Author: Kristin Johnson

In the Red Engine Press January 2006 newsletter, "Yardspinners and Wordweavers," Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of Tracings, writes:"Auden thought the purpose of poetry is to disenchant. That, my reader, may be why I am not much for

Author: Faith McDermott

Your brilliance overwhelms the lands. Heavenly creation. Work of God's hands.Who of all his wonders burns as bright as you. Lighting up the heavens as only you will do.Left breathless at your beauty. O' Luminous creature from on hig

Author: Jack Wilson

FridaSpitting out her beauty and disgust, --She jiggled ghosts and skeletons, --Emptied blood and I was there. --I cleaned up her mess, --I fed her dog and I made her bed. --I watered the garden by the pyramid --And it blossomed.In

Author: Dennis Siluk

I’ve been writing, reading, and singing poetry for 46-years, and I’ve never heard anything so silly as poetry cannot be enjoyed universally, or it is strictly made for the poet. It is, if given a good translator: translatable, I&#8217

Author: Kevin Madu

The first day i met you Your smile hit me like a whirlwind And left me breathless Your eyes were wet with passionate compassion Full of love, care and concern I was transfixed and enchanted by it Never had i seen so much tenderness

Author: Joe Pagano

My soul longs to be beside the still waters, The still waters that ripple gently o’er the multicolored rocks below. Gentle susurration they diffuse throughout the land, Precious harmonies do they sing to all who listen.Come

Author: Dennis Siluk

Poeta Laureado De la Ciudad de San Jeronimo PeruThe Ill-omen of Istanbul[A Dramatic Macabre Mythos in Poetic form; About Achilles’ Arrow]I heard of a legend when I was in Istanbul, in 1996, it was of the Arrow of Achilles, lo