A Brief History of Riddles The Society October 13, 2018 Culture, Essays, Poetry, Riddles 7 Comments by Manfred Dietrich The world is riddled with riddles. Riddling is as old and as ubiquitous as language itself. When God invited Adam to name the...
‘The Swallows of La Cienega’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie (with Audio) The Society October 12, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Readings 92 Comments For Elizabeth La Cienega slept on a muted afternoon At old Las Golodrinas, when I spied a nest Of swallows beneath the age-worn...
‘The Concert’ by Dr. Emory D. Jones The Society October 11, 2018 Poetry 7 Comments So delicate at first, the music swells And fills with brilliance of a dawning sun Each listener and cracks the callused shells The world...
Three Limericks by Nivedita Karthik The Society October 10, 2018 Children's, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 11 Comments An acrobat named Larry Loops was best among all circus troupes, But he quit one day and was heard to say, “My boss made me jump all...
‘Squandered Wealth’ by David Whippman The Society October 9, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments In his bedsitter years, he was alone And all his dreams were haunted by some girl More wonderful than any precious stone Who’d bring fulfilment...
‘Tweedie of Drumelzier’ by James A. Tweedie The Society October 8, 2018 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments Dark Devil’s Pool, where Spirit of the Tweed __Conceived the first-born of the Tuede clan; __Each maiden fair, and muckle braw each man, __With...
‘So Says the Prof.’ by Steven Shaffer The Society October 7, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 14 Comments “Religion is an opiate of the masses,” So says the Prof. lecturing to his classes. “College used to be a carrier pigeon For this terrible...
The Eight Greatest Poems of William Wordsworth The Society October 6, 2018 Beauty, Best Poems, Culture, Essays, Poetry, The Environment 14 Comments by Charles Eager William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1770—the same year as gave us Beethoven, Hegel, and Hölderlin—and...
Two Translations from German by David Gosselin The Society October 5, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 7 Comments Death Is the Cooling Night by Heinrich Heine Death is the cooling night, Life is the sultry day, But now darkness settles And I long for...
‘Gulag’ by Sam Gilliland The Society October 4, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 7 Comments For John McCain, Ernest C. Brace, & Alexander Solzhenitsyn I season my pen with the sonnet's blood, And do not reason with a moonless...
‘On the Kavanaugh Hearings’ by Joe Tessitore The Society October 2, 2018 Culture, Poetry 17 Comments I . The Accused: “Your Honor… And if I were a troubled lad and if indeed I did go bad, it matters not what I've done since? No point in...
‘To My Wife, Suzi Venus’ by Tod Benjamin The Society October 2, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments a Petrarchan sonnet Life’s hills have been trampled since first we met, That mad, magic moment long years ago, When your smile lit fires in the...
‘Decay of the Literary Sense’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society October 1, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 26 Comments —from A Gallery of Ethopaths* For those of us who cherish text, There’s anguish in what I’ll say next. The world of letters, by...
‘The Autumn Daylight Sky’ by Joe Spring The Society September 30, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments Pure of any mortal mote ___and boundless (but for sight): The deep dry sky of Autumn ___inscribes the shadows bright. (For what could...
‘‘Cause You’d Be Here’ by Gleb Zavlanov The Society September 29, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments The butterfly, the sea anemone, And snowflake, though possessive of the true Design of grace and perfect symmetry, Seem crude and ugly...
‘The Coworker’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann The Society September 28, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments The Coworker A “need-to-know” it’s called in Personnel and I’m just high enough to need to know she’s going through that quiet hell of...
‘After RFK’ and Other Poetry by Robert Piazza The Society September 27, 2018 Culture, Poetry 4 Comments After RFK __I’m named for one about whom Lowell wrote That doom was woven in his veins. In June Of 1968, my father trained To blow-up bridges...
‘A Folded Note Beneath the Door’ by Shannon Rose Cummings The Society September 25, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments Painted, woody there it stands, this door behind which kingdom fans. Bright with order, calm with ease, a wooden plank with hidden seas. A...
Review: Two Poetry Books by James B. Nicola The Society September 24, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry, Reviews 3 Comments by James Sale Wind in the Cave, Finishing Line Press, 2017 Out of Nothing, Shanti Arts Publishing, 2018 Recently in a poetry review of another...
‘The Ballad of Mulan’: A Rhyming Translation The Society September 23, 2018 Culture, Poetry, Short Stories, Translation 27 Comments Translation by Evan Mantyk "The Ballad of Mulan" was written in the sixth century about a legendary warrior, Hua Mulan, who lived during China’s...
