Three Christmas Sonnets by Phillip Whidden The Society December 22, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Dim and Not He carries one white candle in the space Beneath cathedral vaults. He has to hold His hand in front of it so just a trace Of light...
‘Imitating Shakespeare’s Sonnet 107’ by James Sale The Society December 15, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry, Shakespeare 16 Comments . Imitating Shakespeare’s Sonnet 107 . Sonnet 107 __by William Shakespeare Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming...
‘Just Doin’ Our Job’: A Sonnet in Terza Rima by T.M. Moore The Society November 17, 2024 Children's, Poetry, Science, Terza Rima 3 Comments . Just Doin' Our Job As if they didn’t have enough to do already---harvesting the light to make food for the tree and seeing to it you and I have...
‘Diners’: A Sonnet by Adam Wasem The Society November 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 20 Comments . Diners For single men alone, what impulse spurs us To find them everywhere? –the burned-out lights, the squat brick block, so many times...
800 Years of the Sonnet in 12 Minutes: A Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society November 12, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Essays, Poetry 11 Comments . https://youtu.be/B9aMXFVpFEk . . Andrew Benson Brown's epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, chronicles the major events of the American...
‘O Lord, Let Me Not Fall’: A Sonnet by Jeffrey Essmann The Society November 9, 2024 Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . O Lord, Let Me Not Fall O Lord, let me not fall today, I pray, Not in some vague or metaphoric way, As into sin or moral turpitude Or somewhat less...
A Sonnet on the Vogelherd Horse and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society November 7, 2024 Art, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Horse Figurine —one inch by one point nine inch, 32,000 to 35,000 years before Giacometti's famous horse A hallowed tiny horse, but missing...
‘Healthy Relics’: Three Sonnets by Margaret Coats The Society October 30, 2024 Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . Elisha's Bones II Kings 4:32–37, 13:20–21 Elisha died, the prophet doubly strong In spirit, and his sepulcher was grand, For he had caused a...
‘Sonnet 83’ by Richard Craven The Society October 29, 2024 Poetry, Satire 4 Comments . Sonnet 83 A thankless task. You churn them singly out. They’re ordered chronologic’ly. And when someone asks idly what they’re all about, you...
‘The Force of Dreams’: A Sonnet by Phillip Whidden The Society October 24, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry 13 Comments . The Force of Dreams I dreamed of you last night. I dreamed and dreamed, Yet more, as if there never had been dreams In me before. Reality it...
‘The Meaning of Pearl Necklaces’ and Another Sonnet by Phillip Whidden The Society October 10, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments . The Meaning of Pearl Necklaces Most pearls are prized because the luster of Their loveliness lies held in shapely spheres— Though never...
Three Curtal Sonnets by Shaun C. Duncan The Society October 8, 2024 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . The Prestige of the Puppet-Master To be deceived must bring some satisfaction, For all are well aware of the illusion Yet most will play the dupe...
‘Cutie Pie Cat’ and Another Sonnet by Phillip Whidden The Society September 26, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments . Cutie Pie Cat The pink-nosed face of Prospero my cat, Pink nose and white fur face, is what he rubs Against me, purring. He does not know that I...
A Heroic Crown of Sonnets in Honor of the Ever Virgin, by Karen Darantière The Society July 27, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . A Heroic Crown of Sonnets in Honor of the Ever Virgin . ---1st Mystery: The Prophecy of Isaiah . The Timeless Song The timeless song of her...
‘A Sonnet for My Son on Father’s Day’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 25 Comments . A Sonnet for My Son on Father’s Day You coo her name in buoyant notes of joy Then watch her toddle, tickled by her grin. She spies the bug-eyed...
A Father’s Day Sonnet by Evan Mantyk The Society June 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . A Sonnet ---for my father, an avid gardener and feeder of wildlife, who recently underwent hip surgery No one shall intervene this afternoon. The...
‘Winter into Spring Sonnet’ by Jedediah Smith The Society June 8, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments . Winter into Spring Sonnet The garbage dump outside the town is white as winter’s snowfall claims the castoff chair from autumn’s cluttered...
A Sonnet for the 100th Anniversary of the Leopold and Loeb Case, by Adam Sedia The Society May 31, 2024 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Leopold and Loeb Or, the Consequences of Ideas A Frenchman’s thought-experiments Argued by Englishmen until A German stripped pure thought from...
A Sonnet for Harrison Butker, by Adam Sedia The Society May 27, 2024 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Love and Vipers for Harrison Butker, the football player criticized for supporting traditional views of women in a commencement address How hated...
Three Love-Crossed Sonnets by James A. Tweedie The Society May 22, 2024 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 21 Comments . Unopened Letters Unopened letters strewn across the floor Addressed to me with your name on the back. Left where they fell inside my slotted...
