‘In Advent Stillness’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society December 11, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments In Advent Stillness In Advent stillness and its purpled nightsWe turn within and with a solemn gazeConsider well our soul’s more reconditeAnd...
A Poem for American Women with Five or More Children, by Margaret Coats The Society December 11, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . Motherly Motives ---of the 5% of American women with 5 or more children The greater good is motherhood. Let wealth be vast and health ideal, These...
‘Telepathy’ and Other Poems by Anna J. Arredondo The Society December 10, 2024 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Terza Rima 24 Comments . Telepathy Your reticence to speak is no deterrent To my delight to be in your vicinity--- Presence and chatter need not be concurrent; Lack of the...
‘In a Twenty-minute Tuk-tuk Ride’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society December 10, 2024 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 19 Comments . In a Twenty-minute Tuk-tuk Ride That day, the river of our luck had dried. No taxis. Air-conditioned buses crammed with half the town. Just when I...
‘The Bar’: A Poem by Jeff Shakespeare The Society December 9, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments . The Bar ---after Lord Alfred Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" The sail is set, the breeze is strong. I pray the crossing won’t take long. My Pilot...
‘Dragons Lost at Sea’: A Poem by Isabella Simmonds The Society December 9, 2024 Children's, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Dragons Lost at Sea In salty seas green dragons fly the waves, With plastic scales—a man-made guard from rot. Submerged to sleep in rocky water...
‘I No Longer See It on Mulberry Street’ and Other Poetry by Dusty Grein The Society December 8, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . I No Longer See It on Mulberry Street I used to walk home from school each day, then report back to Pop, what I saw on my way. I'd imagine all...
‘Galileo Under Confinement’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society December 8, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Science 22 Comments . Galileo Under Confinement Scene: Florence, 1636 AD. In the third year of his life imprisonment (as sentenced by the Holy Inquisition) Galileo...
A Poem for Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral’s Reopening, by Margaret Coats The Society December 7, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 28 Comments . Notre Dame Re-Opens To touch this holiness we have no right, Nor did we earn the privilege to restore Its grandeur. Bringing anguished hearts to...
‘Variation on a Poem by Blok’ by Stephen M. Dickey The Society December 7, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments . Variation on a Poem by Blok How hard it is to walk among the living And make like you are not already dead, And speak up apropos of life’s...
‘Offerings of the Heart’: A Poem by Yoshikaze Kawakami The Society December 6, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . Offerings of the Heart A Symbolic Poem . The songs of Yamato From seeds of healing sprout As offerings of our hearts, And if ever hurt we...
‘Fake Sales’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society December 6, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments . Fake Sales “Fifty Percent Off”The store signs all say,But I have to scoff---There is simply no wayThat the clothes I picked outFrom the...
Meditation on Herbert’s ‘Church Monuments’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society December 5, 2024 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Meditation on Herbert’s “Church Monuments” "…Mark, here below, How tame these ashes are, how free from lust, That thou mayst fit thyself...
‘After the Snow’: A Poem by Steven Frattali The Society December 5, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . After the Snow The snow fell through the night, night-long, The deepest snowfall of the year. By dawn it covered everything, Pearl gray unfolding...
‘On the Death of a Child’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society December 4, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments . On the Death of a Child To lose a child is tragic, yet those winks to tenderness, to bonding, still exist as memories, creating lasting links twixt...
Three Meditations in Verse by T.M. Moore The Society December 4, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . Meditation 1 “Grace has drawn nigh to mouths, once blasphemous, and has made them harps; sounding praise.” ---Homily on Our Lord, (1) "Let your...
‘Roofless Church’: A Poem by Peter Venable The Society December 3, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments . Roofless Church The stone-hewn walls, No window sash. No pews, no halls. Burnt logs, damp ash. The roof, vanished. No organ flues. Shaped block,...
‘American Espionage and the Soviet Target’: A Poem on His Experiences, by Roy E. Peterson The Society December 2, 2024 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . American Espionage and the Soviet Target I was assigned to Russia as an Army attaché— A legal spy who operated every single day. The era of the...
“It Just So Happens”: A Poem by Oliver Grossman The Society December 1, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments . "It Just So Happens" Dark creatures prowl the islands of the mind On silent paw, as panthers in the night; Two em'rald eyes, and shadow...
When Poems Are Lyrics and Vice Versa: Reflections by James A. Tweedie The Society December 1, 2024 Essays, Poetry, Song Lyrics 19 Comments . When Poems Are Lyrics and Vice Versa by James A. Tweedie Lyrics are poems written to join with music to form a unity in the hope that the two...
