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Monthly Archives May 31, 2020

A Poem for the George Floyd Riots: ‘The Second Coming’ by W.B. Yeats

The Society
May 31, 2020
Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video
10 Comments
  Video and reading by Rob...

‘When You Love’ and Other Poetry by Michael Charles Maibach

The Society
May 31, 2020
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
19 Comments
  When You Love When you love The heart of one, Life makes sense With each new sun. You start each day With thoughts of her. You do your best “We” must endure. To be the man She sees in...

A Coronavirus Triolet and Other Poetry

The Society
May 30, 2020
Covid-19, Culture, Poetry, Triolet
4 Comments
  A Grave Sin by Satyananda Sarangi How grave's this sin of man to shatter man! The human touch is dreaded, faith has fled; I think of God to find a way and scan How grave's this sin of man to...

Four Poems on Pain and Distress by C.B. Anderson

The Society
May 30, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
26 Comments
  Domain of Pain A piercing migraine or a throbbing toothache, A splinter underneath a fingernail, An upset stomach caused by too much fruitcake, And waiting for responses in the mail Are typical...

Poems on Twitter’s Attacks on President Trump

The Society
May 29, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
10 Comments
  Fake Checks by Esca Webuilder As Twitterites do fact-checks, which are really only fake, confusing truths with their opinions is their main mistake. But censoring the voices that they do not want...

Two Poems of the Night, by Martin Rizley

The Society
May 29, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
25 Comments
  The Stranger Above the dark hill in the still Spanish night, The moon, a lone fountain of watery light, Demurely ascends, as she hides her fair face Behind misty veils of gossamer lace. Below,...
Sea of Ice, Snow, Winter

‘Endless Dream’ and Other Poetry by Angel L. Villanueva

The Society
May 28, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
4 Comments
  Endless Dream I walk the trail, in hopes of reaching you, As winter sheds her tears of crystal ice. I rise above snow drifts, the trail to view, But find my steps alone do not suffice. On knees...

‘The Climber’ and Other Poetry by Rod Walford

The Society
May 27, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
20 Comments
The Climber inspired by and dedicated to Chris Bonington and my erstwhile heroes Don Whillans and Dougal Haston He has conquered crags and chimneys Only eagles would have seen And the frozen lofty...

Philip Larkin: A Very English Bleakness (An Essay)

The Society
May 26, 2020
Essays, Poetry
20 Comments
by David Whippman In 1984, Philip Larkin was asked to become the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. This position is, in principle, the most prestigious that any British poet can attain: in effect, court...

‘At the Cemetery’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

The Society
May 25, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
28 Comments
  At the Cemetery “Drowned together while playing with a sled on the ice of the Saw Mill Pond at Kensico. Dec. 5, 1871.” ---gravestone inscription She pauses here, what has been done? One...

Poems for Memorial Day 2020

The Society
May 24, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
16 Comments
Solemn Silent Soldiers Rest by Roy E. Peterson, written May 22, 2020 Solemn, silent soldiers rest Beneath the green earth’s sheltering breast. The bodies that were once in pain Became the ghost...

‘San Francisco’ by James A. Tweedie (Part 1 in a Sonnet Series)

The Society
May 24, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
45 Comments
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‘Bereaved’ by Jeffrey Kemper

The Society
May 23, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
32 Comments
  17 March 2019 When bleeds the heart with heartache harsh and deep, And coiling loins are toiling, boiling hot, And tears descend across the landscape steep, Cascading in their anguish, frail and...

‘Mastering Magic’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant

The Society
May 22, 2020
Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry
20 Comments
  Mastering Magic Set the questing mind on fire with magic, Learn the ancient lore then follow through. Effortlessness must be automatic, Forcing sorcery will never do. Wizardry well done is...

‘Oh, What Is Prayer?’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez

The Society
May 21, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
  Oh, What Is Prayer? Oh, what is prayer? Is it a mystery, that bridges earth and heaven in a cry, that reaches to the infinite? A sigh, A groan, a whisper, tears that come to be admixed from faith...
John Keats

Keats in the Time of Coronavirus: An Essay

The Society
May 20, 2020
Beauty, Covid-19, Culture, Essays, Poetry
34 Comments
by Sultana Raza In April 1820, Keats was already aware that he had tuberculosis, and in spring of that year, he was experiencing fever, a bad chest, and lots of anxiety, specially about not being able to...

