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Monthly Archives April 29, 2017

‘Emily’s Lament’ by E.V. Wyler

The Society
April 29, 2017
Culture, Poetry, Villanelle
2 Comments
  A Villanelle My grandma smiled as I walked in the door pretending to overpower her pain because I came ... to see her once more. Black-and-blue I.V.-bruised arms, stiff and sore, rose to...

‘Tullia’ By Jack Hart

The Society
April 28, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
Yes, I admit I seldom write, Or even think of you, But not, as you suppose, Because there's someone new, But rather that I do not choose To let you slip away, Or let the passage of a year Seem...

‘Blessing in Disguise’ and Other Poetry by Wendy Bourke

The Society
April 28, 2017
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
2 Comments
Blessing in Disguise They catch each little misstep and with kindly, caring grace— they point out the right direction by gently getting in your face. And just in case, you've overlooked that vexsome...

‘For Our Children’ and Other Poetry by Amy Foreman

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April 27, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
19 Comments
For Our Children “The sum is greater than its parts,” or so the saying goes. And now the two of us can see the proof as each one grows, Distinct but similar in code, the perfect mix and match Of you...

‘To a Red-Winged Black Bird on the Advent of Spring’ and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath

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April 26, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
6 Comments
To a Red-Winged Black Bird on the Advent of Spring For some a robin heralds in the Spring. Others: a crocus or a daffodil. My old man claims it’s when nightchirpers sing. The farmer cites the rain, the...

‘To Compassion’ by Daniel Magdalen

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April 25, 2017
Beauty, Human Rights in China, Poetry
2 Comments
Compassion, with your sun that shines unseen, You lead the river of man’s thoughts to flow Where Saving Grace’s golden breezes blow, To universal mercy’s sea pristine. With selflessness imbued,...

Review: In Hubble’s Shadow by Carol Smallwood, Shanti Arts Publishing, 2017

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April 24, 2017
Essays, Poetry, Reviews
By Alex Phuong The night sky has served as the inspiration for many poets and writers, from Longfellow’s “The Light of Stars” to “Stars” by Robert Frost, and still does. Profoundly and...

‘Riddling Away’ and Other Poetry by Nicholas Froumis

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April 23, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Riddles
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  Riddling Away What slips and squanders, and has no matter? Leaves one to ponder, and rarely flatters? Is never enough to go all around, and often too rough when finally found? And where will...

‘Hope’ and Other Poetry by Neil Dachstadter

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April 22, 2017
Beauty, Poetry
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  Hope What task be done, you thought was not? What asked and sought, forgot, was wrought? What strain was set against a blow? As gain unfettered, bettered, lo, The frost was last before the...
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A Timeline of English Poetry Part I: The Song of Amergin, Caedmon’s Hymn, Bede’s Death Song, Deor’s Lament

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April 21, 2017
Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry
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By Sandeep Kumar Mishra and Evan Mantyk English poetry has a rich history dating back at least 1,400 years. Looking at poetry today, it is easy to get trapped into thinking that the flurry of poetic...

‘Molothrus Ater’ by Jane Blanchard

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April 20, 2017
Culture, Poetry
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Note: The brown-headed cowbird, Molothrus ater, rather than raise its own young, lays its eggs in the nests of other birds, which may or may not accept them or the nestlings that emerge from...

‘Verification’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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April 19, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
7 Comments
Verification What further evidence will now be needed to assure Us that behind the strictly physical there’s something more, And that the natural world is clearly ordered from above, Than seeing how the...

‘They’re Giants: On America and North Korea’ by James Sale

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April 17, 2017
Culture, Poetry
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  "For even in the beginning, when arrogant giants were perishing, the hope of the world took refuge on a raft … for blessed is the wood by which righteousness comes."  – Wisdom of Solomon,...

‘Prelude to the Gettysburg Address’ by Arthur Mortensen

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April 17, 2017
Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry, Short Stories
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Posting atop the hill beyond the field in rain so thick he barely saw the bodies, the General tilted back his hat and sat, shaking his head. His horse shifted a foot and whinnied, a grazing wound across...

‘Visiting the Ruins of Tintagel Castle’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk

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April 16, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
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. Visiting the Ruins of Tintagel Castle I wander through a forest deep __in Cornish countryside And think I see some elves asleep __And giants run to hide. The branches gnarled like magic wands, __Green...

“Sonnet 32” by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

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April 15, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
3 Comments
From the newly released audio of Sonnets for Christ the King   XXXII CUIUS REGIO EIUS RELIGIO The self’s religion, bound by narrow ways, Behind joy’s mask disguises its despair, Adoreth...

‘Spring Was Near, Now Spring’s Here’ by Carolyn Clark

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April 14, 2017
Beauty, Poetry
Spring was near now Spring’s here, come to waken all the flowers and to welcome April showers. Spring was near now Spring’s here. The grass is green as green can be and the blossoms are...