‘The Country Club’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream The Society September 22, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . The Country Club To think about a country club Begun for whisky in a tub, Distilled from fields of golden corn In a town where I was born, For...
Two Humorous Poems by R.G. Kaimal The Society September 21, 2018 Humor, Poetry 4 Comments Woman: Why choose the red dress, dear? Reply: To me it's really white, To you it should be clear, Mood sets a color right! Boy: Are...
‘Check-Mate by a Pawn’ and Other Poetry by Amy Foreman The Society September 20, 2018 Beauty, Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry 29 Comments Check-Mate by a Pawn for my sons We parry, thrust: This game of wits, Where each pawn must Deflect your hits. My mounted knight Skips...
‘Sonnet for a Cosmetic Company’ and Other Poetry by Jan Darling The Society September 19, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 21 Comments Sonnet for a Cosmetic Company Ah Youth! To whom each maiden plights her troth To coax and woo each winsome charm to stay ‘Tis difficult to match...
Three Sonnets by J. Simon Harris The Society September 18, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments I. I’ve awed at the Atlantic’s bluest depths, and peered at the Pacific’s deepest blues; the warm blue summer waters of Key West, and cold...
‘Sponsalia’ by Michael Curtis The Society September 17, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Lay your hand in mine dear, ___Lay your hand in mine; If you will lay your hand in mine We shall like eager, fruitful vines ___Intertwine: Then...
‘Ode to Immortality’ by William Krusch The Society September 16, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments Ye boundless vaults of heaven without an end, __Thy silvery fields of azure stars unfold Above the earth, and verdurous spruces bend __Toward the...
‘I Taught a Lesson to My Toes’ by David Watt The Society September 15, 2018 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 25 Comments I Taught a Lesson to My Toes I taught a lesson to my toes, They’d overstepped the mark, Escaping time and time again From nylon prisons...
‘Cape Disappointment’ by James A. Tweedie The Society September 14, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Rondeau 14 Comments a rondeau Cape Disappointment, battered and distressed, Besieged, beset, by brute-force waves hard-pressed As broad and deep Columbia...
‘Left to Write’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society September 13, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 24 Comments Left to Write It isn't difficult to find __the works the masters left behind, and others too have written verse, __some for the better, some for...
‘A Wedding Sonnet’ by Evan Mantyk The Society September 12, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry . Written: March 27, 2022 A Wedding Sonnet To those true cultivators of Zhen Shen Ren,* There is no common form we cannot take: The vows of love...
‘Two Poems on U.K. Immigration’ by Damian Robin The Society September 11, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Terrorism 10 Comments My Wife Is Clad in Cloth From Head to Foot My wife is clad in cloth from head to foot. How deep her eyes, how vast and sane her eyes. As we...
‘Titanic’s Survivors’ by Mike Ruskovich The Society September 10, 2018 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments Things shifted for them suddenly From seeing their folks in the morn To mourning their folks in the sea. Mike Ruskovich...
‘Three Loves in One’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society September 9, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Three Loves in One We've gathered Love, but only insofar As we have reaped a crop from seeds we've sown. Those hours we cherished our beloved...
‘New Super Moon’ by Shari Jo LeKane-Yentumi The Society September 8, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments a Petrarchan sonnet Highlighting midnight across darkened skies flies the Supermoon hidden in all of its glory; though sightless and somber, a...
‘A Life Well Lived’ and Other Poetry by Caroline Bardwell The Society September 7, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Rondeau 4 Comments A Life Well Lived a rondeau A life well-lived begins and ends surrounded by the love of friends. The air breathed in and out each lung are...
‘Open Heart Surgery’ by Steven Shaffer The Society September 6, 2018 Culture, Music, Poetry, Video 3 Comments . https://youtu.be/9h-79BVeByw . Open Heart Surgery The best day of your life; a child is born! Start out happy, but get ready to mourn. You'll try...
Three Riddles by Manfred Dietrich The Society September 5, 2018 Humor, Poetry, Riddles 4 Comments Riddle XXXVII From small beginnings I grow great, just keep up the heat and wait, help me become the thing I am, give me all the heat you...
‘Letter to Lorca’ by Sam Gilliland The Society September 4, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments Nobody came today to ask me questions, nor has anyone asked me for anything this afternoon. I have not seen a single graveyard flower In all...
‘Venezuelan Woes’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society September 3, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 6 Comments (All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Venezuelan Woes by Lud Wes Caribee As Socialist experiment Venezuela sinks into far greater depths, a...
