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‘Golden Anniversary’ by Johanna Donovan

The Society
June 8, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
12 Comments
. Will this reclaim the long-lost Muse perched on the tree of I.O.U.’s? Can I now join Miss E. B. Browning as she proclaimed her love---its counting? Her art’s not mine; I know that much. The years sped...

‘Moon Song’ and Other Poetry by Michael Curtis

The Society
May 24, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
5 Comments
. Moon Song Selene to Endymion Night, for ever, ever night. __Sleep as the Gods would sleep, __Beautiful boy; sleep; sleep; Rest ever in the cool night. I shall smile on you moon-bright, __Lay beside you and...

‘Sunset’ by Michael Miller

The Society
May 22, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
7 Comments
. A life alone is at its center bare, A quiet conversation with myself, A single, threadbare suit I always wear, A volume set aside upon life's shelf. A time or two fate's hands would find me...

‘Not a Sparrow Falls’ by Peter Hartley

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May 16, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
21 Comments
. A portent for our loss, this bird, so nigh Its end. The slowly creeping dusk had dared It to emerge, its doughty spirit bared, Eyes bright as lightning in a sullen sky. The lesser creature never questions...

‘My Paola’s Love’ by Martin Rizley

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May 15, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
5 Comments
. My Paola’s love is constant as the sun That daily sheds its beams on hill and dale; No sooner set, it hastes again to run With steady pace, the same unswerving trail. When cold winds blow, the warmth of...

On the Hypocrisy of Gov. Newsom, and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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April 27, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
17 Comments
. The Tale of Governor Do-as-I-Say-Not-as-I-Do-som It’s funny how Democracy In many states now colored blue Produces rank hypocrisy, A birthright of the privileged few. And there we notice Gavin...

Four Poems on the Theme of Lost Love, by James A. Tweedie

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April 20, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
11 Comments
. Poet's Note: These poems are non-autobiographical. . When Love is Lost To see the summer sun and wish for rain; To smell the springtime flowers and wish for snow; To wake at dawn and wish for night again; To...

‘Dusk Till Dawn’ and Other Poetry by Áine Mae

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April 10, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
14 Comments
    . Dusk Till Dawn  The ocean rainAnd sleep played me—A willing pawn.I dreamt of youFrom nautical duskTill nautical dawn. . . Love Is More We shall be soul mates tillThey etch our names...

‘Kismet’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez

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March 11, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
15 Comments
. . Kismet If I'd been younger, or you not so old, Or we'd met at a different time and place, Would there have been within your heart a space For me, for love to reach and grab ahold? Might there have been...

‘The Magpie’s Chorus’ and Other Poetry by David Watt

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March 1, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
33 Comments
. The Magpie’s Chorus With sunlight at full power And silence in the air, I sought a shaded bower, A cool drink, and a chair. But then, I heard the trilling Of magpies in the trees Pour out like liquid...

A Monosyllabic Poem: ‘To West’ by Adam Sedia

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February 18, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Poetry Forms
8 Comments
. Too long, too long, my love, Have we lain out here. Too long, too long, my love, Have our ease, our cheer Fixed us fast, sprawled in cool shade, With our arms and breasts clasped near, Too pleased to note...
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‘Though Worlds May Die and Silent Be’ by Roy E. Peterson

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February 14, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
11 Comments
. . Till rolling seas cease heaving high, The starry nights stop passing by, The universe is wrapped in flame, And there is no one left to blame. __Until then? ... You’re my loved one. Till sun no longer...

‘The Wife’s Lament’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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February 14, 2021
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
11 Comments
. For my friend Rose R., with sincere condolences. Good Lord, imagine my bad luck: I’m married to a hockey puck. I don’t know how it came about— A lover morphed into a lout! You’re a widow, not a...

‘L O V E…’: and Other St. Valentine’s Day Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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February 14, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
22 Comments
. L O V E... It’s not a dozen scentless hothouse roses. __It’s not a chocolate-box of sweet cliché. It’s not the scorching kiss that lust imposes __To lead the fired and fevered flesh astray. It’s not...

