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‘For HE Who Is The Light’ by Gail Kaye Naegele

The Society
November 28, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
14 Comments
. For HE Who Is The Light There's been a spell of nightmares since He left. Like Job, I am the likeness of distress. I pine in piles of crumbling stones bereft; deprived of Him I'm worn in wretchedness. When...

‘Somewhere in Time’ by Brian Yapko

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November 27, 2022
Beauty, Poetry, Science
32 Comments
. Somewhere in Time . Tuesday, August 13, In the Year of Our Lord 1895 Dear Wells, despite your sober apprehension, I’m grateful that you’ve granted me the boon Of borrowing your brilliant new invention. I...

‘Ode to Winter’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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November 26, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
34 Comments
. Ode to Winter A honeypool of sun seeps from the skies. The crisp and clingy leaves have lost their grip. __My scarlet spirits dip As gold and russet highs bid cold goodbyes. I feel your icy bite in...

‘God’s Finger on Whittaker Chambers’ by Joshua C. Frank

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November 25, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
28 Comments
. God’s Finger on Whittaker Chambers My baby miracle so dear Smeared oatmeal on her face; I saw her perfect seashell ear, Curving like a vase, The pinkest little fiddlehead, In spiral like a scroll. How...

‘Thanksgiving 2022’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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November 24, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
27 Comments
. Thanksgiving 2022 Today’s the day we gather and embrace The chance to join in praise for gifts we share. We cuddle, chat and chortle---face-to-face. We’re social souls not meant to sit and stare At...

‘Thanksgiving Memories’ by James A. Tweedie

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November 24, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
. Thanksgiving Memories A honeyed ham impaled with clove; Mashed yam with bits of sweet pecan; A turkey lurking in the stove With tryptophan to make us yawn. Tomato juice with horseradish Lime Jell-o mixed...

‘A Thanksgiving Offering’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

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November 24, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
24 Comments
. A Thanksgiving Offering We offer thanks to You who made this Earth The sun and stars, for health and love and mirth. For granting us the sacred gift of life Along with faith to overcome all strife; For...

‘When Light Begins to Dim’ by James Green

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November 23, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
9 Comments
. When Light Begins to Dim When light begins to dim and color fades, the shape of things begins to matter more. An edge defines, the angles hint, and shades of layered grays I never knew before come faintly...

‘Heirs to Alexander’ and Other Poems on the Kalasha People by Margaret Coats

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November 23, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
23 Comments
. Heirs to Alexander These snuff-brown mounds piled up ten thousand feet Gaze on toward Hindu Kush peaks twice their height; Green threads of valleys mark the rough retreat Wherein Kalasha keep their...

‘Inviting Some Friends to a Birthday Dinner’ by Jeremiah Johnson

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November 22, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
. Inviting Some Friends to a Birthday Dinner after Ben Jonson's "Inviting a Friend to Supper" Tonight, dear friends, you’re welcome to observe Another birthday dinner---and deserve To know it’s mainly an...

‘The Elders’ by John Creekmore

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November 21, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
14 Comments
. The Elders I watched them wilt, I watched them fade, I watched them pass In the evening shade, And now I tread The path they trod, Having walked the walk For seventy odd, And though I know The course is...

‘Valiant Men’ by Angel L. Villanueva

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November 19, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
5 Comments
. Valiant Men The sailors brave the angry storm __As waves the ocean brings. It seems to them one hundred years Of fighting death despite their fears, __Like ancient warring kings. The frigid water stings...

‘Potina’s Charm’ by Michael C. Curtis

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November 18, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
4 Comments
. Potina’s Charm In this excerpt from the screen novella, Potina, Lady of the Stag, Potina speaks to Kaptara, the god of the volcano that she approaches. She is an initiate in the mysteries and is a...

Three Poems on Mortality, by James A. Tweedie

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November 17, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
17 Comments
. Leaves Behind In size and shape and symmetry The leaves upon a maple tree Are like small selfies of the tree itself. And in their veins the leaves display The trunk and branches in a way That equals any...

‘Repaired’ by Dean Z. Douthat

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November 16, 2022
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
12 Comments
. Repaired Debris drifts down my lacrimosa stream shards discarded when my life exploded. Her cheating ripped apart my every seam left a rubble heap she soon unloaded. Finding all my parts, your love resummed...

‘The Return of Trump’ by Evan Mantyk

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November 15, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
31 Comments
. The Return of Trump No matter how you try to stop Don Trump He always will come back. He’ll lie in wait then jump In tiger-like attack. You put him in a box that’s wrapped in chains And throw him in the...

For Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man on the Moon’ by Jeff Eardley

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November 15, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. The Last Man on the Moon for Gene Cernan My gaze was set toward the Western sky, To see if I could see him flashing by, I’d never felt so glad to be alive, With my model of the mighty Saturn five. With...

‘Writing a Poem’ by Sally Cook

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November 13, 2022
Beauty, For Educators, Poetry
15 Comments
. Writing a Poem Our planet moves, and so do we, By forces that we cannot see. Rhyme, meter always seem to track The rhythm of the planet. Lack Of sense or sensibility Inhibits our ability To see. In every...

‘Lullaby of New Mexico, Part Two’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

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November 13, 2022
Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau
34 Comments
. Lullaby of New Mexico, Part Two Part One can be read here. Duerme Papi---Dad, it’s time to rest. I smooth your blanket here at Desert Sage And look with worry at your wrinkled face. My calloused hand...

‘Do Not Return’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley

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November 12, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
26 Comments
. Do Not Return "...forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead." ---Philippians 3:13 Do not return where once you were contented--- It is a trap to seal you...

