‘Bubbles’ by Ann Christine Tabaka The Society April 11, 2018 Beauty, Children's, Poetry 11 Comments Glistening orbs Dance on air Drifting skyward Without a care Iridescent spheres Shimmering bright Reflecting prisms In the...
‘Canto 1’ by James Sale (with Video) The Society April 10, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Terza Rima, Video 71 Comments Canto 1 is the provisional name for a sequence of 33 Cantos that James Sale is attempting to write in the style - and using the terza rima - of...
‘The Concert’ by Lynn Michael Martin The Society April 9, 2018 Beauty, Music, Performing Arts, Poetry 6 Comments A sonnet of longing and of a glimpse of hope. July 17, 2016. We looked imploring to the starless sky; we worlds and worlds of darkness, seeking...
10 Greatest Shakespeare Sonnets: An Immortal Series The Society April 8, 2018 Beauty, Best Poems, Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry, Shakespeare 9 Comments By David B. Gosselin William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564 - died April 23, 1616) is arguably the greatest writer in any language. His...
‘Battle’ by Florence Adams Clark The Society April 7, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments Pigeon Cove, MA 1948 Above, the sky, remote and pure, Below, the earth, steadfast and sure. Between the two, the surging sea, Fighting both for...
‘Crime of Youth’ by David Watt The Society April 6, 2018 Humor, Poetry, Short Stories 10 Comments I knew her when I could be called a youth And life had not uncovered certain truths Apparent to detectives, super-sleuths; Such as...
‘The Children’s Crusade’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society April 5, 2018 Culture, Poetry, Terrorism 6 Comments (All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) The Children's Crusade Amendment II of the US Constitution: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the...
‘Soldier’s Son’ by Robert Piazza The Society April 5, 2018 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments Leatherneck, you’re still my childhood hero With tales of firing flack at Jap Zeroes— After training camp in San Diego, You rode the railway...
‘Socialism Kills’ by David Welch The Society April 4, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 23 Comments Young people go marching, the boys and the girls, They’re thinking like once we did, they’ll change the world. They claim government...
‘A Rounded Stone’ by Benjamin Daniel Lukey The Society April 3, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Short Stories 5 Comments He pressed a rounded stone into my hand. He said, "Take care of this," and turned away To tend to things we needed for our...
‘I Know Why the Red Rose Weeps’ by David Bellemare Gosselin (with Audio) The Society April 2, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Readings 11 Comments I know why the red rose weeps Why she hides her tears in dew As the summer breezes sweep From those seas of peaceful blue, And then...
Society of Classical Poets Journal Vol. 6 Released The Society April 1, 2018 From the Society, Poetry 13 Comments The Society of Classical Poets is reviving poetry with rhyme and meter and the response has been widespread and tremendous. Since the...
‘April Fools Easter: April 1, 2018’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society April 1, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments April Fools Easter: April 1, 2018 In dark Gethsemane I was betrayed By Judas’ kiss. I was arrested, tried, Found guilty, beaten, thorn-crowned,...
‘On Secretaries of State: Falling from Grace’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society March 31, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments (All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) On Secretaries of State: Falling from Grace by Brice U. Lawseed Across the World in India, while touring...
‘The Sun’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream The Society March 30, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . . The Sun The face above that shone below From space to hover, cast a glow And warmth afforded to the one Who in its path was found; the...
‘Longinus, Spearman’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society March 30, 2018 Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry, Short Stories 18 Comments Miles hastatus (spearman) of the Legio Decima Fretensis, stationed in Roman Judaea, A.D. 33 Vere, filius Dei erat iste. —Roman centurion at the...
‘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...
