‘Uni-verse’ by Alan Nordstrom The Society June 30, 2013 Poetry 1 Comment Implicitly the Cosmos has design, Just as I hold the pattern in my mind Of how this sonnet’s feet and rhymes align With where some latent motive is inclined. One cannot see the sonnet’s form...
A Sonnet for Falun Dafa Day by Evan Mantyk The Society June 29, 2013 Beauty, Culture, Poetry Written in May 2010 / Revised April 2020 Trumpets blast and Heaven opens, light shoots through, Gods of all the Kingdoms smile now anew, Legions of celestial soldiers stand, salute, Drumbeats sound between...
Painter Erik Koeppel Revives an American Tradition The Society June 29, 2013 Art By Mary Byrom Last year, painter Erik Koeppel left New York City’s big art scene behind. He moved to a small town surrounded by the picturesque White Mountain National Forest. Yet far from disappearing...
Painting: ‘Metamorphosis’ by Steven J. Levin The Society June 26, 2013 Art 2 Comments Steven J. Levin was born in Minneapolis MN in 1964. His interest in art began early, when as a young boy, Levin would spend hours drawing alongside his father, a commercial artist. Recognizing his talent...
Sonnet on Giorgione’s ‘Tempest’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society June 24, 2013 Art, Poetry Near a brief flash of lightning sits a bird, a white one on a gray and sloping roof, and rests against big blue clouds, like a surd, almost absurd, incapable of proof; and down below some city buildings...
‘Portrait of a God’ by Evan Mantyk The Society June 21, 2013 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment God of men who’s dressed in white, Beard on face of long brown hair, Halo pattern traced in light, Nimbus flowing through the air. Glowing skin with mercy shines, Ancient toga wraps His frame, Fabric...
‘An Oklahoma Nightmare’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society June 19, 2013 Poetry An Oklahoma Nightmare Leashed from the continent, it flew— on 20 May 2013— and caught the currents of the airy blue— colliding winds that swirled above—whirling. Sweet Jesus, the tornado's...
‘Pastoral’ by Brandon Briggs The Society June 17, 2013 Poetry 1 Comment In meadows green and pastures sweet, My love and I, we first did meet; She watched me tend my flock by day, And yet at night she went away. She was my sun, my warmth and light, There by day and gone by...
‘Metamorphic Rock’ by Reid McGrath The Society June 13, 2013 Poetry Pressure is what the loam feels when, buried and dis-tracted, it cannot function right; when it cannot get at the rain and light; when it, by a hellish heat, is harried. When it is not prepared, or...
‘Fredericksburg’ by Claire Marie de la Grange The Society June 10, 2013 Poetry 1 Comment The Union army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind Fredericksburg is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the American Civil...
‘Grains of Time’ and Other Poetry by Dino Cass The Society June 5, 2013 Poetry Grains of Time Somewhere through the hour glass, slip grains of time, eroding fast. Past and present times collide, revealing all truths hidden lies. Ties that bond are held so dear, but suddenly they...
‘The Ring’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society June 3, 2013 Poetry The Ring for E. S. and W. S. "my precious," —Gollum, in The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien I only knew but one tall dude who had a ring with magic powers. He had one large, silver ring. Although...
‘A Vision at the Portal of Elysium’ by Ed ‘Bear’ C.U. Lewis The Society June 1, 2013 Poetry I saw him standing at the gate of heaven. It was in a dream, but seemed so real I was in awe. Behind him in my vision all was white and lit. Dear reader, though hard to believe, I truly saw this most...