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poem/freeman/limericks

World Poetry Day Limerick Poetry Challenge

The Society
March 21, 2023
Culture, Limerick, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests
42 Comments
. In celebration of World Poetry Day, write a limerick on the theme of World Poetry Day, poetry in general, or poets. Post it in the comments section below. Learn how to write a limerick here. An example is...

‘How to Write Contemporary Poetry’ and ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’ by Brian Yapko

The Society
March 21, 2023
Culture, Education, Humor, Pantoum, Poetry, Satire, Shakespeare
35 Comments
. How to Write Contemporary Poetry a pantoum in free verse composition keep letters lower case. dump classical tradition then cite the marketplace. keep letters lower case make use of ampersands then cite the...
poem/winick/free speech

‘Ex-Freedom of Speech’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick

The Society
March 19, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
36 Comments
. Ex-Freedom of Speech In fact, most liberals don't support free speech today, And often see a need for censorship instead. They claim “misinformation” causes broad decay, So free speech ends if they...
poem/anderson/banks

A Poem on Bank and Financial Collapses: ‘Ponzi’ by C.B. Anderson

The Society
March 19, 2023
Culture, Poetry
26 Comments
. Ponzi Your promises mean nothing if they lack fidelity.  It grieves a man to hear such welcome words, then have them taken back without the least regret before a year has passed.  I thought our future was...
poem/woodruff/transgenderism

A Poem for Josh Alexander: ‘The War on Children’ by Julian Woodruff

The Society
March 18, 2023
Culture, Poetry
21 Comments
. The War on Children “I quoted some Scripture, I said that there are only two genders. And apparently, because there are transgender students in the class, this was considered bullying.” ---Josh...
poem/corey/saint patricks day

‘The Leprechaun’: A Saint Patrick’s Day Poem by Cheryl Corey

The Society
March 17, 2023
Culture, Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
. The Leprechaun Come mid-March, the leprechaun Glides up and o’er the rainbow, Playful as a unicorn That’s prancing in a meadow. With greedy eyes glimmering, And shim’ry as a peacock, He slides to...
song/eardley/St. Patrick's Day

‘The Lark in the Morning’: A Tune for St Patrick’s Day by Poet Jeff Eardley

The Society
March 17, 2023
Culture, Music, Poetry
15 Comments
. "The Lark in the Morning" is a traditional Irish song performed on classical guitar by poet and professional musician Jeff Eardley: . . Jeff Eardley lives in the heart of England near to the Peak...
poem/brockstein/freedom convoy

‘Freedom Convoy Song’: Lyrics by Lannie David Brockstein

The Society
March 16, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Song Lyrics
6 Comments
. Freedom Convoy Song To bravely speak is to turn on the lights, __To silence darkens all of our debate; Yea, We the People know free speech unites __What foreign censorship did separate. The former, it is our...
poem/frank/st. jerome/christian

‘St. Jerome’s Cicero Obsession’ by Joshua C. Frank

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March 16, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
. St. Jerome’s Cicero Obsession based on St. Jerome’s letter to his disciple St. Eustochium in Rome, A.D. 384 When I was young and foolish long ago, I traveled to Jerusalem alone To fast and pray away from...
poem/dickey/thales of miletus

A Poem on Thales of Miletus, by Stephen M. Dickey

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March 15, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
16 Comments
. Θαλῆς 2.0 In days of yore, Thales, the famous sage, Went out on a stargazing walk and fell Straight down an overlooked and vexing well. A passing woman mocked him: “At your age You ought to know...
poem/johnson/faerie queene

‘Britomart and Marinell’: A Faerie Queene-Inspired Poem by Jeremiah Johnson

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March 13, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. Britomart and Marinell In Edmund Spenser's epic poem, The Faerie Queene, Britomart is a female knight who represents the virtue of chastity.  Marinell is a knight whose mother has prophesied that he...

‘The Scottish Gourmand’: A Poem by Wael Almahdi

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March 12, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
23 Comments
. The Scottish Gourmand A culture-rich country which lay to the east where we were invited to conference and feast from Cuba to China, and some of the rest they bade them here gather and money invest for...

