‘Computer Worship’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society August 1, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 32 Comments —from A Gallery of Ethopaths* The computer is a simple tool— It cannot change an arrant fool Into a brilliant, thoughtful scholar, Although...
‘Candle’ by C.M. Rivers The Society July 31, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments Slender pillar burning bright, remarkably distinguished. I wish that you could stay the night but you must be extinguished. Your wick...
‘Sonnet on the Death of Teeth’ and Other Poetry by Damian Robin The Society July 30, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments Sonnet on the Death of Teeth I’m amused by a brush with Death In the depths of my bathroom mirror. His grimaces shrink into grinning, His...
‘The Federal and the Doric’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream The Society July 29, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . . The Federal and the Doric The Federal and the Doric Combined a stern austere; They frowned upon the quad; They spread a healthy...
‘A Pink Cinquain’ by Carol Smallwood The Society July 28, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Pink has become a favored cultural color, more subtle, less primitive than red: black mixed with pink is considered seductive, innocent...
‘Aldeyjarfoss’ and Other Poetry by Greg Tuleja The Society July 27, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Aldeyjarfoss If, in some grim sensory exercise In a laboratory, behind a screen Where staunch technicians memorialize Their findings, everything...
Two Translations of the Poetry of Ryhor Krushyna The Society July 26, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 3 Comments Translations from Belarusian by the poet's son Ihar Kazak. The Explosion May mayhem never strike our good Earth; The fertile one...
‘In the Deep of the Night’ by Daniel Leach The Society July 25, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments In the deep of the night do my restless thoughts roam ____To the moon-flooded fields of the sky, And they search for a pure and ethereal...
‘Kant’ by Connor Rosemond The Society July 24, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments Out of the crooked timber laid by man, No straight foundation may ever be built. While Reason clinkers on across the span, The tunes of...
‘‘Til We Forgot: A Lament on Recovery’ by Amy Foreman The Society July 23, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 81 Comments “. . . lest when thou hast eaten and art full . . . then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth...
‘The Condemned House’ by Leo Yankevich The Society July 22, 2018 Poetry 14 Comments After the above black and white photograph by Jared Carter Who alive remembers who lived there seventy years ago? A family of WASPs set in their...
‘I Journey On’ and Other Poetry by James A Tweedie The Society July 21, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 16 Comments a villanelle The sun descends into the silent sea. As shadows lengthen in the fading light I journey on to seek what yet may be. As death from...
Review: ‘Organ Harvest’ by Damian Robin The Society July 20, 2018 Culture, Essays, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Reviews 5 Comments Organ Harvest by Damian Robin, published by Fulton Verse, 2018. Read three sonnets from the work here. by James Sale Damian Robin is well known...
‘Oak’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann The Society July 19, 2018 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Oak In quiet awe before a solid oak in summer bloom, I thought: to such as these my Saxon kin of long ago bespoke their pagan prayers—a source...
‘Rebirth’ by Jan Darling The Society July 18, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 26 Comments My Soul awoke and yawned and stretched and pushed And seemed desired to break its earthly bounds Too anxious, I almost its Spirit crushed As birth...
‘Candle’ by Carter Davis Johnson The Society July 17, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments My candle burns at both ends Late into the night, And flickers fast, And bounces in my sight. My pen lies docile in my hand. The...
‘Letter to England: For Tommy Robinson’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society July 15, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 182 Comments I. But yesterday, your noble fathers bled Upon the fields of France, where countless dead Had found among the vines their final rest, To gild...
‘Questatements’ by Alessio Zanelli The Society July 15, 2018 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 11 Comments If seasons pass too fast you'd better run. If they proceed too slow indulge in fun. Sunups are best enjoyed in days of cold. Sundowns...
‘Sail Fever’ and Other Poetry by David Watt The Society July 14, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments Sail Fever I knew some terms, the merest germs Of illness called ‘Sail Fever’: Tack starboard, port, keep mainsail taut, Steer boat by tiller...
‘Wasteheart’ by David Whippman The Society July 13, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments The precious are so easy to neglect: I let them down, my family and my friends. It’s futile if I offer my respect - Today is much too late to...
