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‘A Star’: A Poem by John Freeborn

The Society
January 24, 2024
Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
12 Comments
. A Star O silent sphere of silver-soft-spun light,Thou crystal pearl strung on an airy veilSuffusing bright celestial delightIn snowy glory o'er thy starry trail:The bridal necklace of the night inflameWith...

‘Blessings’: A Poem by Adrian Fillion

The Society
January 24, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
4 Comments
. Blessings Every now and then when I’m in prayer I feel Your famous joyfulness descend. It doesn’t descend, of course; it’s always there Waiting for us, just as it’s always been. It doesn’t happen...

‘On Cats and Love’ and Other Poetry by Benjamin Cannicott Shavitz

The Society
January 23, 2024
Beauty, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
4 Comments
. On Cats and Love My cat does not explain himself. He knows his reasons. Why must I? He needs to bathe while on a shelf Or hunt some trash? I don’t care why. I do not need to understand. I love him since...

Poetry Paraphrased from Suicide Notes, by Jeff Kemper

The Society
January 23, 2024
Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
. The Plight of a Troubled Young Soul Parts I and II are paraphrases of actual notes. . I. Not Today I know I’m ill; I am not well. In truth, I want to end it all. I want to toll my own death knell. I wish...

‘Failing at History’ and Other Poetry by David Whippman

The Society
January 22, 2024
Love Poems, Poetry
17 Comments
. Failing at History She always argued when I used to say We were like the great lovers of the past. That was just woolly thinking, she’d insist: Each separate period of history Was quite different from us...

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 wastage of two beaux esprits. When the stock market crashed, in...

‘To Find a Waterfall’: A Poem by Monika Cooper

The Society
January 21, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
16 Comments
. To Find a Waterfall The wild forest is a spiritual place. Disbelief does not last there. Halfway through My span of life, my sunrise-to-set race, I found my trail among the trees anew. Goal for the Spring:...

A Poem with a Glossary: ‘The Kakistocracy’ by Phil S. Rogers

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January 21, 2024
Culture, Humor, Poetry
18 Comments
. The Kakistocracy Does the news give you malneirophrenia, __but you've not been to sleep? Do you galumph all day around the house, __your mind in sorrows deep? Do politicians bring on crapulence, __but...

A Poem on Iranian Woman Roya Heshmati, by Cheryl Corey

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January 20, 2024
Culture, Poetry
22 Comments
. Because She Walked In Beauty They sentenced her to over seventy lashes, Because she walked in beauty, hair revealed, Which beauty they demanded be concealed. Courageously, she faced the mullahs’...

‘Summer of ’73’: A Poem by Gigi Ryan

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January 20, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. Summer of ‘73  It’s sunset and the sidewalk still feels hot. My legs and feet are bare, they do not mind Mosquitos nearly eating me alive. The neighbor kids are starting to come out. We play a game of...

‘Father’ and Other Poetry by Alan Steinle

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January 20, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
. Father after "So Far, So Near," by Christopher Pearse Cranch (1813-1892). Father, maker of all spirit, infinite, You can ensphere it. Still, You enter all that's living: raising, guiding, and forgiving. Of...

‘Smash, Careening Thrash’: A Poem by Maura H. Harrison

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January 19, 2024
Culture, Poetry
23 Comments
. . . Maura H. Harrison is a writer, photographer, and fiber artist from Fredericksburg, VA. She is currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the University of St. Thomas, Houston.  Her works...

‘Again’ and Other Poetry by Angel L. Villanueva

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January 19, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
14 Comments
. Again The bench is near where children play And where she sits to dream and muse. She knows her life will shortly fade— A doleful thought she can't refuse. Her wrinkled skin declares her age, And her...

‘I’ll Keep My Truck’: A Poem by Mark F. Stone

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January 18, 2024
Culture, Poetry, Rondeau
28 Comments
. I’ll Keep My Truck I’ll keep my truck.  I won’t revise my thinking as gas prices rise. My son-in-law berates and blames my truck.  It drinks too much, he claims. He loves to spout and moralize. He...

‘The Pitcher Plant’ and Other Poetry by Andrew Yeager

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January 18, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. The Pitcher Plant The insect dances on a pitcher plant drinking deep the fabled honey nectar. The rim affords a place to lean and slant— heedless treads the doomed fructose collector. Advancing where the...

‘The School Bell’: A Poem by Satyananda Sarangi

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January 17, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
18 Comments
. The School Bell The schooldays weave a maze inside my mind, A maze with streets resounding childish zeal; The world was then a fairy land designed For all I thought, a world with grand appeal. That giant...

‘Long List of Requirements’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick

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January 17, 2024
Poetry, Satire
33 Comments
. Long List of Requirements The sweet and lovely woman sought __A man to call her own. She had lots of prerequisites __And kept them cast in stone. Some friends were worried such a list __Would court...

‘To My Brother, After John Keats’ and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers

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January 16, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
. To My Brother after John Keats When I have fears that I may lose my sight before I've savored books I long to read, before famed writers oust my glooms with light and my starved mind their genius stories...

‘A Mighty Fortress’: A Poem by Brian Yapko

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January 16, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
38 Comments
. A Mighty Fortress for Diane My eyes ache from the tears still left unshed As I remember all she meant to me. I still can’t quite accept that she is dead And find scant solace in the eulogy. A vibrant life...

‘The Five Ages’: A Poem by Morrison Handley-Schachler

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January 15, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
. The Five Ages Beneath rose bower and sweet cherry shade Long since have Saturn’s golden people slept And for their sins the silver race were swept Hence and in lightning-blasted clefts were laid; Next were...