Pastoral Calls—Part 2 of 3: Poetry by Retired Pastor James A. Tweedie

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March 11, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
Pastoral Calls—Part 2 of 3 . Face-to-Face A weeping woman called me on the phone And said, “My daughter’s in the county jail. They will not let me see her on my own She’s charged with murder with no...
poem/belli/brothel

‘The Very Best Business’ by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Translated by Joseph S. Salemi

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March 9, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
12 Comments
. The Very Best Business by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863) translated from Romanesco by Joseph S. Salemi First I was a gardener (a disaster), Then a bookseller. I made even less. So did I change my...
poem/cooper/melon

‘El Melon’ and Other Poetry by Monika Cooper

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March 9, 2023
Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
20 Comments
. El Melon There is a maze or map on melon skin Even the blind could read and seek to solve. A little girl watches the housewives, deft, Touching the head shapes swiftly, one by one, Until they somehow know...
poem/coats/strike

A Poem on the French Pension Reform Strike, by Margaret Coats

The Society
March 7, 2023
Culture, Poetry
20 Comments
. Why Strike? With prices high and living standards low, Our times are like what our grandparents knew. They fought world war; we slave for war abroad And soon will labor through retirement too. We export...

‘Farinelli’: A Poem on the Famous Castrato by Brian Yapko

The Society
March 7, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
88 Comments
. Farinelli A thousand thanks, Martini, for your visit. Bologna is a town of balladeers. You’ll love it! Now I wonder, how long is it Since we both quit Madrid? Ah! Twenty years Since I last sang before the...
poem/bonham/ecclesiastes

‘Lean on Him’: A Poem by Warren Bonham

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March 6, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
. Lean on Him after Ecclesiasties We labor long beneath the sun. Forgotten soon by everyone. We come from dust and end the same, Depart this life just like we came. It’s all just chasing wind...
poem/erlandson/lost child

A Poem on a Lost Child: ‘Ruben’ and Other Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson

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March 4, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
32 Comments
. Ruben “We have words that speak of the ongoing presence of such privations: orphan, widow, widower. And perhaps the fact that we have no word for the parent who has lost a child is itself a testimony...
poem/anderson/afghanistan

‘Civics 101’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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March 3, 2023
Culture, Epigrams and Proverbs, Poetry, Satire
23 Comments
. Civics 101 Jejune excuses used too many times Do not undo the doer from the deed: A miscreant accused of many crimes Is not the type of model children need. A partisan devoted to a cause Who votes his...
poem/essmann/transgederism

‘Eulogy for a Them’: Poem on a Transgender Burial by Jeffrey Essmann

The Society
March 2, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
33 Comments
. Eulogy for a Them We gather here to celebrate a him Or her (an it? a they?) and in the end A prophet of the present who could bend Reality to suit their loosest whim. For whatsoever they had been or...
poem/frank/screens/phones

A Group of Poems on Screen Obsession, by Joshua C. Frank

The Society
March 2, 2023
Culture, Pantoum, Poetry, Triolet
32 Comments
. Screened. I. The Phony Mom a true story Her phone, in hand above the stroller, Blocked her baby from her view. She held it like a game controller, Adoring every pixel’s hue As mothers not so long...
poem/beauty/peach blossoms

‘Peach Blossom Dreaming’ by Margaret Coats

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March 1, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Shape Poems
35 Comments
. Peach Blossom Dreaming Peach blossoms furnish inwrought dreaming room Intangible to fingertips corrupt; __Substantially beyond each tapered petal’s plume Flow fragrances to subtly interrupt The wintry...
poem/yapko/covid leak

A Poem on the Covid Lab Leak, by Brian Yapko

The Society
February 27, 2023
Covid-19, Culture, Poetry, Satire
58 Comments
. Born in a Wuhan Lab Newsflash: U.S. Energy Department says it was probably a lab leak. Those men in suits and labcoats thought it worth The lives of millions from their ivory tower To falsify the truth...
poem/Almahdi/dilmun

‘Delmon’s Progeny’ and Other Poetry by Wael Almahdi

The Society
February 26, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
16 Comments
. Delmon’s Progeny Delmon, also known as Dilmun, is a Semitic culture connected to Mesopotamia that flourished in the 2nd millennium B.C.  Beneath the torrid coastal sun tenacious men these waters...

A Poem on the Loss of Free Speech: ‘Bite Your Tongue’ by Norma Pain

The Society
February 26, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
73 Comments
. Bite Your Tongue If you should feel the sudden urge __To put forth your opinions, Letting sundry thoughts diverge __To influence the minions. Just take a moment to reflect __On whether to opine, Or shut-up...
poem/frank/murder

A Poem on the Eli Hart Murder: ‘A Woman’s Right’ by Joshua C. Frank

The Society
February 24, 2023
Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
. A Woman’s Right Eli Hart's story was highlighted by the Daily Wire here. Come hear of little Eli Hart— His father fought the “family court,” Misnamed misandrists lacking heart. His mind-sick mother...

