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‘Last Minute Change’ and Other Short Poems by Frank Rable

The Society
September 5, 2025
Humor, Poetry
8 Comments
. Last Minute Change Fowl, tragic days, Hen-house ablaze; Chickens took flight. Tofu tonight? . . A Man Eating Chicken A comma, a pause, Defines the thought, And whether a chicken Eats me or...

‘To a Most Tempting Pancake’: A Poem by Scharlie Meeuws

The Society
August 26, 2025
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
6 Comments
. To a Most Tempting Pancake “Quae mollis est, amanda est.” (What is soft, is to be loved) ---Libri Matutini (Book of Breakfasts) O golden disc, with cinnamon imbued, Thou float’st in butter, warm and...

‘Pointless Poems’ by James A. Tweedie

The Society
August 16, 2025
Humor, Poetry
14 Comments
. Pointless Poems Why do women shave their legs, It seems unnecessary. The question lingers, pleads and begs, What’s wrong with being hairy? “Water, water, everywhere “And all the boards did...

‘Advice to a Young Man in Love’: A Poem by Morrison Handley-Schachler

The Society
August 15, 2025
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
24 Comments
. Advice to a Young Man in Love If her name is Sally, then _Tattoo it on your arm With Lovehearts terminally, and _It won’t do any harm, Because, when Sally breaks your heart, _There’s Sallys up and...

‘Modes of Divination’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

The Society
August 14, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
. Modes of Divination The future’s course, in all of its essentials, Is augured from a steaming heap of entrails. The tea leaves, buoyed by meniscus, Will show you where the greatest risk is. For aging...

‘A Horse’s Tale: King Arthur’s Great Steed’: A Poem by Davis Saunders

The Society
August 6, 2025
Children's, Humor, Poetry
3 Comments
. A Horse’s Tale: King Arthur’s Great Steed The horse known for bearing the greatest of kings— Proud Thor was considered the worthiest horse; Such that if all horses had voices to sing, They’d sing all...
poem/pain/love poems

‘The Power’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook

The Society
August 3, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
7 Comments
. The Power I’ve noticed more and more of late My power to infuriate Is stronger than it’s ever been. I exercise it even when I try to be both dull and sweet And humble, willing, incomplete. Infuriation...

‘Dear Blabby’s Advice for the Clueless’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
August 2, 2025
Humor, Poetry
15 Comments
. Dear Blabby’s Advice for the Clueless _I want to write a column _Like Abigail Van Buren To give out my elite advice _It’s something that I’m good in. _I plan to title it, _“Dear Blabby,” if you...
poem/gosse/humor

‘The Troubadour Remembers’: A Poem by Morrison Handley-Schachler

The Society
August 1, 2025
Humor, Music, Poetry
18 Comments
. The Troubadour Remembers A troubadour wayfaring town to town, Hamlet to homestead, dale to grassy down, While he his vagabond mandora strummed, Now with the bass, now with the treble hummed, Until the...

‘Conjugation: Tense with Mood’: A Poem by C.B. Anderson

The Society
July 31, 2025
Humor, Poetry
14 Comments
. Conjugation: Tense with Mood ---a verbal disagreement between the indicative and the subjunctive If I were all that I could be, Perhaps I’d spend eternity Cavorting in a field of lilies With thoroughbred...

‘Of Cats and Cardinals’: A Cat Funeral Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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July 26, 2025
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
32 Comments
. Of Cats and Cardinals ---for George Lionel (2005 – 2025) You left us at the hour of the owlWhen shameless moons are far too loud and bold__For one so still and cold---One shrouded in a freshly laundered...
poem/james/beauty

‘Spoiled-Rotten Cat Instructs Visitors’ and Other Limericks by Janice Canerdy

The Society
July 22, 2025
Humor, Limerick, Poetry
7 Comments
. Spoiled-Rotten Cat Instructs Visitors Don’t you dare try to sit in my spot! I’ll decide if you pet me or not. _I’m the star here you’ll see. _They all cater to me. They just like you; they LOVE me a...

‘Don’t Call Me Shirley’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

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July 20, 2025
Humor, Poetry
24 Comments
. Don't Call Me Shirley A Comic Homage Robert Hayes as reluctant pilot Ted Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious!” Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Rumack: “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.” (From...

‘Of a Feather’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson

The Society
July 14, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
8 Comments
. Of a Feather Professor Swann was new among the fonts of knowledge chugging up the tenure track; he'd earned his place among the college fac- ulty with bold views and a fierce response to critics. Apropos to...

