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Search Results for: "Bruce Dale Wise"

‘On Epic Madness’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
May 8, 2025
Culture, Poetry
7 Comments
. On Epic Madness Sing, goddess, of the hate, and killings, on the Earth unleashed, destructive wrath which brings such woe to south, west, north and...

‘Spring’s Unfolding View’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
April 3, 2025
Beauty, Poetry
8 Comments
. Spring’s Unfolding View ---after Dylan Thomas’ “The force that through the green fuse drives flower” The force that through the green fuse...

‘A Pleased Jaques’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
January 15, 2025
Beauty, Poetry
10 Comments
. A Pleased Jaques ---after a soliloquy in Shakespeare's As You Like It At first there is the infant, grinning widebecause he has escaped his nurse's...

‘Jehu Destroys the Temple and Statue of Baäl’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
November 13, 2024
Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry
7 Comments
. Jehu Destroys the Temple and Statue of Baäl "—What did that madman want?" ---2 Kings 9:11 He saw Jehu Destroys the Temple and Statue of...

‘Time For Some Gardening’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
October 8, 2024
Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
. Time For Some Gardening It was time for some gardening. He heard a train go by. Its distant airhorn sighed. There were no clouds up in the sky. He...

‘Throughout American Academies’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
April 29, 2024
Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
. Throughout American Academies One hears throughout American academies a strainthat is at once belligerent, intolerant, and strange.It drips with...

‘Climate: The Movie’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
April 20, 2024
Poetry, The Environment
15 Comments
. Climate: The Movie learn about and watch the movie here It shows there is no basis found in science for its fare.The film exposes the alarm as an...

‘Sunday Morning Flock of Starlings’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
March 7, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
19 Comments
. Sunday Morning Flock of Starlings He saw, while driving down the roadway, off 288, a flock of starlings at the electrical substation gate. It was...
poem/wise/culture

A Poem on JFK’s Assassination: ‘Some Questions?’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
August 8, 2023
Culture, Poetry
21 Comments
. Some Questions? “We’ll know our disinformation is complete when everything the U.S. public believes is false.” —William J. Casey, former...
poem/wise/culture

A Poem on the Late Ukrainian Writer Victoria Amelina, by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
July 22, 2023
Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. King Dom’s Dream Kingdom “In death’s dream kingdom…” —T. S. Eliot, “The Hollow Me" Ukrainian Victoria Amelina has died from injuries...
poem/wise/art

Poems on a Vilhelm Kyhn Painting and Jan. 6 Writer Julie Kelly, by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
April 20, 2023
Acrostic, Art, Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry
7 Comments
. A Picture of Repose A young boy’s seated on a wall that overlooks Capri, an oil painting by Dane Peter Vilhelm Carl Kyhn, where a rock ridge...

‘A Seasonal Concoction’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
October 29, 2022
Culture, Humor, Poetry
15 Comments
. A Seasonal Concoction He loved to have a cup of coffee in dawn’s dimmest light. It helped clear cobwebs from those heavy eyelids of the...

A Poem on Criselda Vasquez’s ‘New American Gothic,’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
February 21, 2022
Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry
22 Comments
. A Working Man and Wife “…aware of the humanity on the other side of the door.” ---Criselda Vasquez They stand before some distant trees, on...

A Poem on the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
January 18, 2022
Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry
4 Comments
. The Winter Games Go On Although detainees must sleep in cramped cells on cement floors, and though they must wear shackles with their numbered...

A Poem on the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Hill Protest, by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
January 5, 2022
Culture, Poetry
12 Comments
. Annuary Stichs Jamesian intricacies swarmed about the voter-counts; a massive fraud had taken place beyond the lovely mounts. Nobody had expected...

‘Across Western Skies’: A Haiku and Poem by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
November 28, 2021
Haiku and Senryu
3 Comments
. Haiku Across western skies, a long, dark array of clouds: the storm approaches. . . Parnassus O, God, he saw the awesome summit rising up...

‘Approaching Halloween’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
October 30, 2021
Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. Approaching Halloween “You live in the same kind of grayness as the filthy stuff that formed you.” —Jack Finney, The Invasion of the Body...

A Poem in Honor of the 13 U.S. Servicemen Who Died in Afghanistan, by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
September 2, 2021
Culture, Poetry
24 Comments
. With Coffins at the Dover Air Force Base: 29 August 2021 On Sunday, Biden traveled to the Dover Air Force Base to pay respect for thirteen service...

‘Hunter Biden, New Millennial American Painter’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
July 6, 2021
Art, Culture, Humor, Poetry
10 Comments
. Hunter Biden, New Millennial American Painter “It’s Generic Post Zombie Formalism Illustration”  ---Jerry Saltz “a…vaguely psychedelic...

A 2020 Election Allegory: ‘The Purloined Lectern’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
May 18, 2021
Culture, Poetry, The Raven
5 Comments
. The Purloined Lectern by C. Aubre DeWiles It was the fall, November, 2020, in the night. My friend, Earl Dolan Page, and I were chatting in low...

‘The People, Yes’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
April 30, 2021
Culture, Poetry
4 Comments
. "I Lived and languished.” —Andrei Platonov by "Weird” Ace Blues Last year we learned th’ Empire struck back with fierce synergy. The...

