‘Climbing the World’s Peak’ by Yuxing Xia The Society May 30, 2015 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments Submerged in blinding red and blue at dawn, I climb the barren fields to find between the gentle tides of crying clouds, where spawn the highest peak of world in mist unseen. I leap across the steps...
‘Trajan’s Column’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society May 27, 2015 Culture, Poetry Trajan's Column By Uberdi Ascweli In Rome, amidst the many structures, gray, peach, white and brown, around it, rising, Trajan's Column, does not stand alone. It was a work commemorating Trajan's...
‘Bay from Berkeley’ and Other Poetry by Neal Dachstadter The Society May 24, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry Bay from Berkeley Slate blue blustered inland sea Water from the rivers be Sea of salt and rain ashore Many waters, oceans roar. Slate green gusted inland sea Berkeley roof, fraternity Rising sun to...
‘The Bitter Harvest’ by Cheryl Corey The Society May 21, 2015 Poetry 1 Comment With steady hand, he takes a scalpel, cutsthe body open. Liver, spleen, the gutsextracted, packed in ice. The Party manlooks on. There's profit to be made. The plan:eliminate the Falun Gong and...
‘One (1979)’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges The Society May 18, 2015 Culture, Poetry One (1979) A policy is still in place Which subjugates each woman’s womb. Spin doctors cannot render grace When pregnancy begets a tomb. Before the mother sees a face, Her green is plucked in fetal...
‘In Denial We Trust’ by Cynthia Thornton Herrera The Society May 15, 2015 Culture, Poetry 1 Comment From what I see of life’s disgust; The killings, rampant shooting sprees, I’m sure that no one not agrees There’s nothing ‘bout it free or just To take of life, spray the horror; To taunt and...
‘Meditating’ by Colin Fredericson The Society May 12, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments Through sandy, muddy, rocky creek, Silted, crudded, hard to speak, My heart was heavy, worn, and cramped, I needed someplace I could camp. Nature spoke, I took the chance To venture out with...
‘The First Day of Spring’ and Other Poetry by Lorna Davis The Society May 9, 2015 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments The First Day of Spring The first day of spring started rainy and cold, But new greens were sprouting, defiant and bold, And daffodils nodded their bright heads of gold, To make the day not quite as...
‘The Lumberman’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society May 6, 2015 Humor, Poetry 1 Comment The Lumberman by Bud "Weasel" Rice I saw him resting up against a giant gray-brown stump, the lumberman was pausing from his haul, hitch, heave and hump. He stood there in the sunlit forest, head turned...
‘BILLY Cat and MAX Dog’ by Don Shook The Society May 3, 2015 Humor, Poetry 4 Comments Burrowed down in leaves of brown piled by the garden wall, our Billy cat dreamed of a rat he’d chased down through the hall. Up from the creek came Max the dog, exhausted from his run, but hearing...
