poetry

Addictive Designs

Addictive Designs   Originally published in Orchids magazine, this remains the only poem published by this magazine of the American Orchid Society, since it’s 1932 inception. James Ph. Kotsybar   Renowned for what he’d long ago begun, John tried to take a step back from his life and figure out just what it was he’d […]

Read more "Addictive Designs"

Natural Selection

Natural Selection first appeared in Poetic Justice in 1984. Note: Barnacles begin life as free swimming crustaceans, but, at maturity, secrete the strongest known natural glue in which to secure their heads, and for the rest of their lives they remain stationary, kicking food into their mouths, using their legs as syphoning filters for plankton. […]

Read more "Natural Selection"

Beastly Obsession

🎼🎤 🎶 play This offering is just a little treat for Halloween.  It is the first of what I call my expanded sonnets, sonnet squared or sonnet sets.  Each is composed of 14 Shakespearean sonnets (196 lines of poetry), and ends with the last two sonnets having the same, but transposed rhyme scheme, so as to […]

Read more "Beastly Obsession"

Poetry And Science

Poetry and Science Science tries to answer some great questions, in fact the greatest questions of our day. At very least, it offers suggestions for how to frame these questions, anyway. This role is one that poets, too, have played. Both correlate their data to convey their particular premise and persuade, or at least to […]

Read more "Poetry And Science"