On Indian Boarding Schools and Continuing Subjugation: A Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society June 8, 2023 Culture, Poetry 88 Comments . How Strange We Cannot See a Reflection on Indian Boarding Schools and the Continuing Subjugation of Native Peoples God gave the land: the water, earth, and sky. And though we take it all away and try To...
‘Half the Night’: A Poem on Growing Old, by Cynthia Bernard The Society June 8, 2023 Poetry, Satire, Villanelle 16 Comments . Half the Night a villanelle My stomach isn’t working right. Bubbles, gurgles, twinges and sighs Kept me up for half the night. I’ve got hives too, quite a sight— Neck, belly, all over my thighs. My...
Advice for Budweiser: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 7, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 48 Comments . The Revised Guide to Selling Adult Beverages Dismiss the woke approach to advertising--- It’s mad and bad and far from enterprising. Avoid loud, lipsticked lads in soapsud scenes In full and frothy...
The ‘Muse’: A Poem by Leland James The Society June 7, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . The “Muse” A sailboat, small, unvarnished wood, her sail a swath, a patch, of red fastened by type-9 yo-yo string to a pencil mast and a stick of boom; a sailboat, small, unvarnished wood atop a...
A Poem on an Old Garden Gnome, by Norma Pain The Society June 7, 2023 Culture, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . Gnome A long-time fixture at our home Is Schnozz, our little garden gnome. This non-complaining happy chap Appears to have a handicap, And looks to me, I must confess, A poor neglected, grubby mess. His...
A Poem on the Odisha Train Crash, by Satyananda Sarangi The Society June 6, 2023 Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Life and Death This life has so much left in store, We think, a day gone by isn't lost; It's made of hours that bear no cost, A hundred gone, a thousand more While each tomorrow brings its weight, A list...
A Poem on Piero della Francesca’s Fresco, and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers The Society June 6, 2023 Art, Beauty, Ekphrastic, Love Poems, Poetry 16 Comments . Quattrocento On the Fresco “Madonna del Parto” by Piero della Francesca, Monterchi, Italy, circa 1460 We file into a silent darkened room. Now, a stagelight floods the wall to show bright colors of a...
‘An Aging Senator Returns to the Capitol’: A Poem by Shaun C. Duncan The Society June 5, 2023 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . An Aging Senator Returns to the Capitol Confused and more than half-way gone to Hell, They wheel her in like some decrepit couch They found beside the road. What ebon spell Or awful drug could fortify that...
Monika Cooper Wins Sacred Poetry Contest, SCP Readers Invited to June 6 Reading-Celebration The Society June 5, 2023 Poetry, Poetry Contests, Readings 23 Comments . Congratulations to SCP Poet Monika Cooper who took First Place in the 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest held by Catholic Literary Arts. See details here:...
A Poem on Creation, by D.R. Rainbolt The Society June 5, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Creation From deep within eternity, the soundOf song burst out! As Perfect Fullness stirred,A melody in wisdom wrought, profound,Complex in form and powerful in wordReverberated…...
‘Emptiness’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann The Society June 4, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . Emptiness “There’s emptiness and then there’s emptiness,” the wise old voice inside me sighing said (and maybe not so wise as old, I’d guess): the emptiness that sits like something dead and leaden...
Poems for Parents Whose Children Are Going Away to College, by Paddy Raghunathan The Society June 4, 2023 Beauty, Humor, Pantoum, Poetry 6 Comments . Come September a pantoum Ohio State’s your home come September, Though we'll be lonely, stuck as empty nesters. Our home will be without its central member, When college life will beckon each...
‘Contract Murder’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society June 3, 2023 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Contract Murder No one is ever quite sure how it’s planned— What’s clear is that a grievance is expressed By injured parties, who directly make Complaints to the Commission, which in turn Investigates,...
A Cautionary Tale on Dieting: Poetry by Paul Martin Freeman The Society June 3, 2023 Children's, Poetry, Satire 6 Comments . The Number 165: Emily Hyatt A Cautionary Tale . Now this is a story that all those should heed Who think the sole gustatory pitfall is greed. For hear now what happened to Emily Hyatt Whose pleasure by...
In Response to a C.B. Anderson Poem, and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath The Society June 2, 2023 Beauty, Poetry, Satire 17 Comments . Note to a Sloppy Homeowner in response to C.B. Anderson's “Know How to Mow” Increasing rates are musts for folks like you. “Annoyance tax.” I mowed your lawn last time. I chose the route and sent...
‘To Music’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society June 2, 2023 Beauty, Music, Poetry 21 Comments . To Music Oh, Music, wherein lies your wondrous power To pierce the barren heart and open wide Joy's floodgate in the soul, that from inside Fresh streams may flow that make the desert flower? By what...
‘Target Gets Targeted’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society June 1, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 22 Comments . Target Gets Targeted A leftist agenda endorsed,Down customers’ throats it was forced.They now find their business is blighted,You could say that they’ve been “Bud Lighted.” . . Newspapers Newspaper...
‘We Must Invest in Self-Investigation’: A Poem by Damian Robin The Society June 1, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . We Must Invest in Self-Investigation __If past mistakes were soft cupcakes ____to scoff at and reject and so avoid the drill of mending toothaches, __If all the try-out greeds of youth ____were but a crumb...
