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A Poem for India’s Republic Day: ‘The Land of Dreams’ by Satyananda Sarangi

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January 26, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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. The Land of Dreams written on the eve of India's Republic Day of India which is celebrated on Jan. 26 every year Some distance far away, the drumbeats sound __And echo victories now past; __Where clouds of...
poem/stars/music

‘Look Up and See the Music’ by James A. Tweedie

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January 26, 2023
Beauty, Music, Poetry
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. Look Up and See the Music Psalm 19:1 In winter, when the atmosphere is still And cold, and when the nighttime sky is clear, The stars and planets, fire and ice, blast chill- Blazed, hot-white light so bright...
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‘The Poetaster’s Plight’ by Kenneth L. Horne

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January 26, 2023
Culture, Humor, Poetry
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. The Poetaster’s Plight Some think the poet’s work is ease: "Sit back and write it’s such a breeze;" But those that know will surely say They labor hard from day to day. They wrestle with each turn of...
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‘The Stonechat Listens At The Asylum Window’ by Charles Southerland

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January 25, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
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. The Stonechat Listens at the Asylum Window I fear I might mistranslate what you said And lose the very essence of your words. May I record you as I do the birds: The warbler, shrike and wren, red’s...
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A Classical Guitar Rendition of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ for Burns Night, by Jeff Eardley

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January 25, 2023
Culture, Music, Poetry
17 Comments
. Burns Night is when Scotland's most important bard, Robert Burns (1759-1796), is celebrated, usually with the recitation of Burns' poems, the eating of haggis, and the drinking of whiskey. It occurs on...
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A Sonnet for Burns Night, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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January 24, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
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. Note: Burns Night is when Scotland’s most important bard, Robert Burns (1759-1796), is celebrated, usually with the recitation of Burns’ poems, the eating of haggis, and the drinking of whisky. It...
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A Poem on the Existence of God: ‘The Problem of Good’ by Jeffrey Essmann

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January 24, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. The Problem of Good a Petrarchan sonnet If there’s (the armchair philosopher maintains) A God (most likely writing in his blog), Then why’s the world in such a dismal fog Of evil will and endless human...

On Alma Tadema’s Coign of Vantage and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers

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January 24, 2023
Art, Beauty, Ekphrastic, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
. . On Alma Tadema’s Coign of Vantage Flora peeks over the marble parapet, a dizzying perch above the azure Aegean. The Roman fleet is returning. 'Tis the season to flirt, to catch a lover in her...
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Transgression, Fake and Genuine: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

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January 23, 2023
Essays, Poetry
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. Transgression, Fake and Genuine       by Joseph S. Salemi When Henry Harland and Aubrey Beardsley brought forth their groundbreaking periodical The Yellow Book in 1894, its very first issue contained the...
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A Poem on the World Economic Forum’s Davos 2023, by Julian D. Woodruff

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January 23, 2023
Culture, Music, Poetry
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. WEF, Davos, ‘23—A Modern Reply after “Endless Pleasure, Endless Love”* Endless hooey, endless snow, We’re exposed to here below. Ever on their riches leaning, Our tormentors strew their lies; While...

‘On a Terrible Orchestral-chorale Concert’ by Peter Venable

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January 23, 2023
Humor, Poetry
4 Comments
. On a Terrible Orchestral-chorale Concert Trapped here with vain musicians---what a fate! An echo chamber that I can't escape. Conductors lead, nude but for bandanas. On their right side, Carmina...
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‘Ever Flowing’ by Dusty Grein

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January 22, 2023
Beauty, Poetry
19 Comments
. Ever Flowing Upon the rushing river’s bank I stand, deep water, ever flowing as it goes. The turbulence of my life it reflects as if my mortal pain, it truly knows. I close my eyes while cruel heartache...

“John Adams in Heaven,” from Legends of Liberty by Andrew Benson Brown

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January 22, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry
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. John Adams in Heaven John and Abigail Adams are being guided through heaven by John Milton. He takes them to a villa in the Elysian Fields, where they meet a famous Roman who shows them a vision of their...

‘Iambic Barktameter’ by Mark F. Stone

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January 21, 2023
Culture, Humor, Poetry
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. A Note on Iambic Barktameter I have an Australian Shepard named Sunny who loves poetry. I didn’t believe it at first, but she proved it to me. She showed me her copy of Poetry magazine and said, “Look...

