In honor of Dan "Steinbog" Steinberg's new look, I was moved to compose my first villanelle ever!

The blust'ry winter winds are soon to go ( Read more... )

In honor of the ongoing Shakespeare festival, I'm inviting topical sonnets from you, my long-suffering, gentle readers. Sonnets need not be Shakespearean--Petrarchan and Spenserian forms are acceptable--but must be topical to DC or the surrounding area.

I'll begin.

Upon our District, prosperous and proud ( Read more... )

Yay, my sonnets are now officially featured on the DC Sports Bog.

Another sonnet I put on the DC Sports Bog Poetry SlamA fickle, willful mistress Fortune is ( Read more... )

This was in response to a challenge on the DC Sports Bog ( Read more... )

Be not the first by whom the New are try'd ( Read more... )

Good news, my young, upwardly-mobile friends: the housing bubble is bursting!. Or at least some people think.

Why should I express delight at this? Surely this is a Bad Thing, certain to plunge the economy into Recession and Depression. Well, yeah, sure. But being the self-centered, egoistic Homo economicus I am, all I see in depression is ( Read more... )

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the revolution will not be televised.
( Gil Scott Heron! )

Lo dije siempre, y lo diré, y lo digo ( Read more... )

Nunc dimittis servum tuum, Domine
Secundum verbum tuum in pace:
Quia viderunt oculi mei salutare tuum
Quod parasti ante faciem omnium populorum
Lumen ad revelationem gentium,
Et gloriam plebis tuae Israel.Now dismiss Thy servant, O Lord ( Read more... )