‘Alive, Alive-o’: A Poem by Jeff Eardley The Society May 5, 2025 Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments Alive, Alive-o In Dublin’s fair city,Where the girls are so pretty,There lived an old woman,Who was well known to me;Where she sighed with amazement,At her new knee replacement,Singing, “Cartilege and...
‘Bear Spray’ and Other Poetry by Paul Burgess The Society May 4, 2025 Children's, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Bear Spray My little brother took a dare To pepper spray a mama bear. It seems the spray was much too mild, So I've become an only child. Except for near the polar ice, The bears you'll see are mostly...
‘The New Headmasters’: A Poem on British Boarding Schools, by Lucius Falkland The Society May 3, 2025 Culture, Poetry 2 Comments . The New Headmasters As I sat, that afternoon, upon his kneeWhile he read a “witty” book and I faux-laughedI’m afraid, aged eight, I didn’t really seeWhat was happening: I now feel rather daft.But...
‘The Ego Lingers Longer Than the Mind’ and Other Poetry by Rob Fried The Society May 2, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Triolet 5 Comments . The Ego Lingers Longer Than The Mind The ego lingers longer than the mind, It dares to whisper yearnings of its own: To manifest a will more keen than kind, A shady glow that will not be outshone. We think...
‘Headspace’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society May 2, 2025 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Headspace It’s easy to detect folks’ disrespect, And hope your feats will make them feel quite small. But better still would be if the effect, Was not to give them any thought at all. . . The Senior...
‘Back to the Greenwood’: A Poem by Patricia Rogers Crozier The Society May 1, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Back to the Greenwood The spring has come to England once again But I am far away and cannot see The blackthorn blossoms blowing in the wind, And blackbirds in the heavens, flying free. The sun, grown...
A Poem on the Kashmir Terrorist Attack, by Satyananda Sarangi The Society April 30, 2025 Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . There’s Nothing to Regain ---on the terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam town, in Kashmir, India Their hapless screams over that vale Had failed to cross celestial planes; But found their way beneath...
‘Premonition’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society April 30, 2025 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Premonition The sun shines down in undimmed majestyAcross the heavens’ undiminished breadthOn life unsapped, unweighted levityOf loves and laughs untinged with sight of death--- Except for mine. An unseen...
‘How I Spent My Spring Vacation’: Poetry and Photography by James A. Tweedie The Society April 29, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . How I Spent My Spring Vacation: Poetry and Photography by James A. Tweedie . It Begins 45 Days Surrounded by the circle of the sea I cruise Atlantic waters, eastward bound, As knot by knot each longitude...
‘Heritage’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society April 28, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Heritage I’ve never asked for anything The living soil does not provide. I don’t want cash; I don’t want bling; I only want to stand beside The footprints of departed fathers, Now looking down through...
‘An Ode to Silay’: A Poem by Yoshikaze Kawakami The Society April 28, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . An Ode to Silay Cathedral bells now toll, And horses march the streets, The crowd has filled the hall, We hear the priest now preach. A lady makes a curtsy To the Lord respectfully. The marble pillars...
‘Medusa’s Sisters’: A Poem by Julian Woodruff The Society April 27, 2025 Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments . Medusa's Sisters Medusa lost her head and found renown instead. Her living sisters roared, “And why are we ignored who so much fouler are and deadlier by far? “You’d think that she’d become the...
‘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...
‘The Luigi Mangione Act’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society April 24, 2025 Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . The Luigi Mangione Act We need to contemplate the true impact of The Luigi Mangione Act. Although we sympathize with those who penned this act, it won’t turn out as they intend. Our health care system...
Four Sonnets on Shen Yun Performing Arts, by Evan Mantyk The Society April 22, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Performing Arts, Poetry 12 Comments . On Shen Yun . I. The land of China. Deep in history That like a river flows with people and culture, Extending into misty mystery. But now this fascinating, gleaming treasure Is buried in the mud beneath the...
‘Voyage Among the Ancients’: A Poem by Mary Jane Myers The Society April 22, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 17 Comments . Voyage Among the Ancients "Tread softly, for here you stand On miracle ground…" ---Lawrence Durrell, "On Ithaca Standing" ( 1937) The Juno anchors, docks. We disembark. Each landfall’s an Odyssean...
Two Lyrics of Philodemus of Gadara, Translated by Joseph S. Salemi The Society April 21, 2025 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry, Translation 10 Comments . Two Lyrics by Philodemus of Gadara translated from Greek by Joseph S. Salemi . V.124 Summertime has not yet cast off her buds Nor has the grape bunch turned to purple for you, The one near bursting with its...
‘Stone’s Point of View’: An Easter Poem by Gigi Ryan The Society April 20, 2025 Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Stone’s Point of View They brought Him to the tomb and rolled me into The right position to seal in the dead, And there was nothing I could do to undo The suffocating sense of loss and dread. The bloody...
‘Easter Couplets’: A Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society April 20, 2025 Children's, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Easter Couplets Easter’s more than just about eggs and bunnies;More than what you may have read in the funnies. Short and sweet, (although I can’t guarantee it),This is what it’s all about, as I see...
‘Who Are You and Who Am I’: An Easter Poem by Maria Panayi The Society April 20, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 14 Comments . Who Are You and Who Am I ---a villanelle Who are you and who am I That you fill my life with light And for me you chose to die. I have fallen from on high, I am foolish, you are wise, Who are you and who am...
‘Emmaus’: An Easter Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society April 20, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Emmaus We barely saw he’d joined us as we made Our way along the road, so sad, afraid, So utterly confused by what had come To pass, so unsure as to what was rumor And what was true. And we were near...
