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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...

‘Exodus 12’ by Theresa Rodriguez

The Society
March 27, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
. “And when I see the blood, I will pass over you.” ---Exodus 12:13 As you have commanded, the blood to The lintel and the doorposts of my heart Has been applied. Because I’ve done this, through Your...

A Beacon in the Darkness: The Poetics and Poetry of Robert Frost

The Society
March 26, 2021
Essays, Poetry
9 Comments
. “A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” ---Robert Frost An Essay by Adam Sedia To many in America, Robert Frost is the grandfatherly originator of “The Road Not Taken,” and a few other...

‘An Autumn Path’ by Angel Villanueva

The Society
March 25, 2021
Beauty, Poetry
7 Comments
. The path he takes this early day Is dressed in dew and straws of hay. The morning mist obscures his view; The barn, though near, seems far away. The sleepy sun begins to rise, And light prepares to climb...

‘The Librarian and the Bonfire’ by Brian Yapko

The Society
March 24, 2021
Culture, Poetry
31 Comments
. The fire roars and spits within the square Blazing angry red. The rabble looks With savage joy; their whooping lards the air. Such glee to see the burning of the books! One man stands apart from the hot...

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

The Society
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

The Society
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...

‘Grain’ and Other Poetry by Stephen Ramsek

The Society
March 23, 2021
Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
25 Comments
. Grain If the future were a famine And tomorrow were a blight, Would we close our eyes today in Light of Future’s tragic sight? If the future were a famine And eternity, disease, Would we leave our fields...

‘Pain, Product, and Poetry’ by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
March 22, 2021
Essays, Poetry
24 Comments
I went to my first opera when I was six years old. My mother took me to the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Saint of Bleecker Street, on the condition that I be a good boy and behave. It was some...

‘You Are There’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
March 21, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
29 Comments
inspired by the late John Whitworth’s “The Examiners”  Through the burst of youth and giggles in the balm of budding spring, __You are there. Through the seal of something...

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

The Society
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...

‘An Intelligent Cup of Coffee’ by Daniel Kemper

The Society
March 20, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
33 Comments
. “That must have been some cup of coffee!” ---Charles Ellik The coffee spins and I am not the same. The time in which I move is muddy, turns around my breath, and steams. As sunlight came here perfectly,...

‘Daffodils in the Snow’ by Shari Jo LeKane

The Society
March 19, 2021
Beauty, Poetry
18 Comments
. Memories frozen in pinnacles glow, tattooed in lingering beauty and sorrow now fade by the light of forgotten tomorrows with nowhere to go, yet so much to show, like daffodils in the snow. Delicate...

‘Saint Joseph’s Table’ by Margaret Coats

The Society
March 19, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
34 Comments
. The night before, old furniture And scrap wood set afire Smoke out the winter’s wickedness— An equinoctial pyre Of habits, sins, misfortunes dark, Succeeded by quick work To level boards and flaunt a...

‘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...

‘The PRC’s “To-Do” List’ by James A. Tweedie

The Society
March 18, 2021
Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry
14 Comments
. Every one of us makes “To-Do” lists to help us on the way So we won’t forget the many things we plan to do each day. Every country has a “To-Do” list as well, and China, too, Here’s a partial...

‘This Brave American, Ashli Babbitt’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

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March 17, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
22 Comments
. This Brave American, Ashli Babbitt “It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.” —Sophocles, “Antigone” by Usa W Celebride The Democrats stole the election—Ashli Babbitt...

‘Lenin’ and Other Poetry by Duane Caylor

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March 17, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
27 Comments
. Lenin It’s late. He walks the lonely corridor in this part of the Kremlin with his cat hammocked in his arm. He stops before the door of every commissariat that’s still aglow and enters into...

‘The Illiterati’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
March 16, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
38 Comments
. “Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.” ---Heinrich Heine  There is diction to spurn and there’s fiction to burn ____If the subject is apt to offend Connoisseurs with...

