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poem/arredondo/niobe tears/crying

‘Disemboguement’ by Anna J. Arredondo

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January 31, 2023
Love Poems, Poetry
19 Comments
. Disemboguement You woke something deep within me, not at first sight, but the second: When distractions ceased to spin me, my eyes focused; your eyes beckoned--- sheer perfection then I reckoned you to be,...
poem/jesus/does god exist

‘So Close By’ by Warren Bonham

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January 31, 2023
Beauty, Poetry
11 Comments
. So Close By At one point I was told that I Was purposely created by Some perfect being in the sky Who watches as I live and die. If that was true, I wondered why When perched atop His throne up high He’d...
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‘Love and Loss: Poems for Viktoria Sokoli’ by Paul Martin Freeman

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January 30, 2023
Love Poems, Poetry
13 Comments
. Love and Loss: Poems for Viktoria Sokoli . Love I I once loved a girl called Viktoria Sokoli With eyes of the colour of spinach and broccoli. Her skin was as soft and as smooth as a peach; Her breasts left...
poem/sea/ocean

‘Comfort’ and Other Poetry of the Sea by Catherine Lee

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January 30, 2023
Beauty, Poetry
18 Comments
. Comfort I gaze upon the endless sea against high cliffs, on golden sand— her everlasting majesty. Through ages rolling wild and grand, oblivious to time and space, against high cliffs, on golden...

‘Media’ and Other Poetry by Norma Pain

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January 29, 2023
Covid-19, Culture, Poetry, Satire
18 Comments
. Media You told us lies, ignored our cries. __Your platforms you abused. You cancelled truth; you damaged youth, __And we are not amused. You took big bites from human rights, __Dissenting voices...
poem/covid/James Sale/church closed

StairWell Canto 8: ‘Covid-Priest’ by James Sale

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January 28, 2023
Covid-19, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry
30 Comments
. Canto 8: Covid-Priest from The English Cantos Volume 2: StairWell StairWell is the Poet’s Purgatory, and as in HellWard where we met with contemporary challenges such as Brexit, so here in StairWell the...

‘To an Eager Lover’ and Other Poetry by Adrian Fillion

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January 28, 2023
Love Poems, Poetry
16 Comments
. To an Eager Lover This isn’t an unreasonable demand: you have to learn my story with your hands. As a man, you naturally want to know a woman in the way you know the world: from start to finish,...
poem/philosophy/descartes

‘Practical Philosophy’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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January 27, 2023
Beauty, Poetry
29 Comments
. Practical Philosophy The mind is meant to lead the body, And not the other way around. Permit no workmanship that’s shoddy, And build foundations plumb and sound. The godless, too, exalt their...

‘Life on the Farm’ and Other Poetry by Aleta Kiefer

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January 27, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
. Life on the Farm Daddy’s gone. Is he sleeping? For only the shell remains. I hear the cries of cicadas. I listen to their pain. Momma, why are you weeping? Did Daddy push you away? Her tears rob the...
poem/sarangi/Republic Day of India/Indian flag

A Poem for India’s Republic Day: ‘The Land of Dreams’ by Satyananda Sarangi

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January 26, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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. The Land of Dreams written on the eve of India's Republic Day of India which is celebrated on Jan. 26 every year Some distance far away, the drumbeats sound __And echo victories now past; __Where clouds of...
poem/stars/music

‘Look Up and See the Music’ by James A. Tweedie

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January 26, 2023
Beauty, Music, Poetry
12 Comments
. Look Up and See the Music Psalm 19:1 In winter, when the atmosphere is still And cold, and when the nighttime sky is clear, The stars and planets, fire and ice, blast chill- Blazed, hot-white light so bright...
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‘The Poetaster’s Plight’ by Kenneth L. Horne

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January 26, 2023
Culture, Humor, Poetry
17 Comments
. The Poetaster’s Plight Some think the poet’s work is ease: "Sit back and write it’s such a breeze;" But those that know will surely say They labor hard from day to day. They wrestle with each turn of...
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‘The Stonechat Listens At The Asylum Window’ by Charles Southerland

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January 25, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
31 Comments
. The Stonechat Listens at the Asylum Window I fear I might mistranslate what you said And lose the very essence of your words. May I record you as I do the birds: The warbler, shrike and wren, red’s...
poem/music/Burns/auld lang syne

A Classical Guitar Rendition of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ for Burns Night, by Jeff Eardley

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January 25, 2023
Culture, Music, Poetry
17 Comments
. Burns Night is when Scotland's most important bard, Robert Burns (1759-1796), is celebrated, usually with the recitation of Burns' poems, the eating of haggis, and the drinking of whiskey. It occurs on...
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A Sonnet for Burns Night, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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January 24, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
43 Comments
. Note: Burns Night is when Scotland’s most important bard, Robert Burns (1759-1796), is celebrated, usually with the recitation of Burns’ poems, the eating of haggis, and the drinking of whisky. It...
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A Poem on the Existence of God: ‘The Problem of Good’ by Jeffrey Essmann

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January 24, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. The Problem of Good a Petrarchan sonnet If there’s (the armchair philosopher maintains) A God (most likely writing in his blog), Then why’s the world in such a dismal fog Of evil will and endless human...

