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‘Amen and Awoman’ and Other Poetry on the State of the U.S.

The Society
January 11, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
5 Comments
. Wokeness by Russel Winick “Amen and Awoman” the Congressman said, The Leftists all thought it was great. What more woke insanity now lies ahead? That young females...

Poetry on the Planned Illegitimate Election of Joe Biden as U.S. President

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January 4, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
25 Comments
. Biden Kneels Before the Red Beast by Damian Robin from a scenario of Evan Mantyk On silver-smoke-screen in mid air __the Red Beast’s horde has beckoned. Its full face groomed, a beauty rare, __but...

‘In This Post-Christian Era I Believe’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez

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December 22, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
28 Comments
In This Post Christian Era “For he nil falsen no wight, dar I seye, That wol his herte al hoolly on him leye.” ---Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Love Unfeigned” In this post-Christian era I believe; In this...

The Struggle for the Formalist Tradition: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

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December 13, 2020
Deconstructing Communism, Essays, For Educators, Poetry
58 Comments
  Why are many young persons so bad at writing formal poetry? Why do they struggle and labor and twist and turn when trying to compose formal verse? OK, I’ll grant you this: every beginning poet has...

‘On Your Marx’ and Other Poetry on Karl Marx by Damian Robin

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December 11, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
24 Comments
_ On Your Marx If humans ran a Human Race, __Karl Marx would not be in it. The human depth that he could trace __would leach out in a minute. For he is neither man nor beast __but half-life near demonic, A...

Stop the Steal: A Play on the 2020 Election (Excerpt) by Evan Mantyk

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December 6, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
20 Comments
. Act I Scene I NARRATOR Imagine now the scene: the angry engine, Its beeping brain, its smooth and metal muscles That barely seem to strain beneath the mighty load; And standing all around no creature...

‘Famine de l’âme’ by Anna J. Arredondo

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November 28, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
23 Comments
  Famine de l'âme The soul, deprived of one essential thing, Cannot rely on dusty stores of hope; Seeking to mitigate starvation's sting, Finds worthless every erstwhile way to cope: Profound...

‘A Sonnet for the Citizens’ by Claude Clayton Smith

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November 27, 2020
Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
3 Comments
  —for Li Hongzhi The unacknowledged legislators know the truth: the Buddha shows one thousand hands to foster heaven’s circulation, so the standing stance is seen throughout the lands and...

A Covid Thanksgiving Poem and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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November 26, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
53 Comments
  Thanksgiving 1984 2020 Wear a mask until you eat and never touch your face. Muzzle up between each bite and when you’re saying grace. No more guests than four to eight at six full feet apart. To...

A Fable about Cancel Culture: ‘Vulture Culture’ by Christopher Lindsay

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November 20, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
6 Comments
Above the clouds, a vulture soars, the leader of a culture war. The bird of prey is wide awake, ready to punish grave mistakes. A rooster crows with all his might, and fast, the vulture drops in...

‘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 Philadelphia; a man named Walter Wallace, Junior, with...

‘To Know the Mobs of Modern Days’ by Jared Pearman

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November 18, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
9 Comments
Originally Published by the SCP on November 24, 2019   dedicated to my wife, who was mobbed and defamed for political gains They've come before with pitchforks high, With torches beaming off their...

On the Main Stream Media’s Fake News, a Poem by Russel Winick

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November 17, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
14 Comments
  Truthfulness I walked through our lovely suburban downtown, Which always is ranked as the best. But everywhere windows and doors had gone down, The triumph of peaceful protest. I heard a most...

Two Poems Critical of Communist Regimes, by Brian Yapko

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November 12, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
14 Comments
  On a Turtle of Broken Jade The tiny turtle made of milky jade Was smuggled by Jun’s parents from afar Evoking memories that flame and fade--- Confucian virtue rescued from the war. The treasured...

Poetry on Voter Fraud Across the Nation

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November 11, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
8 Comments
  On Voter Fraud after Li Hongzhi’s poem "On the General Election" by Evan Mantyk Is chivalry dead in the hearts of the people? I knew it was lacking but this is pure evil. The stars of the...

‘Poem for the Second Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

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November 7, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Readings
17 Comments
originally published on November 2, 2020 on MacKenzie Lyric Poetry Where shall they hide now, the merchants of death, Who cloaked our eyes and robbed our throats of voice, Who muzzled minds and sought to...

A Poem on Voter Fraud: ‘God Knows!’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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November 6, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
45 Comments
  “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” ---Albert Einstein The issue isn’t black or white. It isn’t left, it isn’t...

‘Yearning for Castles and Gargoyles’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Kemper

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November 6, 2020
Art, Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
11 Comments
  Yearning for Castles and Gargoyles Among the towers never made of ivory, protruding lewdly over walls of mottled stone, misshapen forms, insatiably unsavory look down on us. Who takes such agony to...

‘The Ballad of Babi Yar’ by Theresa Rodriguez

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November 5, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
16 Comments
  Over 100,00 people were killed at Babi Yar between September 29, 1941 and November 6, 1943. Oh, come and gather round to hear This story from afar, As I unfold the tragedy, The tale of Babi...

A Poem on ‘Black Lives Matter’ and Others by C.B. Anderson

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November 3, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Ekphrastic, Poetry
18 Comments
  Context Is Everything When you attempt to cut some string A hammer doesn’t do a thing— Jackknives matter. When life has gotten back to normal, And dining out means dressing formal, Black...

