‘Passage in Venice’: A Poem by Royal Rhodes The Society November 29, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments They mix together here waiting for the trim black and gold gondolas heading into side canals that drain and brim with refuse and will...
‘Famine de l’âme’ by Anna J. Arredondo The Society November 28, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 21 Comments Famine de l'âme The soul, deprived of one essential thing, Cannot rely on dusty stores of hope; Seeking to mitigate starvation's...
‘A Sonnet for the Citizens’ by Claude Clayton Smith The Society November 27, 2020 Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 2 Comments —for Li Hongzhi The unacknowledged legislators know the truth: the Buddha shows one thousand hands to foster heaven’s circulation,...
‘Crying Fowl’: A Thanksgiving Day Poem by C.B. Anderson The Society November 26, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 29 Comments The turkey that we blithely ate Had little cause to celebrate The final Thursday in November. It's customary to dismember A hapless...
A Covid Thanksgiving Poem and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 26, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 53 Comments Thanksgiving 1984 2020 Wear a mask until you eat and never touch your face. Muzzle up between each bite and when you’re saying grace. No...
‘The Cracks of Doom’ by James A. Tweedie The Society November 25, 2020 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Pandemic epidemic, fever, chills; As viral spiral sickens, quickens, kills. We’re tasked and masked with no place left to go. A...
‘Where Are the Leaves?’: A Late Autumn Rondeau by Jeff Kemper The Society November 25, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 21 Comments Where are the leaves that branches bore? They’re falling fast on forest floor, A cornucopia outspread, Of orange, yellow, brown, and...
‘This Grief of Mine’ by Sally Sandler The Society November 25, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments Don’t place your limits on this grief of mine or try to cheer me out of feeling sorrow. I need to wear it for a longer time and...
‘Shisendo, Hall of the Poetry Immortals’ by Margaret Coats The Society November 24, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Video 15 Comments The Shisendō is a hideaway villa in the eastern hills of Kyoto, Japan, created by poet and calligrapher Jōzan Ishikawa (1583–1672) as a...
On the History of Cricket, and Other Poetry by Jeff Eardley The Society November 23, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments Cricket The game of Cricket, I’ll relate, Goes back to fifteen fifty-eight, Upon a field in Guildford way, In Surrey, many miles...
‘Mozart on his Kegelstatt Trio’ and Other Poetry by Julian Woodruff The Society November 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Music, Poetry 28 Comments Mozart on His Kegelstatt Trio Quite recently I wrote a little trio While wasting time at skittles with some friends. We needed something for the...
Poems on a World Full of Lies, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 21, 2020 Culture, Poetry 42 Comments Hearts of Darkness a rondeau redoublé A heart of darkness mocks and flouts the rules. It robs our orb of honesty and light. It tempts then...
‘The Mask’ and Other Poetry by Peter Venable The Society November 21, 2020 Poetry 1 Comment The Mask Sin wears a cherubic mask And beams forth paradise. “Come in, recline, and bask.” The discerning eye looks twice: The gate...
A Fable about Cancel Culture: ‘Vulture Culture’ by Christopher Lindsay The Society November 20, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 6 Comments Above the clouds, a vulture soars, the leader of a culture war. The bird of prey is wide awake, ready to punish grave mistakes. A rooster crows...
‘The Violence in Philadelphia’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society November 19, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 7 Comments The Violence in Philadelphia “Par le regne des maleureux chetis“ —Eustache Deschamps by Urbawel Cidese Say first what caused the...
‘All Divinity Is Love or Wonder’ and Other Poetry by Cindy Hill The Society November 18, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments All Divinity Is Love or Wonder* New Harbor October 2020 All Divinity is love or wonder. The moon pulls up the sea, while rocks plunge...
‘To Know the Mobs of Modern Days’ by Jared Pearman The Society November 18, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 8 Comments Originally Published by the SCP on November 24, 2019 dedicated to my wife, who was mobbed and defamed for political gains They've come...
On the Main Stream Media’s Fake News, a Poem by Russel Winick The Society November 17, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 14 Comments Truthfulness I walked through our lovely suburban downtown, Which always is ranked as the best. But everywhere windows and doors had gone...
‘On Romantic Longing’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society November 17, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments On Romantic Longing* Was it when autumn filled the air With musty smells and chimney smoke, This feeling in me first awoke, Which...
‘Pope Urban II Sonnet-Speech, Clermont, 1095’ and Other Poetry by Paul A. Freeman The Society November 16, 2020 Beauty, Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments Pope Urban II Sonnet-Speech, Clermont, 1095 Oh Noblemen, I’m charged by God to warn that Christendom is threatened by the Turk. Torched...