‘Three Philosophical Quatrains’ by Ian Allaby

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July 13, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
5 Comments
. Myths _I mined the Grecian myths _and wrung from them this gem: The gods amuse themselves with us and we amuse ourselves with them. . . Chuang Tzu We steal all our lives, was Chuang Tzu’s belief, to...

‘Therapy’: A Poem by Mary Jane Myers

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June 30, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
22 Comments
. Therapy ---After "Help! I Can’t Stop Speaking in Iambic!" by Cynthia Erlandson Help! I can’t stop writing psychobabble!No matter what I pen, it comes out gabble. I scribble nonsense verses all the...

‘Dad and I’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson

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June 26, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
. Dad and I Our sessions last an hour or two at most, for we get through them just as fast as can be managed, trying not to stir the ghost of hurts supposed to help me be a man. When Dad was young, he knew...

‘A Sonnet for My One True Love’ and Other Poetry by Aaron Nydegger

The Society
June 25, 2025
Humor, Poetry
10 Comments
. A Sonnet for My One True Love Forever let the night go on and on, My body to your softness gently pressed, Nor let the touch of shameful, blushing dawn, Wake me, part us, and end a lover’s rest. How I...

‘I Would Say Yes’ and Other Poetry by Gigi Ryan

The Society
June 20, 2025
Humor, Love Poems, Pantoum, Poetry, Villanelle
15 Comments
. I Would Say Yes ---a villanelle for Larry on our 36th Anniversary We were young and rather stupid then, But still I see that we were meant to be. I would say yes a thousand times again. From the first...

‘A Winter’s Tale’ by Jeff Eardley

The Society
June 18, 2025
Children's, Humor, Poetry
18 Comments
. A Winter's Tale There’re many strange and spooky tales, That come from England’s hills and dales. When Winter tightens up its grip, As feet and fingers start to slip. For on a cold December day, I...

‘Durus Frater, Alma Mater’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson

The Society
June 11, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
8 Comments
. Durus Frater, Alma Mater Spring forward to where former arch-rivals Fall back on tall stories of the travels They enjoyed after two years of college, Before graduation sealed the knowledge Of how little...

‘Alotta Lip About my Hip’ and Other Hip Replacement Poetry by Jeff Kemper

The Society
June 10, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
5 Comments
. Alotta Lip About my Hip Alotta lip about my hip On paper, phone, computer-drive. The new one at my femur’s tip Has generated verbal jive Beyond my wits. I can’t contrive The need for queries they should...

‘Family Values’: Four Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
June 5, 2025
Humor, Pantoum, Poetry, Triolet
34 Comments
. Auntie Barb ---a pantoum She cuts the cheats and charmers to the quick—Her tongue will skin a scoundrel in a wink.She’ll scupper every swindler’s slickest trickBefore the scoffers have a chance to...

‘Roads of Potter County’: A Poem by Frank Rable

The Society
June 4, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
19 Comments
. Roads of Potter County Finally Spring has come north here---Always my favorite time of year.Potter will tease you in some way---Tomorrow might be a snowy day. Instead there came the green of grass,The white...

‘Kissing Cousin’ and Other Poems by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
May 24, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
33 Comments
. Kissing Cousin I see her every two years, usuallyWhen someone dies or marries. And we kissAs if we were old lovers, passionately,Just as a silly spoof. She says I missThese hot encounters! Prudish maiden...

‘Know Your Place’: A Poem by Peter Venable

The Society
May 21, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
8 Comments
. Know Your Place __“Know your place!” In grammar school, that stung like mace.“To the corner!”—my timeout place. __“Know your place.” On my first date, with pimpled face,I never even reached...

‘Spring Has Sprung’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
May 20, 2025
Humor, Poetry
26 Comments
. Spring Has Sprung Spring has sprung. It has begun--- _Birds nesting in the tree. It’s warm again. The cackling hen _Can go outside to pee. Spring has sprung. It’s time for fun. _New flowers bloom each...

Cat Poems by Gigi Ryan

The Society
May 18, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
17 Comments
. Sally  November rains brought to our basement door From the woods some pleading, needy eyes Staring from a fur mass, soaking wet. Our catless home (about to be no more) Welcomed her and tended to her...

‘The Water Closet’ and Other Bathroom Poetry by Cheryl Corey

The Society
May 15, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
14 Comments
. The Water Closet An earthen pit, an outhouse stool, a chamber pot— We’ve long dispensed with these, the whole damn stinking lot! The housewife and the maid no longer shout, “Gar’ l’eau!” Before...
poem/duncan/satire

‘Ogre Food’: A Poem by Steve Cooper

The Society
May 12, 2025
Humor, Poetry
14 Comments
. Ogre Food My parents, dear, although you love me so; and in your love, wish only for my best. Yet, to the first-grade class I will not go, nor shall I end my tears of loud protest. For fearful premonitions...

