‘Peter Pan’s Soliloquy’: A Poem by Joshua C. Frank The Society October 12, 2024 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Peter Pan’s Soliloquy In Never Land, each sunrise brings anew A day of play and laughter to pursue. I meet the mermaids, swim in their...
‘Public Benches’: A Poem by Joshua C. Frank The Society September 28, 2024 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Public Benches Lusty men and randy wenches Making out on public benches Used to be a common sight In afternoon or moonlit night, And single people...
‘Let’s Laugh at Leftists’: A Poem by Joshua C. Frank The Society September 14, 2024 Poetry, Satire 12 Comments . Let’s Laugh at Leftists with a nod to Joseph S. Salemi Step right up and see the freaks, Who call sane values mere antiques! Hear them weep and...
‘Autumn Fades’ and Other Poetry on Death by Joshua C. Frank The Society August 30, 2024 Alliterative, Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 20 Comments . Autumn Fades The orange leaves decay to crinkling gray, And sunsets sink and fade the clouds to black. “You’ll see them all in Heaven,” so...
‘The Wise Farmer’: A Poem from the Zen Parable, by Joshua C. Frank The Society August 16, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . The Wise Farmer ---based on a Zen parable attributed to Alan Watts A farmer in China was left by his horse. He took up his plow and continued his...
‘Three Small Tabs’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society August 1, 2024 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Three Small Tabs Upon the men’s room wall at church, A flyer’s there for men who search For healing after an abortion Served to them, their...
‘Colors’ by Kukai, Translated by Joshua C. Frank The Society July 18, 2024 Alliterative, Beauty, Poetry, Translation 24 Comments . Colors by Kukai (空海) (774-835) translated by Joshua C. Frank Colors, fragrant like the flowers, Fade to ash in final hours, Extinguished,...
‘Endless Dreaming’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society July 3, 2024 Ekphrastic, Poetry, Villanelle 20 Comments . Endless Dreaming a villanelle I lunge ahead in bed and start to scream. The nightmare’s end is far; I’m still inside A dream within a dream...
‘The Ghost Girl’: A Poem by Joshua C. Frank The Society June 20, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry 16 Comments . The Ghost Girl One sunny May, I ran to play, __When I was twelve years old, Upon the hill. I miss her still— __A girl with curls of gold In...
‘Under the Umbrella’: A Poem by Joshua C. Frank, Inspired by Brassens’ Le Parapluie The Society June 5, 2024 Love Poems, Music, Poetry, Translation 23 Comments . Under the Umbrella inspired by “Le Parapluie” (“The Umbrella”) by Georges Brassens (1921-1981) Rain fell in waves throughout the street; A...
A Poem Based on Joshua Harris’s I Kissed Dating Goodbye, by Joshua C. Frank The Society May 21, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . Chelsea a true story from I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris “Behold not everybody's beauty: and tarry not among women.”...
‘Truth Is Not Beauty’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society May 5, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 31 Comments . Truth Is Not Beauty “What is the worst mistake you ever made in bed?” Reply: “My son.” (Actual dialogue on social media) I learn the...
‘The Qua-Train’ and Other Poems by Joshua C. Frank The Society April 8, 2024 Humor, Poetry 14 Comments . The Qua-Train In four lines stood iambic feet To board the quatrain from the street. The poem made of quatrain cars Passed each four lines like...
A Poem Based on Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, by Joshua C. Frank The Society March 23, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . The Whiskey Priest based on The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene I stand condemned because I am a priest, Condemned to die by law here in...
Two Poems on Story Time, by Joshua C. Frank The Society March 8, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . Story Time The father, he sits on the couch with a book, A child in each arm, and one more on his knees; The mother, the same. All the other ones...
Poems on Dogs and Humans, by Joshua C. Frank The Society February 16, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Sestina 16 Comments . Last Visit to the Beach a sestina The beach, untouched by Time throughout the years As millions of waves washed from the sea, As Time transformed...
‘Crosses and Losses’ and Other Love Poems by Joshua C. Frank The Society February 14, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry, Satire 20 Comments . Crosses and Losses I tried to write a poem to acclaim The passion flashing like a lightning strike Between a man and woman, though the same Return...
From Michael Bunker’s Surviving Off Off-Grid, and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society February 2, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 28 Comments . In a Home based on Michael Bunker’s grandmother (b. 1909) as described in his book Surviving Off Off-Grid . I Old, blind, and helpless,...
A Free Verse Poem Rewritten Into Formal Verse, and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society January 14, 2024 Poetry, Rondel, Satire 18 Comments . Fallen Hummingbird A formal-verse remake of a free-verse poem of the same name written by my mother on October 16, 2000, in memory of my...
‘Woke Christmas’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society December 30, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire, Triolet 6 Comments . Woke Christmas We dream of Christmas like we used to know, With Santa Claus and sleigh rides in the snow, Big families all together,...
