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26 December 2025

Life Is Strange

Thorns and Briars

This Secret Warmth

Can It Make Us Happy?

Somewhere She Smiles

A Signal in Smoke

Father Knows Best

23 December 2025

Deciding What To Do

Talking To Myself

The Central Dream

21 December 2025

Feet Firmly Planted on Earth

Burning Burning Burning

Trust and Open Dialogue

Touch and Soothe

18 December 2025

Worth Something

As If Love Can't Be Questioned

Not So Useful Anymore

No Day But Today

They Don't Even Know

The Eternal Dance

The View Is Lovely

16 December 2025

Can't Be Put Out

Clothes Back On

14 December 2025

Two Black Sheep

What's Best For You

Plant in the Dark

12 December 2025

The One That Deserves To Be Heard

Only Your Heart

The Troubles of Love

Naked But Unashamed

09 December 2025

Forever To Yourself Be True

The Punished Become The Punishers

Time Is Coming Soon

Love Can Be Done

05 December 2025

Make Ourselves Anew

Shadow (Wherever Light Shines)

No Matter How Civilized

If Any Vigor Remains

27 November 2025

Teach Me How To Love You

What Your Longing Requires

I Know How You Feel

Sense of the Darkness

What Your Desire Is For

Approaching Song

Extended Silence

20 November 2025

Just Let Me Know

Only in the Waiting

Another Life Beckons

16 November 2025

Meant For Your Ears

This And No Other

A Seat at the Table

The soil we have tilled

Through her I see

Her Sky (New At Last)

Not Sole Composer

When a man loves

06 November 2025

Both True and False

Hardly Beginning

An Ear to the Whole

A Blend of Struggles

The Dream of the Birds

Who You Are (Out of the Chrysalis)

Not What I Hoped

Not Quite At Peace

A Resonant Ordeal

29 October 2025

Not Meant For This World

The Girl and the Stag

Chiaroscuro Girl

24 October 2025

Love Must Come True

Maybe for the Last Time

Help and Not Harm

Amidst the shadows

12 October 2025

Where True Power Lies

Not All is Lost

When Called to Build

Make Me More Worthy

The hollow part of me

Another Destination

Wisely in Spite of Ignorance

The Pain of Knowledge

26 September 2025

A Home of My Own Design

The Hard Rock of Reality

The Center (Contra Hegel)

Whatever This Call Entails

Bones on the Inside

Wane and Dwindle

Scheduled Procreation

Beatrice and Penelope

Few and Far Between

07 September 2025

Flood (Too Much Speaking)