An Easter Poem: ‘In the Garden of the King’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society April 19, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . In the Garden of the King In the garden of the King I sit beside a crystal spring. The Tree of Life shines up above Fed by God’s eternal love. The Rose of Sharon is in bloom Freely giving sweet...
‘Holy Saturday’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society April 19, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 35 Comments . Holy Saturday "Call the Sabbath a delight." —Isaiah 58:13 His weary, soulless body needed rest, Not only pierced and physically exhausted, But racked with mental pain, the scourging test Of misbelieving...
Two Poems for Good Friday, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 18, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . Crucified She pondered horrors of the modern age. He thumbed through piles of dusty history tomes. She craved the timeless wisdom of a sage. He chewed on clues and mused like Sherlock Holmes. He...
‘Unless . . .’: A Poem for Good Friday by James A. Tweedie The Society April 18, 2025 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Unless . . . As un-sun darkness swallows up the day, And quake shake rends an empty Holy Place, God’s grief-strewn Via Dolorosa way Leads to a cross and Jesus’ death-stained face. For here at Calvary...
‘Good Friday Rain’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society April 18, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Good Friday Rain I wake and hear the rain cascade. Its cleansing drops roll down my pane; They soak the garden, bathe the glade, Refresh the grass, and swell the grain. Stretched out in bed, from stress...
‘Lament for Clairac’ by Théophile de Viau, Translated by A.Z. Foreman The Society April 17, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Readings, Translation 5 Comments . . Lament for Clairac by Théophile de Viau (1590-1626) translated from French by A.Z. Foreman Sun-hallowed walls where I once loved Phillis, Sweet places where my soul knew charm and wonder, Today,...
‘Poetry Legacy’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society April 17, 2025 Culture, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments . Poetry Legacy Superb is her poetic contribution, Unique in its design and execution. She hopes the work is widely loved and lasting— With love beginning prior to her passing. . . Restricted Lane He sees...
‘But Fruits Are Not Concealed in Them’: A Poem by Peter Venable The Society April 15, 2025 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . "But Fruits Are Not Concealed in Them" ---Friedrich Schiller, "Breath and Depth" We hear the ancient rule: The fools think they are wise; The wise know they are fools… But who knows their own lies? The...
‘The Hermit Curses’: A Poem by Joshua S. Fullman The Society April 15, 2025 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . The Hermit Curses Sharp sunrises cut white streaks on the plain, whet edges on black soil, where all at once the spirit clefts from matter, and my gains recoil when I recall your face. Not front or profiled,...
‘Curb Appeal’: A Poem by Cheryl Corey The Society April 14, 2025 Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Curb Appeal . I. You really couldn't find a better plotOn which to build a house. The yard is rimmedIn masonry. The hedge is neatly trimmed;Without a doubt, a perfect corner lot. There's something...
‘Druthers’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society April 14, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 15 Comments . Druthers I’ve never warmed to the absurd idea That I should lean toward being what I ain’t. I’m more inclined to move to North Korea Than hanker to become a martyred saint. I want to live an...
‘Ovechkin Beats Gretzky’: A Poem of Hockey Slang by Warren Bonham The Society April 13, 2025 Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . Ovechkin Beats Gretzky He’s the greatest at one task, it’s putting biscuits into baskets. He scores goals from awkward angles after making dekes, and dangles. He’s a hockey fan amazer, wearing blades...
‘Cantarella Wine’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society April 13, 2025 Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . Cantarella Wine Rome. 1501. Lucrezia Borgia hosts Bishop Giovanni Cavalieri of the Republic of Siena. He is visiting Rome as the leader of a faction of priests intent on pressing the Church to address...
‘Strange Blindness: A Play in Two Acts’ by Cynthia Erlandson The Society April 12, 2025 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Strange Blindness: A Play in Two Acts . Prologue Joseph and Jesus knew that perfect timing---and not plain, unforeshadowed proclamation---would show the deepest truth about life’s drama.Its plot twists...
‘Hannah Duston’: A Poem by A.R. Pereira The Society April 11, 2025 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Hannah Duston She looms there, immortalized, in bronze gone blue, a puritan woman with crude hatchet cocked. Her stare is as cold as the New England dew, the blood of her captors still slick on her...
‘Spring Bloomers’ and Other Spring Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 10, 2025 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Triolet 28 Comments . Spring Bloomers ---a triolet A lick of spring has kissed the air Whispering of skimpy knickers--- It’s time to toss thick underwear. A lick of spring has kissed the air. I’ll hurl my hat, let down my...
‘The Tale of the Moon’s Reign’: An Elegy by Yoshikaze Kawakami The Society April 9, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Song Lyrics 6 Comments . The Tale of the Moon’s Reign ---an elegy Above the skies where reigns the moon _So bright in hours of gloom Lived those whose hearts no longer feel _Nor suffer and yearn to heal. We mortals hailed this...
‘Porphyro and Madeline: The Epilogue By Byron’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society April 8, 2025 Culture, Poetry 28 Comments . Porphyro and Madeline: The Epilogue By Byron "Let us away, my love, with happy speed; There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see..." —John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes” _A long, hard gallop brought them...
‘Sit in Silence’: A Poem by Bennett Chatigny The Society April 5, 2025 Culture, Pantoum, Poetry 2 Comments . Sit in Silence ---a pantoum It's pure stupidity to sit in silence. It's only idiotic to be idle. Unconscientious deeds should be derided. Decisive daily action's very vital. It's only idiotic to be...