On Alma Tadema’s Coign of Vantage and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers

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January 24, 2023
Art, Beauty, Ekphrastic, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
. . On Alma Tadema’s Coign of Vantage Flora peeks over the marble parapet, a dizzying perch above the azure Aegean. The Roman fleet is returning. 'Tis the season to flirt, to catch a lover in her...
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Transgression, Fake and Genuine: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

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January 23, 2023
Essays, Poetry
40 Comments
. Transgression, Fake and Genuine       by Joseph S. Salemi When Henry Harland and Aubrey Beardsley brought forth their groundbreaking periodical The Yellow Book in 1894, its very first issue contained the...
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A Poem on the World Economic Forum’s Davos 2023, by Julian D. Woodruff

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January 23, 2023
Culture, Music, Poetry
20 Comments
. WEF, Davos, ‘23—A Modern Reply after “Endless Pleasure, Endless Love”* Endless hooey, endless snow, We’re exposed to here below. Ever on their riches leaning, Our tormentors strew their lies; While...

‘On a Terrible Orchestral-chorale Concert’ by Peter Venable

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January 23, 2023
Humor, Poetry
4 Comments
. On a Terrible Orchestral-chorale Concert Trapped here with vain musicians---what a fate! An echo chamber that I can't escape. Conductors lead, nude but for bandanas. On their right side, Carmina...
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‘Ever Flowing’ by Dusty Grein

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January 22, 2023
Beauty, Poetry
19 Comments
. Ever Flowing Upon the rushing river’s bank I stand, deep water, ever flowing as it goes. The turbulence of my life it reflects as if my mortal pain, it truly knows. I close my eyes while cruel heartache...

“John Adams in Heaven,” from Legends of Liberty by Andrew Benson Brown

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January 22, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry
18 Comments
. John Adams in Heaven John and Abigail Adams are being guided through heaven by John Milton. He takes them to a villa in the Elysian Fields, where they meet a famous Roman who shows them a vision of their...

‘Iambic Barktameter’ by Mark F. Stone

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January 21, 2023
Culture, Humor, Poetry
30 Comments
. A Note on Iambic Barktameter I have an Australian Shepard named Sunny who loves poetry. I didn’t believe it at first, but she proved it to me. She showed me her copy of Poetry magazine and said, “Look...

‘Bats at Sunset’ and Other Poetry by Maxim D. Shrayer

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January 21, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
22 Comments
. Bats at Sunset The monster is rotund, vile, enormous, three-muzzled, and barking ---Vasily Trediakovsky, after Virgil The woods are lovely, dark, and deep ---Robert Frost Last night the bats were flying so...
poetry/adventure/legacy the saga begins

Launch Event for Michael Pietrack’s Legacy: You Are Invited

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January 20, 2023
Children's, Poetry
7 Comments
. SCP Members and readers are invited by poet Michael Pietrack to his Virtual Launch Party on Saturday, January 21 at 12 Noon EST.  The book---Legacy: The Saga Begins---is a complete novel-length adventure...

‘The Calendar’ and Other Poetry by Jez Punter

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January 20, 2023
Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. The Calendar You are the festive dregs of January,you liven February with Valentine’s.You are the March that gives spring sanctuary,you are the splashing rain April confines.You entertain the shaken buds...

‘Moments from Dante’s Inferno’ by Paul Buchheit

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January 20, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry
15 Comments
. Moments from Dante’s Inferno Prepared to travel, if the gods allowed, I saw the woods were dreary, dark as death. I chose to heed a blessing there endowed, before emerging spirits took a breath. And that...
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‘Banish the Thought’ by Susan J. Cappellari

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January 19, 2023
Beauty, Poetry, Triolet
6 Comments
. Banish the Thought Who are you? Not me, I know You creep and crimp my edges fray, An apparition of Dickens’ play--- Who are you? Not me, I know. Push and prod and now you’re in, Little sprite you always...