Calmly Without Fear

Short of a Miracle

Nothing Changes

Connections Worth Having

Quiet, Quiet River

I could do no other

27 August 2025

Wander on Stormy Seas

Rest and Recover

What Waiting Means

17 August 2025

If tomorrow will be any better

All that could be lost again

Love conquers little

Civilization for the First Time

Love is a flame

Angry, Solid Blue

01 August 2025

Vassals of Despair

Less perfect than it seemed

The one who will understand

02 July 2025

They prefer the abuse

As Only You Can

Make my dreams true

The Presence of Love

Passion chokes out thinking

Just One Moment More

Woken by Storms

I could go to her

That Hollow Moon

30 May 2025

On the Side of the Earth

Had You Been There

Corners of Strangeness

You Carry It Always

Somewhere, Somehow

Thinking Begins

Yeats' Footsteps

The Curtain Falls

05 April 2025

Hard to Explain

Ever Ready to Blossom Again

08 March 2025

A Time for Beginning

Lord will it also be sweet

More alarming by the day

Hardly two millennia

Outside the Law

The Form of the Matter

18 January 2025

Keener Insight and Better Plans

One of Those Days

Never Been Wrong

Light Bent by Earth

27 October 2024

Out there in history

A culture in which we can thrive

Less Imposing Principles

Journeying Ones

Many, Instead of One

Caught in the Gears

26 October 2024

The Loss of Justice

The Discipline of Virtue

The Source of Most Problems

Nothing but Chaos

Plants in Their Soil

11 August 2024

Ancient Masters

Everyone's Wrong

Where You Are Stepping

Good Left Undone

Somewhere Other Than Belief

Kindle the Flame

The Fulcrum of Time

27 July 2024

The Wind and My Place in It

Things Unseen Though Known

Surely We Know Best

As All Time Passes By

Tethered to Freedom

12 June 2024

Itself as a Prize

Believe in the Dawn

22 March 2024

Cultural Marxism

All Must Again Be Decided

Speak It Out Loud

Seeking Authorization

Machine State of Mind

The Task of Man

23 February 2024

If I Yearn For More

A Time is Coming

Through the Unknown

Response to a Query

12 January 2024

Never What It Used To Be

Life Over Victory

Beyond the Locked Door

It may also help you

All Man Has Been

The Ship of Rome

I speak for the people

18 December 2023

Barrel of Monkeys

Rule By Consent

To the Girl Behind the Pharmacy Counter

More Than One Power

Who Does the Promising?

Out on the Frontier

Home From Elysium

Red Tinge on East Star

23 November 2023

Pliable by Nature

Ready For Change

Doctor of Words

The House of the Dead II

29 October 2023

Bones (How Things Stand)

Discard Them Already

Turning the Page

Stronger Knowledge

From Time to Time

The Most Peaceful Stream

23 September 2023

Through the Horizon

Someone Tell Wittgenstein

Submission in Disguise

Strangeness of the Ordinary

We Silly Mammals

Kennedy's Peace

That which wants to be said

Walking the Line

Through All Our Fears

17 August 2023

Trust or Freedom

All Those Ages Ago

With Great Justice

Westward Ticket

We were always at war with nature

In this hour of wakening

28 July 2023

The House of the Dead

Where it Belongs

A Raid on Delphi

I have known women

To Even Have a Dream

In the depths of it

This Way Forever

Inexorably Ever After

Clarity is like Death

Wouldnt it be nice

16 June 2023

What Surprises Remain

Better Judgment

No Single Force

Both How and Why

Saying New Sayings

Pain That One Calls Home

Uncivilized After All These Years

Banishing Night

26 April 2023

Wait, Think, Speak

Where They Can See You

They May Be Right

Menagerie of Rules

Stop the Bombing

The Way of the Night

Something About Plato

The Question of Democracy

On Whose Authority

What time is this

If he would speak today

20 March 2023

Saving Daylight

Not even sure who to ask

Larger Accomplishments (Pragmatism)

The Realm of Reason

Small All the Same

The Drums of Alexander

The Throne of Cyrus

Ahura Mazda (the Question Remains)

21 February 2023

The Sound a Plant Makes

The Quest for the Immortal Self

Night Sweats of the American Dream

A more tolerant order

The Promise of the Lady

Nutrition by Faith Alone

Emptiness That None Can Understand

17 January 2023

Sick With Struggle

As Life May Yet Be

Think Not Absolutely

Wait For Another

Slumber Much Better

15 December 2022

Vortex Afterglow

Spring Cleaning

To Tell This To You, or Changing of the Gods

You Are The Way

Back to the Mines

29 November 2022

Ave Maris Stella

Crimson Days in the Depths of Time

Darkness Becomes You

After "A Late Walk" by Robert Frost

Uncertain Times

No Will to Deceive

The Gospel According to Us

Thing in Progress

No Entry Beyond

04 November 2022

It is not for me

25 October 2022

14 October 2022

21 September 2022

Afterthought on the Romantics

12 September 2022

Over the Atlantic

31 August 2022

Thinking Deeply

The Ground is Lava

Such Surprises Must Be

Lady in the Rain

Hitler's Bunker

20 August 2022

02 August 2022

The New Frontier

21 July 2022

A Platonist declares

16 July 2022

Socrates and Confucius

Reasonable Measure

Beatific Visions

11 July 2022

Liberty and Justice

Belly of the Whale

28 June 2022

23 June 2022

Myth at Twilight

21 June 2022

Mulch by the Scoop

19 June 2022

18 June 2022

14 June 2022

Science and Technology

06 June 2022

31 May 2022

What calls for poetry?

