‘The Captive Caesar’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society August 17, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 6 Comments all poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Captive Caesar by Aedile Cwerbus Though it was many years ago, millennia, in fact, it seems, like yesterday, when Caesar's ship-trip was attacked. He had gone off to...
‘Bucket-Kicking Musings’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society August 16, 2019 Humor, Poetry 23 Comments Bucket-Kicking Musings “Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” —Mark Twain When my mortal coil has shuffled off, I’ll not lie in the buff; I’ll rock a chic...
A Poem for the 50-Year Anniversary of Woodstock, by Daniel R. Leach The Society August 15, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 12 Comments The Devil at Woodstock I was a mere sixteen that Summer day We all piled in a beat-up car and drove To Woodstock, or someplace we had been told That a great spectacle was to occur— An earth-shaking...
‘Beyond Scientism’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society August 14, 2019 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments Beyond Scientism Old wives’ tales, humble kin of ancient lore, Like road signs carved in stone are durable. Traditionists are deemed incurable By bright authorities who can’t ignore A single...
‘Gray’ and Other Poetry by T.M. Moore The Society August 13, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments Gray I feel a certain loyalty to gray. Gray days, gray sweaters, cars - gray everything. Gray soothes and calms. It doesn’t boast, or fling itself before you like some shades do (they know who they...
Poetry, Beauty and the Modern Era: Essay by James Sale The Society August 12, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Epic, Essays, Poetry 19 Comments One interesting question is ‘why poetry, specifically?’ I am currently writing an ‘epic’ called The English Cantos, and I have chosen to write my epic in terza rima. There are many forms of...
‘Faith’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant The Society August 11, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 11 Comments Faith I'm pond scum, someone said today. Some soup primordial, in a bay was struck by lightning. Oh, I see I'm wrought by electricity... then, look! it’s a bacterium who, in a deep delirium, decided...
A Poem on Ned Kelly: Australian Bushranger, by David Watt The Society August 10, 2019 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Ned’s Revision Ned Kelly was an outlaw, of humble Irish stock; Born to Australian parents who farmed a rural block. Assault at fourteen years of age drew police attention, And further charges followed,...
‘Do I Remember?’ by Martin Rizley The Society August 9, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments Do I remember him? How could I fail To think of that tender boy, handsome and hail, Zealous and hearty, his muscles in tone, Who once climbed these ancient hills, cycling alone? He’d...
‘Sebastian’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society August 8, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments An ode to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Sebastian: from Greek “venerable” I touch the pages of your music. Then My thoughts transport to times and distant sounds Where you once dwelt. I think of...
