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Monthly Archives January 31, 2019

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‘It’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Leach

The Society
January 31, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
10 Comments
It... It plays upon the glowing, sunset boughs, When shadows have enveloped all below, And distant, other-worldly thoughts arouse A passion in the poet’s soul to go Beyond the earth, beyond the...

‘The Fiancé’ and Other Poetry by Sheri-Ann O’Shea

The Society
January 30, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
8 Comments
The Fiancé inspired by Anthony Trollope’s "Can you forgive her?" (1864-1865) Alice, he wants your money, honey. Alice, he wants your cash. He’d never ask you without it don’t doubt it – He’s...

‘February’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Zappe

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January 29, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
6 Comments
February  February froze the skating pond, Beauty gone, still this we won’t deny, She was thoughtful with her airy wand, Thankful, think, a rink beneath the sky! Sons and daughters make their skate...

A Translation of ‘The Lake’ by Alphonse de Lamartine

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January 28, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation
11 Comments
Translation by Michael Coy The Lake Thus, ever driven onward to new shores, borne constantly away, Can we never, in the Ocean of the Ages, drop anchor for a day? Oh, this beautiful lake!  The...

‘Going Along to Get Along’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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January 27, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
61 Comments
Dedicated to far too many of my contemporaries, and they know who the hell they are. I. I am the perfect poet— I strike a dainty pose. I sniff the air for floral scent And elevate my nose. I’m...

‘Tiger Fire’ by Sally Sandler

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January 26, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
27 Comments
  The fire waits with tiger paws on silent haunches by the hill, then mounts the rock with clinging claws, and contemplates the moment it will pounce—on sagebrush dry as bones, under a ghostly...

‘Common Language’ and Other Poetry by Mike Ruskovich

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January 25, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
36 Comments
Common Language I hear the music of the artist's brush Bruise with color the canvas' white, Feel the composers' fingers rush Across the keyboard into night To lodge clear notes in the blackest sky, Stars...

‘Transhumanism’ and Other Poetry by Joe Spring

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January 24, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Science
10 Comments
Transhumanism Somewhere about there’s a slithering sound of man’s enmity, causing excitement and casting the seeds of calamity, claiming enlightened revision of old postmodernity. Oh! But the thought...

Three Poems Before Sleeping, by C.B. Anderson

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January 23, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
23 Comments
The Catholic Work Ethic I'll do as much as I am able __Before the sun has set. I doubt that I will run the table __Because I haven't yet __Achieved my full potential. There will be time to lie in...

‘The Afternoon of Man’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann

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January 22, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
7 Comments
The Afternoon of Man Fourteen or so, one autumn afternoon, my homework done and supper hours away, I scuffed along on sodden paths bestrewn with yellowed leaves in woods where I’d once played. Perhaps...

‘Saint Agnes’ by Bruce Wren

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January 21, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
26 Comments
  This evening of your festive day I pray _Oh Agnes, little model of the pure, _Oh girl with smiling eyes, and faith so sure: They won for you the martyr's palm this day. For neither threat nor...

‘Moscow Zoo’ and Other Poetry by A.M. Juster

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January 20, 2019
Poetry, Shakespeare
13 Comments
Moscow Zoo We saw the mass grave at the Moscow Zoo. A sullen man dug up a human skull Then held it high for journalists to view. Forensic specialists arrived to cull Remains and clues from this...

‘Sonnet II: Liu Xitong’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk

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January 19, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry
15 Comments
. Sonnet II: Liu Xitong Liu Xitong (pronounced Leo She-tong) recently spoke on Capitol Hill about the persecution he faced in communist China for his practice of Falun Gong. Read about the event and his story...

‘A Love Sonnet’ by Jan Darling

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January 18, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
13 Comments
after the style of Petrarch The aching of your leave clings sadly, still And pangs of emptiness I lone endure But slowly I ascend towards love pure; The path of life lies stretched – a long steep...

‘In Memory of Romeo and Juliet’ by Victor Tyne

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January 17, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Education, High School Submissions, Poetry
7 Comments
  These twain ephem’ral lives were fraught with woes When they, a boy and girl in morn of life, Defied their due inheritance as foes And chased a star-crossed love as man and wife. Belovéd by...

‘Listening to the Lark’ by Daniel Magdalen (with Video)

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January 16, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Video
22 Comments
On Ralph Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, a romance for violin and orchestra inspired by George Meredith’s poem of the same title (see both below). Past years of smoke and pain, a tune in ether...

‘Let There Be Light’ and Other Poetry by Kim Cherub

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January 15, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
27 Comments
  Let There Be Light “Cherubim and Seraphim, assemble and salute! Behold your Lord’s creation; let every tongue fall mute.” Thus Michael spoke for all, enthralled, dazed by the stars’ bright...