04 May 2022

Streets I Never Knew

02 May 2022

30 April 2022

Unauthorized thinking

21 April 2022

12 April 2022

The Winds of Change

03 April 2022

Things Themselves

23 March 2022

08 March 2022

Who is in charge here

07 March 2022

Phalanx of Mind

24 January 2022

25 December 2021

Phenomenology of Science

10 November 2021

07 November 2021

01 November 2021

Shattered Image, Fallen Breast

28 October 2021

13 September 2021

09 September 2021

Wandering Sheep

09 July 2021

30 June 2021

28 May 2021

All past times are terrible

09 May 2021

Terror Remembered

07 May 2021

01 May 2021

28 April 2021

20 April 2021

All the Tender Pathos

13 April 2021

The wind in the leaves

01 April 2021

05 March 2021

14 February 2021

07 January 2021

Heidegger in Japan

14 September 2020

The Enduring and Unchanging Dao

22 April 2020

25 October 2019

The Great Motion

19 October 2019

13 October 2019

05 October 2019

25 September 2019

24 September 2019

07 September 2019

29 August 2019

Lincoln's Memory

22 August 2019

Twilight Over Virginia

10 August 2019

Lady in the Temple

03 August 2019

The Lady Speaks of Progress

Lady in the Dark

In the Beginning

22 July 2019

The Lady Sings for Hobbes

Beatrice Among the Daffodils

09 July 2019

For the Innocent

07 July 2019

28 June 2019

11 June 2019

13 May 2019

Against Ice Sculptures

06 May 2019

05 May 2019

30 April 2019

11 April 2019

31 March 2019

27 March 2019

I have withdrawn from the world

09 March 2019

05 March 2019

Not Without Reason

King Henry in the Playpen

02 March 2019

14 February 2019

29 January 2019

19 January 2019

For the Love of Aristotle

13 January 2019

Nixon at the Threshold of the Lincoln Memorial

America or Aristotle

04 January 2019

31 December 2018

13 December 2018

America (Northeast)

14 November 2018

“Romance Revisited,” revisited

09 November 2018

24 October 2018

All Has Been Forsaken

02 October 2018

Lone wolf howls

11 September 2018

19 August 2018

Bird sits still

01 August 2018

10 May 2018

21 April 2018

The Secrets of Country Living

01 April 2018

A walk through a graveyard

16 October 2017

A silence that no one has heard

22 September 2017

Open onto other things

12 September 2017

To Men on Women

24 May 2017

Made In America

22 May 2017

28 April 2017

25 April 2017

06 April 2017

The New Science

The Bird in the Glue Trap

02 January 2017

Out to Plant a Garden

03 November 2016

children of terror

28 October 2016

17 October 2016

The End of Time

22 September 2016

Why write poetry

Notes for Mr. Pound

Child you are the water

If God Speaks, He Whispers

08 September 2016

The day is dark

06 August 2016

Valediction to Images

The End of Suffering

For an Old Lover

04 August 2016

The bigness of the sky

02 May 2016

02 April 2016

05 March 2016

26 January 2016

The Great Mortality (Famine, Death, Rebirth)

18 January 2016

14 January 2016

Scents of the Divine

24 December 2015

23 December 2015

If there are still men

29 November 2015

Egotism spreads

24 October 2015

Fragments Shored Against Ruin

20 August 2015

26 July 2015

There are no words

20 July 2015

I have wandered streets

15 July 2015

There is too much noise

04 July 2015

29 May 2015

07 May 2015

Romance Revisited

04 April 2015

05 February 2015

24 July 2014

14 April 2014

Perspicuity (For Example)

05 March 2014

24 February 2014

29 January 2014

22 October 2010

10 August 2010

The man who knows

Index

A Blend of Struggles

A culture in which we can thrive

A Home of My Own Design

A more tolerant order

A Platonist declares

A Raid on Delphi

A Resonant Ordeal

A Seat at the Table

A Signal in Smoke

A silence that no one has heard

A Time for Beginning

A Time is Coming

A walk through a graveyard

After "A Late Walk" by Robert Frost

Afterthought on the Romantics

Against Ice Sculptures

Ahura Mazda (the Question Remains)

