Ekphrastic Contest: Write a Poem on This Photograph The Society October 8, 2020 Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry Contests, The Environment 148 Comments See the winners here. Above is a recent photograph of Chateau Boswell, a winery, vineyard, and tasting room located in California. It has suffered terribly because of the recent “Glass Fire” in Napa...
‘Eternal Apocalypse’: A Poem on Climate Change and Others by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 8, 2020 Coronavirus, Humor, Poetry, The Environment 24 Comments Eternal Apocalypse I’ve managed to escape a coming ice age; A mammoth hasn’t tossed me to my death. I’ve dodged the planet’s ozone-waning end-stage; Our green and pleasant land’s still...
Three Poems of the Nuclear Age by Peter Austin The Society July 30, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, The Environment 6 Comments Tomoko When the Enola Gay dropped ‘Little Boy’, Tomoko---just a little girl herself--- Was robbed of any hope of earthly joy And sentenced to a life upon the shelf, Until, that is, she and...
‘Two Tattoos,’ Poems by Damian Robin The Society June 15, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment 13 Comments Two Tattoos Tattoo One: On the Corporate and Politic Bodies Across my town, the shops and offices are short. Its buildings don’t blot out the sun. There’s sky to spare. However, needling,...
‘Earth Day 2020’ and Other CCP Virus (COVID-19) Poetry The Society April 21, 2020 Coronavirus, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry, The Environment 12 Comments Earth Day 2020 Poet's Note: April 22 is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Earth Day is an annual celebration on which events are held worldwide to demonstrate support for “environmental protection.”...
‘Mama’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society January 21, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment 19 Comments Mama My mama took two drinks a year; A shot glass down the gullet— Yet hated bars and abhorred beer. Would execute a pullet— An ax, a stump—one frightened bird Was done for in a minute, Yet any...
‘Landscaping, or, How I Came To Believe In Global Warming’ by Martin Hill Ortiz The Society December 2, 2019 Humor, Poetry, The Environment 9 Comments I think that I shall never see A tree that is invisible. The very thought is risible— Or maybe it's advisable To say the word as 'rīsible.' My crucial point is clear to see —I mean it can be seen,...
‘In Memory of the Lake’ by James Christy The Society October 24, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment 4 Comments I hear Boeung Kak has now been filled with gritty sand, turned mud, now earth. The lake’s become a dusty field, yet memory preserves a berth for fishermen in long canoes, just toothpicks...
‘Cape Horn’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society September 7, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment 9 Comments Cape Horn They lifted anchor, spread the sails, __Quit shores where they were born, Bound for spice isles from doubtful tales __By way of far Cape Horn— Rough seamen, fortune-bound, to trade __In...
‘Antaeus and Us’ by William Walters The Society August 3, 2019 Culture, Poetry, The Environment 6 Comments "Antaeus, the son of Terra, the Earth, was a mighty giant and wrestler, whose strength was invincible so long as he remained in contact with his mother Earth." —Bulfinch's mythology Blessed Gaea, Mother...
A Poem on the Green New Deal and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 26, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment 18 Comments Doomsday… or Not? The Green New Deal is out there, and Bernie says it’s true— there’s only twelve more years left for the likes of me and you to curtail carbon footprints and cure the ailing...
A Poem for Former Greenpeace Activist Patrick Moore, by Bruce Dale Wise The Society April 11, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, The Environment 5 Comments District E for former Greenpeace Activist Patrick Moore by Eric Awesud Ble It always was at night when people simply disappeared. Names were removed from registers; such memories were seared. The...
‘The Finite Prairies Under Boundless Skies’ by Alessio Zanelli The Society December 22, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment 23 Comments The angler knows the stream, exactly where to cast the line. The fish in turn suspects what offers food disguises danger though it's urged to search the spot. The two engage in grueling fights, dead baits...