‘Written in a Cubicle’ and Other Poems by Shamik Banerjee

The Society
May 11, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
11 Comments
. Written in a Cubicle What spurs me, in this breathing grave of coffee mouths and cheeks unshaved, to stand upon my chair and shout, __"I'm out! I'm out of this forever-widening coop where glumness, going on...
poem/winick/love

‘A Faithful Friend’s Advice’ and Other Poetry by Christian Muller

The Society
May 7, 2025
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
6 Comments
. A Faithful Friend's Advice The girl you have is just the one for you— my head could not conceive a better match. She is your sun, your earth, the very glue that rightly holds your tattered life...

‘Alive, Alive-o’: A Poem by Jeff Eardley

The Society
May 5, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
9 Comments
  Alive, Alive-o In Dublin’s fair city,Where the girls are so pretty,There lived an old woman,Who was well known to me;Where she sighed with amazement,At her new knee replacement,Singing, “Cartilege and...

‘Territorializing’: A Poem by Mark Stellinga

The Society
May 4, 2025
Children's, Humor, Poetry
10 Comments
. Territorializing Slithering slowly, so very precise, A methodic invader (and catcher of mice), She stealthily slips toward the enemy there, So unsuspecting, at rest by the chair. Without a diversion to aid...

‘How I Spent My Spring Vacation’: Poetry and Photography by James A. Tweedie

The Society
April 29, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
19 Comments
. How I Spent My Spring Vacation: Poetry and Photography by James A. Tweedie . It Begins 45 Days Surrounded by the circle of the sea I cruise Atlantic waters, eastward bound, As knot by knot each longitude...

‘Medusa’s Sisters’: A Poem by Julian Woodruff

The Society
April 27, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
. Medusa's Sisters Medusa lost her head and found renown instead. Her living sisters roared, “And why are we ignored who so much fouler are and deadlier by far? “You’d think that she’d become the...

‘Anachronistic Chaucer’ and Other Springtime Poetry by Paul A. Freeman

The Society
April 25, 2025
Beauty, Chaucer, Humor, Poetry, Triolet
12 Comments
. Anachronistic Chaucer When April showers, forecast on TV,delayed our pilgrimage to Canterbury,an eating house, clept Hooters, we espiedbeside a leafy glade where we could bideour time in revelry and...
poem/freeman/limericks

‘The Ballad of Shamus’ by Steve Cooper

The Society
April 24, 2025
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
4 Comments
. The Ballad of Shamus Well, Shamus were a likely lad wid a good well-meanin’ ‘eart As strong as O’Malley’s ox, ‘dey say—but only ‘alf as smart. ‘Is ‘eart belonged to Nellie, aye ‘e wished...

‘Innovative Thinking’: A Poem by Janice Canerdy

The Society
April 21, 2025
Humor, Poetry
11 Comments
. Innovative Thinking My long-time love gave me a special gift, a photo of himself when he was young. He even autographed it: “Love you! Dave.” From then, upon my wall this treasure hung where I could...

‘Poetry Legacy’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick

The Society
April 17, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
9 Comments
. Poetry Legacy Superb is her poetic contribution, Unique in its design and execution. She hopes the work is widely loved and lasting— With love beginning prior to her passing. . . Restricted Lane He sees...
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  1. Joseph S. Salemi on ‘Prefab Tabernacle’: A Poem by Shaun C. DuncanSeptember 6, 2025

    This is a sardonic portrait in verse of most Mainstream clergy, with their utterly secularist outlooks and their desperate pleas…

  2. jd on ‘Prefab Tabernacle’: A Poem by Shaun C. DuncanSeptember 6, 2025

    "Fine art" of a poem.

  3. jd on ‘Ned’s Bad Day’: A Poem by Cheryl CoreySeptember 6, 2025

    Enjoyed the poem and the comments! We're all heading in that direction.

  4. Frank Rable on ‘Last Minute Change’ and Other Short Poems by Frank RableSeptember 6, 2025

    Thank you, Cheryl. That's very kind of you.

  5. Cheryl Corey on ‘Last Minute Change’ and Other Short Poems by Frank RableSeptember 6, 2025

    Words matter, perhaps even more so as with the brevity of these poems, which are finely-honed.

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