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‘Wedding Night’ by Christine de Pisan, Translated by Margaret Coats

The Society
May 24, 2025
Love Poems, Poetry, Translation
5 Comments
. Wedding Night by Christine de Pisan (1364--c. 1430)translated by Margaret Coats A sweet supremacy marks marriage;I prove it from experience.I have a husband good and sage,Bestowed through God’s great...

‘Size Lies’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick

The Society
May 16, 2025
Love Poems, Poetry, Satire
14 Comments
. Size Lies Clothing manufacturers are fond of tricks today, Making female customers feel good in one slick way--- Whatever size they’ve always been---they’re now two sizes smaller! So next they might try...

‘Eternity’ and Other Love Poetry by Angel L. Villanueva

The Society
May 15, 2025
Love Poems, Poetry
14 Comments
. Eternity If I could give her just one gift, What would she want that gift to be? Would she prefer a diamond ring Or roses spread across the sea? Would she prefer a priceless gem, A string of pearls, or...
poem/winick/love

‘A Faithful Friend’s Advice’ and Other Poetry by Christian Muller

The Society
May 7, 2025
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
6 Comments
. A Faithful Friend's Advice The girl you have is just the one for you— my head could not conceive a better match. She is your sun, your earth, the very glue that rightly holds your tattered life...

‘Riverside Breeze’: A Poem by Daniel Howard

The Society
May 7, 2025
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
15 Comments
. Riverside Breeze ___How beautiful you look __Browsing the flowers one by one _While lying down along the babbling brook; ___And there, beneath the sun, __Whose melting kisses mark your skin, _The faintest of...

‘High Society’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

The Society
April 27, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
15 Comments
. High Society The Cornelius mansion on Park Avenue, New York City, Sunday, August 22, 1886 A derby hat; a fresh, white boutonniereOn my lapel. You just can’t have a newBeau Brummel jacket without something...
poem/freeman/limericks

‘The Ballad of Shamus’ by Steve Cooper

The Society
April 24, 2025
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
4 Comments
. The Ballad of Shamus Well, Shamus were a likely lad wid a good well-meanin’ ‘eart As strong as O’Malley’s ox, ‘dey say—but only ‘alf as smart. ‘Is ‘eart belonged to Nellie, aye ‘e wished...

‘The Four Seasons’: A Poem by Daniel Howard

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April 7, 2025
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
13 Comments
. The Four Seasons . Spring I Amidst the cloudless sky and crimson dawn Comes bursting forth the bluebird’s orange breast, Whose shadow dances o’er the dewy lawn On having found last February’s...

‘The Tundra Swan’: A Madrigal by Daniel Howard

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March 19, 2025
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
14 Comments
. The Tundra Swan Its full and light and interfolding feathers __Number ten thousand plus, No wonder that the tundra swan out-weathers __With less than little fuss __The brisk Antarctic breeze, Yet half of...

‘Beyond All Words’: A Love Poem by James A. Tweedie

The Society
March 15, 2025
Love Poems, Poetry
14 Comments
. Beyond All Words Can words alone, in skill-scribed shape or form— Inspired by muse or writ with feathered plume— Express the stark-dark depth of death-dread storm? Or fell despair of bleak-black hopeless...

‘Pumpkin Spice’: A Poem by Michael Pendragon

The Society
March 11, 2025
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
13 Comments
. Pumpkin Spice The scent of Autumn lingers in the air With hints of ginger, cinnamon, and clove; At 42nd Street and Herald Square, On 8th Street, Bleecker, Christopher, and Grove--- Each crowded sidewalk,...

‘Gossiping Hinges’ and Other Poems by LaVern Spencer McCarthy

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March 7, 2025
Beauty, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry, Villanelle
7 Comments
. Gossiping Hinges Some think we hinges only squeak __because we seek __an oily drop __to make us stop, but hinges gossip day and night, __our message, quite __distinctive. We, __with raucous glee, say 'hi' to...

‘Enamoured’: A Love Poem by Margaret Coats

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February 22, 2025
Love Poems, Poetry
25 Comments
. Enamoured String me a strand of pure white pearls supernal, Warming my throat as quivering fingers do, Roughened but figuring tenderness eternal, My love is wholly kind, old, young, and true. Swing me sweet...

