I love odes, I admit it. Counting my blessings? Sure. I try to find the beauty around me. I write down something I am grateful for every...

To the Pay Toilet by Marge Piercy You strop my anger, especially when I find you in restaurant or bar and pay for the same liquid, coming...

On the Death of Benjamin Franklin by Philip Freneau Thus, some tall tree that long hath stood The glory of its native wood, By storms...

Love Song for Love Songs by Rafael Campo (published on the Academy of American Poets website) A golden age of love songs and we still...

This week's prompt has 3 components. I have never seen this Clint Eastwood movie (see the title of this prompt), but the title has such a...

Desirous of Her Liberty at This Time by Rhonda M. Ward (published in Poetry, November 2021, in The Witness Stones Project portfolio)...

Hope by Elsa Gidlow (from her 1923 book, On a Golden Thread) You would win me, woo me, win me, To be your lover, Hope! You would lure me,...

Today's poem on my blog, "Hope," was written by Elsa Gidlow and appears in her 1923 book, On a Golden Thread. Here is what the Academy of...

if time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then by Raquel Salas Rivera (published in their 2021 book, x/ex/exis:...

Elegy for Mr. Spock by W. Todd Kaneko (published in Split Lip Magazine, August 2018) The first time you died, your friends searched the...

Today, after visiting two wineries, reading about some returning TV shows, listening to music, re-reading today's blog poem, and my...

Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer (first published on June 3, 1888 in The San Francisco Examiner) The outlook wasn't brilliant...

Thanks to the New York Times, I just went down a rabbit hole of summer themes. (See the article that started this here--it's gifted, so...

Night Baseball by Michael Blumenthal (and printed here, as well as in his book Days We Would Rather Know) [I] retrace by moonlight the...

Instructions on Not Giving Up by Ada Limón (and can be found here as well as on my refrigerator) More than the fuchsia funnels breaking...

Yesterday, my husband and I finally visited a place we have been meaning to go to since we moved to this area--Schreiner's Iris Gardens....

Daily Courage Doesn't Count by Alta (published in A Geography of Poets, edited by Edward Field, 1979) daily courage doesn't count we...

Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought...

A few choices today for your prompt, and all are based on the poem on my blog today, "For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry" (from Jubilate...

from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart For I will consider my Cat Jeoffry. For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily...