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‘Ode on ​Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Ganymede and the Eagle’ and Other Poetry by Talbot Hook

The Society
December 31, 2020
Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry
36 Comments
. . Ode on ​Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Ganymede and the Eagle Bending down in offering, a Boy extends a shallow bowl; Craning neck of eagle dips, the Child foresees his coming role. Swept from earth to...

‘To U.S. Citizens This Christmas’ by Damian Robin

The Society
December 30, 2020
Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
17 Comments
  . O hail you lied-to, baffled Yanks,__false-fed with sick afront’ry,If only rigging votes were pranks__not killing your good country. I know you're in the midst of it,__the bin bags full of ballotsThat...

“Pride Goeth . . . .” and Other Sonnets by James A. Tweedie

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December 30, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
“Pride Goeth . . . .” “How dare you, sir! Your libel will not stand!” The words flew out across the now-hushed room. “Retract your vile lies or face your doom! “Repent or you shall die by my...

‘Christmas Present’ by Joe Tessitore

The Society
December 29, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Holidays, Poetry
39 Comments
. Long the shadow that it casts, Christmas present, o’er our pasts. In its darkness made to bask, Mumbling carols through a mask. Oh, the distance we observe. No resistance, gone our nerve. Cowering in...

‘Anno Domini 1348’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

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December 29, 2020
Beauty, Coronavirus, Culture, Poetry
22 Comments
. Anno Domini 1348 ‘Tis thirteen months since those twelve ships of death Docked in Messina bearing vicious plague From the Black Sea. The fevers, rasping breath, The frightful buboes, tortured minds gone...

A Poem on the Jan. 6 Electoral Vote Count, by Christopher Flint

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December 28, 2020
Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
4 Comments
. The Burden of Truth Our founders feared and could foresee that politics might come to be far more intense than mere debate of means to best perpetuate the liberty they'd given birth unparalleled in all the...

‘The Monkeys and the Dragonflies’ by Terry L. Norton

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December 28, 2020
Children's, Culture, Poetry
20 Comments
  adapted from a Filipino folktale __Once, when the sun was at its height, A dragonfly thought she’d alight Upon a branch. The air was hot, And she fatigued. So, on that spot, Under the shade of...

‘The Night after Christmas’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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December 25, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Poetry
14 Comments
. The Night after Christmas You better not cry. “Deplorable” might be how best to putit, just to underscore the gravityof chores that border on depravity,begriming Santa’s uniform with soot. A...

‘A Wretch Like Me’ by Joe Tessitore

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December 25, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Poetry
18 Comments
 . To miss the mark, to lose my way,to choose the dark, on Christmas Day. No star I see, no Virgin Birth.No joy for me, no peace on earth. But for a wretch like me He came,to fetch me from my sin and...

‘Can You See the Star?’ by Daniel Magdalen

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December 24, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Poetry
11 Comments
. Wake up and raise the blinds, to see the light, The colors; hark, the carols, feel the cheers Emerging, from within this Holy Night. Hear choirs of hope, in spirit, ‘mid your plight, While you can’t...

‘Christmas Is a Person’: Words & Music by Jim Tweedie

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December 24, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Music, Poetry
21 Comments
  Christmas trees and Christmas carols, Christmas lights and reindeer, too.Christmas cards and Christmas presents, wrapped with paper, bows and glue.Christmas bells and Christmas cookies, Christmas ornaments...

‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer—a Sonnet’ and Other Poetry by Paul A. Freeman

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December 24, 2020
Culture, Holidays, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer---A Sonnet Poor Rudolph was a reindeer with a nose resembling a bulb of bright red hue. The other reindeer laughed and said, “It glows like Santa’s after knocking back a...

‘Voices from Childhood’: A Christmas Poem by David Watt

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December 24, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Poetry
17 Comments
X The play of the breeze brings the music of childhood, The tinkle of laughter as light and as clear As were our voices when singing in Wildwood The day before Christmas—the best time of year. The songs...

