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A’sailin’: A Poem by Cynthia Bernard

The Society
December 18, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
20 Comments
. A’sailin’ ‘Twould seem quite true I never was __the captain of this ship, though in my youth I did believe __in charting my own trip. But Master Time has made it clear __how lowly is my rank. I’ve...

‘Come, Spring’: A Poem by Janice Canerdy

The Society
December 18, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
9 Comments
. Come, Spring When by the winter cold we’re most oppressed, mere thoughts of spring’s arrival make us smile. We dream of earth in vivid colors dressed, blue skies, sunshine, birds trilling tunes with...

‘The Wreath’ and Other Poetry by Cheryl Corey

The Society
December 17, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
. The Wreath Circle of green— What does it mean? Never ending, Ever bending. It’s hope that’s vernal And faith that’s welling For God in-dwelling And life eternal. . Pruning Trees   Now that all...

‘Intersubjective Bootstrap’: A Poem by Josh Mitteldorf

The Society
December 17, 2024
Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
. Intersubjective Bootstrap If all life is a dream, is it your dream or mine? __And why should our two worlds agree? An answer avails if we’re both The Divine, __At our source, I am you and you’re...

‘Journalists Live in a Fantasy World’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
December 16, 2024
Poetry, Satire
14 Comments
. Journalists Live in a Fantasy World If you like fiction, then turn on the news. You will hear journalists giving their views. Facts are conveniently pushed to the side; Truth becomes something that they may...

‘Let’s Just Say’: A Poem by Mark Stellinga

The Society
December 15, 2024
Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
. Let’s Just Say A friend of ours was asked by some reporter how he viewed the war his only son had gone to fight in and had died. His face went limp, his breathing paused his eyes welled up with tears, and...
poetry/mantyk/shakespeare

‘Imitating Shakespeare’s Sonnet 107’ by James Sale

The Society
December 15, 2024
Love Poems, Poetry, Shakespeare
18 Comments
. Imitating Shakespeare’s Sonnet 107 . Sonnet 107 __by William Shakespeare Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love...

‘A House in Winter’ and Other Poems by Adam Sedia

The Society
December 15, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
17 Comments
. A House in Winter Preternaturally silent, still.The omnipresent biting chill, And deepest, darkest night surround.The snow’s soft crunch, the only sound; Fierce, unrelenting wind gusts downFrom boreal...

‘A Simple Prayer’ and Other Poetry by Marc Gilbert

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December 14, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
8 Comments
. A Simple Prayer Crown my head in gray, dear Lord, __And bless my tangled tongue. Return to me the mystery __I knew when I was young. Before the echoed scorn of cynics, __Before the sophist’s...

‘Sharpton’: A Poem by James A. Tweedie

The Society
December 14, 2024
Poetry, Satire
10 Comments
. Sharpton He talks his walk and walks his talk and then He walks his talk and talks his walk again. The walk he talks goes nowhere I can see. The talk he walks seems jabberwock to me. But everybody thinks...

‘I Saw An Angel Weeping’: A Poem by Michael Walker

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December 13, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
6 Comments
. I Saw An Angel Weeping I saw an angel weeping In the graveyard by the brook, Her silent vigil keeping, Yet when I turned to look, She spread her wings before me To shield me on my way, And thus, did she...

‘Homemade Halos—An Election Reflection’: A Poem by Warren Bonham

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December 13, 2024
Poetry, Satire
21 Comments
. Homemade Halos---An Election Reflection “Celebrity endorsements say a lot: they say you’re a liberal, an elitist, and a cultural progressive,” Mr. O’Reilly said. “An Oprah or Clooney endorsement is...

‘The Drift of Dark Days’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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December 12, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
25 Comments
. The Drift of Dark Days November is a time for us to grieve About the dying of the warmth and light, About the passing of our joie de vivre, As we await the bitter arctic bite. Near-perfect vees of fleeing...

Six Great Dramatic Monologues by Robert Browning

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December 12, 2024
Essays, Poetry
16 Comments
. Six Great Dramatic Monologues by Robert Browning by Brian Yapko The dramatic monologue is a unique type of poem: the poet enters the mind of a specific character---usually historic or literary---and then...

