‘Best of the Windy City’: A Poem on Chicago and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society January 17, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Best of the Windy City Nation’s hub and culture center, O’Hare Airport, millions enter. Stunning architecture sites, The awesomeness of Frank Lloyd Wright; Union Stockyards fed the nation; Second City...
Song Version of ‘The Day the Poetry Died’ by Steve Shaffer The Society January 16, 2025 Culture, Music, Poetry 23 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF6v6ES3FMU . This is song was originally a poem published by the Society of Classical Poets in March, 2018. . The Day the Poetry Died Wonder why poetry is in...
‘My Soul Is at Home in the Depths of the Ocean’ and Other Poetry by Corey Elizabeth Jackson The Society January 15, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . My Soul Is at Home in the Depths of the Ocean My soul is at home in the depths of the ocean; My soul is at home in the cosmos above, Always adventuring, seeking to grow and Wreathing my body in infinite...
‘Payday’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society January 13, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Satire 14 Comments . Payday Before the crash, the market looked so strong. I doled out cash and credit, buying in While others sold. But, sadly, I was wrong About this, confidence my greatest sin, And I have duly suffered, if...
‘Magna Lex’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society January 13, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Magna Lex ---to the choirmaster, a Psalm (19) of David. . I The heavens herald God’s resplendency; The skies above display his artistry. By day the discourse spills like falling rain; Deep verities the...
‘Let There Be Light’ and Other Poetry by Cheryl Corey The Society January 12, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Let There Be Light From beyond, there came the Word—a cosmic “Om”That pierced the void with one colossal bang of sound,Releasing undulating waves of hallowed humThat thundered through the geodesic grid...
‘Unnoticed and Unknown’ and Other Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society January 12, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima 13 Comments . Unnoticed and Unknown Unnoticed and unknown, she passes through The homeless strewn along the downtown street. Unnoticed and unknown by people who Drive past in cars where high-end Niked feet Press...
‘Three Cascading Endings on Fallen Civilizations’ and Other Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson The Society January 11, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Three Cascading Endings on Fallen Civilizations I. Everywhere, the sands are endless. Look: A joke is made of all my glory. On Stone once sculpted in my image, my High authority, my grandest works’ Marks,...
‘My Inner Attorney’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society January 10, 2025 Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . My Inner Attorney "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord,...
Two Idylls of Bion of Smyrna, Translated from Greek by Joseph S. Salemi The Society January 9, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Translation 20 Comments . Two Idylls by Bion of Smyrnatranslated by Joseph S. Salemi . Idyll V Great Cypris stood before me in a dreamy hazeHolding by her fair hand the hand of baby DesireWhose head hung heavily downward, in an...
‘None for All’ and Other Poetry by Peter Lillios The Society January 9, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings 15 Comments . . None for All Backbones wilt and waistlines grow; Brightness dims as diodes glow. It’s history’s course, a simple fact, Declared with pride—or else with tact. Vigor falters, wits regress; The...
‘Healing Hands’: A Poem for the National Health Service, by Drilon Bajrami The Society January 8, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Healing Hands ---in appreciation of the care provided (free of charge) by the NHS, the National Health Service of the UK, while I was hospitalised as a pain patient. I thank the Lord for healing hands,...
On ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and Other Poems by Anna J. Arredondo The Society January 7, 2025 Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry 21 Comments . Watch Out! Now, “The Three Little Pigs” is a tale More for cautioning than for amusing: Learn its lessons and you may prevail; Heed them not, and you may end up losing. For we, none of us, live in a...
‘The Adoration of the Peacock’: A Poem for Epiphany by Rachel A. Lott The Society January 6, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 13 Comments . The Adoration of the Peacock ---on The Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi The world is a-gawk at a gaudy surprise, for kings walk on foot while the commoners ride, and I, though a...
‘Caleb in Canaan’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society January 5, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Caleb in Canaan Green fields, walled towns, strong foes, but we are fit To overcome. Forward, I say. It’s ours. These forty days of foraging have fed Twelve spies good fare and knowledge requisite. Let...
‘The Shepherd God’: A Poem by Jane Schulert The Society January 4, 2025 Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry 14 Comments . The Shepherd God On Autumn eves when solipsistic stars__Peer down on bloody, towering oaksWhose gnarled, twisted branches create bars__Encaging man in Fortune’s spokes,When groaning wind rustles through...
‘Topics Over Time’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society January 3, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Topics Over Time At 10 boys talk about the games in which they’ve played. At 14 they discuss the girls and “progress” made. At 16 there’s the homework everybody’s got, At 18 work or college and...
‘Enduring Sight’ and Other Poetry by Mike Ruskovich The Society January 2, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 3 Comments . Enduring Sight Our blindest heroes walk among us, here, where legendary blindness gives us sight. King Oedipus still lives, and so does Lear in texts that draw their distant fates too near by pulling us...
‘Americans in Florence’ and Other Poems by Mary Jane Myers The Society January 2, 2025 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry, Satire 19 Comments . Americans in Florence Ooo David! Whoa, you’re well-hung! But why a foreskin, underslung? Your left hand, do you hold a sling or dead Goliath's severed thing? Stop giggling, girls, show some respect. You...
Two Meditations in Verse by T.M. Moore The Society January 1, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Meditation 4 "Now our Lord bestowed great gifts through small means..." ---Homily on Our Lord (11) "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." ---1 Corinthians...
