Category Archives: Poems

The Old Horse In The City

By Vachel Lindsay The moon’s a peck of corn.  It lies Heaped up for me [...]

The Power Of Words

Letitia Elizabeth Landon ‘Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, [...]

Anthem for Doomed Youth

By Wilfred Owen What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? — Only the monstrous [...]

Casey at the Bat

Ernest Lawrence Thayer  (1863 – 1940) The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that [...]

Vocabulary

– Jason Schneiderman I used to love words, but not looking them up. Now I [...]

The Rape of Persephone

(Inspired by the sculpture of “The Rape of Persephone” by Bernini, in the Villa Borghese, [...]

A Legend of Truth

Rudyard Kipling Once on a time, the ancient legends tell, Truth, rising from the bottom [...]

Eating Poetry

by Mark Strand Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness [...]

Fire and Ice

By Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. [...]

WILD GEESE

Mary Oliver You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk [...]