‘Der Knecht’: A Poem in German by Peter Lillios, with Translation

The Society
February 20, 2025
Love Poems, Poetry, Readings
4 Comments
. . Der Knecht An einem Teich in einem Tal, am Felsenfuß entlang, Da steht ein Mädchen ohne Schal, als Decke nur der Hang. Vorbei bin ich schon hundertmal, mit Gaben und Gesang. Mein Singen ist ihr ganz...

‘Mistaken Identity’: A Poem by David Whippman

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February 18, 2025
Love Poems, Poetry
12 Comments
. Mistaken Identity I never really found out who you are, I only saw what I preferred to see. I realise now it wasn’t meant to be. I thought you were my one true shining star, My cordon bleu, champagne and...
poem/rizley/beauty

‘Aged Elation’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick

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February 17, 2025
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Satire
8 Comments
. Aged Elation When reaching that age where you fear getting slow, The advent of faculties starting to go, It’s great inspiration---you can’t ask for more--- To figure out something you couldn’t...

‘How Did You Woo Me? ’ and Other Valentine’s Day Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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February 14, 2025
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
23 Comments
. How Did You Woo Me? Let Me Count the Way You didn’t sweep in on a snowy steedClad in armor buffed until it glittered---A shining knight of bright and mighty deedClutching ribboned gifts on which you’d...

‘My Pensive Valentine’: A Poem by Jonathan Kinsman

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February 14, 2025
Love Poems, Poetry
10 Comments
. My Pensive Valentine Devout Love is not in the offered sweet, nor does Love proclaim in the proffered rose, nor the cliché tucked tight in a bouquet bought sight unseen, not in any of those mundane nudges...

‘Lines for Your Valentines’: A Valentine’s Day Poem by Roy E. Peterson

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February 14, 2025
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
16 Comments
. Lines for Your Valentines Without you here, my life is like A broken pencil, simply pointless. And if you tell me to take a hike, My legs won’t move, you’ve made them jointless. When I got up today I...

‘The Great Rub-off’: A Poem by Martin Elster and Joan Axelrod-Contrada

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January 26, 2025
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
8 Comments
. The Great Rub-off Norm and Zip, in mismatched chairs, __were sipping tea and talking, when Desi, their loyal hound, said, “Listen, __you’re shedding like me!” (How shocking!) Norm spat out his...
poem/sale/epic

‘Libra’ and Other Poetry by Patricia Rogers Crozier

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January 23, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
14 Comments
. Libra There in my hand I held a crystal vial Of distillation potent, red, and sweet, By which my broken heart was put on trial, And golden apples scattered at my feet. Ask not the name of him who gave to...

‘True Love’: A Poem by Roger Crane

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January 22, 2025
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
12 Comments
. True Love On a hill far away, a true love waits, In a place of weathered, broken gates. And though the gates are falling down, One place on the hill is hallowed ground. Nothing moves on that faraway...

‘To Her Ghost: a Sequence from Orpheus Looks Back’: Poetry by David J. Rothman

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January 21, 2025
Love Poems, Poetry
4 Comments
. To Her Ghost: a Sequence from Orpheus Looks Back ---in memoriam Emily Desire Gaynor Rothman, 1964-2020 . 1. Breaking Open A sonnet tells the lover’s tale becauseIt is the lover’s sonnet. Lovers loveTo...

‘Death Is But a Passing’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson

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January 18, 2025
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
13 Comments
. Death Is But a Passing A death is but a passing from one world into another, A change of state, a change of place, a starting to discover, A test of fortitude perhaps for those I leave behind, A change of...
poetry/mantyk/shakespeare

‘Imitating Shakespeare’s Sonnet 107’ by James Sale

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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...

‘Telepathy’ and Other Poems by Anna J. Arredondo

The Society
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

The Society
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...

‘Madrigal à la Tasso’: A Poem by Daniel Howard

The Society
November 24, 2024
Love Poems, Poetry
14 Comments
. Madrigal à la Tasso The surface of the lake reflects the flight _Of one and then another swan; _How it would add to my delight __To know where each has gone, _As when, my love, I look upon Those rapid...

‘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 seemed Had never been reality.  Green dreams Of Eden never...

‘Catullus XI’: A Translation by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
September 13, 2024
Love Poems, Poetry, Sapphic Verse, Translation
14 Comments
. Catullus XI Furius and Aurelius, my two friends, Whether I go to farthest India, The shore by ever-pounding Eastern seas Beaten by tide-waves, To Hyrcania, or Arabia’s pillowed ease, Scythia,...

