Rhyming Drugstore Advertisements,1885 The Society January 4, 2021 Culture, Found Poem, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments Selected by Beverly Stock ---From Liver Pills to stuff that kills, and makes it smooth to die, The last is not their mission, though, and yet within their power, But if you’re sick--go to them quick, or...
Poem Found on Our Lady of Guadalupe Painting, Translated by Margaret Coats The Society December 9, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Found Poem, Poetry, Translation 26 Comments The Painting of the Virgin God, seeing in America a child Embracing Faith with jubilation meet, Took up His paints, and on a flowered sheet By His own hand a portrait deftly styled, For He intended...
Verses from the Irish Peace Park The Society October 2, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Found Poem, Poetry 8 Comments In the first World War, taking and holding the high ground was everything. The battle of Messines Ridge, in Belgium, took place June 7-17 1917. It took 81 years until the Irish Peace Park was unveiled there to...
English Tomb Poetry, With an Introduction by James A. Tweedie The Society August 4, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Found Poem, Poetry 12 Comments by James A. Tweedie On my most recent visit to England in 2017, I paused to record a number of prominent grave monuments that included poetic tributes to the deceased. Here are the four I found most...
‘Carmen Cygni, a Retourne’ by Mike Bryant The Society March 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Found Poem, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments Carmen Cygni, a Retourne She holds the sickle and the scythe, Dark clothed and hooded, glimpse of white. A dancer languorous but lithe, She stands between the day and night. Dark clothed and...
‘Believe It True’ (A Found Poem circa World War I) The Society July 23, 2019 Culture, Found Poem, Love Poems, Poetry 2 Comments Believe It True That you have made my world a wondrous garden Fair with your lips, and glad with your eyes of blue That you have wakened life’s song of gladness Believe it true, dear, believe it...
Poetry Found: ‘The Battery Horse’ by E.R. Henry The Society November 16, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Found Poem, Poetry 32 Comments Presented by Monty Phillips Given that the recent days have been rightfully occupied by the remembering of the humans who never made it home from World War 1, I thought I might highlight a less represented...
