Although I don’t normally review free verse, I agreed to do a little review of Breona Dorch’s poems because she offers it as erotic poetry. However, having read her poems (and unlike the other erotic collections I’ve reviewed) her own poetry doesn’t strike me as principally erotic. In fact, the work in its entirety, which […]

Autumn is promised, clouds are few,The hour puts out the sun;Let there be nothing troubles you:Your daily chores are done.A sea of starlight fill your sailsTo guide you safe away,And all your trails ride comet tailsAmong the nebulae,For all that realm beyond our knowing—So seldom spoken of—The world no less invites your goingAnd asks no […]

So this is a sonnet I wrote for The Music Professor, just today. Took me longer to post it than write it. I love his Youtube videos because I love classical music. I was born to be a baroque composer, but somehow I signed the wrong contract in the moments before birth. And here I […]

The Wife’s Lament is an Anglo Saxon poem from the Exeter Book. There are numerous articles on the poem and scholarly analyses—including the linked Wikipedia article—so I won’t go into it; but the poem has a fascinating history.. My own version is not a translation but is based on the original. There are a variety […]