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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

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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...
urban sprawl crane

‘Two Tattoos,’ Poems by Damian Robin

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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May 17, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, The Environment
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...
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