‘My New New Year’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 31, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 44 Comments . My New New Year I’m shunning bards of lilt and kilt tonight. My cup o’ kindness guzzled dry by kin Has urged the spurning of that worn-out rite Of seeing lame old, same old new years in… The fizz. The...
‘A Creation Myth’: A Poem by Evan Mantyk The Society December 30, 2024 Culture, Epic, Poetry 17 Comments . A Creation Myth The curtain opens. A million violinsCrescendo. Trumpets blare. A single drumBeat booms. In perfect time, the cosmos spins.The Hero enters, sees what soon must come: A surging wave of life...
‘Nordic Memories’: A Poem by Dan Tuton The Society December 30, 2024 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Nordic Memories They rise with the dawn of fashion Their eyes for new booty are keen, To ride the tide of nostalgia For something that they’ve never seen. Their patrons board the longship, Geared up for...
‘The Blank-Page Stage’ and Other Poetry by Warren Bonham The Society December 27, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . The Blank-Page Stage I once embraced the blank-page stage, when words would somehow always rhyme, but now my brain shows signs of age, and operates on its own time. So now, I dread the clean-slate...
‘Catching Up’ and Other New Year’s Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society December 27, 2024 Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Catching Up An hour passes in a second. A month goes by in just an hour. The rosy future that once beckoned Has now become a withered flower. Complaints about the pace of time Do nothing to arrest its...
‘Ode to a Christmas Pudding’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 25, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . Ode to a Christmas Pudding O fragrant orb of dark and luscious depths Made with magic conjured every year By souls who know the spell---those tricky steps That summon plummy culinary cheer, You started as a...
‘Stars Voluble’: A Christmas Poem by Margaret Coats The Society December 25, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . Stars Voluble Profound and lightless silent night _Lay still with curtains closed. Into unspeaking dark the Word Descended from his regal throne And rose from Israel below, _A supernova blaze Encircling...
‘Christmas in Florida’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society December 25, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 22 Comments . Christmas in Florida I watched him pass! St. Nick himself---Kris Kringle,Who hails from Buffalo, not the North Pole.He waved; I heard bells on his golf-cart jingleAs he sang karaoke rock and roll. That’s...
‘A Present Unclaimed’: A Christmas Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society December 25, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . A Present Unclaimed Under the tree is a present unclaimed Paper and ribbon and bows, good to go. Who is it for? “Who it’s from” isn’t named. Where is the tag? No one here seems to know! “Maybe,”...
‘Make Room, He’ll Come In’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society December 24, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . Make Room, He’ll Come In Have you spent much time wandering, feeling distressed,and upon your arrival, found no place to rest?You can’t possibly know what it’s like till you’ve beenwhere you longed...
‘Santa Claus Has Passed Away’: A Christmas Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society December 24, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Santa Claus Has Passed Away As is their custom every year, the Men’s Club promptly after class had half the hallway commandeered and cheerfully began to pass out toys and games as grade by grade the...
‘Love Broke Through Time’: A Poem by Gigi Ryan The Society December 24, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Love Broke Through Time On the first Christmas night Love broke through time With pain to Mary and her child whose bed Was straw with ox and ass in nearby stalls. Love arrived in suffering and shame. All...
‘A Remarkable Day’: A Christmas Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society December 24, 2024 Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 3 Comments . A Remarkable Day "He's God in human form!" whispers the crowd In motley clothes and groups of twos and threes Beneath the bulky, partly-aqua sky. As nighttime slowly drops, birds meet the breeze And soar...
Jupiter Hammon’s Christmas Poem: An Essay by Michael Curtis The Society December 23, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 6 Comments . Jupiter Hammon’s Christmas Poem by Michael Curtis 1761 was a slow, yet interesting year for poetry. The imposter Macpherson announced the discovery of Ossian’s Gaelic Epic and the collected works of the...
‘Home for Christmas’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society December 23, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Home for Christmas Beneath the sinking skies I ride, a traveler on his way, .Through drizzling mist and fading light until the end of day.As skies grow dim and gray clouds...
A Christmastime Poem by Gigi Ryan, Sung to the Tune of ‘Sterling’ The Society December 23, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry 16 Comments . The Story the Stars are Retelling ---to the tune of 'Sterling' When burdens are heavy and Christmas is near And faraway star luster barely appears, Tomorrow’s prediction of rain with a chill Won’t drown...
‘The Interview’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society December 22, 2024 Culture, Poetry, Satire 20 Comments . The Interview “Respect my grammar rules or else,” K said, “This interview will be extremely short. Or better yet, I’ll summon you to court.” My pulse raced. I could feel my face turn red. K said,...
Three Christmas Sonnets by Phillip Whidden The Society December 22, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Dim and Not He carries one white candle in the space Beneath cathedral vaults. He has to hold His hand in front of it so just a trace Of light escapes. The candle’s flame shines gold Yet it is blocked by...
‘Full Circle’: A Poem by Dennis McSweeney The Society December 21, 2024 Culture, Poetry, Science 7 Comments . Full Circle From age to age how long the fray’s been fought Tween those who seek the Truth on sacred ground And those who wish to harness mankind’s thought To what is measured, tested, proved, and...
‘The Most Impactful Hate’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society December 20, 2024 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . The Most Impactful Hate It’s fun now to listen to every Trump haterWho tries to explain how a racist dictatorWas able to win with a new coalitionOf Blacks and Hispanics defying traditionPlus middle and...