Telling the Bees About Friendship
As boys, we collected fireflies in Mason jars on summer nights, hoping as we waited for dreams in small rooms the shadows filled we’d be...
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By Michael R. Burch
- Aug 12, 2020
- 2 min
Water and Gold and Other Poems
Water and Gold You came to me as rain breaks on the desert when every flower springs to life at once, but joy’s a wan illusion to the...
Translation
- Aug 10, 2020
- 1 min
On Contemplating Schiller's Skull
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Here in this charnel-house of bleaching bones, like...
The Editor
- Aug 8, 2020
- 1 min
An Original Musical Setting of "Poems Unwritten"
Sometimes, when the light and the mists of the day Settle holy and soft on the edge of the night, When the sights and the sounds of the...
The Editor
- Aug 1, 2020
- 1 min
Brahms' Advice for Composers - Part I
The Chained Muse is proud to present the first part in a lecture series by music scholar Fred Haight. In this installment, there will be...
By Paul Gallagher
- Jul 25, 2020
- 2 min
The Violin Soldier
It was a story somehow true – it likely happened so, It's strange – but there is much that's strange in human powers to know. A young...
Musical Setting
- Jul 18, 2020
- 1 min
Ständchen - Set by Franz Schubert
My songs travel through the cool night, Searching for you. Find me in the tranquil grove, love— I'll wait for you. The gentle fronds of...
By Joseph S. Salemi
- Jul 18, 2020
- 6 min
Plain English
The poetry scene, like every human activity, has its cant and its catchwords. As Robert Louis Stevenson said in his Virginibus...
By David B. Gosselin
- Jul 6, 2020
- 1 min
Chinese Mountain Man VI: The Gorge
The travelers had reached a gorge Whose darkness they would have to breach. The mountaintops lay far ahead— “Such darkness has a lot to...
Original Translation
- Jun 29, 2020
- 1 min
Song of the Spirits on the Water by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
The soul of mankind Is like water: From Heaven coming, To Heaven rising, Again descending— As it must—Earthward, Ever circling. It...
By Gleb Zavlanov
- Jun 29, 2020
- 1 min
'Cause You'd Be Here
The butterfly, the sea anemone, And snowflake, though possessive of the true Design of grace and perfect symmetry, Seem crude and ugly...
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