Classical Book Review: The Icelandic Sagas: Tales of Kings and Heroes (Folio) Joshua Philipp August 16, 2017 Essays, Poetry, Reviews By Joshua Philipp Abbie Farwell Brown described the far north in his 1902 book, "In The Days of Giants," as "the land of the midnight sun, where...
‘Concession’ by Charles Joseph Albert The Society August 15, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments I used to find it hard to lose at chess. I'd watch in disbelief the check and mate, think through the game and curse to find too...
‘George and the Dragon’ and Other Poetry by Sue Vincent The Society August 14, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 6 Comments George and the Dragon In the Yorkshire dialect “Nah, sithee,” said Granny, “Just set thee dahn ‘ere, An’ I’ll tell thee a tale old...
‘The Journal’ and Other Poetry by Amy Foreman The Society August 13, 2017 Beauty, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Short Stories 12 Comments The Journal It sat upon his bedside table, closed, And waiting to keep record of each day: The silent pages still and unexposed, A diary to come,...
‘Meadows of Corn’ and Other Poetry by Satyananda Sarangi The Society August 12, 2017 Art, Beauty, Poetry 44 Comments Meadows of Corn It seems but bland to every passing eye, These regal meadows dressed in ripened corn; They dance and few can such effects...
‘The Plaint of Aunegild’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society August 11, 2017 Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Argument The following poem is a dramatic monologue in four sections, based on a brief passage in a barbarian legal text. In the sixth-century law...
Rhyming Riddle Contest Winners Announced The Society August 10, 2017 Culture, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Riddles 1 Comment Thank you to everyone who participated! Judges Dusty Grein, Michael Curtis, and Damian Robin have selected the below winners for the first Rhyming...
‘To Solitude’ and Other Poetry by Morgan Downs The Society August 9, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments To Solitude Come, Solitude, my first and truest friend! Long hours of careless converse burden me, And I have need of hospitality Such as...
‘What Heights Within My Mind Descend’ by David Hollywood The Society August 8, 2017 Poetry 6 Comments What heights within my mind descend? To fall on peaks where faith shall end, As summits fail to comprehend, That lands beneath cannot...
‘Windmill Song’ and Other Poetry by Don Shook The Society August 7, 2017 Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Short Stories 8 Comments Windmill Song Alone it shudders on a hill, Defiant in the wind. A strong south gale could topple it, A hard rain do it in. Too many...
‘The Tea Garden: A Crown of Sonnets’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society August 6, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments On Visiting the Tea Garden in Middletown, New York I. A harried daddy with two kids in tow, Maneuvering through city streets and cars, I look...
How to Write an Alexandroid The Society August 5, 2017 Alexandroid, Education, Poetry, Poetry Forms 14 Comments By C.B. Anderson Anyone writing formal poetry today has to be grateful for the arsenal of fixed forms—most of them bequeathed to us from masters...
‘Gazing above Daily Cares’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society August 4, 2017 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 10 Comments A Villanelle To breathe the beaming silence of the sky I long, when dawn’s chill wakes my eyes, and see The oft-unseen yet boundless peace on...
‘Untitled’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society August 3, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Untitled All older statues want to come alive, Those Greek and Roman ones, and Christian, too. Their skeletons and veins and muscles...
Three Poems on the Brainwashing of America by Joe Tessitore The Society August 2, 2017 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments I. My brain just came back from the laundry they tell me it's perfectly clean and it's thinking the way it's supposed to though I'm not really...
‘A Lifetime’ and Other Poetry by Ann Christine Tabaka The Society July 31, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments A Lifetime Day drifts into evening Evening into night All around me darkness With only stars for light Dawn awakes the morning The morning...
‘Again’ by Jane Blanchard The Society July 30, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Upon the release of the Society’s How to Write Classical Poetry When feeling some compulsion to compose, One wonders which of many...
“Though You Behold Me Silent in This Room…” By Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society July 29, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Popular Poetry Archives 81 Comments For Elizabeth On the Poet’s Eleventh Wedding Anniversary Though you behold me silent in this room, Know that I walk in fields of...
‘The Devil’s New Mission’ and Other Poetry by Troy Camplin The Society July 28, 2017 Culture, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments The Devil's New Mission The Devil went to every single school Across America to find a Faust— But no one wanted knowledge. Each dim...
Essay: Leo Yankevich: un Coup d’œil (A Glance) The Society July 27, 2017 Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Reviews 48 Comments This essay was written in 2007 and has remained unpublished until now. by Ludiew E. Sarceb Few of the contemporary poets with whom I am...
A Translation of Catullus’s ‘Ad Sirmium Insulam’ by Douglas Thornton The Society July 25, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 7 Comments The important events in the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus (84-54 B.C.) are recounted through the poems he has left. The particular poem below was...