All Has Been Forsaken

All Man Has Been

All Must Again Be Decided

All past times are terrible

All that could be lost again

All the Tender Pathos

All Those Ages Ago

America (Northeast)

America or Aristotle

Amidst the shadows

An Ear to the Whole

Ancient Masters

Angry, Solid Blue

Another Destination

Another Life Beckons

Approaching Song

As All Time Passes By

As If Love Can't Be Questioned

As Life May Yet Be

As Only You Can

Ave Maris Stella

Back to the Mines

Banishing Night

Barrel of Monkeys

Beatific Visions

Beatrice Among the Daffodils

Beatrice and Penelope

Believe in the Dawn

Belly of the Whale

Better Judgment

Beyond the Locked Door

Bird sits still

Bones (How Things Stand)

Bones on the Inside

Both How and Why

Both True and False

Burning Burning Burning

Calmly Without Fear

Can It Make Us Happy?

Can't Be Put Out

Caught in the Gears

Chiaroscuro Girl

Child you are the water

children of terror

Civilization for the First Time

Clarity is like Death

Clothes Back On

Connections Worth Having

Corners of Strangeness

Crimson Days in the Depths of Time

Cultural Marxism

Darkness Becomes You

Deciding What To Do

Discard Them Already

Doctor of Words

Egotism spreads

Emptiness That None Can Understand

Ever Ready to Blossom Again

Everyone's Wrong

Extended Silence

Father Knows Best

Feet Firmly Planted on Earth

Few and Far Between

Flood (Too Much Speaking)

For an Old Lover

For the Innocent

For the Love of Aristotle

Forever To Yourself Be True

Fragments Shored Against Ruin

From Time to Time

Good Left Undone

Had You Been There

Hard to Explain

Hardly Beginning

Hardly two millennia

Heidegger in Japan

Help and Not Harm

Her Sky (New At Last)

Hitler's Bunker

Home From Elysium

I could do no other

I could go to her

I have known women

I have wandered streets

I have withdrawn from the world

I Know How You Feel

I speak for the people

If Any Vigor Remains

If God Speaks, He Whispers

If he would speak today

If I Yearn For More

If there are still men

If tomorrow will be any better

In the Beginning

In the depths of it

In this hour of wakening

Inexorably Ever After

It is not for me

It may also help you

Itself as a Prize

Journeying Ones

Just Let Me Know

Just One Moment More

Keener Insight and Better Plans

Kennedy's Peace

Kindle the Flame

King Henry in the Playpen

Lady in the Dark

Lady in the Rain

Lady in the Temple

Larger Accomplishments (Pragmatism)

Less Imposing Principles

Less perfect than it seemed

Liberty and Justice

Life Is Strange

Life Over Victory

Light Bent by Earth

Lincoln's Memory

Lone wolf howls

Lord will it also be sweet

Love Can Be Done

Love conquers little

Love is a flame

Love Must Come True

Machine State of Mind

Made In America

Make Me More Worthy

Make my dreams true

Make Ourselves Anew

Many, Instead of One

Maybe for the Last Time

Meant For Your Ears

Menagerie of Rules

More alarming by the day

More Than One Power

Mulch by the Scoop

Myth at Twilight

Naked But Unashamed

Never Been Wrong

Never What It Used To Be

Night Sweats of the American Dream

Nixon at the Threshold of the Lincoln Memorial

No Day But Today

No Entry Beyond

No Matter How Civilized

No Single Force

No Will to Deceive

Not All is Lost

Not even sure who to ask

Not Meant For This World

Not Quite At Peace

Not So Useful Anymore

Not Sole Composer

Not What I Hoped

Not Without Reason

Notes for Mr. Pound

Nothing but Chaos

Nothing Changes

Nutrition by Faith Alone

On the Side of the Earth

On Whose Authority

One of Those Days

Only in the Waiting

Only Your Heart

Open onto other things

Out on the Frontier

Out there in history

Out to Plant a Garden

Outside the Law

Over the Atlantic

Pain That One Calls Home

Passion chokes out thinking

Perspicuity (For Example)