‘Bats at Sunset’ and Other Poetry by Maxim D. Shrayer

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January 21, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
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. Bats at Sunset The monster is rotund, vile, enormous, three-muzzled, and barking ---Vasily Trediakovsky, after Virgil The woods are lovely, dark, and deep ---Robert Frost Last night the bats were flying so...
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Launch Event for Michael Pietrack’s Legacy: You Are Invited

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January 20, 2023
Children's, Poetry
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. SCP Members and readers are invited by poet Michael Pietrack to his Virtual Launch Party on Saturday, January 21 at 12 Noon EST.  The book---Legacy: The Saga Begins---is a complete novel-length adventure...

‘The Calendar’ and Other Poetry by Jez Punter

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January 20, 2023
Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
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. The Calendar You are the festive dregs of January,you liven February with Valentine’s.You are the March that gives spring sanctuary,you are the splashing rain April confines.You entertain the shaken buds...

‘Moments from Dante’s Inferno’ by Paul Buchheit

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January 20, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry
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. Moments from Dante’s Inferno Prepared to travel, if the gods allowed, I saw the woods were dreary, dark as death. I chose to heed a blessing there endowed, before emerging spirits took a breath. And that...
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‘Banish the Thought’ by Susan J. Cappellari

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January 19, 2023
Beauty, Poetry, Triolet
6 Comments
. Banish the Thought Who are you? Not me, I know You creep and crimp my edges fray, An apparition of Dickens’ play--- Who are you? Not me, I know. Push and prod and now you’re in, Little sprite you always...

‘Swimming with Dreams and Memory’ and Other Poetry by Pippa Kay

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January 19, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau
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. Swimming with Dreams and Memory My childhood dreams and memories remain through adulthood and old age. My doll speaks. My toy car surfs that tidal wave, again. I’m still afraid of darkness, and the...
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Poem on the Failed British Space Launch, by Jeff Eardley

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January 18, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Science
16 Comments
. “Newquay, we have a problem” January 9, 2023 We’ve gathered in thousands to witness the blast-off, We’re sipping Champagne with our eyes full of stars. In five or ten years now, our guys will be...

‘Greta’s Smorgasbord of Hate’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

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January 18, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
61 Comments
. Greta's Smorgasbord of Hate I love the pretty trees, the trees love me! They make me dance and sing, they make me shout And sulk and give loud speeches: blah, blah, blah How dare you feed on cow meat and...

‘Gloucester in July’ by Patricia Rogers Crozier

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January 18, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
. Gloucester in July A thousand silent saints and angels Hewn from vertex, plane, and angle Raised by blow of mason’s hammer Raised from stone to watch the faithful Underneath the sinners stammer Pray and...
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‘Beatitude’ by Gregory Ross

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January 17, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau
6 Comments
. Beatitude Be glad and smile, for they revile, The Truth they mock and put on trial, The Beauty they do not possess, The Good, they curse, and will not bless, For Christ foretold this world’s own bile. Sit...

‘El Pescado’ and Other Poetry by Monika Cooper

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January 17, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
. El Pescado They gloat: the age of Pisces, it is over. They chant to call Aquarius’ forces in. In the deep labyrinths we sought the sign, The two-stroke fish, walls clammy, glittering. The old Mass book...
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‘The Christmas Story’ and Other Poetry by Lauren V. Leon

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January 16, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
7 Comments
. The Christmas Story An angel of the Lord, Came forth with joyful news, Of Him Who is adored, Messiah of the Jews. The angel hailed the one, A Virgin pure and bright, Who chosen for the Son, Would crush the...

‘The Wind’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley

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January 16, 2023
Beauty, Poetry
12 Comments
. The Wind Listen, listen! Do you hear it?  It is on the march tonight--- The incessant winter wind that blows throughout the wood and glade. Like a spectral army passing through the night in grim...

‘Worth Disguised’ by Christiana Thomas

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January 15, 2023
Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry
13 Comments
. Worth Disguised The hammer lifts, the anvil rings, The room with screaming noises brings __A torture, here inflicted. The bellows pump, the fire smokes, A prodding chisel pries and pokes. __This trial seems...