‘Love’ by Leonard Dabydeen The Society July 12, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments Where a lamppost spreads a white spot light Nursing silent night with canny purr, A racoon crosses there in sudden flight. Where an old man...
‘Nova Scotia and the Clouds of Summer’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society July 11, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 27 Comments Nova Scotia and the Clouds of Summer So silently they march along, the clouds of summer, proud and strong; their grand approach from yonder...
‘Love’s Refrain’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society July 10, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments For Elizabeth My morning’s mountain wears the lavish light Of candid clouds and truth-engendered white. Ah, heavens, spread your opalescent...
‘Alzheimer’s Disease’ and Other Poetry by Sam Gilliland The Society July 9, 2018 Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Alzheimer's Disease I can feel your deep darkness closing in, With its harrowing sense of helplessness, Soon obscenity sours tongues...
‘Runnymede Revisited’ and Other Poetry by Edward C. Hayes The Society July 8, 2018 Poetry 12 Comments Runnymede Revisited Note: Runnymede is the location where King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta. This poem was written in the 1990s when the...
‘Bristlecone Longevity’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society July 7, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments Bristlecone Longevity The beauty of the tree is not how old, Indeed how ancient in its gnarling now, Not in its silent history yet untold, Nor in...
A Translation of Sappho’s ‘Old Age Poem’ by J. Simon Harris The Society July 6, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 29 Comments Translator's Preliminary Note This is an original translation of a poem by Sappho (630-580 BC), traditionally known as the “old age poem” or...
Three Poems on Her Father, by Sally Cook The Society July 5, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Heritage I like to say I’d an Egyptian father If that is too obscure for you, I’d rather Explain it just by citing preservation. They...
‘America the Beautiful’ by James A. Tweedie The Society July 4, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Popular Poetry Archives 22 Comments Poet’s Note: I wrote this poem in the same metrical form as the song “America the Beautiful” (but without the internal rhyme). You can sing it...
Four Poems for the Fourth of July The Society July 4, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 7 Comments Two Lives by Michael Maibach When soldiers die, They give two lives. The one they had, And the one denied. The spouse not met, The child...
‘Garden Waltz’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society July 3, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Terza Rima 18 Comments Garden Waltz a terza rima sonnet in dactylic pentameter with a truncated foot at the end of each line Radishes sway to the rhythm of sunlight and...
‘Plagiarist’ by Herb Guggenheim The Society July 2, 2018 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments You pushed Grace hard so you could have your book. She did the layout, made the pdf. I bought the thing so I could take a look but, when I read...
Two Translations of the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, by Leo Yankevich The Society July 1, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 8 Comments The Lord’s Supper They’re gathered round, astonished, full of dread, round him who like a wise man must decide, and who leaves those with whom...
‘The Fall Revisited’ and Other Poetry by Caroline Bardwell The Society June 30, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau 9 Comments The Fall Revisited The implications of the fall are endless in their reach; that lowly serpent had such gall, Eve's failure to beseech. Though...
‘The Little Red Hen, a Good-Night, Bedtime Story for Our Time’ by Uclis Weebeard The Society June 29, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments Guess who is not invited to come to a dinner here? Rights are just for some people. Others have to disappear. There is no bias in denials of our...
‘A New Summer Morning’ by Sathya Narayana The Society June 29, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments It's first of sweaty, sweltering daybreaks of summer new. The fewer trailing steps of parting spring are still moist-fresh with drakes' claw...
‘Truth Against the Tide’ by Amy Foreman The Society June 28, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 28 Comments “Only fools are positive.” “You sure about that?” “I’m positive.” ―The Three Stooges “Freedom is the freedom to say that two...
‘The Breeze of Regret’ by Jennifer Hinders The Society June 27, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 14 Comments While strolling around an illustrious lair, I was caught by a breeze of regret in the air, For gazing I was on old buildings of...
Rhyming Riddle Contest The Society June 27, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Riddles 177 Comments Winners announced here. Scroll down and read the comments section to enjoy all of the submissions. What has no subject one can tell, Yet...
How to Write a Kyrielle The Society June 26, 2018 Education, Poetry, Poetry Forms 7 Comments by Dusty Grein Like many of the old French refrain forms, the kyrielle originated in the 15th century with the traveling troubadours. It is a...
