Nacht by Heinrich Heine

Death is the cooling night, Life is the sultry day. But now darkness settles And I long for respite. Outside my window there looms a...

By Daniel Leach

Jul 9, 2018
2 min

ODE: SPRING MOURNING

The first soft days of springtime greet my eyes Like a young girl’s face, smiling fresh and clean, The sunlight falls, like hope, from cl...

By Beverly Stock

Jul 3, 2018
1 min

On the Road

On the road to Climax, Georgia, Sunsets streaked a paling yellow, Riding in my car with a handsome fellow. We were driving day and night ...

Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona by Dante Alighieri

Original Translation

Jun 25, 2018
5 min

Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona by Dante Alighieri

We present a new installment of original Dante translations. To our knowledge, Dante’s lyric poems have never been presented in a way whi...

By Adam Sedia

Jun 18, 2018
1 min

A Nameless Fossil

What creature’s frame, entombed in stone, Lies, though marine, in open air? As if it glimpsed the Gorgon’s stare, Hard rock outlines its ...

By David B. Gosselin

Jun 13, 2018
2 min

I Know Why the Red Rose Weeps

I know why the red rose weeps, Why she hides her tears in dew As the summer breezes sweep From those seas of peaceful blue, And then like...

Original Translation

Jun 6, 2018
4 min

Cassandra - Friedrich Schiller

In Greek mythology, Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam of Troy. She was given the ability to foresee the future by the god Apollo, ...

By James A. Tweedie

Jun 4, 2018
1 min

A Grief Observed

In dactylic hexameter Turgid the sea as it billows and foams in the face of the tempest. Wind-lifted wave-crests explode into diamonds ag...

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