New Lyre Show: Poetry Fireside Chat #2
The beautiful thing about our modern times is that despite all the craziness, the bad guys no longer fully control the narrative. Five...
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D.B. Jonas
- May 25
- 1 min
Ragged Right: Songs of Reticence
I fashioned this verse / who knows from what? - William IX of Aquitaine, Farai un vers de dreyt nïen Here will all the word-strings,...
Translation
- May 5
- 2 min
"Im Fruhling" Set by Franz Schubert
I sit here lonely on a hill Where skies are clear and blue; The sunset casts a glowing veil Over the deep and tranquil dale— I used to...
By Martin McCarthy
- May 2
- 2 min
Erato & Other Poetry
Sunset I am travelling towards you, and the night, like a brown-skinned girl ablaze with emotion, is stepping boldly out of her clothes....
By Craig Dobson
- May 1
- 1 min
Old Nights and Other Poems
Old Nights Was it incubus or succubus who – groggy, doe-eyed – walked me through the fine rain, sleeping? Older now, still wet from then,...
Translation
- May 1
- 1 min
May Song by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
How brightly nature Shines this morning! See the glowing sun! Hear the fields sing! The fragrant buds burst From each green frond! A...
By Adam Sedia
- Apr 29
- 16 min
Francisco de Goya: Master Critic of the Human Condition
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is one of Spain’s best known painters. Heir to the tradition of El Greco, Velázquez, Murillo,...
By Evan Schmitt
- Apr 25
- 1 min
Myrtle Beach
Summer sands swirl their salt in pools of shade, where dove wing tides send shark teeth to the shore. The scientist in sunscreen, shells...
By David B. Gosselin
- Apr 20
- 12 min
C.S. Lewis’ “Weight of Glory”: Longing in the Poets, Composers & Theologians
C.S. Lewis famously discussed the role of the eternal “longing” found in each mortal human being. Lewis referred to this longing using a...
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