‘The Voices of Shen Yun’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society June 29, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Performing Arts, Poetry 1 Comment Your steps, unequal, hasten, departing from the race Where dust’s all that’s awarded, where just the fit survive, Pursuing trifles, anguished, forgetful of life’s grace. The farther from this...
A Tanka and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society June 26, 2015 Beauty, Humor, Music, Poetry 2 Comments Tanka By Ue "Bird Claws" Ee In dim morning light, attracting mates, warning males, dawn's choir's singing— liquid-silver jingling— nature's alarm clock...ringing. On a Piece of Johannes...
‘Is It ISIS or ISIL?’ by Robert King The Society June 23, 2015 Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Is it ISIS or ISIL? I think it is the latter It really doesn’t matter True, ISIS rhymes with crisis Let’s not lose our heads about this But ISIL rhymes with evil And also with the devil So if...
‘Creativity Requires a Cave (an Apology for Form and Rhyme)’ and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath The Society June 20, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Creativity Requires a Cave (an Apology for Form and Rhyme) IMAGINE Gretzky “trapped” behind the crease; or Pelé, deking, swarmed before the net; Odysseus before he dons the fleece; or Jordan, bodied,...
‘The Plague Doctor’ by Corey J. Browning The Society June 17, 2015 Culture, Poetry Marseille, France In the year 1720, the last great occurrence of bubonic plague struck the port city of Marseille, France, killing half of its citizens in less than a year. June 16, 1720 The...
‘A Winterberry Sonnet’ by John Grey The Society June 14, 2015 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments Winterberry disrupts the frozen curse. My vision's charmed by tiny blobs of red Between fine-toothed leaves, above a thick bed Of snow that baits low branches to immerse In mounds, but they refute its...
‘The Inward Light’ and Other Poetry by Ann Keith The Society June 11, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments The Inward Light Be proof against the eye and ear And every sense that stultifies The inward light, supreme, austere, The keenly sharp, the keenly clear, That by the lucent beam it darts Illuminates the...
‘The Cherry Blooms in Central Park’ and Other Poetry by Peter Agnos The Society June 8, 2015 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment The Cherry Blooms in Central Park In Central Park the cherries now Are hung with blooms along the slough, And stand around the reservoir, Pink and white Spring avatars. Now of my three-score years and...
‘Wow! (a View from inside the ISIS State)’ by Damian Robin The Society June 5, 2015 Culture, Poetry Wow! The wind is blowin’, the rain is rainin’ slant across the windowpane – and in the yard whole oceans storm across the grass and make some parts too full of mud to pass. In hours this windblown...
‘How Long the Night’ Translation and More by Michael R. Burch The Society June 2, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments How Long the Night Anonymous Old English Lyric, circa early 13th century AD Loose translation by Michael R. Burch It is pleasant, indeed, while the summer lasts with the mild pheasants' song...
