Essay: The Life, Death and Art of Rachel Wetzsteon The Society March 11, 2018 Essays, Poetry 15 Comments By Con Chapman It has been a little more than eight years since poet Rachel Wetzsteon committed suicide at the age of 42 following the end of a...
Two Sonnets by Edward Hoke The Society March 10, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment 8 Comments 12/03/17 Of all ye gods, that crown Olympus high, Who yet remains that man’s not brought to heel? When aircraft daily pierce great Zeus’s...
‘The Wintering-Ground’ by Douglas Thornton (with Audio) The Society March 9, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Readings 4 Comments Within what hut, My woodland maid, May I remain awhile? Next what fire may my chills Be warmed? Be there A path that leads Past...
‘Unrequited Love’ by J. Simon Harris The Society March 8, 2018 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments You caught me staring at you yesterday, or so it seemed, for you—you smiled and blushed and all your girlfriends giggled in the...
‘The Day the Poetry Died’ and Other Poetry by Steven Shaffer The Society March 7, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments The Day the Poetry Died Wonder why poetry is in decline, While not ever writing one lyric line? There is no experience more perverse, Than...
‘Political Correctness’ by Margaret Coats The Society March 6, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments After Joachim du Bellay’s "Les Regrets LXVIII" I hate the Florentines' foul avarice, I hate lewd Sienese profanity, I hate Geneva's glib...
‘The Neologist’ by Arthur Lamar Mitchell The Society March 6, 2018 Humor, Poetry 4 Comments The neologist bakes the cake, The iconoclast shreds the recipe Deems the structure all a fake, But powerless against euphony, Leaves empty...
‘Barney-Hill Moss Revisited’ by Sam Gilliland The Society March 5, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments The unchanging moor, but heeds season’s call To don her different well-coloured weeds, My heart is cold, left lonely; waterfall And...
‘The Cymbal Player’ and Other Poetry by Martin Elster The Society March 4, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments The Cymbal Player As bows and fingers quiver strings, as lungs and lips whip up the air, as notes soar on great falcon wings, one player,...
Thirty-one Sonnets: Renaissance to New Millennial The Society March 3, 2018 Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry, Poetry Forms 7 Comments by Lew Icarus Bede "A sonnet is a coin: its face reveals The soul—its converse, to what Power 'tis due: Whether for tribute to the august...
‘Self-Love’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges The Society March 2, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 6 Comments Self-Love Some tenderhearted people claim We’re deficient self-esteem; Yes, a collective sense of shame Made despondency...
‘Wordsworth’s Lament’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society March 1, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments Wordsworth’s Lament I wandered lonely as a cloud—Oh dear! I watched the dance of daffodils—Oh my! When on my couch in vacant mood I lie I...
‘Made in China’ by Fr. Richard Libby The Society February 28, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 8 Comments The toys we buy at Christmastime (The decorations, too), Don’t come from elves in Santa’s shop, As we’ve been told they do. The...
‘A Lively Hope: Sonnets on Sir Hubert Parry’s Youth’ by Phillip Whidden The Society February 27, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry 19 Comments On the occasion of his birthday, 160 years ago, on February 27, 1848 At the Solitary Age of Twelve—Seven and Twelve Being Holy Numbers The...
‘Evening Prayer’ by Sandy Stert Benjamin The Society February 26, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment 7 Comments Budding darkness, in your starkness, void of noise and light, deliver me from what I see ’fore day turns into night. Guide me through...
‘Living with Omnibenevolence’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society February 25, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments Living with Omnibenevolence Each one of us is furnished with an expiration date, And no one living has the power to elude his fate. There...
‘Confucius Institute Workers’ and Other Poetry by Damian Robin The Society February 24, 2018 Poetry 9 Comments Confucius Institute Workers (Excerpt) For Xinqun Note: Confucius Institutes are being or have been set up at major universities throughout America...
‘SOS’ by Joe Tessitore The Society February 23, 2018 Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 5 Comments gone the time for finding fault for finger-pointing and assault frantic now the SOS our ship of state is in distress taking water, sinking...
‘A Sonnet?’ by Carly Britt The Society February 23, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments It’s a vicious process, sonnet writing. It seems as every time I near the goal a syllable or rhyme eludes me, rendering my poetry somewhat...
‘A History Lesson’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society February 22, 2018 Blank Verse, Culture, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. The misreporting of great Caesar’s death Errs by one gross omission. We’re not told That when...