Phalanx of Mind

Phenomenology of Science

Plant in the Dark

Plants in Their Soil

Pliable by Nature

Quiet, Quiet River

Ready For Change

Reasonable Measure

Red Tinge on East Star

Response to a Query

Rest and Recover

Romance Revisited

“Romance Revisited,” revisited

Rule By Consent

Saving Daylight

Saying New Sayings

Scents of the Divine

Scheduled Procreation

Science and Technology

Seeking Authorization

Sense of the Darkness

Shadow (Wherever Light Shines)

Shattered Image, Fallen Breast

Short of a Miracle

Sick With Struggle

Slumber Much Better

Small All the Same

Socrates and Confucius

Someone Tell Wittgenstein

Something About Plato

Somewhere Other Than Belief

Somewhere She Smiles

Somewhere, Somehow

Speak It Out Loud

Spring Cleaning

Stop the Bombing

Strangeness of the Ordinary

Streets I Never Knew

Stronger Knowledge

Submission in Disguise

Such Surprises Must Be

Surely We Know Best

Talking To Myself

Teach Me How To Love You

Terror Remembered

Tethered to Freedom

That Hollow Moon

That which wants to be said

The bigness of the sky

The Bird in the Glue Trap

The Center (Contra Hegel)

The Central Dream

The Curtain Falls

The day is dark

The Discipline of Virtue

The Dream of the Birds

The Drums of Alexander

The End of Suffering

The End of Time

The Enduring and Unchanging Dao

The Eternal Dance

The Form of the Matter

The Fulcrum of Time

The Girl and the Stag

The Gospel According to Us

The Great Mortality (Famine, Death, Rebirth)

The Great Motion

The Ground is Lava

The Hard Rock of Reality

The hollow part of me

The House of the Dead

The House of the Dead II

The Lady Sings for Hobbes

The Lady Speaks of Progress

The Loss of Justice

The man who knows

The Most Peaceful Stream

The New Frontier

The New Science

The One That Deserves To Be Heard

The one who will understand

The Pain of Knowledge

The Presence of Love

The Promise of the Lady

The Punished Become The Punishers

The Quest for the Immortal Self

The Question of Democracy

The Realm of Reason

The Secrets of Country Living

The Ship of Rome

The soil we have tilled

The Sound a Plant Makes

The Source of Most Problems

The Task of Man

The Throne of Cyrus

The Troubles of Love

The View Is Lovely

The Way of the Night

The Wind and My Place in It

The wind in the leaves

The Winds of Change

There are no words

There is too much noise

They Don't Even Know

They May Be Right

They prefer the abuse

Thing in Progress

Things Themselves

Things Unseen Though Known

Think Not Absolutely

Thinking Begins

Thinking Deeply

This And No Other

This Secret Warmth

This Way Forever

Thorns and Briars

Through All Our Fears

Through her I see

Through the Horizon

Through the Unknown

Time Is Coming Soon

To Even Have a Dream

To Men on Women

To Tell This To You, or Changing of the Gods

To the Girl Behind the Pharmacy Counter

Touch and Soothe

Trust and Open Dialogue

Trust or Freedom

Turning the Page

Twilight Over Virginia

Two Black Sheep

Unauthorized thinking

Uncertain Times

Uncivilized After All These Years

Valediction to Images

Vassals of Despair

Vortex Afterglow

Wait For Another

Wait, Think, Speak

Walking the Line

Wander on Stormy Seas

Wandering Sheep

Wane and Dwindle

We Silly Mammals

We were always at war with nature

Westward Ticket

What calls for poetry?

What Surprises Remain

What time is this

What Waiting Means

What Your Desire Is For

What Your Longing Requires

Whatever This Call Entails

What's Best For You

When a man loves

When Called to Build

Where it Belongs

Where They Can See You

Where True Power Lies

Where You Are Stepping

Who Does the Promising?

Who is in charge here

Who You Are (Out of the Chrysalis)

Why write poetry

Wisely in Spite of Ignorance

With Great Justice

Woken by Storms

Worth Something

Wouldnt it be nice

Yeats' Footsteps

You Are The Way

You Carry It Always