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Monthly Archives October 31, 2018

Two Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) Poems

The Society
October 31, 2018
Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
Hallowe’en by Sheri-Ann O'Shea Oh! Hallowe’en is not about the grave __Or ghosts or horrors fit to make men rave It’s not about black witches and black cats __Or goats or toads or spider webs or...

‘John of the Mountains’ and Other Poetry by Tonya McQuade

The Society
October 30, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
26 Comments
John of the Mountains To him we owe a mammoth debt, our grateful thanks and praise, For the lasting conservation trails with foresight he did blaze. A “voice calling in the wilderness,” like John the...

‘Morning Dew’ by David Paul Behrens

The Society
October 29, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
14 Comments
This universe of ours will end As we then return to the source. No more wounds to tend or to mend, As the source will chart a new course. When all the sands of time run out And existence must start...

‘The Ballerina’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

The Society
October 28, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
33 Comments
The Ballerina Just before the break of day she woke from dreams of grand jeté and knelt beside her bed to pray. Like a feather, then she rose and slipped into her warm-up clothes to dance in silence...

‘The Choice Is Yours’ by C.L. Clickard

The Society
October 27, 2018
Humor, Poetry
22 Comments
There are kingdoms to rule if your foot’s the right size _____or your beauty is flawless and rare. With a tune and a tower, you’ll capture brave hearts -- _____if you don’t mind his boots in your...

‘Desolation’ by James A. Tweedie

The Society
October 26, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
16 Comments
Blasted granite marks the trail Guttered through eternal rock. Windborne smoke and ashes veil Mountain peaks through which we walk. Upward blue sky’s endlessness; Downward glimpse of lakes...

‘To a Blank Page’ by M. P. Lauretta

The Society
October 25, 2018
Culture, Humor, Poetry
27 Comments
As yet untouched by any writer’s thought you’re still pristine and perfectly unspoiled. Just like a botox-frozen face that ought to pull and stretch, from life you have recoiled. Expressionless, your...

Rediscovering Homer’s ‘Odyssey’

The Society
October 24, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Education, Epic, Essays, Homer, Poetry
27 Comments
by Evan Mantyk Where is Homer? The epic poems of the famous Greek bard were the cornerstone of education for young Socrates, Alexander the Great, Roman emperors, William Shakespeare, and every serious...

‘The Migrant Caravan’ by Lud Wes Caribee

The Society
October 22, 2018
Culture, Poetry
12 Comments
(poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) The Viacruces del Migrante, migrant caravan, which started out two hundred strong has grown to thousands, and keeps on increasing as it travels north through Mexico, on foot, on...

‘Birthday Greetings’ and Other Poetry by David Hollywood

The Society
October 22, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
20 Comments
Birthday Greetings As themes show signs of nature's stay, And time’s propitious dates hold sway, The evidence augurs your bloom, From sculptured years that now have hewn A shapened belle upon a...

Two Sonnets by Andrew Barker

The Society
October 21, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
33 Comments
Sonnet 201. The Force that Through the Green Fuse Pulls the Poem. Written in the Dylan Thomas Museum, Swansea. July 2017 Oh to be the Poet! Love the words And see them wound around the teeth and tongue, To...

‘No Luck’ by Martin King

The Society
October 19, 2018
Humor, Poetry
17 Comments
  Why is it when you’re down and out, you’re also out of luck? Success they say is easy, “you’ll find it in a book.” I waded through a finance book, and on the middle page; Invest...

‘Solid Ground’ and Other Poetry by Clinton Van Inman

The Society
October 18, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
27 Comments
Solid Ground Our greatest philosopher David Hume, Whose logical doubts leave naught to assume, Used skeptical arguments he had found To leave nothing on solid ground Until a Kant came walking along And...

Review: Selected Poems from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, Translated by Helen Palma

The Society
October 17, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Reviews
10 Comments
by Joseph Charles MacKenzie Read the Selected Poems from Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal online. Email [email protected] for details on purchasing the book. Two arts are beautifully displayed in...

‘The Two-way Wye’ by Mike Ruskovich

The Society
October 16, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
  I woke this day beside the two-way Wye, at peace with wars too often waged inside between the push of how, the pull of why. The river, calm against the ebbing tide, displayed an ease I had not...

‘United They Fall’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

The Society
October 15, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
34 Comments
United They Fall Exhausted armies cling to noble trees along the margin of a meadow mown two weeks ago.  It's fifty-five degrees, and summer's long campaign is at an end, the bugles stilled, except...

