The Leaves of Summer
Listen to this poem here The leaves of Summer never were so fair As now, by dying season’s light they’re kissed, September’s melancholy,...
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By Drew Keane
- May 26
- 1 min
Dirt
Is it quite fair to say dirt's only brown? Are there not other colors there? — Look down. That brown is multifaceted and could Be broken...
By Evan Schmitt
- Apr 25
- 1 min
Myrtle Beach
Summer sands swirl their salt in pools of shade, where dove wing tides send shark teeth to the shore. The scientist in sunscreen, shells...
By Evan Schmitt
- Feb 14
- 1 min
Chicago
Upon the platform, boots caked in black ice, a cloying gesture, stand there on the salt. I dare not stray, confess my only vice: your...
By Dean Z. Douthat
- Dec 15, 2022
- 1 min
To a Doric Column
Dam of Nereids, I cannot see your face, Poseidon's love gives your girls their haven. You tower high, your queenly will and grace Hold up...
By Ryan P. Tunison
- Dec 2, 2022
- 1 min
Some Lines After Keats' Lamia & Other Poems
After Some Lines in Keats’ Lamia How poets must be mad to trace the line Of woman, whomsoever holds their liking, To faeries’ influence,...
By Daniel Platt
- May 18, 2022
- 1 min
Looking Down
Behold, she dangles, helpless in the sky, Affrighted by the curving earth below: It beckons so seductively, as though 'Twould be a...
By Daniel Platt
- Apr 19, 2022
- 1 min
Radiance
A half-life passes, others come and go, But no clairvoyant eyes can find the day When what we’ve shared will finally ebb away. Our...
By Susan Botzet
- Mar 30, 2022
- 1 min
Stars
I lie awake at night and count the stars that cluster, cluttering the sky and mind with numbers vast and overwhelming. Mars portends...
By David B. Gosselin
- Nov 13, 2021
- 1 min
The Man Who Never Cries
The man who never cries is like the ship That never sailed or left the sleepy shores, Who’s never felt the waves of peril whip Against...
By Hanniel Lim
- Jun 17, 2021
- 1 min
New Prometheus
Forsaking ancient fears in modern spite, The new cartographers of mankind's soul Were steeped in drowsing minds without the toll Of...
By Michael R. Burch
- Sep 13, 2020
- 2 min
To Flower
When Pentheus [“grief’] went into the mountains in the garb of the baccae, his mother [Agave] and the other maenads, possessed by...
By Daniel Platt
- Sep 5, 2020
- 1 min
To the Distant Beloved
The motion of thy tender, fragile heart, I hear it at the instant I awake, And thy mischievous laughter makes me quake In resonance, as...
By Gleb Zavlanov
- Jun 29, 2020
- 1 min
'Cause You'd Be Here
The butterfly, the sea anemone, And snowflake, though possessive of the true Design of grace and perfect symmetry, Seem crude and ugly...
By Daniel Platt
- Jun 8, 2020
- 1 min
Mar de Hoces
Stupendous jade-hued volumes of the sea That palpitate and crest on such a scale To make the sailor's resolution quail And falter; this...
By Daniel Leach
- Mar 1, 2020
- 1 min
Supernova
The beautiful old soul, like a dying star, Burns brighter as it nears its seeming end, And fills with glorious light, the regions far...
By Troy Camplin
- Feb 3, 2020
- 1 min
The Fountains of Vaucluse
The villa of Petrarch sits on a hill Above the rapids tumbling through the rocks. It's ruins now--the broken stones are clocks That tick...
By Troy Camplin
- Sep 30, 2019
- 1 min
Poesis
My Muse, the gift of God and memory, Is silent, doesn’t always speak to me With her crepe myrtle lips or skipping feet That dance out...
By Max Leyf
- Sep 15, 2019
- 1 min
Sonnet: A traveler hailed from antique lands of light
A traveler hailed from antique lands of light, She wafted in on eddies made of air; Exotic gifts from far flung lands to bear Upon my...
By T.M. Moore
- Sep 9, 2019
- 1 min
Dust
My soul clings to the dust. Ps. 119.25 How like the dust my soul can be. I see it sometimes, dazed and inattentive in a ray of light, or...
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