‘In Advent Stillness’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann

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December 11, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
  In Advent Stillness In Advent stillness and its purpled nightsWe turn within and with a solemn gazeConsider well our soul’s more reconditeAnd sundry impulses: the many waysBy which we hamper grace’s...

A Poem for American Women with Five or More Children, by Margaret Coats

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December 11, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
25 Comments
. Motherly Motives ---of the 5% of American women with 5 or more children The greater good is motherhood. Let wealth be vast and health ideal, These blessings are not understood To be too much. The dear...

‘Telepathy’ and Other Poems by Anna J. Arredondo

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December 10, 2024
Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Terza Rima
24 Comments
. Telepathy Your reticence to speak is no deterrent To my delight to be in your vicinity--- Presence and chatter need not be concurrent; Lack of the latter won’t change my affinity For your dark liquid eyes:...

‘In a Twenty-minute Tuk-tuk Ride’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee

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December 10, 2024
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
19 Comments
. In a Twenty-minute Tuk-tuk Ride That day, the river of our luck had dried. No taxis. Air-conditioned buses crammed with half the town. Just when I said, "We're dammed," a tuk-tuk by the roundabout defied my...
poem/sedia/beauty

‘The Bar’: A Poem by Jeff Shakespeare

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December 9, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
3 Comments
. The Bar ---after Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" The sail is set, the breeze is strong. I pray the crossing won’t take long. My Pilot knows these waters well. But time and tide no man can...

‘Dragons Lost at Sea’: A Poem by Isabella Simmonds

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December 9, 2024
Children's, Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
. Dragons Lost at Sea In salty seas green dragons fly the waves, With plastic scales—a man-made guard from rot. Submerged to sleep in rocky water caves; Bereft of flames they blow and bubble not. A cargo...

‘I No Longer See It on Mulberry Street’ and Other Poetry by Dusty Grein

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December 8, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. I No Longer See It on Mulberry Street I used to walk home from school each day, then report back to Pop, what I saw on my way. I'd imagine all sorts of things wondrous and neat, in my mind, with my brain, on...

‘Galileo Under Confinement’: A Poem by Brian Yapko

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December 8, 2024
Beauty, Poetry, Science
22 Comments
. Galileo Under Confinement Scene: Florence, 1636 AD. In the third year of his life imprisonment (as sentenced by the Holy Inquisition) Galileo Galilei---now 71---poses at his prison-home for the Flemish...

A Poem for Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral’s Reopening, by Margaret Coats

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December 7, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
28 Comments
. Notre Dame Re-Opens To touch this holiness we have no right, Nor did we earn the privilege to restore Its grandeur. Bringing anguished hearts to soar, We purge remembrance of one fiery night. No lives were...

‘Variation on a Poem by Blok’ by Stephen M. Dickey

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December 7, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
7 Comments
. Variation on a Poem by Blok How hard it is to walk among the living And make like you are not already dead, And speak up apropos of life’s misgiving To generations shrouded out ahead. And, looking...

‘Offerings of the Heart’: A Poem by Yoshikaze Kawakami

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December 6, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
4 Comments
. Offerings of the Heart A Symbolic Poem . The songs of Yamato From seeds of healing sprout As offerings of our hearts, And if ever hurt we feel, Swiftly songs arise; Heard by hearts, we heal. For one need...

‘Fake Sales’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick

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December 6, 2024
Culture, Humor, Poetry
24 Comments
. Fake Sales “Fifty Percent Off”The store signs all say,But I have to scoff---There is simply no wayThat the clothes I picked outFrom the “sale” in that store,Were---on this there’s no doubt---Ever...

Meditation on Herbert’s ‘Church Monuments’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi

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December 5, 2024
Culture, Poetry
20 Comments
. Meditation on Herbert’s “Church Monuments” "…Mark, here below, How tame these ashes are, how free from lust, That thou mayst fit thyself against thy fall." —George Herbert, “Church...

