By George Keyes A PIECE OF LIFE It doesn’t matter how many times I come to Washington, District of Columbia, there’s always a thrill. Its old splendidly designed wide avenues lined with high-reaching trees and exquisite modernized buildings make it the most astonished city in the world. One observer can never forget the superb dome … Continue reading Moonlight Over the Coconut Field
Two Poems by Laura Smichak
Antidote 37 on an Easter pandemic Sunday, Timid not triumphant, an ailing alleluia this year. All of us waiting ripe for resurrection of the holy personal calendar. In time, repentance. I recall only blankly baking cake on a lark, three layers and your three years. Darling dove. Earth is solid under … Continue reading Two Poems by Laura Smichak
Poems by Danny P. Barbare
The Pecan Tree Tatters through the leaves Thump. Paper shells Pecan pie, buttered roasted In the oven. Now spotted leaves. The fruit black. Each year it tries to come Back Green as a leaf. Trunk wrapped in burlap And treated with Spray. It just takes a lot of love.— America! I … Continue reading Poems by Danny P. Barbare
“Sakura”
By Thomas Page Potomac Waters Reflecting the Washington Marbled-white skyline. Calendared April, Waxing hibernating. Heat now rising from The ground, awakens Rosy-hued gifts from Japan ‘Bout a century Ago. See how the Washingtonian escapes Political plight To smell faintly sweet Cherry blossoms and to crown Themselves new Floras, Kings and Queens of trees Belonging … Continue reading “Sakura”
“We Report to You Now” Or A Golden Shovel of Stephen Crane’s The Open Boat”
By Thomas Page “None of them knew the color of the sky” —Stephen Crane How can one report on tragedy? None Of the academics can offer explanation of The role of journalism in tragedy. Am I an outsider to them, Getting the facts straight as they sort out them Who are no longer with us? … Continue reading “We Report to You Now” Or A Golden Shovel of Stephen Crane’s The Open Boat”
Hideous Pranks
By Thomas Page A town of eyes stares down at the shackled Accused below it. Hysteria and Delusion coat the tongues of the Elect To spout out falsehoods about their neighbors. A court room full of deviled hearts and cold, Soulless, godless thoughts fraught with hellishly Forked tongues to make a new human derived Justice. … Continue reading Hideous Pranks
“Stone Cottage”
By Thomas Page A man stands at a precipice, a deluge comes. He allows the soot and ash of a dying age wash over him. Can Cathleen ever be heard again Over the roar of the coming age; an age without reason? A gentle sound interrupts Yeats’ reverie. A young man comes in with … Continue reading “Stone Cottage”
“Akimbo”
By Thomas Page Walt Whitman, he himself, prepares to take a portrait. A portrait of something beyond the Walt that has been know. The Walt of Manhattan, the dandy pedagogue, known for his tendency To prefer the physical over the spiritual To desire what can be attained over what can be inferred He, the … Continue reading “Akimbo”
Liberty at Watch
By John Page
John Thesis #9 final and works cited
by John Page A part of his personality that is often overlooked, by historians, was Grant’s love of peace and desire to live a good life. [1] While he had become famous as a warrior, the impression one gets from looking at his actions throughout his life is that he had wished for life to … Continue reading John Thesis #9 final and works cited
Academy of the Heart And Mind 