DoorWay Canto 7: ‘Flight to The Eyrie’ from James Sale’s Epic Poem The Society August 24, 2024 Epic, Poetry 14 Comments . DoorWay Canto 7: Flight to The Eyrie In Canto 7, the narrating Pilgrim Poet deviates from the Zodiac, leaving Sagittarius, to visit the constellation of Aquila, the Eagle, which has nine stars, and here the...
‘Patient in a Nursing Home’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Pugh The Society August 24, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Patient in a Nursing Home Such a frantic brilliance in the flagpole’s banging chain! I’m blind, __confined, ____but now I know: Winter’s here again. . . After the Funeral Her shoes capsized on the...
‘The Worst of Our Convictions’: A Poem by T.M. Moore The Society August 23, 2024 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . The Worst of Our Convictions When, finally, the last church shuts its doors; when we run out of new identities to choose from; when the politicians have enough of power and wealth to make sure they can...
Epigrams by Maria Panayi The Society August 23, 2024 Epigrams and Proverbs, Poetry 5 Comments . Epigrams . Bear in mind that whilst you’re sleeping Your enemies are busy scheming. . If you absorb everything without a filter Don’t be surprised if you are out of kilter. . Children are like...
‘Phoebus’: A Poem by L.M. Shearer The Society August 22, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments . Phoebus I saw the sun catch in your hair, Your silhouette against the glare. I heard your laughter rise and fall And shatter in the frozen air. The sun sank down behind the trees Yet brighter suns burned in...
‘Mainstream News’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society August 22, 2024 Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . Mainstream News "Just 7% of Americans have 'a great deal' of trust and confidence in the media, and 27% have 'a fair amount.' Meanwhile, 28% of U.S. adults say they do not have very much confidence and...
‘An Invitation’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society August 21, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments . An Invitation While treading my locality's __New-slathered pavement grass, There came a flying, loud "hello" __From sprightly Mr. Das. "Black skies. It seems a squall will lash __Our town," he said to...
‘Across a Strong Bridge’: A Poem by Alexander King Ream The Society August 21, 2024 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 6 Comments . Across a Strong Bridge upon the marriage of two friends In a weary world that's grown quite old, Where men grow weak, and thought grows cold, Two hearts can make one serious dent For virtue strong. As cool...
‘The Mannequins Are Melting’ and Other Hot Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society August 20, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . The Mannequins Are Melting The mannequins are melting as we speak Now that the summer heat wave's at its peak. __While passing by the clothing store __This afternoon at half past four, I saw the havoc waves...
‘Stolen Valor’ and Other Poetry for the Democratic National Convention, by Brian Yapko The Society August 19, 2024 Poetry, Satire, Villanelle 44 Comments . Stolen Valor ---a poem in unheroic couplets Osama used his wives as human shields When being hunted down by Navy Seals; Bruce Ismay engineered Titanic’s fail Then slipped into a lifeboat ‘neath a...
‘Hope’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society August 19, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . Hope Hope feels so strange these days, at times a bit Like something old that now no longer fits; It’s stretched beyond repair and somewhat scratchy And moths have made of it such daily bread That even its...
‘Mud’: A Poem by Alan Brayne The Society August 19, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . Mud Our clip-on angel wings are cast from shards of glass, The sorry hymns we sing are drowned in blaring brass. It’s not that we are crazed as we rub our magic rings, but our spirit has been caged by a...
‘The Web of Sustenance’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society August 18, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . The Web of Sustenance __Voraciously the lion feeds, But leaves the scraps for jackals and hyenas— __To each according to its needs, In Nature’s sprawling tawny-grass arenas. __The residue will nourish...
‘The Leper’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society August 18, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 51 Comments . The Leper “When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, 'Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.' Jesus reached out...
‘Lucifer’s Lament’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society August 17, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Satire 25 Comments . Lucifer’s Lament They’ve gone too far. They’ve set the bar So high that I’m no longer star Of My own show. Their hellish plot Has hurled Me from the hottest spot. Their claims of care are thin as...
‘Lunatic’: A Poem by Peter Venable The Society August 17, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Lunatic Paused at a churchyard when it’s eventide I see flit by a bright blue butterfly. Magnolia fragrance wafts through the twilight. Somewhere I hear a distant whip-poor-will. Although the air is warm,...
‘Holding Dad’s Hands’: Poems by Gigi Ryan The Society August 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 28 Comments . Holding Dad's Hands . Friday May 3, 2019 I’m driving fast (at least it’s fast to me,) The nurse’s call gives reason for my haste. She says that dad has fever and it seems His time remaining is in hours...
‘The Wise Farmer’: A Poem from the Zen Parable, by Joshua C. Frank The Society August 16, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . The Wise Farmer ---based on a Zen parable attributed to Alan Watts A farmer in China was left by his horse. He took up his plow and continued his course, And right after sunset, he finished his labors. When...
‘It Won’t Happen Here’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society August 15, 2024 Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . It Won’t Happen Here There were anti-Semites in our Congress, And still they said: “It will not happen here.” Anti-Jewish protests broke out often, And still they said: “It will not happen...
‘Moon Glow’: A Poem by Pamela Ruggiero The Society August 15, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments . Moon Glow The calm of the twilight should bring him some peace. He sees yellow remnants of sun get deceased. A tropical fragrance now floats through the air. This beauty is breathless; no words can...