An Alternative Ending to Romeo and Juliet by Reid McGrath

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April 13, 2017
Culture, Education, Poetry
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If Romeo Had Received the Letter Part I Romeo (in the catacomb, lying down beside Juliet) The friar’s note said: “Romeo she will wake.” Thus here I am now with my life at stake. You’ll...

‘Blue Star’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook

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April 12, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
5 Comments
Blue Star Mama painted calm and clouded landscapes Before she wed, blue-green and grassy shapes, But these went by the board just after she Jumped off into the matrimonial sea. Later, Bach rocked the...

‘I Watch the Sun’ and Other Poetry By J. Quintanilla

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April 11, 2017
Beauty, Poetry
I Watch the Sun I watch the sun, its trek, across the sky. The shadow too to see how it reacts. When light steps forth, the shadow it gets shy. Then shadow finds its strength when light contracts. A...

‘Boston Public Garden’ and Other Poetry by Mina Le

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April 10, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
  Boston Public Garden On Boston Public Garden's willowed shorebank, two little girls are feeding ducks: they prance from beak to beak, arms arcing past their foreheads to farther thrust their...

‘Rhetorical Power’: An Interview with Joseph S. Salemi

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April 8, 2017
Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Interviews, Poetry
8 Comments
By Evan Mantyk In the sea of free verse, drifting downward into the bottomless whirlpool of aesthetic relativism, it is hard to not get lost; but poet, editor, and professor Joseph S. Salemi seems to have...

A Limited, but Serious, Response to Syria’s Sarin Use

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April 7, 2017
Poetry
1 Comment
By Cid Wa'eeb El Sur "The end is where we start from." —T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Little Gidding Upon the heels of an Idlib chemical attack, about five dozen Tomahawks were hurled back to back. Like...

‘Gaius Plinius Secundus’ by Bob McGinness

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April 7, 2017
Culture, Poetry
4 Comments
  “Doing what deserves to be written, writing what deserves to be read, living to make the world a happier place.” That's what Pliny the Elder said. He quoted “In Vino Veritas,” from...

‘White Wolf, Black Wolf: A Cherokee Story’ and Other Poetry by Dusty Grein

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April 6, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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White Wolf, Black Wolf: A Cherokee Story A trijan refrain Inside you lives a wolf of white— of patience, peace and love. He is forgiveness, hope and light; a blessing from above. This wolf of white...

‘One Near-Death Experience at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital’ and Other Poetry by James Sale

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April 5, 2017
Beauty, Poetry
15 Comments
  One Near-Death Experience at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital To be dazed out, phased out, near to dying In a hospital bed Somewhere in a street near you, Pain excessive, crying, Eyes blank at blank...

‘After E. T. A. Hoffman’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

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April 4, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Music, Poetry
2 Comments
After E. T. A. Hoffman "Only connect..." E. M. Forster, Howard's End By Ewald E. Eisbruc The inner structure of the movements, working joint by joint, the way they all are linked together, toward a...

‘We Forget’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges

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April 3, 2017
Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
2 Comments
We Forget How quickly we forget the people killed, Millions slaughtered to get a lie fulfilled. All those Russians in the frozen gulag, All those Chinese, dead, without epilogue, All those hearts, for...

2017 Journal Released

The Society
April 1, 2017
From the Society, Poetry
5 Comments
Divided into easy to engage and topical categories such as Beauty, Humor, Anti-Communism, and The Environment, the 2017 Journal features selected poetry, essays, and translations from the Society’s last 12...




  1. James A. Tweedie on Art and Belief: An Essay by Joseph S. SalemiDecember 4, 2023

    Thank you for your reply. As re poetry: From henceforth moral reasoning or reasoning of any kind is out and…

  2. Margaret Coats on ‘Voyage to Scotland’: Poems by Margaret CoatsDecember 3, 2023

    Brian, that's a wonderful story of witnessing the return of Saint Damien to Hawaii in his relics. Your whole comment…

  3. Joseph S. Salemi on Art and Belief: An Essay by Joseph S. SalemiDecember 3, 2023

    I think we have to distinguish between polemical, satiric, and lampooning poetry, and other types like the lyric and the…

  4. Yael on ‘Lee in the Furnace’: A Poem on Robert E. Lee by Monika CooperDecember 3, 2023

    This is a fascinating poem about the tragic fate of a fascinating historical figure's monument, which really got me thinking.…

  5. Cynthia Erlandson on ‘Insouciance’ and Other Poetry by C.B. AndersonDecember 3, 2023

    I love your rhyme scheme in "Cognitive Dissonance". (also its content.) I agree with Cheryl about varying the repetends in…

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