Poetry

"For years it was a briar patch..."

"...speaking the living truth..."

"...The bard’s pen built a bond..."

A rengay collaboration

"...We all live for something..."

M. Benjamin Thorne is an Associate Professor of Modern European History at Wingate University. Possessed of a lifelong love of history and poetry, he is interested in exploring the synergy between the two.

"...the tender, the kind, the caring..."

"...It smells something strange – human..."

"...the germinating seed that grows..."

"...Chaos scrambles the pattern’s picture..."

2025 Kumbh Mela Tragedy

"...Love needs restraint..."

"I want to honour the dead..."

"...borrowed gear and a borrowed drummer..."

"Love songs among the 5lbs bags of potatoes..."

"...As a child I was told the cruel history..."

"Found under the bed..."

To the point...

"...strings of frozen drops dangling on twigs..."

"...we rushed the cramped arcade and made it our domain..."

"...some digital platforms are awash with disinformation..."

"...she was a child of life..."

"It is the winters I still remember..."

"...i’ve noticed 2 grammar mistakes in the story by THE END..."

"...the lunatic is out and has unleashed his dogs of war..."

"...Heroes tragic, dead souls arising..."

"...veterans of these salty blasts..."

"...I’ll run downstairs through hallways into bursts of blue..."

"...I will write till nature is rightly nurtured..."

Haiku. Part of the ongoing series, reflecting the life and times, especially in this part of the globe.