‘The Pointless Voice of James Joyce’: A Sonnet by James A. Tweedie

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January 14, 2019
Culture, Humor, Poetry
20 Comments
Author's Note: This Sonnet, formatted as both prose and poetry, is written as a parody of James Joyce; specifically, his final two novels, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. For the record, I number myself among the...

‘A Poet’s Prayer’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

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January 13, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
A Poet's Prayer My words are lying, cold and still; reproaching me, their silence shrill. With emptiness, my heart they fill. Inspire me, Lord, if You will. Should You decide I'm past my prime I'm...

‘Tbilisi თბილისი’ by Ralph C. La Rosa

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January 12, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
7 Comments
(1976-1978) In Soviet Georgia, I feel linguistic shock. At first assuming residents speak Russian, I say Nyet, not Ara, igniting discussion of Moscow’s nagging, Russifying clock alarms, as predictable...

‘To Old Friends’ and Other Poetry by Joshua Philipp

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January 11, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
17 Comments
To Old Friends Around the bonfire, we were brothers who sang Of joys that are gone, and the flame turned to ash And blew on the wind to where endless stars hang In search of past embers that flicker and...

‘Rosettes’ and Other Poetry by David Hollywood

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January 10, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
34 Comments
  Rosettes When seasons pause in moments cast, By visions of each flower’s past, The rose amongst all florae kissed, Appears within my dreams of bliss, As natures’ love for splendours...
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Odysseus Strings His Bow (A Translation)

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January 9, 2019
Culture, Poetry, Translation
27 Comments
The Odyssey, 21.388-22.125, translated with an eye on Homer's instinctively cinematic style. by Mike Solot The cowherd, Philoetius, quickly but quietly slipped out To fasten the gates of the courtyard. He...

‘Time for the B.S.: Susie and Johnny Go to College’ by Amy Foreman

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January 7, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
25 Comments
a sequel to “Let’s Take the Other Bus” Welcome, young friends, to this great university. I am your counselor, Dr. Diversity, here to advise you on all of your classes and campus life, brimming with...
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‘Armed with Imagination’ and Other Poetry by Randal A. Burd, Jr.

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January 6, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
12 Comments
Armed with Imagination Imagination armed this youthful knight— a plywood shield and sword of sapling wood created echoes in the neighborhood of backyard battles fought in fading light. Envision how...

Sonnets on the Arts Today, by Peter Hartley

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January 5, 2019
Art, Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry
38 Comments
  Poetry Today If elevated thought had ever beenThe least criterion of excellenceIn poetry, why should it then be seenToday as simply of no consequence?If rhyme was good enough for...

‘Dirty Hands’ and Other Poetry by Connie Phillips

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January 4, 2019
Beauty, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
14 Comments
Dirty Hands on Communism’s evil specter The evil specter’s dirty hands Have soiled the windows to the world. It’s smeared them with the blood and tears Of millions killed throughout the...

‘Shattered Prospects’ and Other Poetry by David Watt

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January 3, 2019
Poetry
20 Comments
Shattered Prospects Pursued by every shadow,He rode the winding wayTo where his love lay waiting:Trunk packed for ocean stay.An owl looked on in silence;A wombat backed away -It seemed, no-one had...

‘You Poor, Unfortunate Woman’ and Other Poetry by Janice Canerdy

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January 2, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
3 Comments
  You Poor, Unfortunate Woman Last Monday was a special day for me. You got that big promotion and the raise! I pity you, for now your life will be a rat race through a long, nightmarish...

‘Arise, You Bones’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia

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January 1, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
15 Comments
Arise, You Bones “Come, spirit, from the four winds, and blow upon these slain, and let them live again.” –Ezechiel 37:9 Arise, you bones of millions, scattered far, Half-buried, all forgotten, that...




  1. Paul Martin Freeman on A Cautionary Tale on Dieting: Poetry by Paul Martin FreemanJune 3, 2023

    Thank you, Roy. Please add as much as you like––Miss Em certainly needs it! This is this pair to the…

  2. James Sale on ‘To Old Friends’ and Other Poetry by Joshua PhilippJune 3, 2023

    Great to see this being read again via the SCP/Andrew Benson Brown podcast - wonderful poem - check it out:…

  3. Reid McGrath on In Response to a C.B. Anderson Poem, and Other Poetry by Reid McGrathJune 3, 2023

    You’ll be back, Amy. I can’t wait for what you have in store. Hope you and the fam are well.…

  4. Paddy Raghunathan on A Cautionary Tale on Dieting: Poetry by Paul Martin FreemanJune 3, 2023

    No Sir, I am not dieting! Best regards, Paddy

  5. Reid McGrath on In Response to a C.B. Anderson Poem, and Other Poetry by Reid McGrathJune 3, 2023

    Haha, C.B., I figured they were probably Brazilians, and I enjoyed your poem, as I do mostly all of your…

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