‘A Fragmentary Introduction to the Geo-Political America of the Progressive Left’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie

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November 1, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
23 Comments
A Fragmentary Introduction to the Geo-Political America of the Progressive Left Exuding virtue-signaling savoir-faire, "The Vanguard of the Proletariat,” Like Lenin, Xi, Marat, or Robespierre, Assumes...

A Covid Halloween Poem: ‘Halloween, 2020’ by Cynthia Erlandson

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October 31, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
21 Comments
Is this a werewolf’s trick, or witch’s treat? A devil’s joke? Humanity’s defeat? Who would have thought we’d live to see the day When people would freak out to see a face--- A friendly human...

Chant Royal on Urban Disturbances by Margaret Coats after Eustache Deschamps (c.1346–1406)

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October 25, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Translation
32 Comments
  Renowned but wayward Troy, vain Babylon, Harsh Nineveh, and languid Rome were felled; Long ago they exercised dominion, But since from their own lands have been expelled, Or kept small plots,...

Essay: ‘Portrait of a Millennial Art Student’ by Sally Cook

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October 24, 2020
Art, Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Poetry
22 Comments
  You’ve grown up in the public school system, and it shows. You are sensitive to the world around you, and in touch with your “feelings”—a perfect little guilt-ridden example of a...

‘Why Tens of Millions Support President Trump’ by Mark F. Stone

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October 22, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
31 Comments
  On voting day, we hope the nation’s __red---a bright vermilion. Let’s count the reasons to choose Trump. __There are a half a zillion! Trump speaks his mind, with filters down. __He’s...

‘Consumer Rights’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

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October 22, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, News of Note, 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 search control, consumer advocates are fighting Big-Tech's...

‘A Hunt Along the Cahaba’ by Gregory Ross

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October 20, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
11 Comments
  after Chesterton's "Lepanto" Note: Cahaba Run is a river in Alabama Dogs dash in black and tan through clouds of briar and bush, All sprinting, unrelenting, such no city man could hush. They cast a...

‘Breathe Free or Die’ by Joe Tessitore

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October 18, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
57 Comments
  There are smiles that we will never see. There are kisses that will never be. There are songs that we will never hear For this thing that stretches, ear to ear, Will be with us till our dying...

A Poem on Merriam-Webster Dictionary Changing the Definition of Sexual Preference, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
October 16, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
52 Comments
Newspeak During a hearing held on October 13, Senator Hirono informed Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett that the term “sexual preference” is now offensive even though Hirono herself and the...

‘A New York Post Post’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
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 Burisma—No! The New York Post was not supposed to show...

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

The Society
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 candidates was its strange fate, that when Vice President...

An Ode to Anti-French Revolution Hero ‘Charlotte Corday,’ by Jeremy Gadd

The Society
October 11, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
6 Comments
  Brave, brave, Charlotte Corday, took upon herself to slay that man of revolutionary violence, Jean-Paul Marat. On July thirteenth in ninety-three, the convent girl from near the sea, stabbed...

‘News of the Revolution’ by Daniel Kemper

The Society
October 7, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
4 Comments
  News of the Revolution Revolt or riot? Both? Or civil war? No matter what, who hasn't realized the revolution's being televised. The camera always wants a little more: the street churns; a...

On the Chinese Communist Party’s ‘Stealth Warfare’ by Damian Robin

The Society
October 1, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
14 Comments
  Stealth Warfare in the voice of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Admire. Our virus circulates. __Our muddy money’s hand washed. Our fingers whisk jobs from your plates. __Our clenched fists...

A Poem on Toxic Masculinity: ‘Our Worthy Sons’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
September 28, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
61 Comments
Our Worthy Sons dedicated to Samuel Our worthy sons should never be ashamed Of who they are and who they’re meant to be. For far too long men’s gender has been blamed In wars that weaponize...

‘At the Supper Table of a Progressive’ and Other Poetry by Alexander King Ream

The Society
September 21, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
1 Comment
  At the Supper Table of a Progressive They understood riots and death and what's more, "Adore them all really," and down to the core, So dropping my napkin to grant them the same, I upset their...

‘Feeding Time’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie

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September 19, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
23 Comments
  Feeding Time Chickens feed on chicken feed. Birds on birdseed, yes-indeed! Cattle feed on cattle feed, Twitters feed on Twitter feed. People feed on many things, Avocados, onion rings, Water...

‘The Church is Locked on Easter Day’ and Other Poetry by Benjamin Thomas Cepican

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September 18, 2020
Beauty, Coronavirus, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
7 Comments
  The Church is Locked on Easter Day a rondeau The Church is locked on Easter Day Despite the stone being rolled away. The Christ awakes to greet the poor But they cannot get through the door To go...

‘Logos, Rising’ by Michael Witcoff

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September 15, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
3 Comments
  When Logos lived within the heart of man, Then beauty bloomed and flowered forth at will--- And every house was built upon a plan; Order’s essence, captured and distilled. Then Lucifer, in...

Three Summer Senryu by Matt O’Hays

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September 14, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Haiku and Senryu, Humor, Poetry
3 Comments
  July 4, 2020 A monument falls Rioters have no remorse What happened this fourth?     Summer 2020 Sunny days are here! The beach is ideal and near. It’s Fall...
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