‘Blossom Brief’ by Michael Curtis

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February 14, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
2 Comments
. Among the many flowers in the vase, ‘Tis I—the flower with the pretty face, Full humor, sound stamen, and skill in fun— Who is to say to you, Michele, “Well done.” As so the master charged.  Yet...

‘Waiting for “I Do”’ by C.B. Anderson

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February 13, 2021
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
17 Comments
C.B. Anderson was the longtime gardener for the PBS television series, The Victory Garden.  Hundreds of his poems have appeared in scores of print and electronic journals out of North America, Great Britain, Ireland, Austria, Australia and India. 

For Valentine’s Day: ‘The Tale of the Rose’ by Christine de Pisan (1364–1431), translated by Margaret Coats

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February 13, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation
22 Comments
. . The Tale of the Rose (Excerpt) by Christine de Pisan (1364-1431), translated by Margaret Coats . This Tale comes from the Paris home of the Duke of Orleans, brother of the King of France, where on Saint...

‘Go, Fading Leaf’ and Other Poetry by Anna J. Arredondo

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January 29, 2021
Beauty, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
12 Comments
. Go, Fading Leaf __Go, fading leaf, Tell him who thought my heart to spurn __That life is brief (But briefer still his love did burn __I fool enough was to return). __Tell him who sold Our shaky venture for...

‘How To Be Like Byron’ by Andrew Benson Brown

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January 27, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
21 Comments
. How To Be Like Byron Bright butterfly, why do you fade Into that duller, browner shade That strays into the flame at night? You’ve lost your nature’s vibrant light And seek it in another source. For you,...

‘Every Little Thing’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Kemper

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January 18, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Poetry Forms
61 Comments
X Every Little Thing I. His Version She treasured every little thing that you                gave her: the sparrow necklace (hazel blueto match her eyes) the bracelet slipped insidethe box of...
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Petrarch’s Canzone 129, translated by Steven Monte

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January 7, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation
5 Comments
. “Di pensier in pensier, di monte in monte” by Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) __From thought to thought, from mountain to mountain, Love guides me, and every path in which I’ve strayed is hostile to a...

‘Apocalypse’: Three Sonnets by Peter Hartley

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December 21, 2020
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
29 Comments
_ I How will I know you or will you know me?When every bird has hurtled to the ground,When every whale and every fish has drowned,And every beast, engaged in killing spreeHas eaten every one that cannot...

‘Kindred Souls’ by David D. Irby

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December 2, 2020
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
11 Comments
  The road of love looks smooth at first and seems as if it has no end. The wise know that the way is cursed, and heartache lies around the bend. The route has hills, and we can't see what lies...

Three Poems for My Wife, by Jeff Kemper

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November 13, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
14 Comments
  On Marriage I married a girl named Sue And alas! She married me too!     As Then, So Now When years ago and many ages since My flaming ardor flared (now fondness thrives For you,...

An Office Romance and Other Poetry by Anna J. Arredondo

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October 30, 2020
Culture, Humor, Limerick, Love Poems, Poetry
26 Comments
  Nothing Ventured an office romance "What more do you want?" he inquired without guile. ---Can it really be true that my feelings don't show?--- She marveled within, and, suppressing a...

‘The Immigrant’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley

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October 21, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
18 Comments
  The Immigrant As his ship now departs to cross over the sea, He looks back as he fondly remembers The dear family he leaves, the quaint house by the lea, And two eyes that once sparkled like...

‘Sonnet CXLIII’ by Jake Murel

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October 14, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
3 Comments
What if I do compare you to a rose Or summer’s day or beauty like the night, Or drone of how I’d sit and drink a coke With you instead of viewing every sight This world can give?—the seven wonders...

‘When You Love’ and Other Poetry by Michael Charles Maibach

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May 31, 2020
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
19 Comments
  When You Love When you love The heart of one, Life makes sense With each new sun. You start each day With thoughts of her. You do your best “We” must endure. To be the man She sees in...
Sea of Ice, Snow, Winter

‘Endless Dream’ and Other Poetry by Angel L. Villanueva

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May 28, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
4 Comments
  Endless Dream I walk the trail, in hopes of reaching you, As winter sheds her tears of crystal ice. I rise above snow drifts, the trail to view, But find my steps alone do not suffice. On knees...

