The Music
It’s three-thirty in the morning and we’re far underground
Sonnet
Lyre of my Love! for many a lonely hour Thou hast breathed music o’er my sinking mind
Change on Change
Three months ago, the stream did flow, The lilies bloomed along the edge; And we were lingering to and fro,—
I Will Remember This Day
I will remember this day Just like almost any day That my tears fell like rain My heart was full of pain ...
Leisure
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
Disputed Tread
Where she steps a whir, Like dust about her feet...
The Use Of Life
Rest is not idleness ...
One Circle More
Is the spiral the shape of life?
Voices of the Air
The little voices of the air Sound above all the sea and wind. The sea and wind do then obey And sighing, sighing double notes Of double basses, content to play
Voices of Earth
These are the voices of earth’s secret soul, Uttering the mystery from which she came. - Archibald Lampman
Singing Waters
A selection of poems from Johnette Downing’s spring 2022 release Singing Waters, A Selection of Haiku, Senryu, and Haibun
Love our Ukraine
Vladimir Sosyura's poem expresses Ukrainian’s love for their Motherland and helps others understand the “true Ukrainian soul.”
“Zapovit” and “I care not if it’s in Ukraine”
Taras Shevchenko's poem “Zapovit” is well known in Ukraine. And Jack Palance reads "I Care Not".
The End and the Beginning
Anyone who has experienced war, or even a natural disaster, knows it doesn’t end when the bombs stop falling or the rain stops or the wind stops blowing. That is the message of poet Wislawa Szymborska.