A Poem on Frozen Embryos and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society December 29, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Triolet 12 Comments . They Have Our Genes They have our genes; they’re human beings, Our fifteen frozen embryos. Regardless of your disagreeings, They have our genes;...
‘What’s Left to Say?’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society December 13, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Rhupunt, Rondeau 16 Comments . What’s Left to Say? a rhupunt When women’s plans Are like a man’s, So they act trans, What’s left to say? When folks believe That to...
‘If You Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society November 29, 2023 Epigrams and Proverbs, Found Poem, Poetry, Satire 21 Comments . If You Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter If solidified oil with chemical clutter That helps it look yellow and tasty to eat Makes you think...
‘The Navy’ and Other Love Poems by Paul Fort, Translated by Joshua C. Frank The Society November 12, 2023 Love Poems, Music, Poetry, Translation 10 Comments . The Navy by Paul Fort (1872-1960) translated by Joshua C. Frank We find them all again in brief In little loves that last one day, Every joy and...
‘After Brain Death’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society October 24, 2023 Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . After Brain Death Based on the article “May We Donate Our Organs?” by Drs. Jay Boyd and Paul A. Byrne: Warm and pink, his heart still...
‘A Leftist Rebukes Hamas’: A Satirical Poem by Joshua C. Frank The Society October 15, 2023 Poetry, Satire 35 Comments . A Leftist Rebukes Hamas Hey, Hamas, you silly dolts, You need to mow down more adults. Keep fighting for your patch of sand, Since Jews do not...
‘Ode to the Cello’ and Other Poems on Music by Joshua C. Frank The Society October 10, 2023 Beauty, Music, Poetry 27 Comments . Ode to the Cello Fingered strings upon the cello Vibrate by the moving bow. Autumn tones in red and yellow Echo from the to and fro Through the...
A Poem Inspired by Kimberly Hartke and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society September 26, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Epigrams and Proverbs, Poetry 19 Comments . In Eve’s Footsteps based on “Genesis 2: Teaching its Truth to Women” by Kimberly Hartke “And the Lord God said: It is not good for man...
Two Sci-fi Poems by Joshua C. Frank The Society September 12, 2023 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Triolet 13 Comments . Younger Selves I have you leaning up against my side, Our boys and girls around us on the couch. Below the window, watching from outside, Our...
‘The Pietà or Mickey Mouse?’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society August 28, 2023 Art, Culture, Humor, Poetry 23 Comments . The Pietà or Mickey Mouse? A book I’ve read depicts a boy Who’s searching for creative joy. His mind can’t focus on a vision, So he’s...
‘The Certainty of Kelly Green’: A Poem by Joshua C. Frank The Society August 7, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 25 Comments . The Certainty of Kelly Green My friend and I went to a coffee shop; She read her intricately crafted verse That proved that she alone was at the...
Three Poems on Sleep and Dreams, by Joshua C. Frank The Society July 24, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Villanelle 18 Comments . Back to Sleep In very early years, now far behind, When I returned to earth at midnight deep From nightmare scares within my frightened mind, My...
Four Poems About Road Travel, by Joshua C. Frank The Society July 10, 2023 Beauty, Pantoum, Poetry, Satire 16 Comments . The Billboard a pantoum It’s propped along the route I roll— A squatting square against the sky, Atop a sturdy metal pole, To tell me what new...
‘The Adventures of Verb’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society June 25, 2023 Children's, Humor, Poetry, Satire 28 Comments . The Adventures of Verb At six, I had a dictionary Where I would meet a man named Verb, Superb and quite extraordinary, In every definition’s...
‘All That’s Left Is Yours’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society June 11, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 22 Comments . All That’s Left Is Yours based on I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris The bride walked the aisle to her husband-to-be, __Who gently took...
‘Red Flags’: A Sestina Sonnet by Joshua C. Frank The Society May 28, 2023 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Rondel, Sestina 16 Comments . Red Flags a sestina sonnet The national flags of the Westerners’ lands Turn red in the dim, fading light of the sunset, Like Communist...
‘The Ballad of the Heroic Mother’ and Other Poetry for Mother’s Day by Joshua C. Frank The Society May 14, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . The Ballad of the Heroic Mother a true story A toddler into water fell __And sank as quick as rock. At nine feet deep, she couldn’t yell __Or...
‘Encapsulations of Classic Texts’: Four Poems by Joshua C. Frank The Society April 27, 2023 Alexandroid, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Encapsulations “It’s a shame that the tradition of producing small poetic encapsulations of classic texts seems to have died out.” ---Joseph...
‘The Little Knight’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society April 13, 2023 Alexandroid, Beauty, Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 26 Comments . The Little Knight The kitchen door slams open wide; The boy flies through to play outside. His house becomes his castle’s walls; The distant car...
‘Signs of the Times’: Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society March 30, 2023 Culture, Pantoum, Poetry, Rondeau 27 Comments . Signs of the Times . I. Hymn 6-6-6 a rondeau Hymn 6-6-6 on high display— The devil’s number where we pray Before the Lord—is that a thing? Is...
