‘Sometimey People’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society November 8, 2024 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . "Sometimey” People Sometimes he’s quite responsive, Sometimes he disappears. Sometimes he’s downright friendly, Sometimes he switches gears. Sometimes he’s so straightforward, Sometimes he seems to...
‘Contra Computerdom’: A Poem by Mary Jane Myers The Society November 8, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Contra Computerdom I hold this fountain pen with thumb and fingers, burgundy barrel, gold and rhodium nib, Montblanc white-sea-star floating on its cap. German, this instrument, successor to the stylus...
A Sonnet on the Vogelherd Horse and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society November 7, 2024 Art, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Horse Figurine —one inch by one point nine inch, 32,000 to 35,000 years before Giacometti's famous horse A hallowed tiny horse, but missing legs, Comes down to us impossibly, or near In its...
Nov. 5 Guy Fawkes Day Poem, by Paul A. Freeman The Society November 5, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments . Guy Fawkes Night Makeover November 5th! To Guy Fawkes let’s be kind--- no burning him in effigy this year. His hanged-and-drawn-and-quartered doom I find excessive; let’s reverse his fate most drear! His...
A Poem for the 2024 Presidential Election: ‘Polarities’ by C.B. Anderson The Society November 4, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Polarities The only certain solidarity among the Self-Reliant is the ease with which their pride in insularity is spoken of like some esteemed disease they welcome to their homes: To seek a cure would be a...
‘Loose Me!’: A Villanelle by T.M. Moore The Society November 3, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 8 Comments . Loose Me! “Loose him, and let him go.” ---John 11.44 O loose me, Jesus! Jesus, set me free from all that binds my soul and blinds my way. Unwrap the shrouds of death that cling to me! Let every shade of...
‘Fall Back: Central Standard Time’: A Daylight Savings Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society November 2, 2024 Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Fall Back: Central Standard Time Already it is dark: the falling arc Of each advancing year, when the eager moon, To catch the setting sun, comes up too soon. Full light no longer lingers at high noon, Or...
‘Lady Gwyn’: A Halloween Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 31, 2024 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Lady Gwyn I hear the scratching of a claw--- A disembodied monkey’s paw Scraping at decaying bones. I feel a gust of ghostly moans Wuther through my withered heart. It’s time to stir. It’s time to...
‘Healthy Relics’: Three Sonnets by Margaret Coats The Society October 30, 2024 Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . Elisha's Bones II Kings 4:32–37, 13:20–21 Elisha died, the prophet doubly strong In spirit, and his sepulcher was grand, For he had caused a lifeless child to stand And speak, then heard the mother’s...
‘Lucifer’s Lament’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant: Reading and Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society October 29, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Culture, Poetry, Readings 14 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zId3BCl6M . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, will chronicle the major events of...
‘Where Babylonic Rivers Flowed’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society October 28, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Where Babylonic Rivers Flowed after Psalm 137, a lament at the destruction of Jerusalem Where Babylonic rivers flowed We settled down to weep and mourn And mused on Zion, our abode, Our city sullied and...
‘Prayer as an Antidote for Unbelief’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society October 27, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Prayer as an Antidote for Unbelief Just imagine if, while you’re entreating the sky, You were met with the wink of a generous Eye. __A very grave disaster it would be __If all there was to your approach...
‘The Venetian Doge on the Sack of Constantinople’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society October 27, 2024 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . The Venetian Doge on the Sack of Constantinople Setting: Constantinople in the Summer of 1204 AD. Doge Enrico Dandolo of Venice prepares for bed after an exhausting day visiting Byzantium’s famous bronze...
‘The Java Joe Machine’ and Other Poetry by Gigi Ryan The Society October 25, 2024 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . The Java Joe Machine My jiffy Java Joe machineAllows me to make only oneCup of coffee when I please,Convenient when I’m on the run. But in the seconds as it brewsI recall my coffee potDripping cheerfully...
‘Senior Village’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society October 25, 2024 Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . Senior Village The ambulances come and go. Last night it was the man across The hall, whom I’d begun to know. Another friend, another loss. __I never know, From day to day, who I will see Driven away....
‘Homage to Morton of Merrymount’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society October 23, 2024 Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . Homage to Morton of Merrymount To you I pay this homage and devotion: Thomas Morton, Host of Merrymount— You, whose learnèd writing put in motion The court suit that brought Plymouth to account. Yes,...
‘S O S’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 21, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 49 Comments . S O S Keep the fleecy wolves from bleating. Hold the pack of jackals back. Seize the greedy grubbers eating Scraps from bowls of those who lack. Bar the charlatans from cheating. Quell the yak of quack and...
‘The Mask’ and Other Poetry by Peter Venable The Society October 21, 2024 Culture, Poetry 3 Comments . The Mask Sin wears a Cherub’s mask And beams forth paradise. “Come in, recline, and bask.” Discerning eyes looks twice: The gate shuts like a vice. . . The Strange Case Of Homo Sapiens At my right...
‘Look Up’: A Poem Inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, by T.M. Moore The Society October 20, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Look Up Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on a world split apart The prophet scorned the academic dress of those who had invited him to their Parnassus of the Ivy League. Why wear their garb, when he intended not to...
‘The Night My Father Punched the Cow’: A Poem by Sally Cook The Society October 19, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . The Night My Father Punched the Cow The night my father punched the cowWas dark and windy, late; and nowHis job was dangling on a row,And he was sick of it, somehow__That night. He broke his hand, and held...