‘Stepfather’ by Daniel Kemper

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December 23, 2020
Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
.   The hills that Joseph meditated on were black and just a bit like elephants, but if somehow they counterpointed dawn, there was no sign of its deliverance. “Beloved, my beloved, how?---and why!" Against...

A Poem on the Covid-19 Vaccine: ‘Needled’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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December 22, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry
40 Comments
. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” ---Albert Einstein If I put forth a single vaccine questionAbout a jab that’s whipped up in a...

‘In This Post-Christian Era I Believe’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez

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December 22, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
28 Comments
In This Post Christian Era “For he nil falsen no wight, dar I seye, That wol his herte al hoolly on him leye.” ---Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Love Unfeigned” In this post-Christian era I believe; In this...

‘The Rape of Lady Liberty’ and Other Poetry on Election Fraud

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December 20, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Humor, Poetry
7 Comments
. . The Rape of Lady Liberty In Memoriam: November 3, 2020 by Patrick Henry Redivivus They did the awful deed within the dark--- Brute men with beastly hearts, as black as coal, And blinded minds, like...

‘Evocation’ by Leo Zoutewelle

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December 20, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
I set up my beloved theodolite And slowly, gently, aimed it at the moon, Then focused sharply on the lovely site, Which put its fragile eye piece well in tune. As always, it was truly great and...

Three Poems on Photography, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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December 19, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
30 Comments
. Still   “Many eyes go through the meadow,  but few see the flowers in it” ---Ralph Waldo Emerson  I aim and shoot with fierce alacrity   As artistry unfurls before...

‘From a Prophet to the Emperor’ by Sterling Osborne

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December 18, 2020
Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
  The corpses laid before your cast iron throne will never wake again. Their eyes alone accuse you from the veinous marble floor, but you dismiss their gaze and look once more to conquest: paring...

‘The Screen Is Life’ by Michael Charles Maibach

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December 17, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Poetry
1 Comment
The screen is life, The screen is king, The screen is now Our everything. The place we learn, The place we meet, The place we go When friends we greet. Our church on-line, Our school remote, Our office...

‘Dominion’ and Other Poetry on Voter Fraud

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December 16, 2020
Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
28 Comments
. Dominion “No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do.”  ---Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game by Susan Jarvis Bryant Dominion is the despot’s aim Employed to zip loose lips and...

‘The House of Life’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley

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December 16, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
21 Comments
The House of Life to Stephen Come in, my friend, and warm yourself; come in out of the cold! The night is dark, and icy winds blow harshly on the wold. Inside you´ll find a roaring fire to warm you as you...

‘At Sea with the Virus’ by Damian Robin

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December 15, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry
8 Comments
based on a true story My wife’s in bed with lowered head and even lower mood. Her chin’s on her chest and she’s not impressed though at least she’s eating her food. Her smiles are...

‘My 2020 Christmas List’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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December 14, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Poetry
19 Comments
. The coziest wrap of a cuddle To wear under snow-swollen skies; The grin of a kith-and-kin huddle To glisten in sparkling eyes; A tipple of mistletoe kisses To quench my intemperate thirst; A feast of...

‘Prince Hamlet Speaks About Election Fraud’ by Evan Mantyk

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December 14, 2020
Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
31 Comments
. . Prince Hamlet Speaks About Election Fraud Prince Hamlet speaks about election fraud: "O villainy! Ho! Let the door be locked. Treachery! Seek it out." And this we laud: A voice half crazy yet all true...

‘On Your Marx’ and Other Poetry on Karl Marx by Damian Robin

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December 11, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
24 Comments
_ On Your Marx If humans ran a Human Race, __Karl Marx would not be in it. The human depth that he could trace __would leach out in a minute. For he is neither man nor beast __but half-life near demonic, A...

