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    Easter
    By Daniel Leach
    • Apr 16
    • 1 min

    Easter

    Here, where winter never really comes, How so, this vast profusion of wildflowers, These waves of jasmine sweet upon the wind, This hum...
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    The Devil at Woodstock
    By Daniel Leach
    • Apr 1
    • 6 min

    The Devil at Woodstock

    I was a mere sixteen that Summer day We all piled in a beat-up car and drove To Woodstock, or someplace we had been told That a great...
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    Devil's Hole*
    By Daniel Leach
    • Mar 10
    • 2 min

    Devil's Hole*

    They say that there are ghosts that haunt this place Of ones who long ago met their end here, But in the fern-cooled air that bathes my...
    1 comment
    Three Traditional Haikus by Daniel Leach
    By Daniel Leach
    • Dec 28, 2021
    • 1 min

    Three Traditional Haikus by Daniel Leach

    Like ghosts, the buildings Watch the changing earth and sky— Nothing is empty. Though in dark shadow, Gnarled and bent, it seems to rise...
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    Windows
    By Daniel Leach
    • Dec 12, 2021
    • 1 min

    Windows

    In March, when the shadows are long, I am walking Down the streets of the city I knew long ago, And see as in dreams empty windows there...
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    In-Betweeness
    By Daniel Leach
    • Nov 3, 2021
    • 1 min

    In-Betweeness

    As the trees and the sky wear a more somber hue, At once beautiful, sad, and yet strange, And the lowering rays of late autumn imbue...
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    The Leaves of Summer
    By Daniel Leach
    • May 31, 2021
    • 1 min

    The Leaves of Summer

    The leaves of Summer never were so fair As now, by dying season’s light they’re kissed, September’s melancholy, golden mist Descends like...
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    Ghost Spring
    By Daniel Leach
    • Apr 26, 2021
    • 2 min

    Ghost Spring

    The light falls softly on the sparkling lawn, And then awakens every tree and flower, All earth renews, as it has since the dawn Of life...
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    Dream Time
    By Daniel Leach
    • Mar 28, 2021
    • 2 min

    Dream Time

    The clock is ticking in the pallid rays Of ghost-like morning hour’s waning moonlight, And though it orders all my waking days, It has no...
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    To a Girl in an Old Photograph
    By Daniel Leach
    • Jan 11, 2021
    • 1 min

    To a Girl in an Old Photograph

    It was the eyes that first ensnared my sight, As if through the hazy, gray years were glowing, Like beacons in my soul’s long wandering...
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    An Evening in the ‘Simultaneity of Eternity’—with Shakespeare, Keats, and William Warfield
    By Daniel Leach
    • Dec 6, 2020
    • 20 min

    An Evening in the ‘Simultaneity of Eternity’—with Shakespeare, Keats, and William Warfield

    The following is a workshop and dialogue on the art of classical poetic recitation. We at The Chained Muse believe that a revival of...
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    Young and Old
    By Daniel Leach
    • Nov 8, 2020
    • 1 min

    Young and Old

    Old as the eons that measure the galaxies, As to the unheard music they swirl, Young as the feeling that plays in the heart And the smile...
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    Late Summer
    By Daniel Leach
    • Aug 30, 2020
    • 1 min

    Late Summer

    Late summer, and the silvery undersides Of the leaves shimmer in the hazy air, And the cicadas’ song wells up in tides That wash over my...
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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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    Stones
    By Daniel Leach
    • Jul 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Stones

    These stones that like huge sculpted figures lie Amid the trunks of moss and fern-clad trees, Eons of creatures have seen born and die...
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    Dog Dreams
    By Daniel Leach
    • May 4, 2020
    • 1 min

    Dog Dreams

    Sometimes I imagine that I am still young, Like an old sleeping dog in his dreams; His legs move, and he pants at the air with his...
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    Norther
    By Daniel Leach
    • Jan 13, 2020
    • 1 min

    Norther

    The first true norther came today, With raging gusts of wind and rain, And blew the Summer heat away, And with it all of passion’s pain....
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    In the Deep of the Night by Daniel Leach
    By Daniel Leach
    • Oct 28, 2019
    • 1 min

    In the Deep of the Night by Daniel Leach

    In the deep of the night do my restless thoughts roam To the moon-flooded fields of the sky, And they search for a pure and ethereal...
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    In Celebration: 50 Years After Apollo 11 - Song of the Crab Nebula Or, "A Shadow of a Magnitude
    By Daniel Leach
    • Jul 22, 2019
    • 2 min

    In Celebration: 50 Years After Apollo 11 - Song of the Crab Nebula Or, "A Shadow of a Magnitude

    Long before the first eyes ever saw me Floating like a ghost upon the night, Long before human minds even feebly Pierced beyond their...
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    "It"
    By Daniel Leach
    • May 10, 2019
    • 1 min

    "It"

    It plays upon the glowing sunset boughs, When shadows have enveloped all below, And distant, other-worldly thoughts arouse A passion in...
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