Crocuses by J.M. Summers
Crocuses break through frozen soil as magpies watch from rooftops—a lyrical meditation on winter’s patience and spring’s promise in Summers’ evocative seasonal poem
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Crocuses break through frozen soil as magpies watch from rooftops—a lyrical meditation on winter’s patience and spring’s promise in Summers’ evocative seasonal poem
Continue readingBirds Send Him in Shock” explores the haunting tension and trauma of conflict, using surreal imagery of birds, a porcelain bathtub, and a symbolic broken door
Continue readingBruce McRae’s ‘Momentary’ explores the paradoxical nature of time through vivid imagery and philosophical contemplation. The poem captures fleeting instants as both insignificant and infinite
Continue readingJim Murdoch has been writing poetry for fifty years and has graced the pages of many now-defunct magazines and a few
Continue readingA Day at the Office by Mark Kerstetter Boggled. Paper stacked beneath a box of pencils, paint hardened in tubes,
Continue readingAARON POOCHIGIAN earned a PhD in Classics from the University of Minnesota and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University.
Continue readingA hallucinatory vision of paradise and poetic creation, where Kubla Khan’s pleasure dome becomes a symbol for the power and impermanence of artistic inspiration, blending exotic imagery
Continue readingLord Byron (George Gordon Byron, 1788-1824) was one of the leading figures of British Romanticism and a poet whose life was almost as dramatic as his works.
Continue readingThis haunting masterful poem from Stephanie DuPont invites readers into the tortured consciousness of a historic New England house, where the echoes of Salem’s dark past intertwine with supernatural visitors and centuries of accumulated secrets.
Continue readingThe poem is narrated by a child who believes they are a changeling – a fairy child left in place of a human child
Continue readingWalter de la Mare, born in 1873 in Kent, England, began his career as a bookkeeper before transitioning to writing full-time
Continue readingRudyard Kipling’s poem “The Vampire” tells the story of a foolish man’s infatuation with a woman who doesn’t reciprocate his feelings
Continue reading“The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes is a haunting narrative poem that tells a tragic tale of love and sacrifice in 18th-century England.
Continue readingChristina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” is a narrative poem that tells the story of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie, who are tempted by goblin merchants selling exotic
Continue readingThe Kraken by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal
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