‘Philoctetes: A Myth Retold’ Excerpt, by Bruce Wren

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December 10, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
What is One to do with a Useless Man?: Philoctetes: A Myth Retold is a poetic play by Fr. Bruce Wren.   Act 5 Scene 2 Philoctetes alone (singing the first quartet softly, then soliloquy) If solitude comes...

Poetry on Exposing Fraud in the 2020 U.S. Election

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December 9, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
8 Comments
. Strange Election inspired by President Trump's speech on election fraud (below) by Evan Mantyk Strange numbers were appearing in the dead of night From ballot boxes As if foxes Crept there out of...

Poem Found on Our Lady of Guadalupe Painting, Translated by Margaret Coats

The Society
December 9, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Found Poem, Poetry, Translation
26 Comments
The Painting of the Virgin God, seeing in America a child Embracing Faith with jubilation meet, Took up His paints, and on a flowered sheet By His own hand a portrait deftly styled, For He intended...

A Poem on the 79th Anniversary of the Pearl Harbor Attack, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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December 7, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
36 Comments
. That Day of Infamy ∼ December 7th, 1941 Zeros burst through bluest skies __Like stealthy birds of prey, Set to swoop and pulverize __Pearl Harbor’s soul that day; That day of scarlet rising suns __On...

‘Peradventure Before Naptime’ by Denise Sobilo

The Society
December 7, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
4 Comments
for my two-year-old grandson, Exander “There’s no tale in the world I can’t believe.” I said.“If you have learned belief, you have learned something.” ---Rudyard Kipling, “Bimi” X We meant to...

Stop the Steal: A Play on the 2020 Election (Excerpt) by Evan Mantyk

The Society
December 6, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
20 Comments
. Act I Scene I NARRATOR Imagine now the scene: the angry engine, Its beeping brain, its smooth and metal muscles That barely seem to strain beneath the mighty load; And standing all around no creature...

‘The Toss’ by Phil S. Rogers

The Society
December 6, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
4 Comments
. One night a lean and wizened soul scuffed down the old mill road, while moonlight cast upon the knoll a mounted figure showed. The Horseman sat perfectly still, face shrouded in the mist. His hooded form...

‘To Some Other Poets’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook

The Society
December 5, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
26 Comments
. To Some Other Poets Let hoary heads divine and then divide,Dot i’s and dance on pins and sneer with pride,And ogle with an obverse obfuscationTo fuel the furious fires of their frustration.  An academic...

‘Appeal to the Muse’ and Other Poetry by Amanda Hall

The Society
December 4, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. Appeal to the Muse O Saint Cecilia, more than just a muse— The very author by this pen and ink— I plead thy help, and never wish to lose Assistance at the quill, or in the rink. For Art is cutthroat;...

‘King Horn’ Middle English Romance, Translation by Russell Spera

The Society
December 3, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation
6 Comments
  Gather round everyone, come near! My story is for all to hear. A song for you I now shall sing, A song about Murry the King. Murry was the King of the West And ruled till he was laid to...

‘The Homeward-Bound Armada, 1588’ by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
December 1, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
21 Comments
X No tengo más que darte —Inscription on a Spanish sailor's gold ring, in the shape of a hand holding out a heart, found off the western coast of Ireland. Their splintered hulls well-raked with cannon...

A Poem on Catholic Bishops Hailing the ‘President-Elect’ and Others by Julian Woodruff

The Society
November 30, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
21 Comments
_ Our Bishops, on Nov. 4, 2020 Our bishops hail the president-elect.Do they suppose the election is decided?Or are they anxious that we all move onAnd welcome policies that won’t excludeThe illegal alien...

‘My Covid-19 Birthday Bash’ by Jeff Kemper

The Society
November 30, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry
8 Comments
2 November 2020 Two weeks and counting here I be In clutches of the CCP I don’t delight as I once did In birthday presents, cards, and quid, But my two darling angel-girls Served me with functionary...
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