The Chained Muse

By Bruce Meyer

Telling the Bees About Love

Her head was golden as honey in the morning light, soft-haired with a halo shimmering as if the dawn of a better day. Her breath reminded...

By Troy Camplin

Birthing Pains and Other Poetry

An Invitation The gods have fled? They haven't been invited! A century has passed opposing beauty And now we stand depressed, dismayed,...

Original Recitation

Sappho's "Hymn to Aphrodite"

Immortal Aphrodite, throned in splendor! Wile-weaving daughter of Zeus, enchantress, and beguiler! I implore you, dread mistress,...

By Daniel Platt

Mar de Hoces

Stupendous jade-hued volumes of the sea That palpitate and crest on such a scale To make the sailor's resolution quail And falter; this...

By Michael R. Burch

Southern Icarus and other Poems

Southern Icarus Windborne, lover of heights, unspooled from the truck’s wildly lurching embrace, you climb, skittish kite . . . What do...

By Adam Sedia

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...

By C. David Hay

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

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

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,...

Translation

Sappho's "Hymn to Aphrodite"

Immortal Aphrodite, throned in splendor! Wile-weaving daughter of Zeus, enchantress, and beguiler! I implore you, dread mistress,...

By James Sale

Poetry and the Muses Part IV

Poetry, as we have discussed in earlier parts of this article series, depends upon the Muses and accessing the deeper self or soul within...

By David B. Gosselin

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...