A Poem on Japanese Suiseki Stones, by Margaret Coats The Society July 13, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Shape Poems 40 Comments . Suiseki Rainfall has stopped; it’s the best time for hunting a stone. Drizzle still dampens debris; Trees put forth roots unobtrusively; mosses have grown; Animals leaving their burrows run free— Sodden...
‘Peach Blossom Dreaming’ by Margaret Coats The Society March 1, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Shape Poems 35 Comments . Peach Blossom Dreaming Peach blossoms furnish inwrought dreaming room Intangible to fingertips corrupt; __Substantially beyond each tapered petal’s plume Flow fragrances to subtly interrupt The wintry...
‘Music of the Contours’ by Phillip Whidden The Society February 19, 2022 Beauty, Poetry, Shape Poems 8 Comments . Music of the Contours part of "A Double Unfinished Symphony" sonnet sequence The way that curls sway lovelier than straight, ..And curving strands of gold set pearls in grace, ....That nuns' bow necks to...
‘Hagi at My Study Window’ and Other Late Summer Poems, by Margaret Coats The Society August 8, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry, Shape Poems, Translation 24 Comments . Hagi at My Study Window hagi or bush clover, a symbol of poetry, blooms as summer turns to autumn. Paper shapes the future’s surface, Paperweights the present state. Inkstones hold a scholar’s...
‘Cherry Blossom Viewing’ by Margaret Coats The Society April 6, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Shape Poems 34 Comments . Cherry Blossom Viewing Like someone else, in unaccustomed dress, I choose that silken smoothness graze my skin __As fragile branches effloresce, Revealing vernal consciousness within Of transient white or...
‘The House Remembers’ by Amy Foreman The Society February 23, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Shape Poems 26 Comments Amy Foreman...
Essay: On George Herbert’s ‘Easter Wings’ The Society March 25, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Shape Poems 5 Comments by Jane Blanchard George Herbert was born into a well-to-do and well-doing family of Montgomery, Wales, in 1593. When he was three years old, his father died, leaving a wife and ten children. Herbert...