Poem on a Long-Surviving World War II Veteran: ‘Our Superman’ by Margaret Coats

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November 10, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
51 Comments
. Our Superman Porfirio Landa (1925–2022), one of the United States Army’s longest surviving World War II veterans The modest glory of this veteran Began when he was born a Mexican, Baptized before the...

‘Mother Nature Is Bipolar’ by Roy E. Peterson

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November 9, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment
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. Mother Nature Is Bipolar Mother Nature is bipolar. She needs to take a pill. One minute she's a blowhard. The next one she is still. I've seen her hail in April. I've seen her snow in May. I've seen her sun...

‘The Cricket’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann

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November 9, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
13 Comments
. The Cricket These mornings there’s a cricket cross the way Whose chirrup purls and eddies in the air, Autumnal now and cool, to counterpoint The city’s muffled thrum as well anoint The drowsy traipsing...

‘Autumn Trail’ by Dan Tuton

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November 6, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
15 Comments
. Autumn Trail Dreamy glimpses of a world recalled and yet to come: The Stagecoach Trail declines and wends through thickets under trees, Illumined red and gold beneath November’s slanting sun And rustling...

‘1914 Sierra Honeymoon’ by James A. Tweedie

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November 3, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
23 Comments
. Note: The above photos are of the poet's grandparents, Herbert W. & Evelyn Slater Tweedie in 1914 Wedding Picture; Glacier Point, Yosemite; Top of Pyramid Peak, Desolation Wilderness . 1914 Sierra...

‘Sonnet to a Friend’ by Johanna Donovan

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November 3, 2022
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
19 Comments
. Sonnet to a Friend It’s you who’ve been a constant in my life from earliest thirst and to this very day. You’ve helped me sail through lassitude and strife, have always kept the ennui at bay. You’ve...
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‘The Players’: An Excerpt from Legacy: The Saga Begins, by Michael Pietrack

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November 2, 2022
Beauty, Children's, Poetry
26 Comments
  The Players Legacy: The Saga Begins is a 14-chapter narrative poem that is set to launch on January 21, 2023. This is an excerpt from Chapter 11 in which Vallenbee the Wise speaks to the main character,...

‘Gone Are the Days’ and Other Poetry by Cheryl Corey

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November 1, 2022
Beauty, Blank Verse, Poetry
16 Comments
. Gone Are the Days The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. ---Oscar Wilde Gone are the days—the halcyon, magical days of yore, When you were young and full of marrow in your...

‘A Half Century Ago’ and Other Poetry by Phil S. Rogers

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November 1, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
. A Half Century Ago Oh there once was a time in our nation so fair, When the pledge to our flag was in schools everywhere, When young children could safely walk daily to school, And not be attacked by some...

A Poem of Frankenstein: ‘The Modern Prometheus’ by Brian Yapko

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October 30, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
39 Comments
. The Modern Prometheus Grrrr! Linden trees with falling leaves infest These ancient mountains. Crimson-faced they scream Like mobs in Transylvanian villages Which brandish knives and torches....

‘Everyday Angels’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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October 28, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau
30 Comments
. Everyday Angels  inspired by Guadalupe Amejorado (1955-2021)  They don’t appear in swathes of white   __On scintillating wing.  Their heads aren’t crowned with rings of light.  __They never...

‘Cemetery’ and Other Poetry by Paul Buchheit

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October 27, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
20 Comments
. Cemetery The grasses, flowing amber on the breezethat speaks to me in verses intimate,are stilled, as if contented to appeasemy meditative spirit, to permitobeisance from afar to monumentsof lifeless stone....

‘Storehouse of Memories’ by Janice Canerdy

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October 26, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
10 Comments
. Storehouse of Memories My memory seems worst of foes when conjuring the times she knows will hurt me worse than fist-thrown blows __and bring hot tears. When memory is best of friends, sweet thoughts of...

While Reading Burns’ ‘Stanzas: On the Same Occasion’ by Lucia Haase

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October 26, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
4 Comments
. While Reading Burns' 'Stanzas: On the Same Occasion' "Fain would I say" Burns wrote, has me inspired. Perhaps this inspiration’s meant to be a call to listen to a hope desired from Jesus.  Those once...

‘Meditation’ and Other Poetry by Rachel A. Lott

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October 25, 2022
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
19 Comments
. Meditation Say to yourself at break of day: today I shall meet people who are meddling, ungrateful, proud, treacherous, envious, malicious. All this is because they do not know good and evil. But I know...

‘What Life Throws at Us’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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October 22, 2022
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
16 Comments
. What Life Throws at Us A sentiment can sometimes get the best Of me and bring hard logic to an end. I need someone to share my destiny; Perhaps I need to find a better friend. Just why I feel this way is...

‘The Trees: A Moment’ by Elliot Christophers

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October 22, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
9 Comments
. The Trees: A Moment Amongst the trees in such a wood That veils the sky with vaults of green, In sudden joyous peace I stood As nature did in full convene; The leaves and boughs above my head, A narrow path...

‘Ambience’ and Other Poetry by Anna J. Arredondo

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October 21, 2022
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
20 Comments
. Ambience Oh, what a difference lighting throws __On these autumnal scenes, As back and forth it hides or shows __Drab browns or emerald greens. When cloud conceals the light of day, __The life it also...

‘When Orpheus Looked Back’ by Brian Yapko

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October 21, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
37 Comments
. When Orpheus Looked Back I find no peace. I lean upon this stone As wine-dark waves crash on the Grecian shore, My voice and lyre silent as the grave. I have no songs for children nor of war Nor for a...

‘Last Words’ by James A. Tweedie

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October 20, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
14 Comments
. Last Words They say I traced my finger in the air Before I died and let the wind erase My final, silent words. Those who were there Had fixed their eyes upon my dying face But found they were unable to...
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