On ‘Hylas and the Nymphs’ Removal from a British Art Museum and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society February 3, 2018 Art, Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 8 Comments (All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Hylas and the Nymphs by Beau Ecs Wilder John William Waterhouse's "Hylas and the Nymphs" must go; enchanting,...
‘A Sonnet Riddle’ by Sharon Zhou The Society February 3, 2018 Poetry, Riddles 11 Comments I’m born from a forked tongue’s hissing mutter, An ungrounded half-truth, forceless and tame. Just like a spark struck from flint I shudder At...
‘The Deer Crossing’ by Ken Allan Dronsfield The Society February 2, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments Sun slowly dipping in the western sky; the winds are light and the pine boughs tossing. From their warm, peaceful beds the meek and...
‘A Robin’s Song’ by Connie Phillips The Society February 1, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments A robin should fly south before the snow, With others in the flocks of migrant birds, Quite safe amid this seas’nal ebb and flow— To...
2018 Poetry Competition Winners Announced The Society February 1, 2018 Poetry, Poetry Contests 8 Comments First Place ($500 Prize): C.B. Anderson, Massachusetts “Stonewalls Sometimes a Prison Make” “Praise for the Mother of Summer”...
‘Thoughts on January 31, 2018’s Complete Lunar Eclipse’ and Other Poetry by Amy Foreman The Society January 31, 2018 Poetry 21 Comments Read about last night's lunar eclipse here. Thoughts on January 31, 2018’s Complete Lunar Eclipse Reflected Glory, full and...
‘The Drunken’ (A Raven Parody) by J. Simon Harris The Society January 30, 2018 Humor, Poetry, The Raven 6 Comments Once upon a midnight dreary, while I wandered, drunk and weary, Over many a quaint and dimlit alley of forgotten doors— While I plodded, barely...
‘The Last Time I Saw Paris’ and Other Poetry by David Whippman The Society January 30, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments The Last Time I Saw Paris You have imagined how it was, I expect: Troy’s famous towers burning, the city wrecked, the lines of weeping...
‘Sort of Old’ and Other Poetry by Heidi Griminger Blanke The Society January 29, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments Sort of Old I take my senior discount at restaurants and stores. I cover up my gray hairs with Clairol reservoirs My...
‘At Lincoln’s Tomb’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society January 28, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 11 Comments At Lincoln’s Tomb Springfield, Illinois, 2016 Be glad you cannot rise to life and stand Outside that tomb to die again from shame At Illinois,...
‘Firing Truman Capote on a Snowy Evening’ by Con Chapman The Society January 27, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments Truman Capote was fired from his job as a copy boy for The New Yorker after he angered Robert Frost. Whose kid this is, I do not know, He seems to...
Translation of Dante Canzoni ‘Amor che ne la mente mi ragiona’ The Society January 26, 2018 Beauty, Dante, Poetry, Translation 3 Comments By David B. Gosselin The nature of the subject matter discussed in Dante Alighieri’s lyric poetry, his canzoni, has been debated time after...
Rediscovering Percy Shelley’s Greatest Work: ‘Prometheus Unbound, with Other Poems’ The Society January 25, 2018 Beauty, Best Poems, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Reviews 8 Comments By Brett Forester Writing but one fine, enduring poem is a remarkable achievement. Writing a book of great poems is an even rarer triumph. Yet in...
‘Stone Walls Sometimes a Prison Make’ by C.B. Anderson The Society January 24, 2018 Beauty, Human Rights in China, Poetry 5 Comments Stone Walls Sometimes a Prison Make What might have happened once in Carolina To folks whose only wish was for some peace Is commonplace...
‘The Garden of the Gods’ and Other Poetry by Elizabeth Spencer Spragins The Society January 23, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments The Garden of the Gods A Cywydd Llosgyrnog When storm clouds hid the Manitou*, They cloaked invaders from his view: Giants* who...
‘Perked Coffee’ and Other Poetry by Bob McGinness The Society January 22, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments Perked Coffee Things today are bad and getting worse, examples always seem to us abound: service for consumers seems perverse, and music...
Translation of the Iliad’s Beginning by J. Simon Harris The Society January 21, 2018 Culture, Education, Epic, Homer, Poetry, Translation 7 Comments Homer’s Iliad I.1-47. Translation in the epic hexameter, the meter of the Greek. Sing of the wrath, my goddess, of Peleus’ son Achilles, doomed...
‘The Breaking Season’ by Annabelle Fuller The Society January 21, 2018 Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry 9 Comments Lips, soft as velvet, primrose pink, Are rent the blue of bruising ink. They rive and crackle in the cold, Retract in tissue paper...
