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On Gov. Cuomo: ‘Governor Mussolini’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

The Society
February 28, 2021
Coronavirus, Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Humor, Poetry
23 Comments
. Governor Mussolini Fifteen thousand souls,Killed by the stroke of his pen,For whom no bell tolls. . . Covid Chronicles I saw a naked face today---It nearly took my breath away!I knew the girl and so I asked...

‘A Song of Saint Francis’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

The Society
February 26, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
. A Song of Saint Francis Good friends, I wander vale and hill The Master’s words upon my lip; My only thought: to do His will And sing such Love as makes hearts skip! Rejecting wealth, prestige and sword...

A Poem for Gina Carano: ‘Forced Out’ by Bethany Mootsey

The Society
February 25, 2021
Culture, Poetry
12 Comments
. It feels like a galaxy far, far away,__But it’s just the US of AWhere a woman is canned, her prospective gigs banned,__For refusing to mutely obey. Speech marshals have spoken, patrollers of space;__Even...

‘A Lenten Prayer’ by Joe Tessitore

The Society
February 24, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
22 Comments
. Of all Creation, who am I Who sins against Thee, Lord Most High? Of all that crawl, of those who creep, No one has ever sunk so deep. Of those who swim and those who fly, Least of them all, this sinner,...

‘Grauballe Man’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley

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February 21, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
46 Comments
.. Grauballe Man He lies exposed to view in this glass case Exactly as he lay three hundred years Before our Christ was born, between his ears Torn open with a savage force: his face, All blackened by the peat...

‘Remembering Sandy Hook, Ct 12/14/12’ by Ed Gutt

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February 20, 2021
Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
. Remembering Sandy Hook, Ct 12/14/12 Over 8 Years Later That day God's Angels' tears were shed,When first grade books and blackboards bledPure blood that stained a beige room red.Sad parents tuck ghosts into...

‘Obit: English Pronouns’ by Jan Darling

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February 19, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
29 Comments
. Dear friends we gather here to say goodbye To words once used to speak both truth and lie. The HE and SHE and HIS and HERS and MINE By ZIE interred forever at ZIR shrine. No more can we know ZIM or VER by...

A Poem on the Death of Rush Limbaugh (1951-2021), by Joe Tessitore

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February 18, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
12 Comments
. Rush He was larger than life And it cut like a knife When his wife let us know That he died. From this kind of grief There can be no relief. Such a powerful blow Meant I cried. 12:06 comes around, I’m...

‘Ashless Wednesday’ by Joe Tessitore

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February 17, 2021
Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. The Great Reset has rocked the world--- What untold evil has unfurled! Unshakable foundations crumble. Through the rubble, nations stumble. Who is not shaken to the core By all that was and is no...

‘God Save Poetry’ by Don Shook

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February 15, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
6 Comments
  There is a scourge that permeates our midstWhich we cannot so easily dismiss.Elitists strive to elevate this curse;A type of art most poets call free verse. True poetry once rhymed and had some form,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...

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...

‘Fool’s Wisdom’ and Other Sonnets by Theresa Rodriguez

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February 12, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
27 Comments
. Fool’s Wisdom “I am fearfully and wonderfully made” ---Psalm 139:14 I am amazed at what some fools believe Who say I am a fool to have belief In a creative force. To preconceive Against this...

‘Cyclothymia’ by Rachel Thomas

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February 11, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. All fruit is sweet as marzipan, and seraphs carol just for me, Each brook sings like a silver lyre, and finches trill in every tree. Life is a cloth embossed with gold, and even through the blackest...

‘If Robinhood (Investment Trader) Ran Major League Baseball’ by James A. Tweedie

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February 10, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
. All Major League Baseball teams share revenues, We treat them as if they were brothers. But sometimes self-interest means we refuse To treat each the same as the others. Some teams like the Yankees are...

On Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial: ‘Kangaroo Déjà Vu’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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February 9, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
21 Comments
. They’re impeaching Number 45 today--- Like toddlers born to moan, Like bulldogs with a bone, Like warlords with a drone, Like tyrants on a throne, Although they know The Don left yesterday--- They’re...

Two Poems on Old Age, Adapted by Terry L. Norton

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February 9, 2021
Children's, Culture, Poetry, Translation
13 Comments
. Half a Blanket adapted from “Das Vierte Gebot,” or “The Fourth Commandment,” a folktale from medieval Germany There was an old king once in France Who grew in time too weak to reign. So, he...

‘ Reality Check’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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February 8, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
43 Comments
. The New York Times has just published a piece detailing a range of recommendations for the Biden administration to solve the “reality crisis”...

Five Sonnets from ‘The Gift of Life’ by Amanda Hall

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February 8, 2021
Art, Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry
7 Comments
. “The Gift of Life” is a formal epic poem of 600 original Shakespearean sonnets, a tale about a love that existed in life and art with equal force. The heroine of the tale goes to the great war of words...

A Poem on the ‘Borderless Regime,’ by Christopher Flint

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February 7, 2021
Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. I, Satan, Now Will Have Your Dream You'll be no longer citizens, by my decrees declared. Get used to being residents (assuming you are spared by forces of invasion massed already here and more in numbers...

