‘Making Apple Butter’ by Cheryl Corey The Society October 11, 2022 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 16 Comments . Making Apple Butter Once he got the fire good and hot, Old Silas filled the kettle with some cider; and when it boiled down to golden amber, he added quartered apples to the pot. He settled in his chair...
‘Critical Failure’ by Bennett Chatigny The Society October 10, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments . Critical Failure Failure to launch in every direction; Ran out of fuel before firing the rocket. Time for some long internal reflection; Retool the nav and reschedule the docket. Lost in the black with no...
Metrical Clerihew Poetry Challenge The Society October 9, 2022 Clerihew, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests, Satire 79 Comments . The clerihew is a relatively new poetry form introduced by Edmund Clerihew Bentley in 1905. It is usually a single quatrain of light verse rhyming aabb, without a standard meter. The first line usually ends...
‘Tower of the Winds’ by Tad Tuleja The Society October 9, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Tower of the Winds Eight winds blowing, bluster overflowing,Buffet all the crevices of earth.Eight winds searching, lustily and lurching,Spawning every misery and mirth. First blows Boreas, minion of...
A Poem on the Busing of Illegal Immigrants, by Russel Winick The Society October 8, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Satire 42 Comments . Sincerity of the Left The sanctuary cities said: “Undocumenteds may come here, It’s merciless to keep them out, We welcome them with open arms!” “We’ll grant your wish,” DeSantis said, "Take...
‘Brain to Heart’ and Other Poetry by Peter Venable The Society October 8, 2022 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments . Brain to Heart God has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart. —Ecclesiastes 3.11 To dig deep holes for bushes, shrubs— White Hydrangea, Crape Myrtle...
‘Never Argue with a Progressive’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society October 7, 2022 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry, Satire 15 Comments . Never Argue with a Progressive They never tell the truth, except by accident, And when they do, they’ll tell you that they really meant The opposite, so what’s a trusting man to do? Admittedly, such...
‘The Good Samaritan’ by Brian Yapko The Society October 7, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 37 Comments . The Good Samaritan Scene: The road between Jerusalem and Jericho. It is now three days since a good Samaritan has left an injured robbery victim in the care of an innkeeper. Your wounds are healing? Good....
Verse on Verse: Four Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society October 6, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Education, High School Submissions, Poetry 16 Comments . Serious Poetry Serious poetry, somber and grim; Dashing, descriptive, with narrative flair. Formal and versified; Rhythmic and dignified; Romance and rhetoric; ribald and prim. Taking you places while curled...
‘Equal Schmequal’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 5, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Satire 34 Comments . Equal Schmequal The traits of men were glibly mocked __By those who thought men strange--- Those who thought the world half-cocked __ And fought for chop and change--- All those who chose to rise and...
‘The Tech Addict’s Lament’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society October 5, 2022 Culture, Poetry 30 Comments . The Tech Addict’s Lament As I take one more hit of electronic cocaine, I snort a fresh shot of noise into my brain And feel the cacophony’s endless refrain Charging at me like a runaway train. I...
‘1960s Soap Operas’ by Cynthia Erlandson The Society October 4, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . 1960s Soap Operas “Soap operas,” they called them. Housewives watched Them while they sewed or cooked or ironed clothes. At two o’clock each afternoon began The sleazy saga to which mom...
‘Green Energy’ After Dr. Seuss’s ‘Green Eggs and Ham,’ by Dan Ward The Society October 4, 2022 Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Satire 35 Comments . Green Energy with apologies to Dr. Seuss I do not like green energy Don’t subsidize it, AOC. I do not like it in the dark, My solar panels will not spark. I do not like it with no breeze, Wind generators...
‘Sonnet 89’ by Richard Craven The Society October 3, 2022 Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Sonnet 89 I passed her on the footbridge (underneath, the cars rushing pell-mell to Hades’ mouth). Backwards flowed time then as I scoped her face: lineaments of smack; thin, whorish, thief up for the...
‘Elysium’ by Adam Sedia The Society October 2, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . Elysium O golden hour, soft denouement of day, O mystic time of quietude and peace, When boughs and rushes whisper as they sway, Twirled by the sighing zephyrs’ soft caprice; When, fallen from his...
‘A Woodstock for China’ by Talbot Hook The Society October 1, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry 11 Comments . A Woodstock for China You sit within a public Chinese bus, And out the window: buildings, concrete, dust, Which all are perfect—life is simply thus. You stare with shining eyes, soft-spoken trust. A face...
‘Uncontrolled’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society October 1, 2022 Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment 19 Comments . Uncontrolled When my behavior needs to change, __But I can’t make that be, Such lack of self-control seems strange, __And I’m ashamed of me. Sometimes the angst I feel inside __Was planted long ago, And...