‘After the Snow’: A Poem by Steven Frattali

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December 5, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
10 Comments
. After the Snow The snow fell through the night, night-long, The deepest snowfall of the year. By dawn it covered everything, Pearl gray unfolding everywhere As light leaked inward from beyond Through...

‘On the Death of a Child’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman

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December 4, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
14 Comments
. On the Death of a Child To lose a child is tragic, yet those winks to tenderness, to bonding, still exist as memories, creating lasting links twixt parent and the prematurely missed. The day of birth; the...

Three Meditations in Verse by T.M. Moore

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December 4, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
. Meditation 1 “Grace has drawn nigh to mouths, once blasphemous, and has made them harps; sounding praise.” ---Homily on Our Lord, (1) "Let your speech always be with grace." ---Colossians 4.6 Grace...

‘Roofless Church’: A Poem by Peter Venable

The Society
December 3, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
7 Comments
. Roofless Church The stone-hewn walls, No window sash. No pews, no halls. Burnt logs, damp ash. The roof, vanished. No organ flues. Shaped block, granite, And endless view. Above, hawks soar. No bells to...

‘American Espionage and the Soviet Target’: A Poem on His Experiences, by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
December 2, 2024
Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
. American Espionage and the Soviet Target I was assigned to Russia as an Army attaché— A legal spy who operated every single day. The era of the Soviets was run by KGB. Just one uncareful step and then...

“It Just So Happens”: A Poem by Oliver Grossman

The Society
December 1, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
14 Comments
. "It Just So Happens" Dark creatures prowl the islands of the mind On silent paw, as panthers in the night; Two em'rald eyes, and shadow intertwine To weave a myst'ry with the curved moon's light. We sail our...

When Poems Are Lyrics and Vice Versa: Reflections by James A. Tweedie

The Society
December 1, 2024
Essays, Poetry, Song Lyrics
19 Comments
. When Poems Are Lyrics and Vice Versa by James A. Tweedie Lyrics are poems written to join with music to form a unity in the hope that the two together will transcend what either the words or music can...
poem/bryant/satire

‘When Fervid Female Stoops to Folly’: A Poem by Julian Woodruff

The Society
November 30, 2024
Poetry, Satire
8 Comments
. When Fervid Female Stoops to Folly after Goldsmith’s “When lovely woman stoops to folly” When fervid female stoops to folly and starts insisting she is male, proclaiming that she’s Paul, not...

‘Speak Loud God’s Praise’: A Song by Rusty Rabon

The Society
November 30, 2024
Beauty, Poetry, Song Lyrics
10 Comments
. Speak Loud God's Praise ---to the tune of Ellacombe ("I Sing the Mighty Power of God") Speak loud the praise of God most high!__Give thanks for He is good!Let those who know His power to save__Be first to...

‘Lamb and Lion’: A Poem by Warren Bonham

The Society
November 29, 2024
Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
. Lamb and Lion God spoke and caused a great commotion, putting time and space in motion. Nothing is now, or was ever not a part of His endeavor. That’s why He’s the Great I Am. The stars proclaim His...

‘Black Friday Before Christmas’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
November 29, 2024
Poetry, Satire
20 Comments
. Black Friday Before Christmas Many of the stories are real ones from the Internet. ‘Twas the month before Christmas right after Thanksgiving.I ate lots of turkey. I really was living.I decided to go to the...

‘Fair Game on Thanksgiving Day’: A Poem by C.B. Anderson

The Society
November 28, 2024
Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
. Fair Game on Thanksgiving Day Please tell me if you think I’ve crossed a line by unremittingly abusing you with strings of salty words not rightly mine but borrowed from a wicked man I knew who’d done...

‘The Greatest Gift of All’: A Poem of Thanksgiving by Brian Yapko

The Society
November 28, 2024
Poetry
31 Comments
. The Greatest Gift of All To wake and find I still can see and feel And know deep down what is and isn’t real. To weep when all I’ve planned is ground to sand Yet somehow find once more the strength to...
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