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

The Society
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

The Society
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

The Society
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

The Society
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

The Society
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

The Society
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

The Society
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

The Society
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...
poem/poetry/new year/time

Petrarch’s Canzone 129, translated by Steven Monte

The Society
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

The Society
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

The Society
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

The Society
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

The Society
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

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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...

‘For Elba’ by Clinton Van Inman

The Society
September 4, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
5 Comments
  Pale would be the water ____Reflecting only skies, Gracing not the splendor ____Of your enchanting eyes. Pale would be the moon ____That only marks its pace And fails to see the boon ____Of...

‘Love’s Bliss’ by Gleb Zavlanov

The Society
August 19, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
12 Comments
  The Moon, torn from the Sun, her only lover, Rose, starry-eyed and weeping beams of light, A mourning widow left to wisp and hover, A torturously pitiable sight, Wan from the strain of sobbing...

‘Faith’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant

The Society
August 11, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
13 Comments
Faith I'm pond scum, someone said today. Some soup primordial, in a bay was struck by lightning. Oh, I see I'm wrought by electricity... then, look! it’s a bacterium who, in a deep delirium, decided...

‘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...

Three Sonnets in an Antiquated Style by James A. Tweedie (with Audio)

The Society
July 13, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Readings
11 Comments
Her Love for Him My true love laughs, and angel choirs sing; The mountains echo back his tuneful mirth While Nature dances, heav’n in step with earth. ‘Tis music to mine ear; mine heart takes...

‘Leaf in Fall’ and Other Poetry by David Francis

The Society
June 21, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
3 Comments
  Leaf in Fall I feel hard without my love at my side; she is the part of me that lacks the soft buoyancy that rounds and bears me aloft into the spring sky mirrored in the tide… without her I...

‘I Spent My Youth with Byron and the Bard’ and Other Poetry by Caleb Winebrenner

The Society
June 17, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
4 Comments
  I Spent My Youth with Byron and the Bard I spent my youth with Byron and the Bard, With Tennyson, the Brownings, and dear Keats— And full of passions, eager, trying hard To imitate their lofty,...

‘On Seeing You Upon Waking’ by Martin Rizley

The Society
May 11, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
21 Comments
  I woke this day from napping, and I saw you lying there, Across the room, upon a couch, asleep without a care. The golden beams of twilight streaming through the windowpane, Shone wondrously upon...

‘Sonnet’ by Andrew McDiarmid

The Society
April 22, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
5 Comments
  I face the day with unexpected strength, to know we’ll meet when the sun has disappeared. Your hand in mine we’ll walk the forest’s length, with peace of mind and nothing to be feared. I...

‘A Spot in Time’ by Theresa Rodriguez

The Society
April 20, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
2 Comments
  It is a moment or a spot in time, When time is quieted and put away; A simple thing becoming the sublime, Suspended and eternal in a day And all around me just dissolves to naught; I feel my...

‘Where the Heart Goes’ and Other Poetry by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
April 13, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
13 Comments
Where the Heart Goes Where the heart decides to go, The feet must go along. The heart is first to know A thing is right or wrong. The heart knows who to trust. The heart knows who to fight. The feet...

‘Pachelbel’s Love Song’ by Michael Maibach

The Society
April 7, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
3 Comments
When we listen To his sweet song, Did he then know It'd live this long? A song that gives To every age, A timeless sense Of history's page. Reminding you, Reminding me, Love songs can last Eternity. From...
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