‘For John Whitworth (1945-2019)’ by Dwayne Barrick The Society March 21, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . A touch of wit is worth its writ in gold. We miss you, John, for being ever bold. You spoke your mind or, rather, wrote it down with learning lightly worn, and played the clown. Your loyal readers...
‘An Intelligent Cup of Coffee’ by Daniel Kemper The Society March 20, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 33 Comments . “That must have been some cup of coffee!” ---Charles Ellik The coffee spins and I am not the same. The time in which I move is muddy, turns around my breath, and steams. As sunlight came here perfectly,...
‘Saint Joseph’s Table’ by Margaret Coats The Society March 19, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . The night before, old furniture And scrap wood set afire Smoke out the winter’s wickedness— An equinoctial pyre Of habits, sins, misfortunes dark, Succeeded by quick work To level boards and flaunt a...
‘The Second Roman Empire’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society March 18, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 22 Comments . The Second Roman Empire Those were the days, when Julius Caesar Saw a country and would seize her, And the busty Roman matrons Ran the house and bossed the patrons. Christians, at the least suggestion, Gave...
‘The PRC’s “To-Do” List’ by James A. Tweedie The Society March 18, 2021 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 14 Comments . Every one of us makes “To-Do” lists to help us on the way So we won’t forget the many things we plan to do each day. Every country has a “To-Do” list as well, and China, too, Here’s a partial...
‘This Brave American, Ashli Babbitt’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society March 17, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry 22 Comments . This Brave American, Ashli Babbitt “It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.” —Sophocles, “Antigone” by Usa W Celebride The Democrats stole the election—Ashli Babbitt...
‘Lenin’ and Other Poetry by Duane Caylor The Society March 17, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 26 Comments . Lenin It’s late. He walks the lonely corridor in this part of the Kremlin with his cat hammocked in his arm. He stops before the door of every commissariat that’s still aglow and enters into...
‘The Illiterati’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 16, 2021 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 38 Comments . “Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.” ---Heinrich Heine There is diction to spurn and there’s fiction to burn ____If the subject is apt to offend Connoisseurs with...
‘Liberal Artists’ by Sarban Bhattacharya The Society March 16, 2021 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . A little argument and then they hurt; These liberals are so coy and sensitive. They think they know all forms of decent art, And claim consensus gives prerogative. Their poetry requires subjective...
‘Borealis’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society March 15, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Borealis Where Ursa Minor spins about its tail The cold-chill, sabled void of arctic nights Bestirs to life as unseen hands unveil The shifting silence of the Northern Lights. Chameleonesque, the colored...
‘Lives There the Man’ (After Sir Walter Scott) by Roy E. Peterson The Society March 14, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Lives There the Man after “Breathes There a Man with Soul so Dead” by Sir Walter Scott* by Roy E. Peterson Lives there the man who won’t defendHis hearth and home from whom intendTo quench his fire and...
A Poem on the Canceling of Dr. Seuss’s McElligot’s Pool, by Julian Woodruff The Society March 13, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 33 Comments . Jelly Guts Rule The book, we’ve been apprised, is most uncool— Young Marco and the farmer by the pool, Wits locked in friendly if serious duel, And Marco sends the farmer off to school. One Dr. Seuss,...
A Poem for Daylight Savings: ‘The Puppeteer’ by Norma Pain The Society March 13, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 21 Comments . Oh hail the master puppeteer, Controller of the strings. The altruistic engineer, Sagaciousness he brings. With breathtaking dexterity, He moves us all about. From rich and famed celebrity, To every...
‘Gonfalon’ by Paul Erlandson The Society March 12, 2021 Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . Around the rearview mirror of my car There hangs a gonfalon of love divine. My talisman, my bright and guiding star, From which both fortitude and healing shine. What is this mighty banner hanging down? Not...
‘Advice from Dante’ on Mask Wearing and Other Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson The Society March 11, 2021 Coronavirus, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments . Advice from Dante “If you hear nostrums* in the market cried, Behave like men, and not like witless sheep.” ---Dante, Paradiso, Canto V Behave like men, and not like witless sheep. The CDC has shown no...
‘The Final Solution, Take Two’ by Joe Tessitore The Society March 10, 2021 Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry 27 Comments . I heard the harvested remains Of infants coursing through my veins Will save me from the Wuhan Flu--- I’m gonna get some, how ‘bout you? Those babies were already dead, Their blood’s not really on my...
‘Bang!’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 10, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 35 Comments . Bang! “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”---This quote was attributed by John Kennedy to medieval thinker Dante Alighieri I’m...
An Essay on the Canceling of Dr. Seuss: ‘If I Ran the Circus’ by Michael Curtis The Society March 9, 2021 Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments . Girolamo Savonarola Here we are at circus, you and me and all the others, facing each and every way in the Age of Absurdity. Rather alike some Swiftian satire, some Aesopian consequence, some Seussian...
‘Political Conversation’ by Russel Winick The Society March 9, 2021 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . between friends of 40+ years “Just what about Obama don’t you like?” “I fear his plans will force a big tax hike. His National Labor Relations Board, Makes rulings which leave business needs...
‘The Pox Fox’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 8, 2021 Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry 33 Comments . This silver-furred yogi of how to stay fit, This bespectacled guru of health, Is a growly voiced sage of nefarious wit; A hoodwinking master of...
‘The English Cantos: Volume 2: StairWell. Canto 1 Ascent’ by James Sale The Society March 7, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry 13 Comments . The poet has now escaped Hell, and has arrived in Purgatory or what he calls the StairWell. But he seems to have been abandoned by Dante, and has a fresh set of problems to confront. In this first section of...
Poem Circulating Online Laments Canceling of Dr. Seuss Books The Society March 6, 2021 Children's, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 34 Comments The author of the above poem, circulating online, is unknown. From The Epoch Times (March 2, 2021) "Biden Omits Mention of Dr. Seuss From ‘Read Across America Day’ Amid Concerns of Racist...
‘The Tango Argentine’ by Daniel Kemper The Society March 6, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Do they still dance on old walkwayswith lowered shoulders, mastered breathand almost martial, measured gazethough one that's bent on life, not death?Will men with class step up and raisean arm and pause: a...
‘Tradition’ by Troy Camplin The Society March 5, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . I've battled beside Gilgamesh, the Bull Of Heaven slain by us. I've fought beside Achilles, hot beside a burning hull, And watched as Agamemnon, captured, died. With Oedipus I've lost my vital eyes With...
‘The White Man’s Burden’ by Rudyard Kipling: Poem, Background, and Analysis The Society March 4, 2021 Culture, Essays, For Educators, Poetry 51 Comments . A Teaching Tool for High School English Language Arts or Global History Teachers by Evan Mantyk . Background of Kipling and British India Rudyard Kipling The poet, Rudyard Kipling, was born in British India...
A Poem on the Tyranny of Google, by Bruce Dale Wise The Society March 1, 2021 Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . . Frankly, There Are Many Ways To Spell Uggly “the Baleks von Bilgen…new coat of arms—a giant crouching under a fir tree” —Heinrich Böll, “The Balek Scales” by Esca Webuilder In the dark...
On Gov. Cuomo: ‘Governor Mussolini’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society February 28, 2021 Coronavirus, Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Humor, Poetry 32 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 16 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 13 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 23 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 The Society 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 The Society February 20, 2021 Culture, Poetry 10 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 The Society February 19, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 31 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 The Society 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 The Society February 17, 2021 Culture, Poetry 12 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society February 11, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 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...
