‘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...
‘A Shen Yun Holiday Sonnet’ by Evan Mantyk The Society December 10, 2017 Beauty, Children's, Performing Arts, Poetry 9 Comments When Santa’s sleigh took to the sky, He saw a wonder by him fly: A Chinese Fairy dance on clouds And point to where there gathered...
‘The Buds of Life’ and Other Poetry by David Watt The Society December 9, 2017 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment 6 Comments The Buds of Life On Nightly News I saw a sight obscene: A seahorse in embrace with cotton bud, Soon causing me to ask, ‘What does this...
‘The Watcher’ by B. L. Perez The Society December 8, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments For Bishop Berkeley & for Madman Blake First, the wind; then, the waves; then the shore —but the Mind—yes, the Mind—long...
Essay: A Tribute to John Keats by Sam Gilliland The Society December 7, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 1 Comment Any treatise claiming critical review of verse, whether in the widest sense, or, as in this case, the result of compressed choice, purely down to the...
‘Summer Showers in the African Savanna’ by Nivedita Karthik The Society December 6, 2017 Beauty, Poetry Slowly yet steadily the heat starts to soar as the sun’s first rays glimmer in the east sky. With no breeze to cool down the forest...
‘Justice Rendered’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society December 5, 2017 Human Rights in China, Poetry, Terrorism 3 Comments Justice Rendered by Cal Wes Ubideer "Sanctuary cities help protect undocumented aliens." —"Weird" Ace Blues July 1st, 2015, Miss Kate...
‘Desolate Ocean’ by Gleb Zavlanov The Society December 5, 2017 Poetry, The Environment 2 Comments The silver masses rising in huge numbers, The ship alone upon the sprawling sea, The snores of men found tossing in their slumbers, And...
‘The Morning Muse’ and Other Poetry by Craig Daniel Koon The Society December 4, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment The Morning Muse This time of day the Muses pass As rolling clouds and dewy grass, To see their handouts properly bestowed. How much I’ve...
‘For Patricia Smith’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society December 3, 2017 Beauty, Blank Verse, Poetry 11 Comments Joseph Pulitzer Junior High September 1959 – June 1961 I think we spoke but fifty words, all told. No more than that, and most were just...
‘What Tolkien Said’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream The Society December 2, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments . . What Tolkien Said “...together through the ages of the world we have fought the long defeat.” Galadriel, of Celeborn Together we fought the...
Essay: My Predecessor, Fray Angelico Chavez Part I by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society December 1, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 4 Comments The poetry of Fray Angelico Chavez can be read here. By Joseph Charles MacKenzie Fray Angélico Chávez, O.F.M. (1910-1996) remains the most...
‘A Slice of Eden’ and Other Poetry by G.M.H. Thompson The Society November 30, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment A Slice of Eden A mango tart broke my heart dark one stormy day because it said I'd be dead if I touched its glaze, & lotus cake made me ache...
‘The Adobe Building – New Mexico’ by Sam Gilliland The Society November 29, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments For Joseph Charles MacKenzie Herein lies silence and serenity, Along with untold tales of many men, Mixing mud and straw, soon to be a...
‘Another Cakewalk’ and Other Poetry by Peter G. Epps The Society November 28, 2017 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Riddles 2 Comments Another Cakewalk Mark Twain may not be safe to read, at least in public places, Because he gawks with foolish words at human folly's...
‘Far Across the Plains’ by Zachary Dilks The Society November 27, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments For honor! For valor! The battle stole and won Where up the soul arises down the barrel of a gun The courses set and forces met with...
‘Untitled’ by Edward Hoke The Society November 26, 2017 Poetry 5 Comments I could but of thy outward parts compose A symphony of sensuality, Thy subtler habits then to serve as notes, Thy carvéd edges dictating the...
‘The Hill’ by Dr. Emory Jones The Society November 25, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments The swollen hill is pregnant with the Spring, A promise of a resurrection day, A warm renewal, life in everything Is bursting forth like...
Ten of the Best Poems by Robert Frost (that you’ve probably never read) The Society November 24, 2017 Beauty, Best Poems, Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry 18 Comments by Dusty Grein The Man The American poet Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, CA. He spent his first 40 years mostly...
‘Hand in Hand’ by Nicholas Froumis The Society November 23, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment She remembers the first time his hand closed around her fingers, the smooth skin of youth and a slight dampness like when he...
‘Narcissus Saw Himself Only Once’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society November 22, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Narcissus Saw Himself Only Once “Due to the poor quality, high cost, and small size of these ancient glass mirrors, solid metal-mirrors...
‘Letting Go’ by Michael Glassman The Society November 21, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments The birch, the elm, the aging spruce Cannot restrain the restless roots Of saplings drawn to the silent sound Of brother’s heading...
‘Lord Tennyson’s Scissors’ by James A. Tweedie The Society November 20, 2017 Humor, Poetry 6 Comments Note: Years ago I read an essay by R.P. Blackmur entitled “Lord Tennyson’s Scissors” which cited Tennyson for saying that “he knew the...
‘Progress’ and Other Poetry by Ann Christine Tabaka The Society November 19, 2017 Humor, Poetry, The Environment 7 Comments Progress We fill our landfills That we build sky high With electronic gadgets That we must all buy ... All in the name of Progress We...
‘When I Speak of History’ by Leonard Dabydeen The Society November 18, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 5 Comments When I speak of history I speak well; I leave behind the past where broken bones Lay scattered on blistering sands to tell Of atrocities that are...
Translation of ‘La Function du Poet’ by Victor Hugo The Society November 17, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 3 Comments The Function of the Poet Tanslation by David Bellemare Gosselin God summons him in times gone awry When each can’t will, but serves his...