‘Paperbark Maples’: A Poem by Daniel Kemper The Society August 14, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . Paperbark Maples The leaves grow bright with dew; the trunks grow dark. A contrapuntal autumn morning stirs. The smoothest trees are wrapped with crumpled bark and up above, the play of breezes spurs a...
‘Winter’s Bed’: A Poem by D.C.C. Randell The Society August 14, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments . Winter’s Bed Ere the sun should spread its beams We sleep and pray for candied dreams. An angel to the bedpost flits As hours pass beneath our lids. Should baby cry, then mother’s kindness Gracefully...
‘Dublin Swans’: A Poem by Louis Groarke The Society August 13, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments . Dublin Swans “Wholly serene and sure, with regal composure, allows himself to glide.” ---Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Swan” I stop to watch the swans swim by, __Through lily pads they pass. Mounds of...
‘Free Verse as Nightmare Surrealism’: A Poem by Phillip Whidden The Society August 13, 2024 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . Free Verse as Nightmare Surrealism “I thirst for new songs without moons or irises, and without loves that have died.” ---Lorca, New Songs (Cantos Nuevos) Who doesn’t? But the problem is the...
‘Prodigious Dreams’ and Other Poetry by Kevin Farnham The Society August 12, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Prodigious Dreams Let not these Autumn notes lead you amiss. Autumn, indeed, is come (the signs are all around). This aging empire wanes, its fall accelerates: decay effects abyss. Our Winter now approaches,...
A Poem on Children Stabbings and Free Speech in the UK, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society August 11, 2024 Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . Knock, Knock! ---free speech in the UK is dead Three more children stabbed---a country mourning The murdering of minors by the score. Opine online---ignore the hate-speech warning--- And fascist fuzz will...
Dante Enters Hell: Canto III of Inferno, Translated by Stephen Binns The Society August 11, 2024 Dante, Poetry, Translation 5 Comments . Dante Enters Hell: Canto III of Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns THROUGH ME YOU REACH THE CITY OF LAMENT. __THROUGH ME YOU PASS TO EVERLASTING PAIN. __THROUGH ME YOU...
‘Washington Assumes Command at Cambridge’: from the Mock Epic Poem by Andrew Benson Brown The Society August 11, 2024 Epic, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments . Washington Assumes Command at Cambridge from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 Devoted Billy Lee, a stalking fox, Observed his master’s swaying ponytail. The ribbon coming loose, he stopped to fix It, leaning...
Poems from Foundations of the Cross by Cynthia Erlandson The Society August 10, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . But Who Am I? “But Moses said to God, ‘Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?’” ---Exodus 3: 11 God, did I hear you right? Did you tell...
‘Sicilian Samurai’: A Poem on Giovanni Battista Sidotti, by Margaret Coats The Society August 10, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 36 Comments . Sicilian Samurai circa 1700 He made a startling, militant request To journey to Japan—strange land long closed To foreign influence. The Pope’s behest Asked that authorities be unopposed— But how to...
‘Regime Change’: A Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society August 9, 2024 Poetry, Satire 14 Comments . Regime Change Banana republics are known for how they Take power from rulers and give it away To those who the country’s Deep State might prefer— Regardless of whether the people concur. Regime-change...
‘The Outdoor Concert’: A Poem by Tod Benjamin The Society August 9, 2024 Beauty, Music, Poetry 4 Comments . The Outdoor Concert ---Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Wilton House, 2004 The long thick winding snake must stretch two hundred paces, Of early birds in haste to grab the nicest places, Buy programmes,...
‘Beltane Dream’: A May-time Poem by Patricia Rogers Crozier The Society August 8, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments . Beltane Dream Did I pass that way in dreams or waking? For truthfully, it seems to me a dream: Fields of yellow through the green hills breaking, The Hawthorn blowing incandescent steam Through the...
‘Chasing Time’ and Other Poetry by Warren Bonham The Society August 8, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Chasing Time "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some...
Postmodernism and Poetry: Final Disintegration and Hope for Renewal, by Adam Sedia The Society August 7, 2024 Essays, Poetry 30 Comments . Postmodernism and Poetry: Final Disintegration and Hope for Renewal “The only way forward from Postmodernism is as a reaction against it—not a reaction in the sense of destruction (what could be more...
‘Cold Blooded Murder’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society August 7, 2024 Humor, Poetry 26 Comments . Cold Blooded Murder It is a hot and muggy Sort of Texas day. Time to do my stalking And hunting down my prey. I’m armed and dangerous. My weapon I half-hide. When killing I am cautious And patiently...
‘The Loons of Colby Lake’: A Poem by Michael Pietrack The Society August 6, 2024 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 22 Comments . The Loons of Colby Lake a true story As thawing white gave way to budding green, two loons upon the lake would mark the Spring, and they would build their nest, then teach their young how life was lived and...
‘The Faltering’: A Poem by Ed Ahern The Society August 6, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments . The Faltering In time the sharpest mind begrimes with rust and memories are flaked from softened steel. Beliefs once clutched and voiced in utter trust now falter and befog in weakened zeal. The brilliance...
‘Like Him’: A Poem by James Sale The Society August 5, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 29 Comments . Like Him "But we all, with unveiled faces, looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit." ---2 Corinthians...
‘The Lighthouse’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society August 5, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments . The Lighthouse In honor of the Thridrangar Lighthouse and the intrepid men who built it. Alone it stands, perched high atop a rock That rises from a tossing, troubled sea. It crowns that lofty tower which,...