‘Hummingbird Communion’ and Other Spring Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
May 20, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle
54 Comments
Hummingbird Communion I watch them play at dawn of day, as molten gold is splashed their way, on feathers flecked with flashing green and rubies fused in morning’s beam, where sleepers dream and...

William Butler Yeats and the Occult: An Essay by Adam Sedia

The Society
May 19, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Poetry
29 Comments
Clarity and Obscurity Part III Read Part I: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Read Part II: "Concrete" Poetry and the Fall of Metaphor by Adam Sedia Modernism produces obscure poetry...

‘Hippocrene’ by Anissa Nedzel Gage

The Society
May 18, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
  O do not chasten me with tales of fine __Fresh wells of wisdom and of warriors bold, __Or sacred veins of Ethiopian gold, Your more than oracles or muses nine, For I've drunk deep of a more...

‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning (1812-1889) and ‘My Next Duchess’ by Lawrence Jones

The Society
May 17, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry
8 Comments
  My Last Duchess The Duke of Ferrara recalls his last wife. by Robert Browning That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Fra...

‘The Rats of Kathmandu’: Two Sonnets by Peter Hartley

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May 16, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry
17 Comments
  I. The rats infesting Kathmandu Airport Appear to co-exist in peace with man And have, it seems, since local time began, Been treated each like some great Juggernaut. Their teeming numbers...

Ten Great Spenserian or Scottish Sonnets

The Society
May 15, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Love Poems, Poetry
22 Comments
Edmund Spenser by Margaret Coats Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) wrote 121 sonnets of rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee, including 87 in his love sequence Amoretti. The Spenserian sonnet differs from the...

Poetry Challenge: ‘My country used to be… ‘

The Society
May 14, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests
51 Comments
  New York poet Joe Tessitore challenges poets to begin a poem with these words:   My country used to be...   Post your poem in the comments section below. (Poems should be...

‘I Loved You…’ by A.S. Pushkin, Translated by Kristina Buric

The Society
May 14, 2020
Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation
1 Comment
I Loved You... I loved you, and I probably still do, and for a while, the feeling may remain, But let my love no longer trouble you... I do not wish to cause you any pain I loved you, and the hopelessness I...

Friends of Falun Gong 2020 Poetry Contest Winners Announced

The Society
May 13, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Readings, Video
2 Comments
FIRST PLACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96xN0VV7JU The Virus and the Cure by Rob Crisell One hundred years of tyranny, One hundred years of pain and lies. If communists of China win, The...

‘The Pilot’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
May 12, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
all poems by Bruce Dale Wise   The Pilot by Air Weelbed Suc I saw him flying overhead, a pilot in a plane, and looking down, he gazed upon the anguish and the pain. Although I saw compassion in...

A Reading of “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud (Daffodils)” by William Wordsworth

The Society
May 10, 2020
Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Video
10 Comments
  https://youtu.be/bYg-ITiEEyM   "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud," also known as "Daffodils," the poem by former British Poet Laureate William Wordsworth (1770-1850) read by the President of...

‘The Transatlantic Serpent’s Tale’ and Other Poetry by Glenn Turner

The Society
May 10, 2020
Poetry
9 Comments
  The Transatlantic Serpent’s Tale Do you recall the time when I was born? A time of ferment---Honest Abe was dead. The Civil War had left the country torn, But did not stop the fateful push...

‘Better Stock Than You’ by Beverly Stock, and Other Poetry

The Society
May 9, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry
5 Comments
Better Stock Than You after Henry Lawson’s "Prouder Man Than You" by Beverly Stock Your tome of pride be shattered, I’m from better Stock than you. You don’t treat all as equals, And I think...

