‘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 Alec Ream The Society January 5, 2018 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 7 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 golden...
‘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...
‘Bemused’ and Other Poetry by N. Ram The Society December 31, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Pantoum, Poetry 5 Comments Bemused “Polyhymnia would not lift her veil, All my attempts at sacred poetry failed, Calliope did not lend me her tablet, Epic...
‘Listen to the Voice That Speaks within Your Heart’ by David Holper The Society December 30, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments Listen to the voice that speaks within your heart, a whisper set against the roaring tide; softly calls the voice that’s set...
‘Seasons’ by Shari Jo LeKane-Yentumi The Society December 29, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments What chilly breeze creates a shudder and crimson leaves begin to flutter down, down like butterflies 'till barren branches reach the skies and...
‘The Big Corn Field’ by Carol Smallwood The Society December 28, 2017 Beauty, Poetry, Rondeau 2 Comments A Rondeau The big corn field was gone today: A machine crouched amid the fray Like a locust after a feast Near the side road facing...
‘Vermont’ by Phillip Whidden The Society December 27, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 30 Comments . Vermont A white wood house defines the slope. The trees Have gone to red and flame. A field beyond Is spread with grass and granite rocks at...
‘The First Funeral’ and Other Poetry by James Sale The Society December 26, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments The First Funeral It is with wonder when I think Of Adam, Eve, no childhood grown, Standing before the living God, Alive with language,...
‘A Christmas Card’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society December 25, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments A Christmas Card A distant clang; here comes the heat To chase the chill from hands and feet! A steady hiss and many pings; The song our...
‘Nativity I: Christmas Eve 1683’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society December 24, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments Snow’s candid praise bedecks St. Florian’s Gate As Sobieski passes on his horse. It is the Eve of Christmas, when men wait The...
‘A December Wish’ by Leo Yankevich (with Audio) The Society December 23, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video 10 Comments https://youtu.be/dVnGlUaitiY You hear the sound of carols from afar. Bright bulbs and tinsel, cinnamon and cloves. Beyond a...
10 Greatest Poems by John Keats The Society December 22, 2017 Beauty, Best Poems, Culture, Essays, Poetry 20 Comments by Annabelle Fuller John Keats (born October 31, 1795 - died February 23, 1821) began life as the son of a stable-owner, and ended it as an...
‘Writer’s Clock’ by Monty Med The Society December 21, 2017 Poetry 9 Comments I should be asleep! But try as I might, I can’t help but keep Wanting to write. Not only deep Into the night, But till birds...
‘Summer Storm’ by Beth Staas The Society December 20, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments Sharp lightning stabbed the clouds and pierced a hole that scorched the greening branches down below. Sun, much aggrieved, beamed fingers...
‘In Fall I Set a Stone’ and Other Poetry by Gershon Ben-Avraham The Society December 19, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments In Fall I Set a Stone In fall I set a stone upon a stone, As autumn rain dripped tears upon the grave That marks the spot where lie my lover's...
‘An Ode to the Indian Soldiers’ and Other Poetry by Sathya Narayana The Society December 18, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondel 3 Comments An Ode to the Indian Soldiers ottava rima Be choking chill or burning heat; be rain or sleet; thou're there O soldier brave to save thy...
‘Naftaly Aronovich Frenkel: Architect of the Gulag System’ by Leo Yankevich The Society December 16, 2017 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 10 Comments for Robert Conquest I. Each day Naftaly greets a prison train. Two days ago: spies and reactionaries, yesterday: kulaks from Ukraine, this...
‘Paperboy, Little Neck, Queens, N.Y. 1954-55’ by Ron Singer The Society December 15, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Paperboys lack actual colleagues, but I was a part-time paper boy, and my mother, a part-time colleague. When I’d oversleep, or in bad...
Concepts on Classical Scalds: William Dunbar, Robert Burns, and More The Society December 14, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Translation By Sam Gilliland The Poisoned Chalice Let he who lips me then beware, My potion’s more than honeyed mead, One sip, I shall your soul...
‘I Keep a Different List’ and Other Poetry by Red Hawk The Society December 13, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments I Keep A Different List My neighbor counts his losses and his gains, but I keep track of raindrops when it rains; he makes note of coins and...
‘The Great Living Hell’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society December 12, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 2 Comments The Great Living Hell On Communism Under the radar I fly Thru' an ever more darkening sky Thru' the smoke from the volumes that burned Thru'...
Essay: Put Down That Poem Before You Kill Yourself The Society December 11, 2017 Culture, Essays, Poetry 14 Comments By Con Chapman Boston may no longer be the Hub of the Universe, but its Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area remains the undisputed capital of...