Winners of the ‘Napa Valley Winery’ Ekphrastic Poetry Contest The Society November 15, 2020 Beauty, Ekphrastic, Poetry, Poetry Contests 13 Comments Thank you to everyone who participated! This was a great effort for a meaningful purpose: the recent burning down of the Chateau Boswell winery in...
Three Translations of Goethe and an Original Musical Setting for One of Them, by James A. Tweedie The Society November 15, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Readings, Translation 15 Comments Introductory Note These paraphrased translations represent three short poems composed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a person so well-known that I...
A Poem on Losing Someone to Motor Neuron Disease (MND), by Peter Hartley The Society November 14, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments A Wheelchair They kept their car-doors shut and windows closed, Nor left their house but stayed inside, disposed To hide if D were waiting...
Three Poems for My Wife, by Jeff Kemper The Society November 13, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 13 Comments On Marriage I married a girl named Sue And alas! She married me too! As Then, So Now When years ago and many ages...
Two Poems Critical of Communist Regimes, by Brian Yapko The Society November 12, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 14 Comments On a Turtle of Broken Jade The tiny turtle made of milky jade Was smuggled by Jun’s parents from afar Evoking memories that flame and...
An Exercise in Dactylics: ‘Love’s Song and Dance’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society November 11, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 23 Comments She was the one who approached me and spoke, Saying my lectures had swept her away. Maybe we could have occasional chats After class...
Veteran’s Day 2020 Poem: ‘Remembering’ by James A. Tweedie The Society November 11, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments Thoughts following a visit to the World War 2 National Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. Eugene Ovid Lambert was my...
Poetry on Voter Fraud Across the Nation The Society November 11, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 7 Comments On Voter Fraud after Li Hongzhi’s poem "On the General Election" by Evan Mantyk Is chivalry dead in the hearts of the people? I knew...
‘Mary Le Cuisinier’ by Beverly Stock The Society November 10, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments Mary had a little lamb His fleece was white as snow. This little lamb, we’ll call him Stan, Starred at a livestock show. Stan...
Poems for Remembrance Day 2020 The Society November 9, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments Remember, Remember… by Susan Jarvis Bryant No thankful foot falls on the London street In honour of our brave and voiceless...
‘Shooting Star’ and Other Poetry by Shari Jo LeKane The Society November 9, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments Shooting Star Upon the early fall of night my eyes behold a shooting star, electric streak in twilight sea, now here alive, then gone you...
The Aeneid, Book I, Lines 1-50: A Rhyming Translation by Len Krisak The Society November 8, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry, Translation 4 Comments The complete new translation can found from Hackett Publishing here. My poem sings of one man forced from Troy by war. Fate harried him to find a...
‘Poem for the Second Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society November 7, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Readings 16 Comments originally published on November 2, 2020 on MacKenzie Lyric Poetry Where shall they hide now, the merchants of death, Who cloaked our eyes and...
‘Perfectionist Inclined’ and Other Poetry by Lynn Kong The Society November 7, 2020 Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry 8 Comments Perfectionist Inclined Maligned by self-encasing brine, defined By certainty's demise, self-image lies Within a shrine. Perfectionist...
A Poem on Voter Fraud: ‘God Knows!’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 6, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 45 Comments “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” ---Albert Einstein The issue...
‘Yearning for Castles and Gargoyles’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Kemper The Society November 6, 2020 Art, Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 11 Comments Yearning for Castles and Gargoyles Among the towers never made of ivory, protruding lewdly over walls of mottled stone, misshapen forms,...
‘The Ballad of Babi Yar’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society November 5, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 16 Comments Over 100,00 people were killed at Babi Yar between September 29, 1941 and November 6, 1943. Oh, come and gather round to hear This story...
‘Isaac’ and Other Poetry by J.R. Solonche The Society November 5, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments Isaac They woke no earlier than usual, just dawn, as though it were another day of tending flocks. At once he saw the way was different,...
A Poem on Voter Fraud: ‘Red Skies’ and Others by Bruce Dale Wise The Society November 4, 2020 Culture, Poetry 28 Comments Red Skies by Usa W. Celebride Along th’ Atlantic Ocean and around the grand Great Lakes, on the horizon one can see the bright, blue...
‘A Verse for the Morning After’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society November 4, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments A Verse for the Morning After As thieves and pirates count our votes And set us at each other’s throats And fiddle while our cities...
