‘We Already May Be in Purgatory’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society March 2, 2025 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . We Already May Be in Purgatory The Peterson Postulate "What if this life is just a test so we can become better people?" ---The White Lotus HBO TV...
‘Zelensky Gets a Hard Lesson’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society March 1, 2025 Culture, Poetry 67 Comments . Zelensky Gets a Hard Lesson Zelensky comes strutting, in hope of a payout— Trump and young J.D. are trusting that he’ll Accept their...
‘Snapshot’: A Poem by Steven Frattali The Society March 1, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments . Snapshot It's morning and you rise. You shake your hairAnd stretch yourself a bit, your elbows high,Your blue night gown illuminated byA slant of...
‘Winter at the Pond’: A Poem by Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano The Society March 1, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Winter at the Pond I scan the pond. Young birches standing there Have given up their leaves. I set my gaze On trees in water and on trees in...
Poems Inspired by DOGE Cuts, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 28, 2025 Poetry, Satire 16 Comments . Bloat A warrior is battling the bloat Of bulging skivers bleeding strivers dry--- The gloating glut of grubbers kept afloat By worn out workers as...
The Dark Wood: Canto I of Dante’s Inferno, Translated by Stephen Binns The Society February 28, 2025 Dante, Poetry, Translation 7 Comments . The Dark Wood: Canto I of Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns Midway along the journey of our days __I...
‘A Show Tonight’: A Poem for Shen Yun by Brian Marple The Society February 27, 2025 Performing Arts, Poetry 6 Comments . A Show Tonight The young dawn pierces languid night And dips the theater in newborn light. The Shen Yun trucks are at its doors, For there will be...
‘The Vice’ and Other Poems by Gigi Ryan The Society February 27, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 12 Comments . The Vice Worse than the addiction of a smoker, And harder to get over than cocaine, More drawing than to gamblers their poker Is a vice that never...
‘Distance Kills’: A Poem by Michael Charles Maibach The Society February 26, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments . Distance Kills Distance kills. It’s always true. In time and space, In all we do. Those on our team, Who leave the sport. Those at our work Who...
‘Old Man at the River’: A Poem by Pamela Ruggiero The Society February 26, 2025 Art, Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments Old Man at the River Old man's at the river painting the scene.He's working on boats and feeling serene.Unnoticed, a person's drowning out...
‘If I Could but Touch His Hem’: A Poem by Rohini Sunderam The Society February 25, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . If I Could but Touch His Hem ---Mark 5:25-34 Forgive me, Lord, you know it’s true That I have prayed twelve years to you, To stop the bleeding...
‘Trumped by Reason’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society February 25, 2025 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Trumped by Reason Our elitists loved extolling all their virtues while controlling each dimension of all nations through new laws and...
‘Mr. Bluebird’ and Other Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 24, 2025 Beauty, Poetry, Satire, Triolet, Villanelle 28 Comments . Mr. Bluebird Your spirit rose before I spied your form. It dulled the winter sting and stilled the storm. Your warming warble quelled the bitter...
‘Winter Midnights’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society February 23, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments . Winter Midnights Old numbers on the radio; Through foggy panes, a street lamp's glow; Some aircraft's feebly buzzing sound; Barks of...
‘Renaissance’ and Other Poetry by Benjamin Daniel Lukey The Society February 23, 2025 Beauty, Pantoum, Poetry 9 Comments . Renaissance for Rob Salminen I am as old as I have ever been, And I've not seen all that I'd hoped to see— But every day my life begins...
‘As Hamas Celebrates Dead Babies’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society February 23, 2025 Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . As Hamas Celebrates Dead Babies The Bibas deaths... how do I tell this news? A mother and her sons---all blameless Jews--- Killed senselessly. My...
‘Enamoured’: A Love Poem by Margaret Coats The Society February 22, 2025 Love Poems, Poetry 25 Comments . Enamoured String me a strand of pure white pearls supernal, Warming my throat as quivering fingers do, Roughened but figuring tenderness...
‘My Heart’s Desire’: A Poem by Susan Steele Rives The Society February 22, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . My Heart's Desire There is one thing that I long for, _and another that I need. One essential to my soul, _the other made of dreams. My heart...
‘Howl at the River’ and Other Word-Play Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society February 21, 2025 Humor, Poetry 4 Comments . Howl at the River Howl at the river, cry me a moon; Blow up on a drum, and beat a balloon; Smirk like a sailor, drink like a prig’ Eat like a...
A Poem on Wyeth’s ‘Distant Thunder’, by Carl Kinsky The Society February 21, 2025 Ekphrastic, Poetry 3 Comments . At the Ready ---Distant Thunder, Andrew Wyeth (USA), 1961 The coming storm won’t let young Rattler lie asleep, but he’s not ready yet to...