‘On Reading Ginsburg’s “Howl”’ and Other Poetry by Gregory Spicer The Society January 20, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments On Reading Ginsburg’s “Howl” Once, I possessed an open mind, Which I assure you was my own. I used it to read Ginsberg’s...
Review: What Is Shen Yun All About? The Society January 19, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Human Rights in China, Music, Performing Arts, Poetry, Reviews 42 Comments By Evan Mantyk Advertising for it is everywhere. If you haven’t seen it, you just haven’t been paying attention. A brilliantly colored image...
‘On President Trump’s First Year in Office’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society January 19, 2018 Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry, Riddles 16 Comments On President Trump’s First Year in Office An earlier version of this poem was published with an explication in The Epoch Times. In Donald...
‘The Old Westerns’ and Other Poetry by Linda Imbler The Society January 18, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry The Old Westerns No more heroes on horses named Trigger No more rugged, chapped, white hatted figures The bad guys today do not always...
‘New York Villanelle’ by Michele Herman The Society January 17, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 2 Comments We New Yorkers love our real estate. We measure our bliss by the size of our rooms. We all need a place to park our freight. We apartment hunt...
‘The Oddity’ and Other Poetry by Mark Stevick The Society January 16, 2018 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments The Oddity My pen and me set off to sea but washed up feeling useless; the cadent swell invoked a spell and story of...
‘Dreams as a Child’ and Other Poetry by David Hollywood The Society January 15, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments Dreams as a Child Remember our lives in dreams as a child, When tingled excitement tickled inside, Surging in giggles which shivered our...
Essay: The Wit of William Cowper The Society January 14, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments By James A. Tweedie These days, William Cowper (November 26, 1731 - April 25, 1800) isn’t likely to be found on anyone’s list of “Top Twenty...
‘Glacier’ and Other Poetry by Francis Flavin The Society January 13, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments Glacier Sleeping mistress of the land, Whose long repose the ages span, We tread across your fissured gown Until we find in looking...
‘To Winter’ by David Gosselin The Society January 12, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments When Horae's icy carpets sweep the dale And the heavy boughs shed their frozen tears, The earth is covered with her icy veil And mortals lashed...
‘A Great Divide’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society January 11, 2018 Beauty, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments A Great Divide "...to form a more perfect union" I walk to the edge of a great divide and I try to talk with the other side but they do...
‘The Night When Heaven Cried’ by Sam Gilliland The Society January 10, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments I have been here before, when heaven cried, All my love and longing locked up inside, Where the green grass glowed in the falling...
‘The Filtering of English in Iran’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society January 9, 2018 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 4 Comments (All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) The Filtering of English in Iran by Delir Ecwabeus "...nor did anything terrify the people so much as those...
‘Jax Beach 1950s’ by Lucy Giardino Cortese The Society January 9, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Beauties sashay across the sand Norma Jean look-a-likes hand in hand Times before bikinis and thongs Transistor radios blaring...
‘Whenever Terror Strikes’ and Other Poetry by André Le Mont Wilson The Society January 8, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Terrorism Whenever Terror Strikes Whenever terror strikes, wherever death enshrouds the land, its people live in fright of crowded places. Masses hold...
‘Where Have the Roses Gone’ by Leonard Dabydeen The Society January 7, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments Where have the roses gone from my garden? Look how those left freeze in cold winter wind; Nothing I can do nor ask for pardon To save the lovely...
A Sonnet for the Feast of the Three Kings (with Audio) by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society January 6, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings 16 Comments Sonnet XLI - Gifts of the Magi A grander throne than Solomon’s of old, Though wrought of rough-hewn wood and winter hay, Received the royal...
‘Winter Wore a Raiment White’ and Other Poetry by Neal Dachstadter The Society January 5, 2018 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments Winter Wore a Raiment White Winter wore a raiment white, Checkered blue as snow in shade, As he worked, amid the leaves, In the Autumn...
‘Why Add to the Suffering?’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society January 4, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, The Environment 4 Comments Nature’s pillars, which have borne Earth’s breath for ages, Are now crumbling into dust... Still, more keep falling, Shattered by our...
‘The Exclusive Inclusive’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges The Society January 3, 2018 Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry, Short Stories 4 Comments The Exclusive Inclusive I heard about a tender troop, Whose commission was to give Love like a ministry serves soup; They seemed, oh, so...
10 Greatest Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Society January 2, 2018 Beauty, Best Poems, Culture, Essays, Poetry 51 Comments Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (born February 27, 1807 - died March 24, 1882) was an American poet of the Romantic period. He served as a professor at...
‘Lights’ and Other Poetry by Connie Phillips The Society January 1, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments Lights The shining Santas smile in silver sleighs, With dazzling reindeer poised on roofs, midair; The phosphorescent elves stare in a...
