The Encyclopedia Sonnetica

INSPIRATION OF POETRY: Readiness

That poem is a new world on your tongue. It as if Jehovah spoke a sigh From somewhere in between your heart and lung, Or more like Aphrodite spread one thigh And opened up divinity for men, Or maybe inspiration rose up through your mind From guts and bones as heated...

SOCIAL MEDIA: Ascension

SOCIAL MEDIA: Ascension Let go. Let go the laptop and that phone, The iPad and the Instagram that bangs Away. Turn off the Twitter storm. Dethrone Technology and screens. Those Facebook fangs Are in you, worrying your mental throat Like some sophisticated pack of...

Safe Spaces—“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”

Safe Spaces—“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” ~ ~ “When the Athenians sent leaders of their philosophy schools to Rome on an embassy in 155 BC, one of them, the sceptic Carneades, pleaded on one day for justice in politics, on the next day for injustice. Cato...