The Gift of Lilies
If angels plucked up blossoms In endless, light-drowned skies, With curved sextuple petals Glowing radiant white, Pearlescent in noon’s...
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By Adam Sedia
- Jan 27, 2021
- 6 min
Beyond the Lines: Ode on Melancholy
An ode on melancholy might conjure the worst stereotypes of poetry: restless youth agonizing over imagined existential crises – a...
By Adam Sedia
- Jan 1, 2021
- 1 min
The New Year
The fields stretch out, bare, icy: __Wide, blank, yet-unetched slates, Tabulae rasae, waiting __The chisel of the Fates, But deep beneath...
By Adam Sedia
- Nov 16, 2020
- 1 min
Nebula
When my time has come And helium Weighs down on my exhausted core, Spent from shedding light Through the endless night Until the fuel...
By Adam Sedia
- Sep 15, 2020
- 41 min
Clarity and Obscurity: Eliot's Masks
T.S. Eliot means many things to many different people. Like Yeats he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. In the academy he numbers among...
By Adam Sedia
- May 25, 2020
- 2 min
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 Adam Sedia
- Mar 30, 2020
- 1 min
Dawn Herald
Night broods heavy, dark, and still – Its darkest, stillest hour, When the damp, dead airs chill And the starlight glows dour. I roam the...
By Adam Sedia
- Mar 16, 2020
- 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 Adam Sedia
- Aug 5, 2019
- 1 min
The Knell
Through the peace of balmy spring, Bird-songs’ trills and breeze-tossed leaves, An alien sound, a distant ring Dares to break the mirth...
By Adam Sedia
- May 17, 2019
- 1 min
Waves
Turquoise waves on shell-white sand Rush forth – crashing, crashing, crashing – Dying gladly as they land, Surging, breaking, foaming,...
By Adam Sedia
- Mar 17, 2019
- 20 min
Clarity and Obscurity: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Part II -''Concreteness''
In my last essay, I discussed the difference between classical and modernist poetry as a difference of worldviews. Classicism views the...
By Adam Sedia
- Jan 28, 2019
- 1 min
Orchid
Borne from sultry jungled isles Of some far archipelago, Imprisoned in glass here. Transplanted, you yet flourish, show Your charms,...
By Adam Sedia
- Dec 17, 2018
- 1 min
Geese in Flight & Other Poems
Geese in Flight An artless, brash, half-mournful cry Rends the languid autumn sky, A fractious chorus blaring Earthen horns, fanfaring...
By Adam Sedia
- Sep 10, 2018
- 1 min
The Seashell
An errant shape appears upon the sand, Borne from ultramarine depths to wash Among the turquoise waves’ relentless crash Upon another...
By Adam Sedia
- Jun 18, 2018
- 1 min
A Nameless Fossil
What creature’s frame, entombed in stone, Lies, though marine, in open air? As if it glimpsed the Gorgon’s stare, Hard rock outlines its...
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