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    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 ...
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    "Prose and Poetry" and Other Poems by Robin Helweg-Larsen
    The Editor
    • 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...
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    Telling the Bees About Friendship
    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 ...
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    Water and Gold and Other Poems
    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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    On Contemplating Schiller's Skull
    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 ye...
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    An Original Musical Setting of "Poems Unwritten"
    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 w...
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    Late Imperial Woes
    By Craig Dobson
    • Aug 2, 2020
    • 2 min

    Late Imperial Woes

    I anxiously wait by the phone, My favourite villa’s up in smoke, Barbarians are nearing Rome. I’m rich in titles, yet I’m broke. Great ga...
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    Brahms' Advice for Composers - Part I
    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 ...
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    The Violin Soldier
    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 mus...
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