‘HellWard Canto 11: Poetasters,’ From James Sale’s English Cantos

The Society
May 8, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
The Argument: The Poet, having escaped the HellWard of European and corrupt politicians, emerges into the penultimate HellWard depth where he, with his guide, Dante, meets the Poetasters from America and...

‘Tennyson’ by Don Shook

The Society
May 7, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry
1 Comment
  Tennyson thought it better “to have loved and lost, than…” Well, you know the rest. Of course this begs the question most of us can only guess. Is losing ever really good, or is this just...

A Poem Celebrating St. Piran, by Neil Rhind

The Society
May 6, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rhupunt
1 Comment
St. Piran (Feast Day: March 5) A rhupunt Irish heathens, Unbelieving, Strapped poor Piran To a stone then Rolled him over. A cliff! Cut-throats They came to gloat. Though stones don’t...

‘In Praise of Formal Poetry’ by James A. Tweedie

The Society
May 5, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
  In the midst of free-verse critics’ Smug, inchoate analytics __Seasoned with self-righteous pedantry, There are poets who are striving To achieve success reviving __Classical and formal...

Poetry on the CCP Virus (Covid-19), Including Peter Austin Sonnets

The Society
May 4, 2020
Covid-19, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
5 Comments
  Dear Governor, by C.B. Anderson Reopen every workplace, pretty please; Your "cure" has proven worse than the disease. Your lockdown's brought the people to their knees, And now they live in fear...

On Oxford University’s Classics Department Proposing to Drop Homer and Virgil, by Ted Hayes

The Society
May 4, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Homer, Poetry
10 Comments
  Oxford "University"? Its preference now: diversity. The Homers, Ovids, Virgils--- Now peanuts for the squirrels! This "school" now gives instruction In Western Civ destruction The classics?...

‘Approaching Storm, Night’ and Other Poems on Spring by Adam Sedia

The Society
May 3, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
2 Comments
  Spring Snow Tyrant Winter reaches __Beyond its frozen tomb, Dares cast its icy mantle __On bud and crocus-bloom. Long it reigned unchallenged __In dark and cold and ice; Thwarted now, it hurls...

A Poem on the Russian Submarine Kursk and Other Poetry by Rod Walford

The Society
May 2, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
7 Comments
Deep Regrets Dedicated to the memory of the 118 men of the Russian submarine Kursk, which exploded and sank in the Barents Sea on August 12th 2000. The protocols of men of power; Agendas passed in...

Three Poems on Spring by C.B. Anderson

The Society
May 1, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
16 Comments
  The Onus of Vernal Duty Surrounding fields and woods unfreeze, The air once more is filled with light, As springtime’s blanket amnesties Dispel the winter’s cheerless night. So long you’ve...

Online SCP Poetry Symposium 2020 – “A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme”

The Society
May 1, 2020
From the Society, Readings, Symposium
8 Comments
Due to the unprecedented circumstances regarding the CCP virus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Symposium has been moved online. The details of the event have been adjusted.   Sunday May 31, 2020 Session 1: 12...
  1. Margaret Coats on ‘Wedding Night’ by Christine de Pisan, Translated by Margaret CoatsMay 29, 2025

    Yes indeed, Adam, that worldview and mindset are worth remarking because, though admirable in themselves, they are mostly strange to…

  2. Margaret Coats on ‘How I Spent My Spring Vacation’: Poetry and Photography by James A. TweedieMay 28, 2025

    Glad to hear from you, Peter. Well remember your mountaineering and travel poems. Best wishes always.

  3. Margaret Coats on ‘On a Raging Storm’ and Other Poetry by Jeff KemperMay 28, 2025

    "Cuneiform" applies well to the "writing" of a raging storm. I'm sure Adrianna will remember the first visit to the…

  4. James A. Tweedie on ‘How I Spent My Spring Vacation’: Poetry and Photography by James A. TweedieMay 28, 2025

    Peter Hartley has asked me to post this comment on his behalf: The photographs of your trip around the earth…

  5. C.B. Anderson on ‘A Taste of Northern New England’ and Other Poems by C.B. AndersonMay 28, 2025

    If snakes tasted as good as lobster, I would welcome more into our country. But ....

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