Poesie: Jeffers’ To an Old Square Piano

Tor is a term for a craggy outcrop or lookout.

Poesie: Frost’s Birches

One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Poesie: Roethke’s In a Dark Time

Although thoroughly postmodern, the American poet Theodore Roethke would have been at home with almost any of the lyric poets of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Poesie: Burgess’ Purple Cow

Some poets live to regret having written wildly successful poems...

Our Own Dear John Ronald: Tuor

Tuor happens to be my favorite among Tolkien's characters. He was born in the wake of battle, both in Middle-Earth and in France.

Poesie: Two for 2020

Open wide the door, friends: The New Year is knocking.

Poesie: Tolkien’s The Last Ship

'I cannot come!' they heard her cry. / 'I was born Earth's daughter!'

Poesie: Merton’s Epitaph for John Paul

This is possibly the saddest poem I have ever read.

Poesie: Frost’s Fire and Ice

The truth is that Frost was the first American who could be honestly reckoned as a master-poet by world standards. - Robert Graves