Category: Poetry

  • I once thought of a children's book called Do You Suppose. Never really pursued it. Jotted down a few lines, nothing more. Came across these jottings the other day while cleaning out some old papers.  Here's all I wrote of my unfinished masterpiece:    Do you supposeThat the good ship ArgoEver reached Key LargoOr even…

  • Here's a nice poem by Ben Iscatus, known to us from comments. For more of Ben's poems, click here.  Moving On This lifeless body still resembles you, Though lacking much of what it had before; Not limbs or organs, not the form we knew, But attributes an artist seeks to draw, Like those that add a…

  • The New Year is traditionally a time for resolutions. I don't make resolutions anymore, because I've found I don't keep them. But for those with more self-discipline (or more optimism) than I, here's a poem that gives us all something to shoot for. It's probably my favorite poem. Yes, it's doggerel, like most of Kipling's…