‘A Cello Knows’ and Other Poetry by Andrew Todd Ramirez The Society April 23, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments A Cello Knows Amidst the smoke and light and laughter Along the smiles and cheers thereafter A sound is bled, wrung free from strings It bounds and treads and wholly sings Inside each song, a secret’s...
Rhyming Poems for Poem in Your Pocket Day The Society April 22, 2018 Beauty, Culture, For Educators, From the Society, Poetry 2 Comments April 26 is Poem in Your Pocket Day, part of National Poetry Month. On this day, people are encouraged to carry a poem in their pockets and share it with others. Below are recommended rhyming poems for this...
‘Sestina of Night’ by Karen Melander Magoon The Society April 21, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Poetry Forms 3 Comments The lamp holds sway along the shadowed streets A penumbra encircles its sweet shine As night rests softly like a feathered cloak Upon a multitude of dancing stars And night and stars and lamp become a...
‘Fear’ and Other Poetry by Amy Foreman The Society April 20, 2018 Culture, Poetry, Short Stories 27 Comments Fear A ballad I said to Fear, “Away from here!” And, softly, he withdrew. But, lost in thought, I plain forgot To bar the door anew. So Faith and I sat down to try And chat the night away. But...
A Casida by Sam Gilliland The Society April 19, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments From Lost Love & Other Lyrics A casida Sleep, the enemy of inspiration, An unlikely ally that hangs around, With dawn’s rebirth, cause for celebration. Dreams, their rites of passage are at my...
‘The Night’ by Sathya Narayana The Society April 18, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 22 Comments Wee hours, when crickets tune their eerie cords and hoot the yawning owls at twinkling stars; the night-maid roves seesaw, like a drunken bard, besmeared with stripes of billion...
‘How Can We Know?’ and Other Poetry by Caroline Bardwell The Society April 17, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments How Can We Know? A villanelle How can we know where we go when we die; Pondering signs, looking up at the sky, Wondering if Someone's hearing my cry? Which religion is right, which one a lie? Too...
‘Lament for Hymns, We Cease to Die’ by David Hollywood The Society April 16, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments Part 1 Between a teardrop and the heart, We sense our feelings weakened, mourn, For sadness as the tones impart A sound perceived and now forlorn. Opposing songs composed, to ache, Before their...
‘Itinerant Poet’ by Leonard Dabydeen The Society April 15, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments “The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” ~ Louis L’Amour You are not alone on this wind-rush march, Itinerant ink scribing papyrus Upon demands and deadlines flaming torch; Or over...
‘War Is Natural’ and Other Poetry by David Paul Behrens The Society April 14, 2018 Poetry 10 Comments War Is Natural To rise above the plane of earth Where war continues since my birth, I find that war is natural, And in this world habitual. It’s human nature, so it seems And nature’s calling in...
