Latter Day Victorians
This poem lists the ways in which we emulate our predecessors, who marveled at the new speedy technology of trains, yet clung tight to uniforms and codes of etiquette.
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Surroundings
This poem begins ominously, but overall has a positive message. In it, I chart the path of the survivor, from grief to acceptance to rejoicing.
Container Garden
This poem is voiced by a proud recycler of my generation, who does his or her duty and yet vaguely realizes, that while collecting recyclables may be enough to assuage his or her guilt, it is not nearly enough, to make a dent in the underlying problem.
Chalk Dust
This is an airport poem. We spent some time enjoying the delights of the Newark, NJ airport this past week, after a lovely sojourn with my relatives in the Philly area. This is an airport poem in the sense that it was composed in an airport, mask on, surrounded by a sea of humanity. Weather …
Resurrection Fern
This poem describes the life cycle of the resurrection fern in midsummer in North Florida.
Lapsed
A poem about the agonies of leaving the faith of your youth when reality renders that faith implausible.
Remarkably Indecent
This poem takes inspiration from the portrayal of character in the testimony of Cassidy Hutchinson before the January 6th Committee, and asks the electorate to examine their own character or lack of it.
A Losing Battle
This poem describes the losing battle against disorder that we all fight when trying to keep a home.
Dystopia Today
This poem is an initial response to the decision of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade.
Wishful Thinking
This Pride Month poem contrasts the degree of tolerance and recognition of equality in the world of our wishful thinking versus that, in the world we live in.
Shares
This poem treats our shares online as if they were shares in the stock market and contemplates what bad people might do with them.
Noise
This poem records the conflicted emotions of anyone who attempts to work at home in the midst of family and noise. By Andrea LeDew.
Scores
A poem inspired by President Biden's speech in response to the school shooting in Uvalde TX, in which he decried the scores of child victims to mass shootings in the US.
Porch Swing
This poem recounts a life-long love while swinging on a porch swing.
Lovely: A Mother’s Blessing
This poem is a mother's blessing as her child embarks upon a journey into the wider world to seek self-fulfillment, work, and happiness.
Litmus Test
This poem questions the wisdom of allowing a single test to divide us into opposing camps of red and blue.
Transplant
This is a poem about change when change is needed and one of the best changes is a change in location, or transplant.
Sovereign
A poem about the intrusion of one sovereign state upon the territory of another, and about how the peace of our world is built upon this fragile concept of sovereignty. By Andrea LeDew.
Control
This poem deals with China's recent efforts to control the slippery coronavirus in its latest iteration, through lockdowns and quarantines.
Summer Playground
This poem laments the destruction of Mariupol, in Ukraine, and fears the worst for the rest of the country.
Grateful
In this poem about Ukraine's predicament, a leader challenges the insinuations of well-meaning do-gooders that he should be grateful, even though the help rendered has not lessened his country's peril.
Birdsong
This poem describes the phenomenon of sleeplessness and worry in the dark hours before the birds begin to sing.