‘Here Comes the Hybrid Bus’ by K.G. Jackson The Society December 4, 2018 Beauty, Humor, Poetry, The Environment 5 Comments Here Comes the Hybrid Bus Here comes that brand new hybrid bus Round the street so pretty; It's length so long it makes the turn, And bends right round the city. It's certainly looking very...
On the California Wildfires, by Tonya McQuade The Society November 19, 2018 Culture, News of Note, Poetry, The Environment 14 Comments AQI: Hazardous Outside, the air is filled with smoke and ash So thick the nearby mountains can’t be seen; Bright red and purple colors on the map Warn that the air we breathe’s no longer clean. In...
‘Heritage’ by C. David Hay The Society November 7, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment 10 Comments Behold the cloud-graced monoliths That stretch against the sky Into the boundless sanctity Where wind swift eagles fly. Primal valleys bloom to life As tumbling waters sing, Resurrected from...
The Eight Greatest Poems of William Wordsworth The Society October 6, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, The Environment 12 Comments by Charles Eager William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1770—the same year as gave us Beethoven, Hegel, and Hölderlin—and died at the age of eighty, rich in the knowledge of his...
‘A Question of Faith’ by Charles Bauer The Society August 26, 2018 Culture, Poetry, The Environment 8 Comments A Question of Faith The crowd cheered on their betters’ masquerade, Emotions seethed as memes were hatched and grew; Elijah watched as Ba’al’s prophets prayed. Reporters for the 70’s news were...
‘Crossing the Swamp by Jon MacNaughton’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society August 3, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, News of Note, Poetry, The Environment 9 Comments (All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Crossing the Swamp by Jon MacNaughton by Caud Sewer Bile "If freedom of speech is taken away...we may be led, like sheep to...slaughter." —George Washington The boat...
‘Pika’ by André Le Mont Wilson The Society May 17, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment 9 Comments The pika climbs the snowless slopes in hope of finding cooler climes. A tailless kin to hares, he shelters under stones to cope with rising temps within his furry skin. The ball of fur appears to roll...
‘Am-air-ica’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society May 9, 2018 Culture, Humor, News of Note, Poetry, The Environment 17 Comments (All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Am-air-ica by Eber L. Aucsidew Die Welt proclaimed the biggest drop in CO2 was in America, in the first year of Donald Trump—no spin. Though worldwide emissions...
‘You Decide’ and Other Poetry by Lorna Davis The Society March 12, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment 8 Comments You Decide Some know me as Destiny, The weaver of the cloth of Time. Although my looms are never stilled, They say I choose how high you’ll climb, How fast you’ll fall, how great your name; I...
Two Sonnets by Edward Hoke The Society March 10, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment 8 Comments 12/03/17 Of all ye gods, that crown Olympus high, Who yet remains that man’s not brought to heel? When aircraft daily pierce great Zeus’s sky, And Neptune’s depths have long since been...
‘Evening Prayer’ by Sandy Stert Benjamin The Society February 26, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment 7 Comments Budding darkness, in your starkness, void of noise and light, deliver me from what I see ’fore day turns into night. Guide me through the peaceful sea of dreamers far and wide, as welcome shores...
‘Why Add to the Suffering?’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society January 4, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, The Environment 4 Comments Nature’s pillars, which have borne Earth’s breath for ages, Are now crumbling into dust... Still, more keep falling, Shattered by our storm of wants, as outer changes Echo those inside us,...
‘The Buds of Life’ and Other Poetry by David Watt The Society December 9, 2017 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment 6 Comments The Buds of Life On Nightly News I saw a sight obscene: A seahorse in embrace with cotton bud, Soon causing me to ask, ‘What does this mean?’ The answer came most clear, with numbing thud...
‘Desolate Ocean’ by Gleb Zavlanov The Society December 5, 2017 Poetry, The Environment 2 Comments The silver masses rising in huge numbers, The ship alone upon the sprawling sea, The snores of men found tossing in their slumbers, And salt-tinged breezes shivering with me, The solitary voice of man to...