‘Song of the Snow’ by Amado Nervo, Translated by Isabel Chenot

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January 15, 2024
Beauty, Poetry, Translation
12 Comments
. Song of the Snow by Amado Nervo (1870-1919) translated by Isabel Chenot How miraculous Nature is! Doesn't the snow give light? Immaculate and mysterious, tremulous and quiet: it appears to kneel in noiseless...

Bunker Hill in Poetry: The Death of Joseph Warren, by Andrew Benson Brown

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January 14, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry
14 Comments
. Bunker Hill: The Death of Joseph Warren from Legends of Liberty, Volume 2 Dramatis Personae Joseph Warren – Physician, spymaster, and major general of the colonial militia William Howe – Commander of...

A Free Verse Poem Rewritten Into Formal Verse, and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank

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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 grandmother Your hands, dear mother, on my mind have been— Your calm...

‘Saint Sebastianus’ and Other Poems by Joseph S. Salemi

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January 13, 2024
Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
19 Comments
. Saint Sebastianus Sebastianus, soldier, pinioned, bleeding, Stands at his lonely and forgotten post Unperceived—no, even unsuspected— By the diseased and ulcerated world. Stomachs swollen with dyspeptic...

‘The Unchecked Pawn’: A Chess Poem by Julian Woodruff

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January 13, 2024
Culture, Poetry
12 Comments
. The Unchecked Pawn Quickly Black castled king-side and planned his attack. White then countered with confidence, primed for a sack, with the sneakiest strategy he could contrive: nonchalantly he pushed his...

‘Shakespeare Re-placed: Re-Verse Engineering’: Poetry by James A. Tweedie

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January 12, 2024
Humor, Poetry, Shakespeare
14 Comments
. Shakespeare Re-placed Re-Verse Engineering In the picture above, SCP poet James A. Tweedie has taken the image of Venus from Botticelli’s Primavera and relocated her to the upstairs bathroom in his home....

The 10 Best Poems of Emily Dickinson

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January 12, 2024
Best Poems, Essays, Poetry
34 Comments
. The 10 Best Poems of Emily Dickinson by Monika Cooper Being presented with an Emily Dickinson poem is like getting a telegram from a strange planet: our own. There may not be any words you don’t know. But...

‘Homebound’: A Poem on Delivering Communion by Jeffrey Essmann

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January 11, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
. Homebound They get too old to come to Mass, too sick, Too shaky on their legs or just too scared To leave the house. The bleak arithmetic Of life has caught them sorely unprepared And suddenly the simple...

‘The Darkened Hill’: A Poem by Adam Wasem

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January 11, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
3 Comments
. The Darkened Hill We drove and found the childhood place where you would run and hide for space away from family pain and disgrace. Up to the top of the darkened hill we crept and stopped to drink our...
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‘Without a Dad’ and Other Poetry by Gregory Ross

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January 10, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau
11 Comments
. Without a Dad Without a Dad, you are not sure, And never know you could endure The many doubts that blur your sight, Or fears that stalk you every night; If he’s not present, there’s no cure. And then...
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Andrew Benson Brown Reads Poems by D. Robin, Tessitore, Freeman, A. Casey, Dickey, and Tweedie

The Society
January 10, 2024
Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings
9 Comments
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‘Venus Sighed’: A Poem by Suzanne Ramljak

The Society
January 9, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
19 Comments
. Venus Sighed Venus sighed and turned aside, tired of seeing people try to feebly mimic Beauty’s pride, too easily pleasing hungry eyes that eat what they are given. Steeped in heaps of plastic...

‘The Old Native Chieftain’ and Other Poetry by Corey Elizabeth Jackson

The Society
January 9, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
8 Comments
. The Old Native Chieftain The old native chieftain from forests among __Bright sparkling lakes of the tribe, With death approaching instinctively covets __The spot where his transition lies. Reclining in...

Our Faith Is What?—Canto XXIV of Dante’s Paradise, Translated by Stephen Binns

The Society
January 8, 2024
Dante, Poetry, Translation
6 Comments
. Our Faith Is What?--- Canto XXIV of Paradise by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns “O fellowship elected to the feast  ____Beatrice says to those amid the fixed stars __of our blessed...

‘Puffins’: A Poem by Margaret Coats

The Society
January 8, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
45 Comments
. Puffins The puffin’s beak is bright: Quince yellow stripes contrast With chests of fluffy white And wings of satin black, But suit dense orange web feet. When jauntily upcast, Snouts call for tap and...

‘Unchristian’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

The Society
January 7, 2024
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
39 Comments
. Unchristian I hope you burn in Hell for nasty things You said to me, but if you don’t, I hope A host of energetic angel wings Will lash your eyes.  The blurry King of Kings, As toward His golden God-side...

Poetry for Children: Seven Great Poems to Read to Your Kids

The Society
January 7, 2024
Best Poems, Children's, Poetry
13 Comments
. . Poetry for Children by Shaun C. Duncan . To speak of poetry for children might appear redundant at first. With rhymed and metered poetry hounded out of every "respectable" corner of the literary...

‘Enlightened Minds’: A Poem On Anti-Israel Protests on Campus, by Warren Bonham

The Society
January 6, 2024
Culture, Poetry
24 Comments
. Enlightened Minds Most live life unsure and frightened, bearing burdens they want lightened. Waking, working, living, dying. Wondering why they keep on trying. Until thoughts that sound so heightened come...

‘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, perused her angled pose, and stretched enough to match her...

‘A Valedictorian’s Address at Harvard, about Claudine Gay’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
January 5, 2024
Poetry, Satire
39 Comments
. A Valedictorian’s Address at Harvard, about Claudine Gay written at the request of Brian Yapko, and in deepest appreciation of Chris Rufo, who broke this story wide open We’re gathered here to say...
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