Category Archives: Poems

I AM THE POEM

I am both pain and passion I am the sea leaving the shore and then [...]

How to Write a Poem in a Time of War

My Poem of the Week this week, is a poem by our Poet Laureate, Joy [...]

Fredericksburg

by Thomas Bailey Aldrich The increasing moonlight drifts across my bed, And on the churchyard [...]

BEYOND TOMORROW

The sun rises beyond the corn field and spreads slowly over the trees to touch [...]

What the World Needs Now Is Love

What the world needs now is love, sweet love It’s the only thing that there’s [...]

At the Supermarket Checkout Counter

“…FBI insiders swear Kennedy is alive!”  Weekly World News 2/24/92 …the tabloid headlines read: JOHN [...]

SONNET LXXXI

By Pablo Neruda   And now your mine.  Rest with your dream in my dream. [...]

TARGET WITH FOUR FACES

Dan Masterson (1934 – 2022) Twin spotlights blast the night Sky high from the bullet-proof [...]

I Broke the Spell That Held Me Long

by William Cullen Bryant I broke the spell that held me long, The dear, dear [...]

MY SUMMER GARDEN

Beyond imagination deep beneath a ground broken by storms that raged wind that blew ice [...]