‘Swimming with Dreams and Memory’ and Other Poetry by Pippa Kay

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January 19, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau
21 Comments
. Swimming with Dreams and Memory My childhood dreams and memories remain through adulthood and old age. My doll speaks. My toy car surfs that tidal wave, again. I’m still afraid of darkness, and the...
poem/spaceship explosion/UK failure

Poem on the Failed British Space Launch, by Jeff Eardley

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January 18, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Science
16 Comments
. “Newquay, we have a problem” January 9, 2023 We’ve gathered in thousands to witness the blast-off, We’re sipping Champagne with our eyes full of stars. In five or ten years now, our guys will be...

‘Greta’s Smorgasbord of Hate’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

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January 18, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
61 Comments
. Greta's Smorgasbord of Hate I love the pretty trees, the trees love me! They make me dance and sing, they make me shout And sulk and give loud speeches: blah, blah, blah How dare you feed on cow meat and...

‘Gloucester in July’ by Patricia Rogers Crozier

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January 18, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
. Gloucester in July A thousand silent saints and angels Hewn from vertex, plane, and angle Raised by blow of mason’s hammer Raised from stone to watch the faithful Underneath the sinners stammer Pray and...
poetry/Christian/beatitude

‘Beatitude’ by Gregory Ross

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January 17, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau
6 Comments
. Beatitude Be glad and smile, for they revile, The Truth they mock and put on trial, The Beauty they do not possess, The Good, they curse, and will not bless, For Christ foretold this world’s own bile. Sit...

‘El Pescado’ and Other Poetry by Monika Cooper

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January 17, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
. El Pescado They gloat: the age of Pisces, it is over. They chant to call Aquarius’ forces in. In the deep labyrinths we sought the sign, The two-stroke fish, walls clammy, glittering. The old Mass book...
poem/annunciation/Christmas

‘The Christmas Story’ and Other Poetry by Lauren V. Leon

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January 16, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
7 Comments
. The Christmas Story An angel of the Lord, Came forth with joyful news, Of Him Who is adored, Messiah of the Jews. The angel hailed the one, A Virgin pure and bright, Who chosen for the Son, Would crush the...

‘The Wind’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley

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January 16, 2023
Beauty, Poetry
12 Comments
. The Wind Listen, listen! Do you hear it?  It is on the march tonight--- The incessant winter wind that blows throughout the wood and glade. Like a spectral army passing through the night in grim...

‘Worth Disguised’ by Christiana Thomas

The Society
January 15, 2023
Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry
13 Comments
. Worth Disguised The hammer lifts, the anvil rings, The room with screaming noises brings __A torture, here inflicted. The bellows pump, the fire smokes, A prodding chisel pries and pokes. __This trial seems...

‘Cookies’ and Other Sweet Poetry by Norma Pain

The Society
January 15, 2023
Humor, Poetry
22 Comments
. Cookies I bought a bag of cookies for a snack, But they were way too sweet… I took them back. I tried each one to make sure this was true. I really didn’t know what else to do. The woman in the store...
poem/Ouroboros/snake eating its own tail/civilization

‘Civilisations Forget the Taste of Their Own Tails’ by James Lucas

The Society
January 14, 2023
Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. Civilisations Forget the Taste of Their Own Tails To see a friend possessed By the time’s ideological incantations, To see a world soon blessed By mob rule and its dark infatuations; To glimpse a...

‘Bingo Ladies’ by Mary Gardner

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January 14, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
35 Comments
. Bingo Ladies Gray-haired gals meet twice a week, Have their luncheon with the clique At the Wendy’s in Coppell. After they have talked a spell Off to northwest part of Dallas To the Giant Bingo...
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    Your ode has a truly musical sound and feel to it (as is, of course, highly appropriate). Your consistent rhyme…

  2. Maura H. Harrison on The 23 Best Haiku of 2023September 29, 2023

    To the judges, I'm grateful to have my haiku mentioned as a runner up. Thank you for your time. It…

  3. Joshua C. Frank on A Poem Inspired by Kimberly Hartke and Other Poetry by Joshua C. FrankSeptember 29, 2023

    Thank you, Gigi. It makes me happy that you were touched by it.

  4. Gigi Ryan on A Poem Inspired by Kimberly Hartke and Other Poetry by Joshua C. FrankSeptember 29, 2023

    Joshua, This is a beautiful poem of redemption. Thank you. Gigi

  5. Mia on ‘The Battle of Athelstaneford’: A Poem by Margaret CoatsSeptember 29, 2023

    Dear Margaret, thank you It is a very rare occurrence but I will not have a computer for a couple…

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