‘This Collar, Blue’ and Other Poetry by Zachary Dilks The Society March 29, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 28 Comments This Collar, Blue My elbows leak with grease And all my toes are laid with steel I'm rough of neck My knuckles specked with cuts that never...
‘See the Music’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society March 28, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 25 Comments See the Music Mysterious the inner eye that hears the dancers flying by across the stage in grand jete' as woodwind, horn and cello play And...
‘The Ride of Godiva’ by David E. Müller The Society March 27, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Short Stories 7 Comments About the Lady Godiva and her famed naked ride through Coventry Once in the town of Coventry, Leofric Earl had held decree; Too great the tax that...
‘A Tribe of Trolls’ by E.V. Wyler The Society March 26, 2018 Humor, Poetry 23 Comments A tribe of trolls escaped their cage! Now rabid wrath and rancor rage. Hurling hurt from hidden hellholes (most notably, their toilet...
Essay: On George Herbert’s ‘Easter Wings’ The Society March 25, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Shape Poems 5 Comments by Jane Blanchard George Herbert was born into a well-to-do and well-doing family of Montgomery, Wales, in 1593. When he was three years old, his...
‘The Fall’ and Other Poetry by Jenni Wyn Hyatt The Society March 24, 2018 Humor, Poetry, Terrorism 11 Comments The Fall Now, if you’re sitting comf’tably, then listen to my ballad; it is a Summer evening tale of pizza and of salad. “I’ll take...
‘The Garrett Loft’ by Leo Yankevich The Society March 23, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments In garret lofts poor artists have quite often painted women bathing, combing hair inside a nearby mirror… __________________________Your eyes...
‘The Maid of Orleans’ and Other Poetry by Nicky Hetherington The Society March 22, 2018 Culture, Poetry, Riddles, Villanelle 10 Comments The Maid of Orleans A villanelle on Joan of Arc As I gazed at the flames of the fire my heart, with all there that day, broke – such...
‘Winter Ends and Spring Begins’ by Wendy Bourke The Society March 21, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments in the woods, I stop in twilight dim … as spring throws off the evening’s hoarfrost coat midst groaning fir and shivering bare...
ABC Poems: A Poetry Puzzle Challenge The Society March 20, 2018 Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests, Popular Poetry Archives 113 Comments By Amy Foreman A cold and rainy afternoon recently gave rise to this little idea of a poem-puzzle. I challenged myself to write a poem where...
Seasonal Sonnets (Acrostic) by Mark A. Doherty The Society March 20, 2018 Acrostic, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments Winter’s Nocturn When angles of the sun are shining low, Intuition tells us we must sleep. Nocturnal tracks appear now in the snow To...
‘Statues’ and Other Poetry by Charles Bauer The Society March 19, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 24 Comments Statues A Villanelle Two Buddhas now a lost reality, A crowd chants loudly near a pile of stone; Across the South you won’t find General...
‘The Wisest Poem Ever’ by J.J. Bitters The Society March 18, 2018 Beauty, Children's, Poetry 18 Comments The wisest poem ever Was written by my daughter, Although I’ve never known her To be much of a scholar. She’s only five years old...
‘Ode to the Great Highland Pipes’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society March 17, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments For Bill Horn Send up on wings of blood our fathers’ cry, Though the unhearing dead brook not your sound, And flesh yet binds us to the groaning...
‘A Consolation’ by Christine Ann Cuccio The Society March 16, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments At night I hear Prokofiev and Liszt and dream of playing baby grands as sly Euterpe lures me towards the melodies of pianists. My fingers cannot...
‘Theological’ and Other Poetry by Andrew Miller The Society March 15, 2018 Culture, Poetry 15 Comments Theological But there’s a God, white-knuckled, jealous, His heart an anvil, and his mind a bomb. Take the crew of The Indianapolis,* Torn limb...
‘Sonnet I: Liu Haixiao’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society March 14, 2018 Alexandroid, Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 24 Comments Sonnet I: Liu Haixiao Mr. Liu Haixiao (pronounced Leo High-shaow) is serving a 16-year prison sentence in Jilin Province, China, where he was...
‘Taiwan in Rough Words’ by Ana Varela The Society March 13, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Rhupunt A rhupunt A modern place that maintains grace a safer place for all who come The airplanes fly the city sky the mountains high you're never...
Three Sonnets by Aidan Chivers The Society March 13, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments I. As clear blue symbols dance before my eyes, And I lie still, my head upon the ground, Each part of me, in dappled sunshine crowned, Wants...
‘You Decide’ and Other Poetry by Lorna Davis The Society March 12, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment 8 Comments You Decide Some know me as Destiny, The weaver of the cloth of Time. Although my looms are never stilled, They say I choose how high...
Essay: The Life, Death and Art of Rachel Wetzsteon The Society March 11, 2018 Essays, Poetry 16 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...