‘When Fervid Female Stoops to Folly’: A Poem by Julian Woodruff The Society November 30, 2024 Poetry, Satire 8 Comments . When Fervid Female Stoops to Folly after Goldsmith’s “When lovely woman stoops to folly” When fervid female stoops to folly and starts...
‘Speak Loud God’s Praise’: A Song by Rusty Rabon The Society November 30, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Song Lyrics 10 Comments . Speak Loud God's Praise ---to the tune of Ellacombe ("I Sing the Mighty Power of God") Speak loud the praise of God most high!__Give thanks for He...
‘Lamb and Lion’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society November 29, 2024 Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . Lamb and Lion God spoke and caused a great commotion, putting time and space in motion. Nothing is now, or was ever not a part of His...
‘Black Friday Before Christmas’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society November 29, 2024 Poetry, Satire 20 Comments . Black Friday Before Christmas Many of the stories are real ones from the Internet. ‘Twas the month before Christmas right after Thanksgiving.I...
‘Fair Game on Thanksgiving Day’: A Poem by C.B. Anderson The Society November 28, 2024 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . Fair Game on Thanksgiving Day Please tell me if you think I’ve crossed a line by unremittingly abusing you with strings of salty words not...
‘The Greatest Gift of All’: A Poem of Thanksgiving by Brian Yapko The Society November 28, 2024 Poetry 31 Comments . The Greatest Gift of All To wake and find I still can see and feel And know deep down what is and isn’t real. To weep when all I’ve planned is...
‘Celestial Potatoes’: A Thanksgiving Poem by Mary Jane Myers The Society November 28, 2024 Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . Celestial Potatoes Thanksgiving morning, poised I stand: near cutting board, honed knife in hand. My self-taught method must suffice: ten pounds of...
Book Review: Uttering the Unutterable by Louis Groarke The Society November 27, 2024 Essays, Poetry, Reviews 30 Comments . Book Reviewed: Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and Literature by Louis Groarke, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023 by Margaret...
How to Write Iambic Pentameter in 13 Minutes: A Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society November 27, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Education, Poetry 27 Comments . https://youtu.be/ayfBdVJxeKk . . Andrew Benson Brown's epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, chronicles the major events of the American...
‘Election Correction’: A Poem by Richard Lackman The Society November 26, 2024 Culture, Poetry 2 Comments . Election Correction Newsome, Whitmer, Pritzker, Hockel, Murphy Have a strange idea of how things should be. Then, of course, there’s...
‘Ode to the Dogs’ by Shari Jo Lekane The Society November 26, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . Ode to the Dogs Puppy to playmate they bring us much joy whether sleeping or hunting for favorite toys. Mischief abounds while they teethe and make...
‘Samhain’: A Poem by Isabella Simmonds The Society November 25, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Samhain Behind the turning leaves a red-breast peeks,In light dim-lit by mists on Samhain dawn;The earth is churned by drumming, grubbing...
‘The Ballad of Mark and P’Nut’ by Geoffrey Smagacz The Society November 25, 2024 Poetry, Satire 13 Comments . The Ballad of Mark and P’Nut The lamp is lit, computer’s on, __My coffee has been brewed. I scroll to find the harrowing tale, __The story...
‘Madrigal à la Tasso’: A Poem by Daniel Howard The Society November 24, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry 14 Comments . Madrigal à la Tasso The surface of the lake reflects the flight _Of one and then another swan; _How it would add to my delight __To know where...
‘The Lop-Sided House’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society November 24, 2024 Culture, Poetry 27 Comments . The Lop-Sided House A lop-sided house on the edge of a cliff; A family trying so hard to be nice As their eavesdropping neighbors spy, wondering...
‘Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, Loved by the Viewer and the Baronet’: A Poem by Phillip Whidden The Society November 23, 2024 Ekphrastic, Poetry 11 Comments . Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, Loved by the Viewer and the Baronet The lady wanted prettiness and style. (The artist wanted pounds.) The chintz Gave both...
‘Underfoot’ and Other Japanese-style Poems by Benjamin Daniel Lukey The Society November 22, 2024 Beauty, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 3 Comments . Underfoot Fescue and clover: A luxuriant carpet Fit for a king’s feet. . . Murder They take noisy flight, Leaving the harvest’s stubble To...
High School Reunion Poems by Russel Winick The Society November 22, 2024 Humor, Limerick, Poetry 20 Comments . Montana High School Reunion The big fella who grew up in Butte, Claimed his high school sweetheart was so cute, __Going back would be grand __A...
‘Contemplative Days’: A Poem by Margaret Brinton The Society November 21, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Contemplative Days A sky of dim and pale display __Brings forth late autumn calm. "A restful peace," it seems to say; __My soul receives the...
‘Smile’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 21, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments . Smile “Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.” ---Connie Stevens I didn’t weigh your sway and worth__Until you left my...