‘Progress’ and Other Poetry by Ann Christine Tabaka The Society November 19, 2017 Humor, Poetry, The Environment 6 Comments Progress We fill our landfills That we build sky high With electronic gadgets That we must all buy ... All in the name of Progress We cut down the forest And industrialize the farm We poison...
‘Why Take the Suite of Forest Dreams’ (in Triolets) by Angela Porter The Society July 5, 2017 Beauty, News of Note, Poetry, The Environment 3 Comments This poem is written in response to proposals to sell ancient public forests to private developers in England. https://saveourwoods.co.uk/ Oh, site where forest now is laid – Why take the suite...
‘Dying Muse’ and Other Poetry by Ann Christine Tabaka The Society June 3, 2017 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment 11 Comments Dying Muse Not everyone will survive The muse has sung her last song The end is about to arrive It has been following us all along The forest is groaning in pain She sheltered her creatures with...
‘A Picnic with a View’ by J. Prescott The Society March 30, 2017 Poetry, The Environment 1 Comment Sleep, lying in dry river beds Sold rapidly, buy the shore banks Brains washed from corporate heads Dried and neatly styled on fuel tanks Rippled, ragged breaths of ashen air Smog saturated sludge and...
‘The Rocky Mountain Pines’ and Other Poetry by Blake Elliott The Society March 20, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment The Rocky Mountain Pines Written in Rhymed couplets of Anapestic Tetrameter. In the mountains or plains, with the pine in the air, I’ll awake to the sun with a chill to compare. When I hike up a hill,...
‘Dancer’ and Other Poetry by Ayame Whitfield The Society March 18, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment 3 Comments Dancer the arch of her collarbone a bridge, her legs a throne, the clean and simple lines of her body free of confines. she dances, arms akimbo, hair flowing, and I know that she belongs to the...
‘The World Is Still Too Much’ and Other Poetry by Cheryl Corey The Society March 6, 2017 Beauty, Humor, Poetry, The Environment The World Is Still Too Much Too much, and much too much, it still goes on: The men and women who covet wealth and bling, And acquisition of each material thing, Yet search for some elusive...
‘Riven’ and Other Poetry in Traditional Bardic Forms by Elizabeth Spencer Spragins The Society February 22, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment 2 Comments Riven (A Rannaigheacht Ghairid) Once I dreamed Ospreys soared where salmon teemed. Frigid streams and waterfalls Frosted walls where glaciers gleamed. Darkness cowled The moon whenever wolves...
‘The Earth We’re Leaving Behind’ by Niloufar Behrooz The Society February 9, 2017 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment 2 Comments There used to be a limpid lake Home to the finest birds you'd find. We'd watch their glory till daybreak. But now those days are far behind. I used to hear the bullfrogs croak Before the pond was...
‘How Eden Weeps’ by Mark Sheeky The Society February 7, 2017 Poetry, The Environment 4 Comments How Eden weeps to see, the ache of every tortured tree. How Eden doth recoil, at bitter cancer of the soil. Man was placed as king of beasts, his palace carved of nature's stone, and every...
‘On the Sheffield Tree Fellings’ and Other Poetry by Damian Robin The Society January 28, 2017 Human Rights in China, Poetry, The Environment Trees, Libraries, and Chinese Communism To wrap a ribbon round a UK tree And tie it into Chinese tyranny, Or flag up five star Chinese hostelry Above a Yorks* Art Deco library, May tighten minds to ask:...
‘Departure’ and Other Poetry by James McKee The Society January 13, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment 4 Comments Departure Like escaping through a siege, growing older Hampers itself with hopes of return; So if, over your bare shoulder, Upwind palaces start to...
‘The Desert’ and Other Poetry by Tod Benjamin The Society January 7, 2017 Poetry, The Environment 4 Comments The Desert We were flying in a desert, an oasis to drink dry. We gorged ourselves on date palms and spat in nature’s eye. We’ve been lying in a desert where the wine of life’s run...