Immersion
After T. S. Eliot Yes— We’ve lingered in the chambers of this sea- slag-crusted wreckage—derelict, depth-raked, decrepit. We grasp up...
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Recitation
- Jan 20
- 1 min
Israfel by Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)
Israfel And the angel Israfel, whose heart-strings are a lute, and who has the sweetest voice of all God’s creatures. —KORAN In Heaven a...
By Glenn Wright
- Jan 13
- 4 min
Beyond the Lines: “Design” by Robert Frost
Encounters with the divine are rare enough that they invariably catch us by surprise. It can seem that God, like the Wizard of Oz hiding...
By Bob Zisk
- Jan 7
- 2 min
Night Music & Other Poetry
Night Music Tonight, in these pine scented woods, what silence, As still as freshly fallen snow, as soft As fur on a bent branch, as...
Translation
- Jan 7
- 1 min
The Proverbs of Confucius by Friedrich Schiller
I. Time unfolds in a three-fold way: The future stalks us cautiously, The now like lightning bolts departs, The past forever-still...
By Adam Sedia
- Dec 24, 2023
- 4 min
Beyond the Lines: Frost's "Fire and Ice"
Anyone who has ever attended a commencement ceremony in the United States has certainly heard Frost’s “The Road Not Taken,” often recited...
By Burl Horniacheck
- Dec 22, 2023
- 1 min
A Song & Poetry
Poetry Poems are my dearest friends. Naught else on earth so well can mend The lonely mind, dark failure’s smart, Religion’s doubt,...
By Johnny Payne
- Dec 15, 2023
- 7 min
Charles Bukowski, Undisciplined Satirist
Yes, the man was prolific, having written some 5000 poems and scads of prose. Does that count as virtue, or logorrhea? I find myself...
By Caitlin Clase
- Dec 15, 2023
- 2 min
The Dryad & Other Poetry
The Dryad In a bloom of midmay light, Bright boon of day long lain Away, long hidden behind A crumpled grey curtain Of rain and fog and...
Translation
- Dec 13, 2023
- 2 min
Rain in the Twilight & Other Poems by Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Rain in the Twilight The wind wandering over the plain Was all full of a sweet singing, And in the twilight the misting rain Was awash...
Translation
- Dec 8, 2023
- 2 min
Excerpts from “Le Cimetière Marin” (“The Graveyard by the Sea”)
From Charmes ou poèmes (1922) by Paul Valéry loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Do not, O my soul, aspire to immortal...
By Rowland Hughes
- Dec 8, 2023
- 1 min
Candle Night
Featured in New Lyre Winter 2023 Dangerous to touch, yet tempting me to step into a world of memories. And in a darkened room, when my...
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