Ten Great Spenserian or Scottish Sonnets

The Society
May 15, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Love Poems, Poetry
22 Comments
Edmund Spenser by Margaret Coats Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) wrote 121 sonnets of rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee, including 87 in his love sequence Amoretti. The Spenserian sonnet differs from the...

‘I Loved You…’ by A.S. Pushkin, Translated by Kristina Buric

The Society
May 14, 2020
Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation
1 Comment
I Loved You... I loved you, and I probably still do, and for a while, the feeling may remain, But let my love no longer trouble you... I do not wish to cause you any pain I loved you, and the hopelessness I...

‘The Once-Lost Land’ and Other Poetry by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

The Society
March 27, 2020
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
42 Comments
The Once-Lost Land The arm that threw the disc of day __Across the sky we know must dim, The hand that strewed the Milky Way __Where angels swim, From far beyond the farthest star Composed the darkness...

‘Orchards Let Light In’ and Other Poetry by Don Kubicki

The Society
March 4, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
3 Comments
  Orchards Let Light In “Oh to be like ‘The Man who Planted Trees’” There is a grove that in the meadow grows Where stately fruit-filled stanchions bloom And in the fruit there is a juice...

‘Yarran and Myaree’ by David Watt

The Society
February 26, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
10 Comments
  In a time long ago, where the high myrtles grow, Lived a tribe of the Bellenden Range. While below, on the plain, in their tropic domain Lived a tribe known for hostile exchange; They had...

‘Love’s Wisdom’ by Roland Holst (1888-1976), translated by Leo Zoutewelle

The Society
February 22, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation
translated by Leo Zoutewelle To you my word will be reproached as lie, Maliciously: “who left you so maligned, In vain are all the days in which you pined For him who cheated you and made you...

Poems for St. Valentine’s Day 2020

The Society
February 13, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
7 Comments
O, Where Is Love? by James A. Tweedie O, where is love? You’ll find it in the pain _That binds a mother to her newborn child; _In bitter-broken friendships reconciled; _And in the kiss of lovers in...

‘Song of the Rose’ and Other Poetry by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

The Society
January 27, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Love Poems, Poetry
16 Comments
  Song of the Rose The rose awakens, ere the sky Has wakened to the sun; And we, my one true love and I, Awaken with a tender sigh, To love until the day has run And all our pains are done. We...

‘To You, My Wife’ and Other Poetry by Angel L. Villanueva

The Society
January 16, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Villanelle
8 Comments
  To You, My Wife a villanelle To you, my wife, my love I declare, My joy and gain, a gift to me blessed, A morning flower of beauty and flair! O flesh of mine, this heart you repair, Whenever...

A Villanelle and Video by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

The Society
November 5, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Readings, Video, Villanelle
originally published on MacKenzie Lyric Poetry Oh, run with the sun and the wind in your hair! Before the day-star sets in the west: Love flowers best in the wide, open air. Behold! The noon-tide waxes not...

Mourning Verse by Michael Curtis

The Society
September 27, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
8 Comments
Sandprints Yes: Life is pleasure, life is grand, __Life is sweet and fleeting; Alike a stroll upon the sand, __Alike a heart that’s beating In measured pace, step after step, __In meter through our...
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  1. Mary Jane Myers on ‘About-Face’: A Poem by Mary Jane MyersSeptember 19, 2025

    Roy Thank you for your kind comments. Most sincerely Mary Jane

  2. Jordan Smith on ‘Listen Britannia!’: A Poem by Jordan SmithSeptember 19, 2025

    Thanks Margaret. I appreciate your reflection. I agree with Paul but perhaps not for the same reasons. Yes people have…

  3. Carey Jobe on ‘Spacewalk’: A Poem by Carey JobeSeptember 19, 2025

    Margaret, thank you for commenting!

  4. Paulette Calasibetta on ‘Free Won’t’: A Poem by Peter VenableSeptember 19, 2025

    A very thought provoking piece; " will or won't, do or don't"....hmm.

  5. Paulette Calasibetta on ‘Ode to Antifa’: A Satirical Poem by Warren BonhamSeptember 19, 2025

    Your irony is' spot on.'

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