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By Bruce Meyer
- May 31, 2021
- 2 min
A Homeric Hymn
There is a picture a friend snapped of me drunk atop Dun Laoghaire’s Martello tower. I’d been overseas for months, my hair grown into an...
By Caitlin Johnstone
- Apr 11, 2021
- 2 min
Aspire to Greatness (The Real Kind)
Aspire to greatness, but not the kind they teach you about in school. Not the kind where you can all be astronauts and presidents when...
By Vera Ignatowitsch
- Jan 27, 2021
- 1 min
Small Child & Other Poetry
Small Child Small child with my eyes return my heart before you wander. Take the jewels. I wish you plenty. Place a flower’s petals...
By Bruce Meyer
- Oct 25, 2020
- 1 min
Telling the Bees about Time
Like honey, there is only so much of it one can make, and even less in a season. The queens rise and fall. The tides of loyalty shift. On...
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...
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 Bruce Meyer
- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
Telling the Bees About Love
Her head was golden as honey in the morning light, soft-haired with a halo shimmering as if the dawn of a better day. Her breath reminded...
By Bruce Meyer
- Mar 23, 2020
- 2 min
Dragon Wings & Other Poetry
As close as I could get to the water, I took off my leather sandals to let my toes dangle in the reeds. I lay back with my head on a...
By Bruce Meyer
- Jan 25, 2020
- 2 min
Apiary
The lavender fields are dotted with white boxes squat as houses. In his mesh veil, smoker handy, hands gloved, he slowly removes the...
Translation
- Jul 15, 2019
- 2 min
Goethe "Prometheus"
So cover up thy heaven, Zeus, With cloudy mist! And like a boy, who chops The heads from thistles, Go blast the oaks and mountaintops!...
By Daniel Leach
- Apr 23, 2018
- 2 min
Father Hennepin and the Great Spirit
This concludes a third in the series of poems, based on the poet's journey to Niagara Falls. Read parts 1 & 2 & 3 here. Father Hennepin...
By Daniel Leach
- Apr 9, 2018
- 1 min
To a Northern Summer Morning
Soft, cool Northern Summer morning, You often greet my eyes in pleasant dreams, Old friend, who whispered to me in my youth Of love, or...
By Daniel Leach
- Apr 2, 2018
- 2 min
Flight of the Ibis
In the golden light of the late Spring evening, A boy is dreaming on the backyard swing, Swinging and dreaming, as over the treetops And...
By Daniel Leach
- Mar 3, 2018
- 2 min
In St. Mary's Church — Fredricksburg, TX
High above the altar, looking down, The stained-glass angel smiles almost unseen, At generations passing through below, Some raise their...
Translation
- Oct 14, 2017
- 2 min
Wheat by Jean Jaurès
Is man not the one who created wheat? For, what we call natural is hardly so—those things used by him—are far from spontaneous creations....
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