‘Lightness’ by Carol Lynn Grellas The Society October 28, 2013 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments Where lightness finds the passage through the dark the thoroughfare of dimness, where we’ll soar about the sun undone, unborn again, but one─divine the spark! The wicket door unfastens where the...
“Beauty is Truth …” by Leland James The Society October 25, 2013 Beauty, Poetry —a sonnet of differing with Keats Behold this naked truth, and say not Beauty: a body splayed, nailed cruelly to a tree, spit upon, a jeering crowd, a crown of thorns—blood stains and pain, not...
‘Wake Well This Day’ by Jim Scott The Society October 22, 2013 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments Wake to this dawn like no day before you. Rise to this morning like no other morn. Night is now past and life can’t ignore you. Feel in the sunrise your future be born. Seek every trail the new light...
‘Manifesto’ by Damian Robin The Society October 19, 2013 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment Clouds skip away from the full shine of the full moon The palace is lit up The maestro lifts his stick Majesty begins The richness of kings at least in human terms How quick things are Violins gone...
‘April 2003’ and Other Poetry by Brandon Briggs The Society October 16, 2013 Beauty, Poetry April 2013 The snow has thawed; it's Spring again Crickets sing to the beat of rain The sky is dark, the air is warm Again, the bugs begin to swarm Although the world is wet and dark We welcome back...
‘Faery Dust Anarchy’ and Other Poetry by Jim Dunlap The Society October 13, 2013 Beauty, Culture, Poetry Faery Dust Anarchy With winds awhistling through the trees and air sprites dancing on the breeze, you'll hear the pipes from Éirinn’s lands - mayhap a leprechaun might sneeze at swirling faery dust...
‘Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion’ The Society October 10, 2013 Poetry 1 Comment The Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion is the most famous Chinese calligraphy work of Wang Xizhi, composed in the year 353. Exhibiting an extremely high artistic value, this work is known as...
‘Big Shoes’ by Carrie Pearce The Society October 7, 2013 Art The Artist's Statement on Horses: I have always believed that nature lends itself to man. The horse has contributed more to civilization than any other animal... Since prehistoric times, the horse has...
‘On Viewing Dante and Beatrice by Henry Holiday, 1884’ by Beatriz Fernandez The Society October 4, 2013 Culture, Dante, Poetry From Dante, to Beatrice In your father’s garden we first met, a pair in exile, two children playing without a care, in our shared exile. You were eight, I, nine, you in crimson and I blind to all...
‘Sonnet on Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity From the Sky’ by Beau Ecs Wilder The Society October 1, 2013 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments He's placed dramatically center stage by Benjamin West—Benjamin Franklin. His gray hair flies. He's getting on in age. Electricity coming from lightning! He's dressed in dark clothes with a white tied...