‘Liberal Artists’ by Sarban Bhattacharya

The Society
March 16, 2021
Culture, Poetry
21 Comments
. A little argument and then they hurt; These liberals are so coy and sensitive. They think they know all forms of decent art, And claim consensus gives prerogative. Their poetry requires subjective...

‘Borealis’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie

The Society
March 15, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
. Borealis Where Ursa Minor spins about its tail The cold-chill, sabled void of arctic nights Bestirs to life as unseen hands unveil The shifting silence of the Northern Lights. Chameleonesque, the colored...

‘Lives There the Man’ (After Sir Walter Scott) by Roy E. Peterson

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March 14, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. Lives There the Man after “Breathes There a Man with Soul so Dead” by Sir Walter Scott* by Roy E. Peterson Lives there the man who won’t defendHis hearth and home from whom intendTo quench his fire and...

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

The Society
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

The Society
March 13, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
22 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

The Society
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...

‘Shadows of Regret’ by Phil S. Rogers

The Society
March 12, 2021
Beauty, Poetry
3 Comments
. I watched as the convening mist rose twisting through the trees; It changed gray shapes and silhouettes, and shattered inner ease. I closed my eyes and bowed my head at shadows dark and gaunt. Poor choices...

‘Advice from Dante’ on Mask Wearing and Other Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson

The Society
March 11, 2021
Covid-19, Culture, Dante, 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...

‘Kismet’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez

The Society
March 11, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
15 Comments
. . Kismet If I'd been younger, or you not so old, Or we'd met at a different time and place, Would there have been within your heart a space For me, for love to reach and grab ahold? Might there have been...

‘The Final Solution, Take Two’ by Joe Tessitore

The Society
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

The Society
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

The Society
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...

‘Political Conversation’ by Russel Winick

The Society
March 9, 2021
Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. between friends of 40+ years “Just what about Obama don’t you like?” “I fear his plans will force a big tax hike. His National Labor Relations Board, Makes rulings which leave business needs...

‘The Pox Fox’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
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...

‘The View from the Hill’ by Martin Rizley

The Society
March 8, 2021
Beauty, Poetry
13 Comments
. "He has made everything beautiful in its time. . ."  (Ecclesiastes 3:11) The sun shines so brightly on this verdant hill Where I sit in silence so peaceful and still; I've come here alone to survey the fair...

‘The English Cantos: Volume 2: StairWell. Canto 1 Ascent’ by James Sale

The Society
March 7, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry
13 Comments
. The poet has now escaped Hell, and has arrived in Purgatory or what he calls the StairWell. But he seems to have been abandoned by Dante, and has a fresh set of problems to confront. In this first section of...

Poem Circulating Online Laments Canceling of Dr. Seuss Books

The Society
March 6, 2021
Children's, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
35 Comments
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...

‘The Tango Argentine’ by Daniel Kemper

The Society
March 6, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
. Do they still dance on old walkwayswith lowered shoulders, mastered breathand almost martial, measured gazethough one that's bent on life, not death?Will men with class step up and raisean arm and pause: a...

‘Tradition’ by Troy Camplin

The Society
March 5, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
4 Comments
. I've battled beside Gilgamesh, the Bull Of Heaven slain by us. I've fought beside Achilles, hot beside a burning hull, And watched as Agamemnon, captured, died. With Oedipus I've lost my vital eyes With...

‘The White Man’s Burden’ by Rudyard Kipling: Poem, Background, and Analysis

The Society
March 4, 2021
Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry
60 Comments
. A Teaching Tool for High School English Language Arts or Global History Teachers by Evan Mantyk . Background of Kipling and British India Rudyard Kipling The poet, Rudyard Kipling, was born in British India...

‘Who Knew’ and Other Poetry by Áine Mae

The Society
March 4, 2021
Beauty, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry
22 Comments
. . Who Knew How often I crushed autumn leaves Until I saw a robin drink From one that cupped the fallen rain, And many times too, I did break Icicles dripping from a roof. How often in the spring I plucked A...
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