‘The Meek, Not the Weak, Shall Inherit the Earth’ and Other Poetry by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
February 24, 2023
Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
. On Hate God hates the evildoer and I can do no less. He gave us ten commandments for evil to assess. He helped identify them—the evil and the bad— And then he brought destruction with every power he...

‘Moon Garden Party’ by Margaret Coats

The Society
February 23, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
34 Comments
. Moon Garden Party It’s small and all reserved For plants that love full sun, Edges distinct though curved Refine how moments run Through dainty daisy days Succeeded when they’re done By crazed azaleas’...
poem/Aristotle/ethics/Venable

‘Aristotle Abridged’: A Poem by Peter Venable

The Society
February 23, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. Aristotle Abridged* And so we ponder virtue and vice. __We seek the mean, not the extreme. Perplexed, I ask for wise advice: __Why does not vice ever suffice? Excess—restraint—both have a price. __So...
poem/bryant/dahl

A Poem on Roald Dahl Revisions: ‘Willy Wonky’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
February 22, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
65 Comments
. Willy Wonky on the revision of Roald Dahl’s works  The whacky wokester clowns employed at Puffin Are wrecking classics with exciting stuff in. They’re ditching all the derring-do and...
poem/mantyk/beauty

‘The Emerald Queen’: A Poem by Evan Mantyk

The Society
February 21, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
32 Comments
. The Emerald Queen A Legend from the Future . Part I. Have you heard the old tale of the Emerald Queen? ‘Twas a long time ago when folks would demean Us humans as animals—nothing else more!— Evolved...

‘Through the Eyes of Angels’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

The Society
February 21, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
32 Comments
. Through the Eyes of Angels Look down upon the Earth as angels might! See seas as insignificant as ponds, Each desert a mere sandbox. From this height Vast forests are a park, the sun a bronze And distant...
poem/robin/culture

‘Reckoning’: A Poem on Looming Global Conflict by Mike Bryant

The Society
February 20, 2023
Culture, Poetry
34 Comments
. Reckoning Will darkness drop again so we may know The thrill and chill of winter blowing, storming, And will we feel death's icy undertow As husks of hell begin their frantic swarming? Will manna rot or...

‘La Sirena’ and Other Poetry by Monika Cooper

The Society
February 19, 2023
Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
12 Comments
. La Sirena At some point they ceased to be beautiful. Even their voices. Bare breasts, bare arms, screams Savage as acid swamped the scholar-priest His reasoned teaching fading from his lips. Bare breasts,...
poem/bryant/trolls

‘Troll’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
February 18, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Rondeau Redoublé, Satire
52 Comments
. Troll   "Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow." ---Matshona Dhliwayo A witch! A witch! Let’s hush the wicked witch!     His spleen slid through the...
poem/macgregor/ezra pound

‘The Times’ and Other Poetry by Tiree MacGregor

The Society
February 18, 2023
Culture, Poetry
16 Comments
. The Times Madness clamours all around me, Brute unreason fouls the air, Rampant passion would confound me— Invitations to despair. Phantoms disperse! For reason’s terse And ancient sway Will have its...
poem/winick/Chinese spies

A Poem on the Chinese Spy Balloon and Other Poetry by Russel Winick

The Society
February 15, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
14 Comments
. The Chinese Spy Balloon From that balloon botch I’m most wondering, Why Biden stalled to shoot it from the sky. Was it more fecklessness and blundering, Or might some hidden issue underlie? Did hearing it...
poem/yapko/love/sonnet

‘Ageless’: A Valentine’s Day Poem by Brian Yapko

The Society
February 14, 2023
Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
28 Comments
. Ageless Not in the golden mists of memory Nor in the colder mists of future years Shall I find love as true as yours for me--- A love so fair it banishes all fears. Your eyes, like sunlight, ever faithful...

‘Odysseus Begs?’ and Other Poetry by Bob Schildgen

The Society
February 13, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Homer, Poetry, Satire
7 Comments
. Odysseus Begs? He’s leaning on a Pluto niche machine: an ATM, balanced on his good leg— a fresh appearance in an ancient scene— a bandaged hand gropes slowly out to beg. Was he Odysseus, sail raised...
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    "Giving makes us gratified." What a great idea for your final line, Frank! In a gift economy, we all feel…

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    Condolences to Mike and Susan on the passing of a pet purrsonality, some of whose antics many of us will…

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    This is a good sestina especially because the endwords are not simply repeated, but used in the slightly different senses…

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    Evan, great interview—and your haiku really captures the place and meaning of your in-laws’ fiftieth anniversary. I like your use…

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