‘Der Knecht’: A Poem in German by Peter Lillios, with Translation The Society February 20, 2025 Love Poems, Poetry, Readings 4 Comments . . Der Knecht An einem Teich in einem Tal, am Felsenfuß entlang, Da steht ein Mädchen ohne Schal, als Decke nur der Hang. Vorbei bin ich schon...
‘Truths Be Known’: A Poem by Margaret Brinton The Society February 20, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments . Truths Be Known _A cryptical dawning _This foggy gray morning With images drifting about. _Deceptive impressions, _Opaque are the...
Wanted: A Verse Curriculum and Pedagogy: An Essay by David J. Rothman The Society February 19, 2025 Essays, Poetry 8 Comments . Wanted: A Verse Curriculum and Pedagogy David J. Rothman discusses the curriculum of the Poetry Concentration in the Graduate Program in Creative...
‘Chasing COLAs in a Hard World’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society February 19, 2025 Culture, Limerick, Poetry 6 Comments . Chasing COLAs in a Hard World COLA: cost-of-living adjustment We learned, each time we tried to file a claim, _That dealing with the Demiurge...
‘Mistaken Identity’: A Poem by David Whippman The Society February 18, 2025 Love Poems, Poetry 12 Comments . Mistaken Identity I never really found out who you are, I only saw what I preferred to see. I realise now it wasn’t meant to be. I thought you...
‘Sophisticated Stupidity’ and Other Poetry by James Bontrager The Society February 18, 2025 Poetry, Satire 8 Comments . Sophisticated Stupidity Preserve the fish, defend the trees_And save the wilting daisies;Protect the coral in the seas_But kill the unborn...
On an Attempt to Tie Free Speech to the Nazis: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society February 17, 2025 Poetry, Satire 25 Comments . Margaret Brennan’s Plan to Stop Genocide “Well, he was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide"...
‘Capacity’ and Other Poetry by Morrison Handley-Schachler The Society February 17, 2025 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 16 Comments . Capacity “This is too big and inexcusably Extravagant, so next time I insist We buy a smaller glass. This one will be Always half-empty,” said...
‘Aged Elation’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society February 17, 2025 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Satire 8 Comments . Aged Elation When reaching that age where you fear getting slow, The advent of faculties starting to go, It’s great inspiration---you can’t ask...
‘Strauss Vater’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society February 16, 2025 Beauty, Music, Poetry 19 Comments . Strauss Vater Scene: Vienna, Austrian Empire: Midnight, October 15, 1844. On this night the famous musician, Johann Strauss, Sr. snubbed the...
The New York Times’ Attack on Shen Yun Is an Attack on Arts and Culture: SCP Editor The Society February 16, 2025 Essays, Poetry 14 Comments . The New York Times' Attack on Shen Yun Is an Attack on Arts and Culture by Evan MantykSCP Editor & President In the last six months or so, the...
Five Quintilla Poems by Cheryl Corey The Society February 15, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . Scarlet Pimpernel Amassing clouds—the air still warm; But you, my scarlet pimpernel, You sense that there's a coming storm, Compress your petals,...
‘Made from Scratch!’: A Poem by Mark Stellinga The Society February 15, 2025 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Made from Scratch! An ever-growing-number of our adolescent children are suckled by the biased breasts of prejudice and greed--- born to persons...
‘How Did You Woo Me? ’ and Other Valentine’s Day Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 14, 2025 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 23 Comments . How Did You Woo Me? Let Me Count the Way You didn’t sweep in on a snowy steedClad in armor buffed until it glittered---A shining knight of bright...
‘My Pensive Valentine’: A Poem by Jonathan Kinsman The Society February 14, 2025 Love Poems, Poetry 10 Comments . My Pensive Valentine Devout Love is not in the offered sweet, nor does Love proclaim in the proffered rose, nor the cliché tucked tight in a...
‘Lines for Your Valentines’: A Valentine’s Day Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society February 14, 2025 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 16 Comments . Lines for Your Valentines Without you here, my life is like A broken pencil, simply pointless. And if you tell me to take a hike, My legs won’t...
‘Fifties Country Living’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society February 13, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . Fifties Country Living Sit down with me my children, come! __I'll spin a tale or two About when I was just a kid __in nineteen fifty-two. No cell...
‘The Potentate and the Pontiff’: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society February 13, 2025 Essays, Poetry 18 Comments . The Potentate and the Pontiff by Joseph S. Salemi I have often argued that the formalist techniques of traditional poetry are ideologically...
‘Moments Matter’: A Poem by Gigi Ryan The Society February 12, 2025 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 23 Comments . Moments Matter When my daughter was just three __I took her to the zoo. She laughed and smiled and had a blast __And I myself did, too. My friends...
A Poem for the Birthday of Charles Darwin: ‘Dog Eat Dog’ by Warren Bonham The Society February 12, 2025 Poetry, Satire, Science 39 Comments . Dog Eat Dog As cells get divided, if outcomes are guided _completely by rolling the dice, the fit must survive so their genes stay alive, _while...
