By Daniel LeachApr 161 minEasterHere, where winter never really comes, How so, this vast profusion of wildflowers, These waves of jasmine sweet upon the wind, This hum...
By Daniel LeachApr 16 minThe Devil at WoodstockI 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...
By Daniel LeachMar 102 minDevil'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...
By Daniel LeachDec 28, 20211 minThree Traditional Haikus by Daniel LeachLike ghosts, the buildings Watch the changing earth and sky— Nothing is empty. Though in dark shadow, Gnarled and bent, it seems to rise...
By Daniel LeachDec 12, 20211 minWindowsIn 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...
By Daniel LeachNov 3, 20211 minIn-BetweenessAs 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...
By Daniel LeachMay 31, 20211 minThe Leaves of SummerThe leaves of Summer never were so fair As now, by dying season’s light they’re kissed, September’s melancholy, golden mist Descends like...
By Daniel LeachApr 26, 20212 minGhost SpringThe 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...
By Daniel LeachMar 28, 20212 minDream TimeThe 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...
By Daniel LeachJan 11, 20211 minTo a Girl in an Old PhotographIt 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...
By Daniel LeachDec 6, 202020 minAn Evening in the ‘Simultaneity of Eternity’—with Shakespeare, Keats, and William WarfieldThe following is a workshop and dialogue on the art of classical poetic recitation. We at The Chained Muse believe that a revival of...
By Daniel LeachNov 8, 20201 minYoung and OldOld 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...
By Daniel LeachAug 30, 20201 minLate SummerLate 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...
By David B. GosselinAug 26, 20204 minBook Review: Voices on the Wind by Daniel LeachIt 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...
By Daniel LeachJul 13, 20201 minStonesThese stones that like huge sculpted figures lie Amid the trunks of moss and fern-clad trees, Eons of creatures have seen born and die...
By Daniel LeachMay 4, 20201 minDog DreamsSometimes 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...
By Daniel LeachJan 13, 20201 minNortherThe 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....
By Daniel LeachOct 28, 20191 minIn the Deep of the Night by Daniel LeachIn 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...
By Daniel LeachJul 22, 20192 minIn Celebration: 50 Years After Apollo 11 - Song of the Crab Nebula Or, "A Shadow of a MagnitudeLong before the first eyes ever saw me Floating like a ghost upon the night, Long before human minds even feebly Pierced beyond their...
By Daniel LeachMay 10, 20191 min"It"It plays upon the glowing sunset boughs, When shadows have enveloped all below, And distant, other-worldly thoughts arouse A passion in...