The Encyclopedia Sonnetica

A Urinal on an Art Exhibition Pedestal

   A Urinal on an Art Exhibition Pedestal Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem  The modern painters found themselves outdone By masterpieces of the past. Compete? They felt they couldn’t.  They were like a nun...

Surrealism and Whatnot

Surrealism and Whatnot  Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem  “Painters are not the legislators of the world.  They are the prestidigitators of the swirled.”  ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley The silver of the rose...

He Declaimed Poetry

      He Declaimed Poetry “What sought they thus afar?” The places that my father knew are gone — Or worse.  They change to billboard ads of hype Though he was looking farther up, upon The realms that matter . . . to some archetype About the death of beauty that...