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‘He viewed the world with perfect form’ by Alec Ream

The Society
August 17, 2017
Beauty, Poetry
5 Comments
. He viewed the world with perfect form But upside down, not as the norm He lifted those who’d been down - trod And doing so, he followed God . . Alec Ream is a writer living in Virginia. His poetic work...

‘Concession’ by Charles Joseph Albert

The Society
August 15, 2017
Beauty, Poetry
14 Comments
  I used to find it hard to lose at chess. I'd watch in disbelief the check and mate, think through the game and curse to find too late— I'd bought disaster with the bishop's press. In school,...

‘George and the Dragon’ and Other Poetry by Sue Vincent

The Society
August 14, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle
6 Comments
George and the Dragon In the Yorkshire dialect “Nah, sithee,” said Granny, “Just set thee dahn ‘ere, An’ I’ll tell thee a tale old and true, Of ‘ow good Saint George slew a dragon one...

‘The Journal’ and Other Poetry by Amy Foreman

The Society
August 13, 2017
Beauty, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Short Stories
12 Comments
The Journal It sat upon his bedside table, closed, And waiting to keep record of each day: The silent pages still and unexposed, A diary to come, his dossier. He saw it every evening as he bent To turn...

‘Meadows of Corn’ and Other Poetry by Satyananda Sarangi

The Society
August 12, 2017
Art, Beauty, Poetry
44 Comments
Meadows of Corn It seems but bland to every passing eye, These regal meadows dressed in ripened corn; They dance and few can such effects deny, The brows of greener grass their touch adorn. As dismal...

‘To Solitude’ and Other Poetry by Morgan Downs

The Society
August 9, 2017
Beauty, Poetry
4 Comments
  To Solitude Come, Solitude, my first and truest friend! Long hours of careless converse burden me, And I have need of hospitality Such as art thou alone meet with to lend. What synthesis my past...

‘Windmill Song’ and Other Poetry by Don Shook

The Society
August 7, 2017
Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Short Stories
8 Comments
  Windmill Song Alone it shudders on a hill, Defiant in the wind. A strong south gale could topple it, A hard rain do it in. Too many years its silver blades Whirled in the morning breeze While...

‘The Tea Garden: A Crown of Sonnets’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk

The Society
August 6, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
16 Comments
On Visiting the Tea Garden in Middletown, New York I. A harried daddy with two kids in tow, Maneuvering through city streets and cars, I look around quite nervously for crows Whose filthy bombs my head...

‘Gazing above Daily Cares’ by Daniel Magdalen

The Society
August 4, 2017
Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle
10 Comments
A Villanelle To breathe the beaming silence of the sky I long, when dawn’s chill wakes my eyes, and see The oft-unseen yet boundless peace on high. When slumber’s velvety dim moments die, Pale...

‘Untitled’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden

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August 3, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
  Untitled All older statues want to come alive, Those Greek and Roman ones, and Christian, too. Their skeletons and veins and muscles strive To break through marble skin.  They want their...

‘A Lifetime’ and Other Poetry by Ann Christine Tabaka

The Society
July 31, 2017
Beauty, Poetry
8 Comments
A Lifetime Day drifts into evening Evening into night All around me darkness With only stars for light Dawn awakes the morning The morning burst into day The cycle never ceasing Black to white to...

‘Again’ by Jane Blanchard

The Society
July 30, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
7 Comments
Upon the release of the Society’s How to Write Classical Poetry   When feeling some compulsion to compose, One wonders which of many forms to choose, Then tends to favor what one really...

“Though You Behold Me Silent in This Room…” By Joseph Charles MacKenzie

The Society
July 29, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Popular Poetry Archives
81 Comments
For Elizabeth On the Poet’s Eleventh Wedding Anniversary   Though you behold me silent in this room, Know that I walk in fields of fresh-cut hay; Though I be still, my thoughts like roses...

