‘The Water of Life’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society April 5, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments The Water of Life To die Of thirst Is nigh The worst And saddest way A life may end, Since quickened clay Cannot transcend Its...
Poem in Your Pocket Day 2019 Poems (Rhyming!) The Society April 4, 2019 Culture, Education, From the Society, Poetry 25 Comments April 18, 2019 is Poem in Your Pocket Day, part of National Poetry Month. On this day, people are encouraged to carry a poem in their pockets and...
‘Saint Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio’ by Alan Sugar The Society April 3, 2019 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments It seemed a wolf had terrorized the town. Well, isn’t that what wolves are wont to do? The people said, “Say, put that wild thing...
A Translation of ‘In the Evening’ by Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827) The Society April 2, 2019 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 10 Comments translation from Italian by Luigi Pagano Maybe because you are the image of eternal peace O evening, you are welcomed by me with open arms when...
A Pro-life Poem: ‘In the Garden’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society April 1, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 10 Comments In the Garden In Paradise there is a place where ruby-colored roses grace the trellises of precious pearl - so splendidly their buds...
‘Curve’ and Other Poetry by T.M. Moore The Society March 31, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Curve It’s just a simple curve, gouged by a string to make a tidy border in between the walkway and the yard. On one side, green grass...
‘That I Might Learn to Love’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann The Society March 30, 2019 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Villanelle 18 Comments That I Might Learn to Love a villanelle That I might learn to love I sorely prayed with hopes that God might teach me by romance as yearning I...
Three Poems from Divine Comedies, by James Sale The Society March 29, 2019 Culture, Dante, Poetry 41 Comments The following are excerpted from James Sale's upcoming book Divine Comedies. Exit from Hell I did well in life. But everything is real in...
‘The Current State of Brexit’ by Damian Robin The Society March 28, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 28 Comments When May became P. M., she had a doggéd view - Her Parliament majority would fly us through: All Brexit documents on leaving the E....
‘The Pregnant Woman’ and Other Poetry by Beverly Stock The Society March 28, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments The Pregnant Woman The Pregnant Woman nests a baby seed Who's ever pressing on her very core While her body adapts to baby's needs She's...
‘Freakish Tattooing’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society March 27, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments —from A Gallery of Ethopaths The world is filled with brainless brats Who all insist on having tats. These morons with their inked-up...
‘Love of Life’ by David Paul Behrens The Society March 26, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments How I long for the days gone by, Such memories overtake me. I look back on my life and sigh, May the future not forsake me. All the...
‘Annunciation’ by J.C. Scharl The Society March 25, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments Beyond the brimming ages Gabriel waits, his foremost message burning on his breath. Through time men slide, creeping through the...
A Poem from the Soviet Union, by Ryhor Krushyna The Society March 24, 2019 Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Translation 2 Comments Translated by Ihar Kazak At the door it seems I hear The stomping of evil strangers. This has been my fear for many a year And my former...
‘Zaleucus the Epizephyrian to His Sword’ by Daniel Galef The Society March 23, 2019 Culture, Poetry 8 Comments (by the ancient lawgiver who threw himself on his blade to satisfy a legal technicality) 625 b.c.e. Yours is a hard but hardy justice: When __The...
A Poem for Tommy Robinson: ‘The Lad of Luton’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society March 22, 2019 Culture, Poetry 15 Comments Though all the world should grovel and bend To the minions of deepest hell, Our days of glory shall not end Where brave men fought and...
‘The Black Children’ and Other Poetry by J.D. Graham The Society March 21, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 1 Comment . The Black Children In China, until rather recently, each pair of parents was allowed one kid, according to the “one-child policy.” Some parents...
‘Blue’s Didgeridoo’ by David Watt The Society March 20, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments From the stations they sent out a call To their jillaroo friends - one and all; For an overnight camp, while the sky bore the stamp Of a...
‘Villanelle of the Wicked Queen’ by David Whippman The Society March 19, 2019 Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 9 Comments I am a captive of the wicked queen. My mind’s a blank; the temptress took my soul. I know too well what this desire must mean. And...
Poetry Lesson Plan: British Romantic Period (including Lecture Notes) The Society March 18, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Education, Poetry 6 Comments Note: Teaching classical poetry rather than other forms of poetry or modern literature makes a difference. Inherent in classical poetry is a respect...
Two Translations from German by Charles Eager The Society March 17, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 3 Comments Anonymous (12th Century), 'Du bist mein' ('You are mine') I am yours and you, mine are; Of this ought you be 'ware. You are a part of, prisoner...
