La Toussaint — All Saints’ Day — Emile Friant (1863–1932) — public domain first days of November and Flanders’ graveyards bloom to the...

In Autumn Woods - Winslow Homer (1836-1910) - public domain watch the chaos of the wind-swept autumn leaves swirling in the yard trying...

paying my respects to mother nature Worthington glacier, Alaska - photo by authour© One of Four nothing withstands my infinite strength...

Church Graveyard, Barfleur, Normandy - photo by author © often do I come here to rest my hands on these time-tilted tombs cracked and...

Old postcard picture of the Trench of Death, Flanders, Belgium — public domain In my lifetime, I’ve been to these two disparate frontline...

Das Geheimnis (The Secret) — Felix Nussbaum (1904, Osnabrück–1944, Auschwitz) — public domain Listen. Listen! Can’t you hear? The old...

The Tower of Babel — Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1526/1530–1569) — public domain July 1983 — when AIDS first raised its ugly epidemic head...

Alpine Kitchen — Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938) — public domain they were cold days those old days when we braved the winters in short...

The Blind Beggar — Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848–1884) — public domain new moon on the rise and on this dark and empty beach I rage and rage...

La blanchisseuse — Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) — public domain mother hangs the linen and god how empty do I look pinned up by the cuffs...

Farmer with a Pitchfork — Winslow Homer (1836–1910) — public domain slipping into life’s late afternoon I watch my shadow grow and bloat...

Girl Singing to a Lute — Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) — public domain Dear friends, if you agree with me, that poetry is the...

Mother at her Child’s Bed — Christian Krohg (1852–1925) — public domain — this file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution...

The Beggar — Edvard Munch (1863–1944) — public domain roaming the streets of Paris like some latter-day Hemingway homeless and down on...

Fiolspelare (The Violinist )— Pekka Halonen (1865-1933) — public domain no violin is made of a single type of wood and what the master...

Three Children Near a Road Sign — Tadeusz Makowski (1882–1932) — public domain pried loose by rain and wind the signpost at the...

Die Lebensstufen — The Stages of Life — Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) — public domain unfurl and hoist your tattered sails steer the...

Loki cuts the hair of the goddess Sif. An illustration by Willy Pogany from the chapter “How Loki wrought mischief on Asgard” in Children...

Two Lovers Beneath an Umbrella in the Snow  Suzuki Harunobu (1725 (?)-1770) — public domain she moves in colours only I can see to music...

Two oldtimers playing chess on a Central Park bench in New York City, May 1946. National Archives — public domain toting their armies in...