A Translation of Catullus’s ‘Ad Sirmium Insulam’ by Douglas Thornton

The Society
July 25, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation
7 Comments
The important events in the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus (84-54 B.C.) are recounted through the poems he has left. The particular poem below was written on his return from Asia Minor, where he had attempted...

‘Inside the Dragon’s Teeth, Maui, Hawaii’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges

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July 24, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
Inside the Dragon’s Teeth Maui, Hawaii From inside, you get a new perspective ___Of the tourist spot known as Dragon’s Teeth. The people who write about such things give ___This place, which lies on...

Essay: ‘Poetry and the Muses Part 3’ by James Sale

The Society
July 22, 2017
Beauty, Essays, Poetry
18 Comments
It has long been observed that whilst the ego is useful in making daily and ordinary decisions in our life, it is less effective when it comes to more important issues; it is by nature competitive, and it...

‘When All the World Seems New’ by Father Richard Libby

The Society
July 21, 2017
Beauty, Poetry
11 Comments
  When, late in May, Memorial Day ____Inaugurates the season Of summer sun and summer fun ____(Much welcomed, with good reason), Then nature’s crowned with sight and sound: ____The sky is bright...

‘Unshaken Faith’ and Other Poetry by Joshua Philipp

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July 20, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
1 Comment
Unshaken Faith Forward Alliterative verse dedicated to Falun Gong practitioners who have faced persecution in China since July 20, 1999   The ground was broken, crusty, cracked for miles and...

‘On a Bodegón of Zurbarán’ and Other Poetry by Joseph Charles MacKenzie (with Audio)

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July 19, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry, Readings
18 Comments
LVII. On a Bodegón of Zurbarán From carbon darkness, splendor! Light comes forth. A painter knew the warm fidelity Of lemons pointing east and west and north, And praised the Thornless Rose’s...

‘To the Orient. An Elegy’ by T. Bothwell

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July 18, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terrorism
2 Comments
  At last, the sunset’s knell forebodes the ceasing day— The merchants in their silken garments trudge their way Along, with Turkish camels and Koranic tunes. Diurnal light retreats from...

‘And What Of Art’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook

The Society
July 16, 2017
Art, Beauty, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
14 Comments
  And What Of Art? It used to be that there was a division Between the arts, and each had segments, too. A poem was just a poem, required revision, A painter mixed his colors – blue was...

Translation of Dante’s Inferno, Canto I and Poetry by J. Simon Harris

The Society
July 14, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry, Terza Rima, Translation
10 Comments
Dante’s Inferno, Canto I (Poem by Dante Alighieri / translation by J. Simon Harris in terza rima) In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself again in a dark forest, for I had lost the pathway...

‘Golden Gate’ by Daniel Rattelle

The Society
July 11, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
2 Comments
  A wind blew through the almond trees. The blossoms shook, the petals floated down Past where I sat on the cliffs above the sea. The waves reminded me a bit of the mounds Of snow I’d left...

‘Why Live This Long?’ by Michael Charles Maibach

The Society
July 10, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
Why Live This Long? The thought presents - Why live this long? What more to do, Once sung my song? The arch of life Made sense to me. With work in hand - While serving Thee. Great tasks complete, Hills have...

‘Potpourri’ and Other Poetry by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
July 8, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
15 Comments
  Potpourri Take leaves at first, curled crisp by autumn’s cold— Crush them to crumbly powder in a tray To make a simple palette of decay In varied tints of brown and red and gold. Next flower...

‘Epistle to a Celt’ and Other Poetry by Morgan Downs

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July 7, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
7 Comments
Epistle to a Celt Where, o Celt, mayst thou be found Upon what all was once thy ground? Art thou of thy majestic race The last to bear a mortal face? Thy speech and runes thou scornst to learn, Which...

