‘The Captain’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society June 6, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments The captain stood amidst his crew, and wiped the bar for someone new. To make them laugh he'd tell a joke and light himself another smoke to cover up the smell of gin, And lasting feelings of...
‘Dear Editor’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 5, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 27 Comments Dear Editor, My odes are grandiose and overblown With pudgy gluts of stodgy adjectives In floods of flabby babble prone to drone, All topped with tired, archaic additives. Forsooth, methinks the...
A Dizi Gui Translation: Chinese Children’s Poetry The Society June 4, 2020 Beauty, Children's, Culture, Poetry, Translation 9 Comments The Dizi Gui (弟子规) is an ancient Chinese text for children that was written in the Qing Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Kangxi (康熙帝) (1661-1722) by Li Yuxiu. Below are excerpts from the...
A Poem on the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom, and Other Related Poetry The Society June 3, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 5 Comments The Director General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom by Sarban Bhattacharya His accent’s weird, his hair is pretty grey, He is too calm to get into a fray. His moustache bears the villainy of the...
‘Elegy on a Strauss Waltz’ by Adam Sedia The Society June 3, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 13 Comments The room fills with a charming melody— A choir of violins in soaring flight With basses, cellos pulsing—one, two, three— Drum-snaps, flute-trills, horn-calls, rich and bright— A dance of...
‘Parade of the Ten Thousand’ by Rupert Palmer The Society June 2, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Poet's note: This poem is built upon an episode from Xenophon’s Anabasis, in which the Ten Thousand, Greek mercenaries in the employ of Cyrus the Younger, the ambitious brother of the king of Persia, are...
‘On Reading Irish Saints’ Lives’ by T.M. Moore The Society June 1, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments When reading Irish hagiography, a few instructions should be borne in mind: First, don’t mistake this for the history you’ve read before, or might expect to find in some thick tome....
A Poem for the George Floyd Riots: ‘The Second Coming’ by W.B. Yeats The Society May 31, 2020 Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video 9 Comments Video and reading by Rob...
‘When You Love’ and Other Poetry by Michael Charles Maibach The Society May 31, 2020 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 28 Comments When You Love When you love The heart of one, Life makes sense With each new sun. You start each day With thoughts of her. You do your best “We” must endure. To be the man She sees in...
A Coronavirus Triolet and Other Poetry The Society May 30, 2020 Coronavirus, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments A Grave Sin by Satyananda Sarangi How grave's this sin of man to shatter man! The human touch is dreaded, faith has fled; I think of God to find a way and scan How grave's this sin of man to...
