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Sep 5, 2020
1 min

To the Distant Beloved

The motion of thy tender, fragile heart, I hear it at the instant I awake, And thy mischievous laughter makes me quake In resonance, as s...

By Terry Norton

Sep 4, 2020
3 min

Cassandra

Both beauty and intelligence were mine. But to what end? Of all the nineteen who Sprang from my mother’s fecund thighs, of daughters I wa...

By David B. Gosselin

Aug 31, 2020
1 min

An Andalusian Dream

Over the sultry seas and snowy peaks, A rich and glowing sun appears, Creeping from out the craggy recesses And pouring through the valle...

By Daniel Leach

Aug 30, 2020
1 min

Late Summer

Late summer, and the silvery undersides Of the leaves shimmer in the hazy air, And the cicadas’ song wells up in tides That wash over my ...

Profiles in Poetry: Johann Wolfgang Goethe

By David B. Gosselin

Aug 28, 2020
9 min

Profiles in Poetry: Johann Wolfgang Goethe

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) remains G...

Book Review: Voices on the Wind by Daniel Leach

By David B. Gosselin

Aug 26, 2020
4 min

Book Review: Voices on the Wind by Daniel Leach

It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can ...

"Prose and Poetry" and Other Poems by Robin Helweg-Larsen

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Aug 22, 2020
1 min

"Prose and Poetry" and Other Poems by Robin Helweg-Larsen

Prose and Poetry I long for Prose - but darkly, distantly, She looks at far-off lands. It’s Poetry who brings persistently Small gifts in...

By Bruce Meyer

Aug 17, 2020
1 min

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 ...

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 exp...

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