‘Why Take the Suite of Forest Dreams’ (in Triolets) by Angela Porter

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July 5, 2017
Beauty, Poetry, The Environment, Triolet
3 Comments
This poem is written in response to proposals to sell ancient public forests to private developers in England. https://saveourwoods.co.uk/   Oh, site where forest now is laid – Why take the suite...

‘It’s Best to Be a Giver’ and Other Poetry by Connie Phillips

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July 2, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
4 Comments
It's Best to Be a Giver It’s best to be a giver, not a taker, Or else how could you ever face your Maker? When time is due and Judgment Day is here, You look in your Lord’s eyes, and have no fear, You...

Translations of Mickiewicz and Benn by Leo Yankevich

The Society
June 29, 2017
Beauty, Poetry, Translation
22 Comments
The Akkerman Steppe Original Polish by Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) below I launch myself across the dry and open narrows, My carriage plunging into green as if a ketch, Floundering through the meadow...
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‘Poem for a Birthday’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook

The Society
June 28, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
6 Comments
Poem for a Birthday Say that the year is round, and on its top March lighted candles in concentric rows. They drip their wax, which hardens on the heart As birthdays pass, and most of us suppose That...

‘Purple Oxalis Plant’ by Julia Geaney-Moore

The Society
June 26, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
2 Comments
  When dusk settles, the oxalis Stands taller and sweeter, As if to say that all of this Is just Nature’s theater, The butterfly-shaped purple leaves Are an actor's costume, Which fans out in...

Essay: ‘Poetry and the Muses Part 2’ by James Sale

The Society
June 24, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Popular Poetry Archives
75 Comments
The Muses we understand from Part 1 of this article are the daughters of the future and the past, and more specifically of memory, light, truth and beauty; they are essential for the ‘good life’, and we...

‘What Rumor, What Word?’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream

The Society
June 23, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry
. . What Rumor, What Word? On the featured photo above What rumor, what word, O Cloud from the sea? Cumulus, Nimbus: what sayest thou to me? But human and man; the simplest I be, And found ruminating, mine...

‘The Faerie Glade’ By Wandi Zhu

The Society
June 21, 2017
Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry
4 Comments
  In a secluded forest glade, Where sunlight shines and shadows fade, The faeries come to dance and play Upon a bright warm summer’s day. Light are their footsteps, quick their feet On...

’27 November 1976: Fort Eustis, Virginia’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
June 19, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
27 November 1976: Fort Eustis, Virginia By Usa W. Celebride It is an autumn Saturday. I sit amidst the scree, of dry, brown, crackly leaves, against the rough bark of a tree. The Sun casts out long...

‘The Finding’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

The Society
June 18, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
Sonnet XLIV. The Finding Let not this grief across her face invade, Dear God! Thou madest these my one true care! Not Egypt, where we hid Him and He played, Could fade her brightness with its desert...

‘Déja’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden

The Society
June 16, 2017
Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle
19 Comments
  Déja Do you remember when a piece of art Held truth or meaning in its oil or stone— And beauty even?  Paintings would impart Aesthetic truth and not just some sweet tone Of glowing like a...

‘Taking a Gambol’ and Other Poetry by David Watt

The Society
June 13, 2017
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
  Taking a Gambol A rabbit’s life’s a gambol, A fortunate existence; Giving time enough to spare For frolics in the bramble, Bunny-hops from here to there, Some chewing for subsistence. But...

‘I Think I Like You Better Now’ and Other Poetry by Amy Foreman

The Society
June 10, 2017
Beauty, Poetry, Short Stories
27 Comments
I Think I Like You Better Now I think I like you better now; it’s been a little while Since first you took my breath away with just a passing smile. When love was fresh and new and fast, before life took...

‘The Flowers’ and Other Poetry by David Bellemare Gosselin

The Society
June 9, 2017
Beauty, Poetry
2 Comments
The Flowers Upon a morning stroll serene Across many young floral gardens Greeting me on those fields of green Was the red rose who all love pardons. The humming bird about it flutters The bees its...
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