‘The Architect’ by Annabelle Fuller The Society March 16, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments He thinks in lines And vexing vertices. His shining mind always inclines To maths and magnitude, minute degrees Of formulae, and the...
‘The Dragonslayer’ by Jeff Nicholson The Society March 15, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments Ere gloaming wanes, acceding sable night, As writhen mists conceal a pallid moon, From bastion vigil, thou descry a sight; To rumours,...
Review: “Profane and Sacred Love” by William Ruleman The Society March 14, 2019 Beauty, Essays, Poetry, Reviews 2 Comments William Ruleman: Profane and Sacred Love, Feather Books, 2002 and reprint 2014 by James Sale Having read some excellent poetry by William Ruleman...
Sonnet ‘1/12/2019’ by Edward Hoke The Society March 13, 2019 Love Poems, Poetry 6 Comments O how I long to hold thee in my arms, And taste again of nature’s sweet reprieve, To cast off masks, false affectations, charms; To savor all I...
A Poem on New York’s Abortion Law, by Amy Foreman The Society March 12, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 46 Comments Room 402: Gehenna Comes to New York (On Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Jan. 22,2019 repeal of New York’s Public Health Law §...
Two Videos on the Reading of Poetry Out Loud The Society March 11, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Readings, Video 5 Comments The Bad The first video of Hannah Silva instructs us on the abyss that poetry reading has found itself in today. The irrationality and baseness of...
‘Early Morning Winter Walk’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society March 10, 2019 Poetry 19 Comments Early Morning Winter Walk Footprints follow like a shadow as I walk Through early morning snow as white as powdered chalk. Dragon-steam appears...
‘Three Thousands Years’ by Phillip Whidden The Society March 9, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Three Thousand Years before Apple and Three Thousand Years after the iPad I carry in my knapsack poems by The ancient Greeks, the eldest...
‘Providence and Poetic Tradition’ by Charles Eager The Society March 8, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments apropos of 'The Threads' by E. Mantyk I fell into a radiant sleep; Thereon into dream and seeing: A paradise seemed me to keep; In its walls, the...
‘Though Beauty Also’ by Alec Ream The Society March 7, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . Though beauty also beckons there, Mt. Shasta’s peak projects severe, So from her panoramic view, Is cast a pall on me and you And everyone...
‘The Fate of Fine Art’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society March 6, 2019 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments The Fate of Fine Art Too late to turn the clock back on fine art, Egregious oxymoron that it may Be called today, but where to find the...
Translation of ‘Farewell to the Royal Gardens at Aranjuez’ by Gálvez The Society March 5, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 7 Comments Translation by Martin Hill Ortiz Farewell to the Royal Gardens at Aranjuez by María Rosa Gálvez de Cabrera of Spain (1768-1806) Aranjuez:...
‘Mother of Falun Gong’ and Other Poetry by Gleb Zavlanov The Society March 4, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 4 Comments Mother of Falun Gong They said my mother would be back tomorrow, They said her smile would still shine proudly here, Her hand brush off the...
Who Killed Poetry? A Critique of Modernism and Post-Modernism (Part I) The Society March 3, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry 68 Comments by Edward C. "Ted" Hayes A Prefatory Poem (or a Gaggle of Goosefeathers) Some will judge this essai the exact thing it’s not...
‘Cabbage-Tree Day Break’ by Stephen McCarthy The Society March 2, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments I like it, though it’s very dark; The firelight a fading arc Along the tree, whose ageing bark Shows day is near. I like it, but...
‘Before the Darkness’ and Other Poetry by Dusty Grein The Society March 1, 2019 Beauty, Poetry, Rondeau 4 Comments Before the Darkness a rondeau Before the darkness brings about the night and steals the world’s colors from your sight, paint all...
‘Let None Dare Call It Beauty’ by Adam Sedia The Society February 28, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments Let none dare call it beauty that commands Feigned praise from those whom fashion deems refined But deep revulsion from an honest mind Derided for...
Three Love Poems by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society February 27, 2019 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 14 Comments Today the Wind for Elizabeth Today the wind through winter’s unclad bones Drowns in its woeful howl my soul’s discant; Beyond, a distant...
‘Who Needs QU?’ and Other Poetry by Raymond Gallucci The Society February 26, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments Who Needs QU? It’s time to retire Q-U. K-W’s logical choice. What’s Q do that K cannot do? And U’s vowel that has its own...
