‘On Loch Lomond, On A Birthday’ by J.D. Graham The Society November 2, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Just west of old Ben Lomond, high and gray, a downy-heathered island on a loch did soak our feet before we rowed away for western shores, to...
On the Recent Terrorist Attack in New York City by Joe Tessitore The Society November 1, 2017 Poetry, Terrorism 3 Comments The Morning after the Parade On the terrorist attack on October 31, 2017 Most cowardly violence No moment of silence Let’s pretend that...
‘Sweet Recollections’ and Other Poetry by Dusty Grein The Society November 1, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Triolet 2 Comments Sweet Recollections an awdl gywydd Tea time, just my mom and me… ___memories so sweet and dear, knowing I was her first choice; ___still her...
‘Ode to Autumn’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie (with Audio) The Society October 31, 2017 Beauty, Poetry, Readings 7 Comments Sonnet XXV: Ode to Autumn Of shadows long and light of rarest gold, Abundant bringer, harvester of land, Receive, O Autumn, as in days of...
Essay: Are Shakespeare and Dante Dead White European Males? (Part 1) The Society October 30, 2017 Beauty, Essays, Poetry, Shakespeare 5 Comments By David Gosselin The answer to the above question is of course no. Shakespeare and Dante are not dead because every true poet is...
‘Under the Rocks Are the Words’ by Alec Ream The Society October 29, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . “Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.” -Norman Maclean Ask not the earth, ask not the sky, Drain not the firth nor...
‘Canzone 4’ and Other Poetry by Sam Gilliland The Society October 28, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Canzone 4 For Bob Hunter I am your eyes now, imaging memories, Amiens, Ypres, Flanders and the Somme; And in my secret world the pale...
‘Autumn Haiku’ and Other Poetry by Brian Mc Cabe The Society October 27, 2017 Acrostic, Beauty, Haiku and Senryu, Human Rights in China, Poetry 1 Comment Autumn Haiku The red squirrel flits From brown bark to golden leaf He is not gone yet Winter Acrostic When cold winds blow and rain...
‘To Dawn by I Warble Seduce’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society October 26, 2017 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments To Dawn by I. Warble Seduce I. Warble Seduce is a poet of Romantic leanings. Dawn is his paramour. 1. It's evening. An aroma of roses arises...
‘End Rhyme’ and Other Poetry by J. M. Lambert The Society October 25, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments End Rhyme Send in a poem they pretentiously beckon But they will not read any rhyming of rhymes There's no place now for creative...
‘Rioja Wine’ by Lawrence Jones The Society October 24, 2017 Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Rioja is a land of wine. It’s famous in both fact and fable. It’s really not okay to dine Without a bottle of that fine Rioja...
A Five-Sonnet Sequence by Phillip Whidden The Society October 23, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments Scorn “Enargeîs is the technical term ‘for divine epiphany: a word that contains the dazzle of “white,” argós, which comes to...
Essay: ‘Poetry Matters’ by Bruce Wren LC The Society October 22, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 3 Comments An Introduction to Poetry and Its Place in an Integral Human Formation Introduction It is well known to most sensible educators that one of...
‘Some Exchanges’ by R.G. Kaimal The Society October 21, 2017 Humor, Poetry 2 Comments She asked, “Is the train on time, Mac?” He replied, “No, luv! It's on the track!” Teacher, “And what is bedrock, Fred?” Reply,...
‘Let My Footstep Strike the Ground Like a Spear’ by Nathan Dennis The Society October 20, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Villanelle 6 Comments Let My Footstep Strike the Ground Like a Spear A Villanelle Let my footstep strike the ground like a spear Hear me bound through the...
‘The Pilgrimage to Heaven’ and Other Poetry by Satyananda Sarangi The Society October 19, 2017 Alexandroid, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 36 Comments The Pilgrimage to Heaven Beneath the shadows whence no light embarks On paths renounced by most intrepid men; There, gypsies seldom find...
‘Commie Carcinomas’ and Other Poetry by Don Shook The Society October 18, 2017 Beauty, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 6 Comments Commie Carcinomas When least expected they arrive, an avant garde of hordes wielding a deadly pestilence like slashing, bloody...
‘Summer Storm’ by Dave Blanchard The Society October 17, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments As forecast now the sound of her arriving… That distant rumble from the driveway heard; A nearer clap, as though the night reviving Within the...
‘Not Like Wordsworth’ by Ron L. Hodges The Society October 16, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments Of course, I like to see rainbows, But my heart hasn’t leapt for one; I’ve not wandered like a cloud blows, Though I’ve been lonely in the...