‘A Mother’s Day Sonnet’ by Evan Mantyk The Society May 12, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 22 Comments . A Mother’s Day Sonnet I hope you have a happy Mother’s Day And take a moment out to feel the love I’m sending to you there, though...
‘Not Sonnet 18… Yet’ and Other Poetry for Shakespeare’s Birthday, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 22, 2024 Humor, Poetry, Shakespeare 40 Comments . Not Sonnet 18… Yet I strain in vain to sparkle like the Bard. I strive to spill slick iambs by the ream. Comparing thee to spring in my...
Sonku Poetry Challenge: Write a Sonnet-Haiku The Society February 16, 2024 Haiku and Senryu, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests 53 Comments . Epic poet and poetry video maker Andrew Benson Brown created a bit of excitement with his invented sonnet-haiku or haiku-sonnet published earlier...
A Love Sonnet and Other Poetry by Andrew Yeager The Society February 11, 2024 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Villanelle 5 Comments . Love Sonnet The glint of summer’s evening leaves a glow upon her cheek, so soft and plain and fair— the glister of the twilight hours show the...
‘The Fall of Time: A Haiku Sonnet’ by Andrew Benson Brown The Society February 5, 2024 Haiku and Senryu, Love Poems, Poetry 46 Comments . The Fall of Time A Haiku Sonnet . Thinning coat of frost Whitening the ground with grief— Love forever lost Wrinkles on the leaf Yellowing a...
Two Sonnets by James Sale The Society February 2, 2024 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 33 Comments . Had I held you in the fields of Hay beside The Wye and on an afternoon that cleared To brilliance, although the sun soon would Sink to an evening...
Sonnets on Famous Ladies of the Early 20th Century, by Peter Austin The Society January 22, 2024 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Zelda She and Scott were the face of the Jazz Age, Drunk and riotous in post-war Paris, He scribbling out page on potboiling page To fund the...
‘The Barista’s Hands’ and Other Sonnets by Daniel Kemper The Society January 6, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . The Barista’s Hands Surprisingly, she knew my name and used the chance to give a fleeting glimpse and catch me off my guard. I cocked my head,...
‘Christmas’: A Spenserian Sonnet by Jeffrey Essmann The Society December 23, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Christmas I don’t recall the tree or what we ate With sentiment Dickensian and sweet. The tree was in a Midwest way ornate; The food: potatoes...
‘Sonnet for Mom’ by Gigi Ryan The Society December 5, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 24 Comments . Sonnet for Mom (October 21, 1933 - March 28, 2014) I could not see how much she cared for me; Her faults were amplified in my young mind. But now...
‘The Stream of Love’: A Sonnet by Daniel Howard The Society November 7, 2023 Love Poems, Poetry 12 Comments . The Stream of Love Like swollen streams in Spring, young love will roarThrough every obstacle that checks its flow,Though not so fast that winter...
‘All Saints Day’ and Other Spiritual Sonnets by Coignard, Translated by Margaret Coats The Society November 1, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 19 Comments . All Saints' Day by Gabrielle de Coignard (c.1550–1586), translated by Margaret Coats O Saints, you have your heritage in hand Because you battled...
‘The Great Sonnet’: A Poem by Prison Inmate Bob H. Cook The Society October 30, 2023 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 18 Comments . The Great Sonnet I set myself to write a sonnet. I labored hard and long upon it. Sweet verse some maid might shed a tear at, More ere's than one...
‘Sonnet for Houston’ and Other Poetry by Alexander Lazarus Wolff The Society August 25, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments . Sonnet for Houston The highway shuffles traffic as the sun begins to bake the tarmac; its black emits waves of heat that waver as it gets a...
Sonnet Summaries of Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Parts I & II, and Henry V, by James A. Tweedie The Society August 22, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Shakespeare 9 Comments . Henry IV, Part I In Henry IV Part 1 the king’s possessed By fears that Harry Hotspur wants him dead. While Henry’s son Prince Harry is...
‘On Lies and Liars’: A Double (Petrarchan) Sonnet by James A. Tweedie The Society July 23, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . On Lies and Liars A Double (Petrarchan) Sonnet . “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a...
SCP Poet Cynthia Erlandson Wins the Maria W. Faust Sonnet Competition The Society July 11, 2023 Poetry, Poetry Contests, Readings 24 Comments . SCP Poet Cynthia Erlandson of Michigan has won the 2023 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Competition. Her sonnet, "Fire and Ice," is a Top Four prize...
Two Summer Sonnets by James A. Tweedie The Society July 7, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . Forever Nine My bare feet merge with weathered, knotty pineAs dripping swimsuit water cools the pier.The day belongs to me, for I am nine,With...
A Petrarchan Sonnet for a Spring Day, by Jane M. Schulert The Society June 14, 2023 Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry 13 Comments . Sonnet When sitting on a swing my cheeks were chilled, I gazed and saw the dawn, a new spring day. I knew those colors soon would fade away, But...
‘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...