‘The Mellow Season’ by Carole Mertz

The Society
October 14, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
45 Comments
Ah, now comes the mellow season, Marks its time with jackdaws caws. Autumn with its rusty reason Offers forth its season’s laws. Now no more the pretty laces, Florals found along the way. Brackish...
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A Brief History of Riddles

The Society
October 13, 2018
Culture, Essays, Poetry, Riddles
7 Comments
by Manfred Dietrich The world is riddled with riddles. Riddling is as old and as ubiquitous as language itself. When God invited Adam to name the beasts and the beauties of creation, he showed that each...

‘The Swallows of La Cienega’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie (with Audio)

The Society
October 12, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, Readings
92 Comments
  For Elizabeth La Cienega slept on a muted afternoon At old Las Golodrinas, when I spied a nest Of swallows beneath the age-worn latias, hewn By a hand that is gone with the days that were...

‘The Concert’ by Dr. Emory D. Jones

The Society
October 11, 2018
Poetry
7 Comments
  So delicate at first, the music swells And fills with brilliance of a dawning sun Each listener and cracks the callused shells The world has formed around our heart. And none Remain unmoved as...

Three Limericks by Nivedita Karthik

The Society
October 10, 2018
Children's, Humor, Limerick, Poetry
11 Comments
  An acrobat named Larry Loops was best among all circus troupes, But he quit one day and was heard to say, “My boss made me jump all those hoops!”   There once was a man from...

‘Squandered Wealth’ by David Whippman

The Society
October 9, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
13 Comments
In his bedsitter years, he was alone And all his dreams were haunted by some girl More wonderful than any precious stone Who’d bring fulfilment to his empty world. The loneliness pressed on him, dense...

‘Tweedie of Drumelzier’ by James A. Tweedie

The Society
October 8, 2018
Culture, Poetry
21 Comments
Dark Devil’s Pool, where Spirit of the Tweed __Conceived the first-born of the Tuede clan; __Each maiden fair, and muckle braw each man, __With “Thol and Think” their battle-cry and creed. They built...

‘So Says the Prof.’ by Steven Shaffer

The Society
October 7, 2018
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
14 Comments
“Religion is an opiate of the masses,” So says the Prof. lecturing to his classes. “College used to be a carrier pigeon For this terrible thing called ‘religion.’ Where all were forced to swallow...

The Eight Greatest Poems of William Wordsworth

The Society
October 6, 2018
Beauty, Best Poems, Culture, Essays, Poetry, The Environment
14 Comments
by Charles Eager William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1770—the same year as gave us Beethoven, Hegel, and Hölderlin—and died at the age of eighty, rich in the knowledge of his...

Two Translations from German by David Gosselin

The Society
October 5, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, Translation
7 Comments
Death Is the Cooling Night by Heinrich Heine Death is the cooling night, Life is the sultry day, But now darkness settles And I long for respite. Outside my window looms a tree; In it sings the...

‘Gulag’ by Sam Gilliland

The Society
October 4, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
7 Comments
For John McCain, Ernest C. Brace, & Alexander Solzhenitsyn I season my pen with the sonnet's blood, And do not reason with a moonless sky, Thus, in durance, we hearken to the wry Whisper of words from...

‘On the Kavanaugh Hearings’ by Joe Tessitore

The Society
October 2, 2018
Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
I . The Accused: “Your Honor… And if I were a troubled lad and if indeed I did go bad, it matters not what I've done since? No point in trying to convince when crushed between the iron jaws of...

‘To My Wife, Suzi Venus’ by Tod Benjamin

The Society
October 2, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
6 Comments
a Petrarchan sonnet Life’s hills have been trampled since first we met, That mad, magic moment long years ago, When your smile lit fires in the candle’s glow And trapped me forever in Venus’...

‘Decay of the Literary Sense’ by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
October 1, 2018
Culture, Humor, Poetry
26 Comments
—from A Gallery of Ethopaths* For those of us who cherish text, There’s anguish in what I’ll say next. The world of letters, by tradition, Was one of grace, style, erudition— A shrine to language...
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  4. Cheryl A Corey on ‘Forsythia Fading’: A Poem by Cynthia ErlandsonMay 28, 2025

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  5. Cynthia L Erlandson on ‘Forsythia Fading’: A Poem by Cynthia ErlandsonMay 28, 2025

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