Danielle Keen is an 18-year-old college sophomore attending Post University. She loves making all types of art, and is also interested in...

based on an English nursery rhyme Timeless and true the eyes of history have fallen on you Hark, hark! the dogs do bark, Beggars are...

We are not better than our dark behavior We are culpable in all regards On the other hand We are not worse than our better angels We are...

I am not the facts not the policies I’m neither expert nor example I’m not the doer of deeds be they great or small I am instead the...

The Clown is in the candy store Wrecking havoc with all the toys The Beast still roams the countryside Still making all the noise Rubber...

I've made my mind up in totality This all started with Virtual Reality I know fake news can give you the blues Whichever side you're on...

If you seek redemption, I can't tell you how or where to find it But I think I know where it likely lives Crouched in some dark crevice...

The human race is in a hell of a place when we try to erase truth from the face of the earth we disgrace as we spoil the soil and pollute...

When I'm' in my cups- communing with my dark side I tend to view history with a jaundiced eye Wasn't there a time when Millard Taft and...

I See You Whitey through the thin veneer of your cutting eyes And I explore the core of your copious rage Rage that you have been...

No exit strategy for the Civil War Because it never ended We just laid low for 175 years Stuck our heads up for a minute back in the 60's...

The essay called My Life Disposed with full and flowing sentences Floating on a current of well positioned thought Wise in solemn syntax...

Is it a history lesson Or a sign of the times A morality play Or just the same old shit On a different day Fear seems rooted in our DNA...

I am not a white man Or any other color of Any other man And I will be damned If I let you call me ‘Other’ And please do not presume to...

THIRTY YEARS TOO LATE FOR THE PARTY Foot on log, hand on knee; old photograph of me, Crater Lake and my jeans, same blue hue, Denim...

A CAREGIVER'S DAYDREAM To escape this moment, this here, this now I launch dreams forward or exhausted, drift back, So hard to dwell...

Feelings of emptiness Feelings of emptiness all around me Feelings gone numb Feelings of the memories no more Feelings once alive now...

Contrarians’ Creed Welcome to the Bard's Contrarian Bar where things are nearly never what you think they are Take the seven deadly sins...

Reading, Writing, editing and crochet So many things to do day by day My mind’s in a whirl, I can’t find my way Because I’m all over the...