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Two More Poems with ‘Conceits’ by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
March 27, 2021
Beauty, Blank Verse, Essays, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Forms
10 Comments
. The Bibliophile’s Birth Certificate Marius Michel (1846-1925) was one of the most prominent and gifted bookbinders in France. He produced work in strikingly beautiful and unique designs, and today his...

A Sonnet on the Canceling of Shakespeare, by Jake Murel

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March 25, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry, Shakespeare
16 Comments
. In Memoriam, W.S. Most righteous, good, and well-intentioned peers, I write these lines to bury Shakespeare—not To praise him—and here prove the reason dear, Unhallowed scriptures now are cast as...

A Poem on Dictionaries: ‘Panlexia’ by C.B. Anderson

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March 24, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
39 Comments
. Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary?  When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. —David Bowie A dictionary is an indispensable Companion on the journey through...

‘An Australian Kangaroo Visits the Second Impeachment Trial of President Trump’ by Jan Darling

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March 23, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
16 Comments
. A kangaroo visiting from Australia beholds the kangaroo court attempting to impeach President Trump for the second time and, taking the current kangaroo judge’s momentary absence as an opportunity, dresses...

‘For John Whitworth (1945-2019)’ by Dwayne Barrick

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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...

‘The Second Roman Empire’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook

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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...

A Poem on the Canceling of Dr. Seuss’s McElligot’s Pool, by Julian Woodruff

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March 13, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
34 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

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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

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March 12, 2021
Covid-19, 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

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March 11, 2021
Covid-19, 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

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March 10, 2021
Covid-19, 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

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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

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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...

‘The Pox Fox’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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March 8, 2021
Covid-19, 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...

Poem Circulating Online Laments Canceling of Dr. Seuss Books

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March 6, 2021
Children's, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
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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...

‘In Your Dreams Grandad’ by Jeff Eardley

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March 2, 2021
Humor, Poetry
22 Comments
. . He met her one Summer, the girl of his dreams, A freckle-faced beauty just out of her teens. He chatted her up, and he thought he’d done well, But with these young women, you never can tell. She said...

On Gov. Cuomo: ‘Governor Mussolini’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

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February 28, 2021
Covid-19, 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...

‘Free Verse: Recondite Done Right!’ by Tonia Kalouria

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February 28, 2021
Humor, Poetry, Poetry Forms
13 Comments
. In Astrophysics, I’m ranked “One,” and Greek and Latin I find fun. All serve me well at Crossword “Times,” with each day’s matrix solved by nine. Most free verse, though? Puzzles...

‘Obit: English Pronouns’ by Jan Darling

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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...

‘An Apple a day’ by Jeff Eardley

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February 17, 2021
Humor, Poetry
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. The Internet’s a work of art, Now everybody’s phone is smart. They’re very compact, very small, And so, begins a tale so tall. For once upon a time, a gent, A load of cash one day he spent. Delighted...

‘Texas Freeze (surely an oxymoron)’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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February 16, 2021
Humor, Poetry
35 Comments
. For others it may be a breeze. Those hardy Arctic folk would wheeze With laughter as we Texans sneeze __And shiver. This slick of ice and lick of snow; This frightful bite as ill winds blow Nips our...

‘God Save Poetry’ by Don Shook

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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...

‘The Wife’s Lament’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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February 14, 2021
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
11 Comments
. For my friend Rose R., with sincere condolences. Good Lord, imagine my bad luck: I’m married to a hockey puck. I don’t know how it came about— A lover morphed into a lout! You’re a widow, not a...

‘L O V E…’: and Other St. Valentine’s Day Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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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...

‘Waiting for “I Do”’ by C.B. Anderson

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February 13, 2021
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
17 Comments
C.B. Anderson was the longtime gardener for the PBS television series, The Victory Garden.  Hundreds of his poems have appeared in scores of print and electronic journals out of North America, Great Britain, Ireland, Austria, Australia and India. 

‘If Robinhood (Investment Trader) Ran Major League Baseball’ by James A. Tweedie

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February 10, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
. All Major League Baseball teams share revenues, We treat them as if they were brothers. But sometimes self-interest means we refuse To treat each the same as the others. Some teams like the Yankees are...

