Come Darkness & Twilight Idyll
Come, Darkness Come, Darkness, Wrap me in your ebon mantle as a shroud. Freed from wearied weariness may I find peace Lost within the...
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The Editors
- Dec 3, 2020
- 1 min
New Lyre Podcast 02- Timelessness and the Role of Art in the 21st Century
How is a timeless work of classical art created? What does it mean to create a new classic in the 21st century? Poet and critic Adam...
By Dan Jabe
- Nov 29, 2020
- 1 min
Colosseum Reverie & Other Poetry
Colosseum Reverie She’s ruined, though her shadows dwell, Forever reaching for the light, And crumbling blocks of travertine Still mourn...
By Michael R. Burch
- Nov 22, 2020
- 2 min
Insurrection & Other Poetry
Insurrection She has become as the night—listening for rumors of dawn—while the dew, glistening, reminds me of her, and the wind,...
By David B. Gosselin
- Nov 16, 2020
- 1 min
Modern Dreams
The dreams I had have been forgotten now— The dreams I once believed I knew were true— The dreams I know will haunt me every day— The...
By Daniel Leach
- Nov 8, 2020
- 1 min
Young and Old
Old as the eons that measure the galaxies, As to the unheard music they swirl, Young as the feeling that plays in the heart And the smile...
By Brian Yapko
- Nov 3, 2020
- 1 min
Jungle Dance
Insects buzzing, feathers flapping, rumbles Of hungry mammal-mouths demanding meat; Decay and sticky leaves, a monkey tumbles Through...
By Cynthia Chung
- Oct 26, 2020
- 10 min
Why the Poetic Principle is Imperative for Statecraft
Today, perhaps more so than at any time in history, we are experiencing a divide between what is considered to be the “domain” or...
By Bruce Meyer
- Oct 25, 2020
- 1 min
Telling the Bees about Time
Like honey, there is only so much of it one can make, and even less in a season. The queens rise and fall. The tides of loyalty shift. On...
By Paul Gallagher
- Oct 17, 2020
- 3 min
Space Fantasy
When I was born, one hundred years from now, In a half-forgotten city back on Earth, What planetary travel would allow Of visits came to...
By Dan Jabe
- Oct 4, 2020
- 1 min
The Architect's Dream
(After the painting by T. Cole) I dreamed I lay on drawing books, Atop a column, perching high, To gaze upon the world below And saw...
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