‘Meritocracy’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society October 15, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 16 Comments Meritocracy When the Left tries to cow us and trammel our prowess ____We resort to a stiff upper lip, Well aware that their winning will spell...
‘To Elizabeth’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society October 14, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments Sonnet VI from Sonnets for Elizabeth Consider how the bards of old had sung Before their numbers vanished with the years, And how their harps...
‘The Mausoleum, Dumfries’ and Other Poetry by Sam Gilliland The Society October 13, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 8 Comments The Mausoleum, Dumfries His crypt sealed by stones made by mother earth, A soft voice: This is where Robert Burns lies, Yon granite gaol is...
‘Within My Garden’s Soul’ by David Hollywood The Society October 12, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments Within my gardens soul abounds, A spirit stirring neath the ground, Aroused by secret depths that found, Concealed, inspired, a place...
‘Boast of the Poplar’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream The Society October 11, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments . . Boast of the Poplar My common green I turn to gold, As Summer’s steaming, burning hold is broke, unseemly in July, At the close to mollify. I...
‘On the Sale of a 1,000-Year-Old Craquelure Chinese Dish for £10 million’ by Phillip Whidden The Society October 10, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 1 Comment ~ Dedicated to Falun Gong practitioners facing persecution in China Brutality meets decency and then What happens? Hardness softens, or...
‘On Formal Slavery (to a Nation of Free Verse)’ by Kristin Garth The Society October 9, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments On Formal Slavery (to a Nation of Free Verse) For there are those that call us slaves. How poor and simple we must be to cling to ties that...
‘Columbus Statues Defaced (A Haiku)’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society October 8, 2017 Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 2 Comments Columbus Statues Defaced A haiku High-jacked history An Autumn of mutiny We are lost at sea A Step Beyond A step beyond The...
‘Flagellation I: Cervantes at Lepanto’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society October 7, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terrorism 17 Comments What is my body that was never mine, That, fevered, it should waste below the deck? I rise, instead, to face the ocean’s brine, The...
‘Basics’ and Other Poetry by R. Nikolas Macioci The Society October 6, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Basics Tonight I paint flowers on my tablet. I wanted to write about deeper things like God and love and time and death which brings me...
‘Body and Mind Recluse’ by Leonard Dabydeen The Society October 5, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments "A man’s as old as he’s feeling …" ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge “If the body frees the mind in its quest For youthful dreams to be...
‘Productivity’ and Other Poetry by Rita Dubman The Society October 4, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments Productivity Lately a feeling's been making me twitch, The Creator in me has too long sat bewitched. Too idle He sits, and He longs to...
‘One Person Every Minute’ by James A. Tweedie The Society October 3, 2017 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 2 Comments Joe Stalin led his country for just short of thirty years— Three decades filled with purges, hunger, suffering and tears. “To make an...
‘L’ame du Mahatama*’ by Sultana Raza The Society October 2, 2017 Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Decades later, his voice still heard: Sustainable, organic, and home-grown. We're reaping what he'd wisely sown: Ahimsa*, respect, main...
‘On the Murder of Two Women Outside the Gare Saint Charles in Marseilles, France’ by James A. Tweedie The Society October 1, 2017 Poetry, Terrorism 1 Comment Blasphemy A Reflection On the Murder of Two Women Outside the Gare Saint Charles in Marseilles, France, This Morning, October 1, 2017 “Allahu...
Beatrice: Muse for One, Model for All (Essay) The Society October 1, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 3 Comments by Jane Blanchard Beatrice, Dante Alighieri’s second guide in La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), makes her literary debut in an earlier...
‘The Teacher to His Students’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society September 30, 2017 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 17 Comments The Teacher to His Students The ghost… the ghost of Hamlet’s father, came To walk the castle walls one moonless night. This father, once the...
‘Morning Ecstasy’ by Sandeep Kumar Mishra The Society September 29, 2017 Poetry 2 Comments Reluctant night is slowly retreating The earth in gray, dim shades still hovering, Dawn strides out leisurely to wake each farm Her sleepy liquid...
‘The Luna Moth, the Poet, and Philosopher’ by Phillip Whidden The Society September 28, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments “Carlotta Capuccino , ‘Plato’s Ion and the Ethics of Praise,’ takes the . . . view that poetry deploys ‘groundless praise’ and...
‘Life Science’ by N. Ram The Society September 27, 2017 Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments Scientists of the world were meeting Stars among them they were feting Challenges new they were seeking Of wine and wisdom, they were...
‘The Incarnation Sonnets’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society September 26, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Incarnation I: Ego Mater Pulchrae Dilectionis I blossom forth delights on fruitful vine; My grapes are opulent and fair, Productive of a...