‘Cookies’ and Other Sweet Poetry by Norma Pain

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January 15, 2023
Humor, Poetry
22 Comments
. Cookies I bought a bag of cookies for a snack, But they were way too sweet… I took them back. I tried each one to make sure this was true. I really didn’t know what else to do. The woman in the store...
poem/Ouroboros/snake eating its own tail/civilization

‘Civilisations Forget the Taste of Their Own Tails’ by James Lucas

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January 14, 2023
Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. Civilisations Forget the Taste of Their Own Tails To see a friend possessed By the time’s ideological incantations, To see a world soon blessed By mob rule and its dark infatuations; To glimpse a...

‘Bingo Ladies’ by Mary Gardner

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January 14, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
35 Comments
. Bingo Ladies Gray-haired gals meet twice a week, Have their luncheon with the clique At the Wendy’s in Coppell. After they have talked a spell Off to northwest part of Dallas To the Giant Bingo...
poem/medical assistance in dying/MAID

Poems on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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January 13, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
29 Comments
. Out, out, brief candle! ---Macbeth I am black-dog blue and blinded by the glitzy gaze of stars. Lucent moons will never light __my skyless eye. I am frequently reminded of my fear __of future scars--- when...
poem/imagination/eternity/death/still life

‘This Side of Eternity’ by Anna J. Arredondo

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January 13, 2023
Beauty, Poetry
21 Comments
. This Side of Eternity I. Imagination, you’re a two-edged sword, The universe your oyster, opened wide; Conceiving all the boon life might afford In dazzling display: what may be tried, Perpetual...

‘For Sophie Pakaluk Barrows’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank

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January 13, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
. For Sophie Pakaluk Barrows based on The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God by Michael Pakaluk in pie quebrado meter Before God made her soul and mind, Before her parents’ genes entwined __To start...

A Poem On the Banning of the Word ‘Field’ by the University of Southern California, by Paul A. Freeman

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January 12, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
22 Comments
. On the Banning of the Word 'Field' by the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work See the related news story here. In Southern California they’ve declared that field’s a word to...
poem/French revolution/high school

‘For the French Revolution’ by Claire He

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January 12, 2023
Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
5 Comments
. For the French Revolution Oh, this shall tell the tale of France’s past: the revolution brought in ‘eighty nine, when Frenchmen took a stand and rose, amassed, against the king from ocean to the...

Poems on the Agony of Teenage Girls, by Jeff Kemper

The Society
January 12, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
. Be Gone an angry teenage daughter to her absconded mother What irritant incited you to leave And not come back while I was left to grieve? Was it the man you wed, the girl you bore, Your dispositions? Tell...

‘The Fluctuations of Modernity and Antiquity’ by Laurel Aronian

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January 11, 2023
Beauty, High School Submissions, Pantoum, Poetry
9 Comments
. The Fluctuations of Modernity and Antiquity a pantoum __Something is ahead, A solemn note on open sky, __It rises from the dead, A whizzing plane of time gone by. A solemn note on open sky, Reminds me of...

‘Putting Settings in Their Place’ and Other Frivolous Poems by James A. Tweedie

The Society
January 11, 2023
Humor, Poetry
19 Comments
. Putting Settings in Their Place For dilettantes the world’s bereft When table settings aren’t precise. For if the forks aren’t on the left They’ll give their host some stern advice: “The fork goes...

A Poem for January 6 Prisoners: ‘Letter from a DC Prison’ by Adam Wasem

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January 10, 2023
Culture, Poetry
36 Comments
. Letter from a DC Prison We’d seen the evidence, the ballots dropped In loads of boxes trundled in late-night With ballot counting claimed to have been stopped; The windows blocked to hide observers’...
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    @Joseph Frank- That is merely your opinion of manhood, as one individual. I am a man and I have no…

  2. Joshua C. Frank on A Poem on Target’s Transgender Clothing for Youth, and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis BryantMay 29, 2023

    Brent, why are you so eager to have children’s genitals mutilated beyond repair, effectively spaying and neutering them like dogs?…

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    I love your review, Yael!

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    Brent, your evangelism is touching… unfortunately you have been swept up by a cult.

  5. Mike Bryant on A Poem on Target’s Transgender Clothing for Youth, and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis BryantMay 29, 2023

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