‘Apologies at Antoninus Pius’s Table, 155 A.D.’: A Poem by Christopher Fried The Society October 17, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . Apologies at Antoninus Pius’s Table, 155 A.D. . I. Rome’s Glory “Arriving at this feast, how proud I stand that Rome endures to succor those who dwell here in this citadel and those whose hands till...
‘Sudan, 2005—On the Death of Dr. John Garang’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society October 15, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Sudan, 2005 ---on the death of Dr. John Garang, Liberation Fighter and Sudanese Vice President Garang is dead! An accident, they say--- his helicopter downed by slanting rain. This man who kept the...
‘Westward, with Columbus’: A Poem for Columbus Day by Paul A. Freeman The Society October 14, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Westward, with Columbus The North Atlantic Ocean was awashwith monsters and leviathans, or sowe fearfully supposed, and thought it toshby sailing west, to India we could go. Then Christopher Columbus raised...
‘Their Principal Principle’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson The Society October 13, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . Their Principal Principle With their hideous lies and a gleam in their eyes They disable each new generation, For the best route to power in districts gone sour Is attacking the heart of the...
‘A Roman Noble on Constantine the Great’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society October 13, 2024 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . A Roman Noble on Constantine the Great Setting: A villa on the outskirts of Rome, ab urbe condita 1082 (329 A.D.) Cornelia, no. The household gods should stay. Wait till the clothes and furnishings are...
‘Peter Pan’s Soliloquy’: A Poem by Joshua C. Frank The Society October 12, 2024 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Peter Pan’s Soliloquy In Never Land, each sunrise brings anew A day of play and laughter to pursue. I meet the mermaids, swim in their lagoon, And dance with Indians beneath the moon. I once fed Captain...
‘Odd One Out’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society October 11, 2024 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Odd One Out Moored to the screen, he barely gets involved In vapid, paltry things his workmates seem To swap their saneness for—magnetic schemes On end-of-season sales—their worlds revolve Around the...
‘Ghosts of the Watchtower’: A Poem by Kyle Fiske The Society October 10, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rubaiyat 10 Comments . Ghosts of the Watchtower The end-of-summer breeze gives hint with cool caress Of coming autumn gales and forecasts of distress. But who beneath the sun, when halcyon days abound Imagines they will face the...
Three Curtal Sonnets by Shaun C. Duncan The Society October 8, 2024 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . The Prestige of the Puppet-Master To be deceived must bring some satisfaction, For all are well aware of the illusion Yet most will play the dupe quite willingly; Indeed, they’ll pay good coin for cheap...
‘Time For Some Gardening’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise The Society October 8, 2024 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Time For Some Gardening It was time for some gardening. He heard a train go by. Its distant airhorn sighed. There were no clouds up in the sky. He trimmed the grass beside the craggy boulders at the edge. He...
‘Consequences of Following Advice’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society October 7, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . Consequences of Following Advice Advice can come in snappy lines __That have a fun refrain: “Let a smile be your umbrella,” __Though that won’t block cold rain. They tell us that “To err is...
‘Not the Same Thing Anymore’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society October 6, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . Not the Same Thing Anymore Of most who go to school these days __It sadly must be stated, No longer can they be appraised __As being educated. . . Kids’ Most Common Mistake The most common...
‘Three Things Alexander Knew’: A Poem by James Sale The Society October 5, 2024 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . Three Things Alexander Knew “What can you tell me that deserves such excitement, except perhaps that Homer has come back to life?” ---Alexander the Great He conquered the world And it was too small....
‘Political’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society October 4, 2024 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Political The culture tells us every day that we can’t be political, so Christians nod and meekly pray, but if we’re analytical, when governments stray into what is truly theological, then we should tell...
‘On the Death of Mike Lynch, August 19, 2024’: A Poem by Jeff Eardley The Society October 3, 2024 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . On the Death of Mike Lynch, August 19, 2024 They say his blood was Irish, with his toothy Gaelic smile. A master of the cyberworld, with features to beguile. A genius of mathematics, powerful and strong. He...
A Rosh Hashanah Poem on the Blowing of the Shofar, by Margaret Coats The Society October 2, 2024 Culture, Music, Poetry 24 Comments . The Ram's Horn "A great horn shall be blown, and they that were lost shall come from the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts from the land of Egypt, and they shall adore the Lord at the holy mount...
‘To Speak Unique’: A Poem by Caroline Chen The Society October 1, 2024 Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry 4 Comments . To Speak Unique From youth we have been urged to stay unique. For boxed-in meetings, we must always be The ones outside the box, must always speak On obscure points. The price of novelty? Discussing common...
‘What Mother Goose Neglected to Mention’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society September 29, 2024 Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments . What Mother Goose Neglected to Mention . A Soup Spoon Reflects upon His Past So the dish ran away with the spoon, we were told, __And he treated her well, bless his soul, But he realized, when he was...
‘Public Benches’: A Poem by Joshua C. Frank The Society September 28, 2024 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Public Benches Lusty men and randy wenches Making out on public benches Used to be a common sight In afternoon or moonlit night, And single people envied, looking Longingly at two mouths hooking, Fully...
‘Downtown’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society September 28, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Downtown Like an iron maze, Clustered close, towers rise, Caging the very sky. Casting their cold gaze Through myriad glazed eyes Apathetically. Beneath, the streets swell With jostling crowds of...