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“Mrs. Reynold’s Cat” by John Keats
Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on this poem) Mrs Reynold’s Cat, by John Keats Cat! who hast passed thy grand climacteric, How many mice and rats hast in thy days...
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“White Linen Casual, No Shoes” by Stephen Colbert and Co.
Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on this selection) The Oboe Player, oil on canvas, by Thomas Eakins, 1903“White Linen Casual, No Shoes,” by Stephen Colbert and Co. Gay...
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“On Fame” by John Keats
Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on this poem) Portrait of John Keats by the English painter William HiltonOn Fame by John Keats I. Fame, like a wayward girl, will still...
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“To Contradiction” (My India Tour Continued) by Zireaux
Indian Film Star, Sushmita SenA distant homeland, far-off terra. And when I spoke to little Clara on Sheela’s cell-phone yesterday, she asked me why I’ve kept away. “My work,” I wept. “How’s your...
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“Mad Maud’s Four Dreams,” by Melissa Green
Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on this poem) Mad Maud’s Four Dreams by Melissa Green Once seized by sleep I dreamt I was captived at Bridewell where all trulls and...
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“Dippity Bix” and “Chimpanzee,” by Kath and Kim (Gina Riley and Jane Turner)
Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on these works) Kath (Jane Turner) and Kim (Gina Riley) at the Fountain Gate Mall.“Dippity Bix” Kim: You know what, mum. I’ve stopped my...
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O Fertile Land! O Swollen Gland! — Stanzas 150 to 155
Blues vs. Crusaders: A match made in heaven.Res Publica, Book One, Canto the Third Canto the Third: Amends to the Albatross How our narrator convinces his business-minded wife to loan him some money so...
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“Sonnet of a Teenage Girl”— and a recap of Kamal before we proceed…
Our dVerse readers and poets are hankering for a sonnet. Very well. Given that the hero of our story — Kamal — is a teenager, let me offer something from a youth’s perspective, the sort of thing...
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“The Great Master Blaze”
Black Enterprise MagazineIn the previous episode (“The Limbo Bimbo”), Kamal awakes, undressed, in a strange bedroom with his rescuers — Loraine and her assistant, Chantelle. Loraine is busy with her...
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“At Melville’s Tomb” by Hart Crane
Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on this poem) Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge The dice of drowned men’s bones he saw bequeath An embassy. Their numbers as he...
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