‘Coupled in Rhyme’: A Poem by Jonathan Kinsman

The Society
September 4, 2024
Love Poems, Poetry
10 Comments
. Coupled in Rhyme She sees me better than I do, so in her sight I strive to be worthy to lie with, never to lie to. She knows me better than my best, brings comfort to my days, makes manifest the loving balm...

‘Observation’: A Poem by Margaret Brinton

The Society
August 31, 2024
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
9 Comments
. Observation ____Comes morning, __And fog fills the forest Where bluebirds are wet on the wings. ____The toadstools __Are soaking up moisture, One cricket in solitude sings. ____The fog lifts __And drifts...

‘It’s Only a Thought’: A Poem by Richard Bailey Johnson

The Society
August 28, 2024
Love Poems, Poetry, Rondel
7 Comments
. It’s Only a Thought It’s only a thought to help pass the night, But what if our love should come to naught? Christ! That would be an unbearable plight. __It’s only a thought. But thoughts can stir...

‘Across a Strong Bridge’: A Poem by Alexander King Ream

The Society
August 21, 2024
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
6 Comments
. Across a Strong Bridge upon the marriage of two friends In a weary world that's grown quite old, Where men grow weak, and thought grows cold, Two hearts can make one serious dent For virtue strong. As cool...

‘The Loons of Colby Lake’: A Poem by Michael Pietrack

The Society
August 6, 2024
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
22 Comments
. The Loons of Colby Lake a true story As thawing white gave way to budding green, two loons upon the lake would mark the Spring, and they would build their nest, then teach their young how life was lived and...

‘What Is Grief?’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
July 24, 2024
Love Poems, Poetry
25 Comments
. What Is Grief?  When we are plagued by grief, We only think of sorrow— The loss of a dear loved one Whom we won't see tomorrow. Tears haunt our swollen faces That burst and bare our souls. Nice words...

“I Worship My Mistress, for I Have Seen Her Beauty”: A Poem by James Sale

The Society
July 11, 2024
Love Poems, Poetry
26 Comments
. “I Worship My Mistress, for I Have Seen Her Beauty” ---Egyptian Coffin Texts, spell 484---a poem for Linda It may be said that I am weak,That what I did was not from strength;Only I persevered because...

‘Were She to Ask, and I Affirm’: A Poem by Sohaib Aboona

The Society
June 25, 2024
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
10 Comments
. Were She to Ask, and I Affirm Were she to ask, and I affirm That I'd still love her as a worm, I'd make it clear (because my dear Has Northern Cardinals to fear) The Robins and the Starlings Would die before...

‘Just Like That’: A Poem by Anna J. Arredondo

The Society
June 22, 2024
Love Poems, Poetry
23 Comments
. Just Like That No special words, no passionate embrace; No gazing, full of meanings, soul to soul. Just casual talk, not even face to face; Just mundane filling each of them their role. Perhaps they did...

‘The Ghost Girl’: A Poem by Joshua C. Frank

The Society
June 20, 2024
Love Poems, Poetry
16 Comments
. The Ghost Girl One sunny May, I ran to play, __When I was twelve years old, Upon the hill.  I miss her still— __A girl with curls of gold In ribbon ties, big sky-blue eyes, __And waving, dark-red...
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  1. Joseph S. Salemi on ‘Kissing Cousin’ and Other Poems by Joseph S. SalemiMay 24, 2025

    Well, you know more about these seven different types than I do. If philautia is self-love, then it is a…

  2. Margaret Coats on ‘Wedding Night’ by Christine de Pisan, Translated by Margaret CoatsMay 24, 2025

    Thank you, Roy. The fine young husband's name is Estienne [Stephen] de Castel. He and Christine were happy for ten…

  3. Frank Rable on ‘Kissing Cousin’ and Other Poems by Joseph S. SalemiMay 24, 2025

    Okay. I will ask this as a student to the professor, and absolutely no criticism is intended. When first hearing…

  4. Cynthia L Erlandson on ‘What the Caterpillar Calls the End’: A Poem by Scharlie MeeuwsMay 24, 2025

    This is beautiful! My favorite lines were "Wrapped in a thread the dusk supplied." ; "But Time, that patient artisan";…

  5. Margaret Coats on ‘Sumo’s Winning Ways’ by Margaret CoatsMay 24, 2025

    Thanks, Warren. Glad I noticed this just as 24-year-old Onosato won the May tournament with two days of fighting yet…

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