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‘A Seasonal Concoction’ by Bruce Dale Wise

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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...

‘Sonnet: America in 2019’ by Bruce Dale Wise

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November 23, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
9 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

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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...

‘The Captive Caesar’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

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August 17, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
20 Comments
all poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Captive Caesar by Aedile Cwerbus Though it was many years ago, millennia, in fact, it seems, like...

‘Pablo Neruda on the Passing of Joseph Stalin’ by Bruce Dale Wise

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July 22, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
Pablo Neruda on the Passing of Joseph Stalin by Wibele Escudar We must be men. That is the law that Joseph Stalin left. Sincere intensity and...

‘G-Mafia’ by Bruce Dale Wise

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June 25, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
14 Comments
G-Mafia "Let us now praise freedom's twilight..." —Osip Mandelstam by Esca Webuilder We live without the feeling of the country under...

‘The Terrorist Attacks in Sri Lanka, Easter, 2019’ by Bruce Dale Wise

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April 21, 2019
Culture, Poetry, Terrorism
16 Comments
  O, curse Zahran Hashim and, yes, Abu Mohammad too, for evil at the Shangri-la and Batticalao, just two, of all those vicious men, who hit...

A Poem for Former Greenpeace Activist Patrick Moore, by Bruce Dale Wise

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April 11, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, The Environment
5 Comments
District E for former Greenpeace Activist Patrick Moore by Eric Awesud Ble It always was at night when people simply disappeared. Names were...

‘Ancient Melodies’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
December 17, 2018
Art, Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry
10 Comments
(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Ancient Melodies by Ercules Edibwa No longer are they heard, the ancient melodies of Greece, so beautiful and...

‘U.S. Midterm Election 2018’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
November 7, 2018
Poetry
11 Comments
(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) U.S. Midterm Election 2018 by Brice U. Lawseed There wasn't any blue wave, nor a red wall; but instead the...

‘Venezuelan Woes’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
September 3, 2018
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
6 Comments
(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Venezuelan Woes by Lud Wes Caribee As Socialist experiment Venezuela sinks into far greater depths, a...

‘They Come For One, They Come For All’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
August 7, 2018
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
30 Comments
On the recent and coordinated banning of Alex Jones' media outlet Infowars.com by Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Apple by Seer Ablicadew They...

‘Crossing the Swamp by Jon MacNaughton’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
August 3, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment
10 Comments
(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Crossing the Swamp by Jon MacNaughton by Caud Sewer Bile "If freedom of speech is taken away...we may be led,...

‘Confucius Institutes’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
June 19, 2018
Culture, Humor, Poetry
9 Comments
(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Confucius Institutes "Three things cannot be hidden long: the sun, the moon and truth." —paraphrase of a...
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