‘The Parkland, Florida, School Shooting’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society February 20, 2018 Culture, Poetry, Terrorism 16 Comments This life—O, how much more of it remains? The night is brief. Toward those short trees, we saw a bird, descending with our grief. Chris Hixon,...
‘ Which Is the Grandest Name of All?’ and Other Poetry by Ted Hayes The Society February 20, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry, Short Stories 7 Comments Which Is the Grandest Name of All? Which is the grandest name of all? Churchill, Churchill, Churchill! Winter sere or crimson fall Churchill,...
‘Ballade on the Man Who Could Have Killed George Washington’ by Ron L. Hodges The Society February 19, 2018 Culture, Poetry, Short Stories 8 Comments “But it was not pleasant to fire at the back of an unoffending individual…so I let him alone.” —Major Patrick Ferguson, British Expeditionary...
‘Night Watch’ by Jordan Hege The Society February 18, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments Tonight, I saw the moon Stalking me, watching me Hiding surreptitiously. She knows I know she's there She knows I do not care Reasons for and...
‘Limerick’ by Annie Acho Tartoni The Society February 18, 2018 High School Submissions, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 6 Comments There once was a girl named Shelly. who bought a pet fish by the deli. But to her surprise, with fear in her eyes, she saw the fish dead on its...
‘Insomnia’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society February 17, 2018 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 23 Comments Insomnia Many's the night I lie in bed with words to write that fill my head. They twist and turn and jump and shout. Oh how I yearn to get them...
‘Lost in Thought’ by Marie Davids The Society February 16, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments She sits in thoughtful silence, chin in hand, That old blue skirt hem covers her thin knees. Gazing west, the sunset’s silvery...
The Power of Poetry: A Traditional Chinese Story The Society February 15, 2018 Culture, Short Stories, Translation 6 Comments Fenghan Gao was an outstanding artist of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912 AD). He had profound wisdom and was multi-talented; he was good at writing poems...
‘Sonnet for Elizabeth’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie (with Audio) The Society February 14, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Readings 23 Comments I fear no more the settling of the night Or mind its grey, evaporating shades; Mine ears are deaf to time’s lost serenades, Mine...
‘Swallows’ by Leo Yankevich (with Video) The Society February 13, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video 8 Comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjc_6R0ang8&feature=youtu.be It was once thought that swallows wintered on the moon, or morphed...
Essay: On Edgar Allan Poe’s Search for Supernal Beauty and His Five Greatest Poems The Society February 12, 2018 Best Poems, Essays, Poetry, The Raven 6 Comments . by David Bellemare Gosselin Today, seldom is Edgar Allan Poe's voice heard as it's drowned out by the popular notions of Poe as some sort of...
‘Brother Be’ by Andrew Todd Ramirez The Society February 12, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments Like feathered tip of swooping sparrow Our kinship cuts like that of arrows A brother’s love has weakened me I’ll take the slice, so...
‘William Blake’ by David Paul Behrens The Society February 11, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments In another lifetime I was William Blake When I saw his work That was my take He wrote about love And the human heart I thought I was...
‘The Harvest’ by Teri Skultety The Society February 10, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments The sparkle on the river, the lights from distant shore, the cold and bitter glitter, the beckoning of more, Is beautiful to look at, ‘tis a...
‘Those Days and These’ and Other Poetry by Jane Blanchard The Society February 9, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments Those Days and These “‘. . . Macbeth does murther sleep.’” —William Shakespeare If only such a villain were __Alone in this regard, The...
‘Between the Trees, Along the Path – Monon Trail, Carmel IN’ by Rosaleen Crowley The Society February 8, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry Between the trees, along the path I hear the woodpecker tap tap tap. Beneath the bridge, cyclists roll through Pedaling and laughing two...
‘Flower of Choice’ and Other Poetry by David Watt The Society February 7, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Short Stories 16 Comments Flower of Choice On native Australian flowers The wattle bears her gold in early spring As luminescent beads on woody strings, Spreading perfume...
‘Cutting Remarks’ by Jennifer Hinders The Society February 6, 2018 Humor, Poetry 2 Comments How wonderful of God to hold us together, When man is prone to tear us part, Said the surgical student thoughtfully, As he practiced his...
Essay: Unmerited Neglect: A Look at Three Longfellow Poems The Society February 5, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry 5 Comments By Carter Davis Johnson In a period where American literature was considered peripheral and amateur, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)...
‘The Fall of Jerusalem’ by Ron L. Hodges The Society February 4, 2018 Poetry 2 Comments Jeremiah 52 When Judah rebelled against the Chaldean horde, They sought to gain freedom without help from the Lord, Trusting, instead, in the...
