‘Intersubjective Bootstrap’: A Poem by Josh Mitteldorf The Society December 17, 2024 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Intersubjective Bootstrap If all life is a dream, is it your dream or mine? __And why should our two worlds agree? An answer avails if we’re both...
‘Journalists Live in a Fantasy World’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society December 16, 2024 Poetry, Satire 14 Comments . Journalists Live in a Fantasy World If you like fiction, then turn on the news. You will hear journalists giving their views. Facts are...
‘Let’s Just Say’: A Poem by Mark Stellinga The Society December 15, 2024 Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Let’s Just Say A friend of ours was asked by some reporter how he viewed the war his only son had gone to fight in and had died. His face went...
‘Imitating Shakespeare’s Sonnet 107’ by James Sale The Society December 15, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry, Shakespeare 18 Comments . Imitating Shakespeare’s Sonnet 107 . Sonnet 107 __by William Shakespeare Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming...
‘A House in Winter’ and Other Poems by Adam Sedia The Society December 15, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . A House in Winter Preternaturally silent, still.The omnipresent biting chill, And deepest, darkest night surround.The snow’s soft crunch, the...
‘A Simple Prayer’ and Other Poetry by Marc Gilbert The Society December 14, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . A Simple Prayer Crown my head in gray, dear Lord, __And bless my tangled tongue. Return to me the mystery __I knew when I was young. Before the...
‘Sharpton’: A Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society December 14, 2024 Poetry, Satire 10 Comments . Sharpton He talks his walk and walks his talk and then He walks his talk and talks his walk again. The walk he talks goes nowhere I can see. The...
‘I Saw An Angel Weeping’: A Poem by Michael Walker The Society December 13, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . I Saw An Angel Weeping I saw an angel weeping In the graveyard by the brook, Her silent vigil keeping, Yet when I turned to look, She spread her...
‘Homemade Halos—An Election Reflection’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society December 13, 2024 Poetry, Satire 21 Comments . Homemade Halos---An Election Reflection “Celebrity endorsements say a lot: they say you’re a liberal, an elitist, and a cultural...
‘The Drift of Dark Days’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society December 12, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 25 Comments . The Drift of Dark Days November is a time for us to grieve About the dying of the warmth and light, About the passing of our joie de vivre, As we...
Six Great Dramatic Monologues by Robert Browning The Society December 12, 2024 Essays, Poetry 16 Comments . Six Great Dramatic Monologues by Robert Browning by Brian Yapko The dramatic monologue is a unique type of poem: the poet enters the mind of a...
‘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...