‘Reality Check’ and Other Poetry by David D. Nolta

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February 10, 2021
Humor, Poetry
10 Comments
. Reality Check A ladybug landed on my arm On Saturday. I felt the charm The chosen feel. It brought with it Good luck—or so I thought—then bit Deep into me, paused for air, Spread its spots beside a...

On Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial: ‘Kangaroo Déjà Vu’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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February 9, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
24 Comments
. They’re impeaching Number 45 today--- Like toddlers born to moan, Like bulldogs with a bone, Like warlords with a drone, Like tyrants on a throne, Although they know The Don left yesterday--- They’re...

‘Chairman Xho’ (Pronounced ‘Joe’) by Joe Tessitore

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February 6, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
. They’ll be coming for you soon, Chairman Xho. It’s an old, familiar tune that we all know. You’ve been howlin’ at the moon And they’ll say that you’re a loon And you’ll bring us all to...

‘Eight and a Half (Going on Twenty)’ by Frank De Canio

The Society
February 6, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
7 Comments
. “Ha ha,” is all she gives her Dad when he makes fun of what she said. No more parental Galahad who nightly carried her to bed. He’s just a jaded humorist who doesn’t even merit laughs from her which...

‘Reality Check’ by James A. Tweedie

The Society
February 5, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
15 Comments
. We can “Build Back Better” if we choose “Truth Over Lies.” What these slogans promise lead us to a big surprise. When the new administration’s promises come true, This is what we’ll get when...

‘The Senior Covid Blues’ by Lee Goldberg

The Society
February 3, 2021
Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry
16 Comments
. The Senior Covid Blues I have read many articles about the virus particles that swirl about and sneak into our noses. I know it takes tenacity to keep one’s lung capacity and not look up and see the roots...

‘Lahaina Mynahs’ and Other Light-Hearted Poetry by James A. Tweedie

The Society
February 2, 2021
Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
. Lahaina Mynahs The droppings of a thousand Mynah birds (While nesting in a Maui banyan tree) Descended on my pre-teen daughter. Words Cannot describe her abject misery. Her shoulders, arms and hands were...

A Haiku on ‘Blackwater River State Park’ and Other Poetry by K.M. Hayes

The Society
February 2, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Humor, Poetry
6 Comments
. Blackwater River State Park A warm summer day. The kayak floats quietly. The cicadas sing. . . Nightfall at Pensacola Beach The sun has now set And not a light can be seen. What just made that...

‘Two Social Media Brothers: Jack and Zuck’ by Sarban Bhattacharya

The Society
January 30, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
7 Comments
. The world is ruled by two men­---Jack and Zuck, More than their strange appearance their deeds suck. Jack’s goatee truly suits a Marxist boss Who for free speech and thought gives not a toss, While Zuck...

‘Go, Fading Leaf’ and Other Poetry by Anna J. Arredondo

The Society
January 29, 2021
Beauty, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
12 Comments
. Go, Fading Leaf __Go, fading leaf, Tell him who thought my heart to spurn __That life is brief (But briefer still his love did burn __I fool enough was to return). __Tell him who sold Our shaky venture for...

‘B.C./D.C.’ and Other Humorous Poetry by C.B. Anderson

The Society
January 27, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
17 Comments
. B.C./D.C. Where history and myth converge Two famous founders do emerge, Of nations that excelled at war. (Coincidence?  Or something more?) George Washington and Romulus Are equally eponymous, And...

‘How To Be Like Byron’ by Andrew Benson Brown

The Society
January 27, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
21 Comments
. How To Be Like Byron Bright butterfly, why do you fade Into that duller, browner shade That strays into the flame at night? You’ve lost your nature’s vibrant light And seek it in another source. For you,...

‘A Message from The Party of Unity’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
January 26, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
19 Comments
. Daily we vent and cement our position In righteous and virtuous words. Unity fails if each crucial decision Is left to the whim of the herds. Deplorable plebs are so flawed and naïve When treading the...

‘Uninspired’ by Siri Espy

The Society
January 24, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
. I fear my motivation’s dead; there’s no one home inside my head. I’ve looked for it from dusk to dawn; I tell you, it is really gone! The situation is quite dire; my neurons will no longer fire. I...
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