‘Inside the Dragon’s Teeth, Maui, Hawaii’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges The Society July 24, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Inside the Dragon’s Teeth Maui, Hawaii From inside, you get a new perspective ___Of the tourist spot known as Dragon’s Teeth. The people...
‘After the Peloponnesian Wars: a Microcosm’ and Other Poetry by James B. Nicola The Society July 23, 2017 Poetry, Villanelle 1 Comment After the Peloponnesian Wars: a Microcosm A Villanelle At last I grasp what I could never get: As long as man has heart, hope can...
Essay: ‘Poetry and the Muses Part 3’ by James Sale The Society July 22, 2017 Beauty, Essays, Poetry 18 Comments It has long been observed that whilst the ego is useful in making daily and ordinary decisions in our life, it is less effective when it comes to...
‘When All the World Seems New’ by Father Richard Libby The Society July 21, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments When, late in May, Memorial Day ____Inaugurates the season Of summer sun and summer fun ____(Much welcomed, with good reason), Then...
‘Unshaken Faith’ and Other Poetry by Joshua Philipp The Society July 20, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 1 Comment Unshaken Faith Forward Alliterative verse dedicated to Falun Gong practitioners who have faced persecution in China since July 20,...
‘On a Bodegón of Zurbarán’ and Other Poetry by Joseph Charles MacKenzie (with Audio) The Society July 19, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry, Readings 18 Comments LVII. On a Bodegón of Zurbarán From carbon darkness, splendor! Light comes forth. A painter knew the warm fidelity Of lemons pointing east...
‘To the Orient. An Elegy’ by T. Bothwell The Society July 18, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terrorism 2 Comments At last, the sunset’s knell forebodes the ceasing day— The merchants in their silken garments trudge their way Along, with Turkish...
‘And What Of Art’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society July 16, 2017 Art, Beauty, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 14 Comments And What Of Art? It used to be that there was a division Between the arts, and each had segments, too. A poem was just a poem, required...
Translation of Dante’s Inferno, Canto I and Poetry by J. Simon Harris The Society July 14, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry, Terza Rima, Translation 10 Comments Dante’s Inferno, Canto I (Poem by Dante Alighieri / translation by J. Simon Harris in terza rima) In the middle of the journey of our life I found...
Poems on the Death of Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate The Society July 13, 2017 Human Rights in China, Poetry 2 Comments To Liu Xiaobo by Morgan Downs Xiaobo—you are from hence forever gone. Meanwhile, your executioners remain. Even now, they overcast where you...
‘Manchester Remembers’ by Damian Robin The Society July 12, 2017 Poetry, Terrorism 6 Comments On the Special Meeting of the Manchester City Council (Wed. 12th of July, 2017) to reflect on the terrible events that took place at the Manchester...
Classical Book Review: John Keats: Poetry of Quiet Longing and Natural Beauty (Folio) Joshua Philipp July 12, 2017 Essays, Poetry, Reviews 2 Comments By Joshua Philipp The poetry of John Keats is known for its light and dreamy nature. Even in his time, in the early 1800s, he was considered...
‘Golden Gate’ by Daniel Rattelle The Society July 11, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments A wind blew through the almond trees. The blossoms shook, the petals floated down Past where I sat on the cliffs above the sea. The...
‘Why Live This Long?’ by Michael Charles Maibach The Society July 10, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Why Live This Long? The thought presents - Why live this long? What more to do, Once sung my song? The arch of life Made sense to me. With work in...
‘Potpourri’ and Other Poetry by Joseph S. Salemi The Society July 8, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments Potpourri Take leaves at first, curled crisp by autumn’s cold— Crush them to crumbly powder in a tray To make a simple palette of...
‘Epistle to a Celt’ and Other Poetry by Morgan Downs The Society July 7, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Epistle to a Celt Where, o Celt, mayst thou be found Upon what all was once thy ground? Art thou of thy majestic race The last to bear a mortal...
‘What’s a Filibuster?’ by David Margolis The Society July 6, 2017 Culture, Education, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments It could be a horse thief, or maybe a rustler, A card shark, a pimp, or a sleazy-eyed hustler. A finish on wood that can add to its...
‘Why Take the Suite of Forest Dreams’ (in Triolets) by Angela Porter The Society July 5, 2017 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment, Triolet 3 Comments This poem is written in response to proposals to sell ancient public forests to private developers in England....
The 4th Day of July, 2017 The Society July 4, 2017 Culture, Poetry 17 Comments Post your patriotic July 4th poetry in the comments section below. by Usa W. Celebride "The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every...