‘Chairman Xho’ (Pronounced ‘Joe’) by Joe Tessitore

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February 6, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
. They’ll be coming for you soon, Chairman Xho. It’s an old, familiar tune that we all know. You’ve been howlin’ at the moon And they’ll say that you’re a loon And you’ll bring us all to...

‘Eight and a Half (Going on Twenty)’ by Frank De Canio

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February 6, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
7 Comments
. “Ha ha,” is all she gives her Dad when he makes fun of what she said. No more parental Galahad who nightly carried her to bed. He’s just a jaded humorist who doesn’t even merit laughs from her which...

‘Reality Check’ by James A. Tweedie

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February 5, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
15 Comments
. We can “Build Back Better” if we choose “Truth Over Lies.” What these slogans promise lead us to a big surprise. When the new administration’s promises come true, This is what we’ll get when...

‘Twitter’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

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February 4, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
22 Comments
. Twitter by Esca Webuilder The bluebird of unhappiness, that twits all day and night, does not like to be seen that much, especi’lly in pure light. It tries to hide among the bushes of the golden mean, but...

‘Maurras at the Parthenon (Acropolis, 1896)’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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February 4, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. Charles Maurras (1868-1952) was a highly influential French poet, essayist, and political journalist. He edited the rightist paper Action Française, and was a member of the French Academy. He wrote that the...

‘The Good of You’ by Damian Robin

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February 3, 2021
Coronavirus, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry
8 Comments
. How good of you to do your best __for our great population. So we'll do right by your request __to heal our ailing nation. If we feel sick we'll stay indoors, __won't shout---just put a sock in. With metal...

‘The Senior Covid Blues’ by Lee Goldberg

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February 3, 2021
Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry
16 Comments
. The Senior Covid Blues I have read many articles about the virus particles that swirl about and sneak into our noses. I know it takes tenacity to keep one’s lung capacity and not look up and see the roots...

A Haiku on ‘Blackwater River State Park’ and Other Poetry by K.M. Hayes

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February 2, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Humor, Poetry
6 Comments
. Blackwater River State Park A warm summer day. The kayak floats quietly. The cicadas sing. . . Nightfall at Pensacola Beach The sun has now set And not a light can be seen. What just made that...

‘Two Social Media Brothers: Jack and Zuck’ by Sarban Bhattacharya

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January 30, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
7 Comments
. The world is ruled by two men­---Jack and Zuck, More than their strange appearance their deeds suck. Jack’s goatee truly suits a Marxist boss Who for free speech and thought gives not a toss, While Zuck...

‘Woman Is’ by Don Shook

The Society
January 30, 2021
Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
. Changeable and fickle is the woman. Some things she says, and surely thinks are so, defy a logic with a bent to wander beyond the bounds of any truth we know. Her reasoning, like multi-colored...

‘Poetic Paraphrase of Martin Niemöller’ by James A. Tweedie

The Society
January 29, 2021
Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. First they came for the Jews, you see, And I did not speak out’ Because I wasn’t a Jew (not me!) I didn’t give a shout. Then they came for the Communists And I did not speak out; Seditious, Marxist...

‘The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Must Fall’ by Evan Mantyk

The Society
January 28, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Exposing Election Fraud, Human Rights in China, Poetry
21 Comments
. A Word of Advice to Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, John Roberts, and many others . __The CCP must fall. __The CCP must fall. Behind them all, Like Clintons, Maddows, Also in the shadows, Like McConnell’s...

‘B.C./D.C.’ and Other Humorous Poetry by C.B. Anderson

The Society
January 27, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
17 Comments
. B.C./D.C. Where history and myth converge Two famous founders do emerge, Of nations that excelled at war. (Coincidence?  Or something more?) George Washington and Romulus Are equally eponymous, And...

‘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,...

‘A Message from The Party of Unity’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
January 26, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
19 Comments
. Daily we vent and cement our position In righteous and virtuous words. Unity fails if each crucial decision Is left to the whim of the herds. Deplorable plebs are so flawed and naïve When treading the...

‘Ode to Spring’ and Other Poetry by Andrew Elliott

The Society
January 26, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
2 Comments
. Ode to Spring Oh glory be to things that grow! That burgeon, blossom, bud and blow In Springtime’s light and airy breeze, Which ruffles softly new sprung leaves. What tongue there be to justly praise The...

‘Father And John: How It Once Was’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook

The Society
January 25, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
22 Comments
. . Father And John: How It Once Was Before self-righteous rules, brash and insistent,There was a natural rhythm, quite unspoken.So when my father hired an assistantTraditionalist, he followed rules...

‘Verbum Dei’ by James Sale

The Society
January 25, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
51 Comments
. The Verbum Dei Retreat Centre on the Isle of Wight aims to be a place of encounter with God We took the ferry; darkness closed; Warm lights ahead; who knew the way? Crowded in a car, pilgrims led For God...

To Joe Biden: ‘Abiding the Storm’, by David Watt

The Society
January 24, 2021
Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
16 Comments
. Well, you beat the odds against you, though I think you rather knew That with media assistance, and a counting scheme or two, There would be a sudden shifting, like a tide, upon a whim, Moving in the wrong...

‘Uninspired’ by Siri Espy

The Society
January 24, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
. I fear my motivation’s dead; there’s no one home inside my head. I’ve looked for it from dusk to dawn; I tell you, it is really gone! The situation is quite dire; my neurons will no longer fire. I...
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