Category: Original Poetry
Man in the Moon
~ by Lawrence “Mack” Hall The Man in the Moon is smiling tonight His duty is his joy, to take his place Within the celestial liturgy Whose rubrics were appointed before time So that the…
I Was Wrong and Nothing Cracked
~ by Aconitum-Napellus I was wrong and nothing cracked but every moment moves away from the sharpest watershed for you. A birth, a building, a star filled slew of life – and then the slowest…
Hussain at Karbala
I wander the sands, smeared crimson o’er gold The blood of my house runs red as the dusk The children are crying, their throats parched earth Children of this earth, begging for rain Just to…
Prayer for Peace
I looked to the North and saw the connectedness of all things. May I always remember that all beings are nothing more than extensions of myself. I looked to the East and heard the whispers…
Penguins and Oxford Blues
Poor sailors and poor students parse the past Between the paper covers of poor Penguins Poor crumbling pages and crumbling civilizations Held together with rubber bands and Scotch tape And when in middle age The…
A Paean to Dabblers
Oh, yes, you should dabble amateurishly With sketchbook, pen, guitar, and crescent wrench With telescope and hiking boots and love With verse that scans and prose that strongly speaks For a dabbler, all the world…
A Day at the Beach
By Amanda Pizzolatto (alias Aurora Mandeville) Word Count: 176 Rating: G Summary: A short summery poem about the beach. The summer is here, the sun beating down This intense heart bringing so many frowns…
Tree Frog in the Rain Gauge
By Lawrence “Mack” Hall Word Count: 71 Rating: G Summary: A short poem about a small frog During a thunderstorm a little frog For reasons best known to its grey-green self Climbed stickey-toed into the…