‘The House That Fauci Built’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
April 7, 2021
Covid-19, Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
. The House That Fauci Built by Dr. Weslie Ubeca Within the U.S. government, he was the highest paid He sighed, denied, and p-lied; he was a yo-yo...

‘This Brave American, Ashli Babbitt’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
March 17, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
22 Comments
. This Brave American, Ashli Babbitt “It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.” —Sophocles, “Antigone” by Usa W...

A Poem on the Tyranny of Google, by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
March 1, 2021
Culture, Poetry
26 Comments
. . Frankly, There Are Many Ways To Spell Uggly “the Baleks von Bilgen…new coat of arms—a giant crouching under a fir tree” —Heinrich...

‘Twitter’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
February 4, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
22 Comments
. Twitter by Esca Webuilder The bluebird of unhappiness, that twits all day and night, does not like to be seen that much, especi’lly in pure...

‘The Victory of Donald J. Trump in the 2020 U.S. Election’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
January 15, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
18 Comments
(All poems by Bruce Dale Wise) The Victory of Donald J. Trump in the 2020 U.S. Election by Erisbawdle Cue You can’t make something be so, if the...

‘The Violence in Philadelphia’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
November 19, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
7 Comments
. The Violence in Philadelphia “Par le regne des maleureux chetis“ —Eustache Deschamps by Urbawel Cidese Say first what caused the violence in...

A Poem on Voter Fraud: ‘Red Skies’ and Others by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
November 4, 2020
Culture, Poetry
30 Comments
  Red Skies by Usa W. Celebride Along th’ Atlantic Ocean and around the grand Great Lakes, on the horizon one can see the bright, blue...

‘Consumer Rights’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
October 22, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
18 Comments
All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise. Originally published by the SCP 9/26/18 Consumer Rights by Cal Wes Ubideer Accountability, transparency, and...

‘A New York Post Post’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
October 15, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
17 Comments
  “Censorship is to art, as lynching is to justice.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. by Caud Sewer Bile Joe’s never spoken to his son about...
poem/kelly/censorship

On the Chinese Communist Party Censoring Pence, Not Harris, and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
October 11, 2020
Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
4 Comments
  No Signal, Please Stand By by Lu “Reed ABCs” Wei Perhaps the most intriguing thing about the past debate between vice-presidential...

A Poem on Riots Across America: ‘Ethics Lesson 101,’ and Others by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
October 3, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
  Ethics Lesson 101 by Caud Sewer Bile Kenosha, Portland, Oakland. Minneapolis, New York: Don’t blame their Democratic mayors; they...

‘The Prisoners in Manacles’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
August 9, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry
8 Comments
All poems by Bruce Dale Wise The Prisoners in Manacles by Lu “Reed ABCs” Wei The prisoners in manacles in western China were just on a day out,...

‘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...

A Poem on the World Health Organization’s Praise for Beijing, by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
March 22, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
61 Comments
  The World Health Organization by Baidu Wercs Lee The WHO has praised Beijing's response to COVID-19's spread, despite the fact of all the...

A Poem on the Coronavirus Coverup: ‘The 50¢ Army’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
February 21, 2020
Covid-19, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
12 Comments
  The 50¢ Army by Lu "Reed ABCs" Wei The Chinese Communist regime, has recently dispatched some 1600 online trolls to stifle and to...
poem/yapko/covid leak

A Poem on Li Wenliang, Doctor Who Exposed the Coronavirus, by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
February 6, 2020
Covid-19, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry
14 Comments
Li Wenliang (1985 - 2020) by Dr. Weslie Ubeca Li Wenliang, an ophthalmologist, worked in Wuhan; and when he saw the new coronavirus coming...

‘The Burning of a Flag’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
December 30, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
17 Comments
  by Eric Awesud Ble Adolfo Martinez, a man who hails from Ames, Iowa, was sentenced sixteen jailed-years for the burning of a flag. The...
poem/graham/culture

‘Sonnet: America in 2019’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
November 23, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
11 Comments
  by Caud Sewer Bile A deep state run by rulers lacking thought, a young, unschooled, and mad mob living low, corruption's muddy rivers...

Haiku by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
September 8, 2019
Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Humor, Poetry
9 Comments
(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Haiku by W. "Cured Eel" Sabi I came to the sea. I saw mountains of water. I conquered nothing. *** The...
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  1. Peter C Free on The Society of Classical Poets 2025 Haiku CompetitionJuly 4, 2025

    spring wind song playing the time between you and us stick :: stick insect dance a distant laughter handfuls of…

  2. Priscilla King on ‘The Playland’: A Poem by Shamik BanerjeeJuly 4, 2025

    Or not English only? Is it one of those expressions, like "lotus eyes" or "long eyes" for prettiness or "still…

  3. Joanna Raja Sekar on The Society of Classical Poets 2025 Haiku CompetitionJuly 4, 2025

    cardinal returns, hops along the picket fence, little blur of fire - coarse beneath my hands splintering bark, bustling leaves…

  4. Barrie Levine on The Society of Classical Poets 2025 Haiku CompetitionJuly 3, 2025

    joining in prayer for my grandmother's long life her grieving village

  5. C.B. Anderson on ‘Dad and I’ and Other Poems by C.B. AndersonJuly 3, 2025

    Perhaps, Margaret, we can collaborate on a poem with the title "Umbrage in Cambridge".

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