‘Gaius Plinius Secundus’ by Bob McGinness The Society April 7, 2017 Culture, Poetry 4 Comments “Doing what deserves to be written, writing what deserves to be read, living to make the world a happier place.” That's what Pliny...
‘White Wolf, Black Wolf: A Cherokee Story’ and Other Poetry by Dusty Grein The Society April 6, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments White Wolf, Black Wolf: A Cherokee Story A trijan refrain Inside you lives a wolf of white— of patience, peace and love. He is forgiveness,...
‘One Near-Death Experience at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital’ and Other Poetry by James Sale The Society April 5, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments One Near-Death Experience at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital To be dazed out, phased out, near to dying In a hospital bed Somewhere in a...
‘After E. T. A. Hoffman’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society April 4, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Music, Poetry 2 Comments After E. T. A. Hoffman "Only connect..." E. M. Forster, Howard's End By Ewald E. Eisbruc The inner structure of the movements, working joint...
‘We Forget’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges The Society April 3, 2017 Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 2 Comments We Forget How quickly we forget the people killed, Millions slaughtered to get a lie fulfilled. All those Russians in the frozen gulag, All those...
2017 Journal Released The Society April 1, 2017 From the Society, Poetry 5 Comments Divided into easy to engage and topical categories such as Beauty, Humor, Anti-Communism, and The Environment, the 2017 Journal features selected...
‘Valley Oak’ by Ruth Hill The Society March 31, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments Oak tree like a gnarled arthritic hand jutting into the sky black and bent knobby knuckles, twisted swirls and burls appearing ancient,...
‘A Picnic with a View’ by J. Prescott The Society March 30, 2017 Poetry, The Environment 1 Comment Sleep, lying in dry river beds Sold rapidly, buy the shore banks Brains washed from corporate heads Dried and neatly styled on fuel...
‘Rhyme to Me’ by Lee Nyary The Society March 28, 2017 Culture, Poetry 1 Comment To me, to rhyme— It is sublime To others But a waste of time To match the sounds Of words, they say Promotes an Aural...
‘The Theater of the Bush’ and Other Poetry by David Watt The Society March 27, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments The Theater of the Bush To westward the sun seeks a comfort nocturnal, Her warmth slipping under the covers ahead; And daylight soon passes the...
‘Approaching Spring’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream The Society March 26, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 2 Comments . . Approaching Spring Above the mountain, under the sky, Canadian Geese, you hear their cry, Over the mountain, hear them sing, Man and Wife,...
‘Peace’ by Ruth Asch The Society March 25, 2017 Beauty, Poetry Are the dead at peace in the ground? wrapped in loam, slow dissolving to earth. Is the mother at peace in travail, wracked apart that a...
‘Spring is Coming’ and Other Poetry by Uvin Ko The Society March 24, 2017 Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry, Terrorism 5 Comments Spring is Coming From naked trees, droplets of dew, Drips like tears onto my upturned face. Everything is bleak, nothing new. No creation...
On Westminster Bridge, March 22, 2017 The Society March 23, 2017 Poetry, Terrorism 6 Comments By Basil Drew Eceu At least four people have been killed and forty injured in a terrorist attack in London in the afternoon. Here near the...
How to Write a Rhupunt (with Example) The Society March 23, 2017 Education, Poetry, Poetry Forms, Rhupunt 9 Comments By Elizabeth Spencer Spragins Poetry has been an integral component of Welsh culture for centuries. Indeed, the Welsh word “bardd” (poet) has...
‘Michigan Dune’ by Rebekah Hoeft The Society March 22, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments A Pantoum The wind, it sings through trees of pine The breeze, it sweeps my senses clear This day shines bright, this day shines fine These...
‘How Much Wheat Can a Woodchuck Eat?’ by Connie Phillips The Society March 21, 2017 Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry How much wheat can a woodchuck eat? Or cabbage, carrots, and peas, Spinach, parsley, peppers, and kale, Tomatoes, lettuce, n’ beans? What if he...
‘The Rocky Mountain Pines’ and Other Poetry by Blake Elliott The Society March 20, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment The Rocky Mountain Pines Written in Rhymed couplets of Anapestic Tetrameter. In the mountains or plains, with the pine in the air, I’ll awake...
Review: Apocalypse by Frederick Turner, Ilium Press, 2016 The Society March 19, 2017 Epic, Essays, Poetry, Reviews 30 Comments By James Sale There are nine Muses of poetry, daughters of Zeus or some say Apollo, and the Titaness, Mnenosyne, goddess of memory, past and...
‘Dancer’ and Other Poetry by Ayame Whitfield The Society March 18, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment 3 Comments Dancer the arch of her collarbone a bridge, her legs a throne, the clean and simple lines of her body free of confines. she dances, arms...
‘Saint Patrick Was a Green Alien’ by Damian Robin The Society March 17, 2017 Culture, Poetry 4 Comments Saint Patrick was a green alien, He came from other parts. He was not a native Irishman But was taken to their hearts. On oceans of...
‘Celestial Teevee’ and Other Poetry by R. Bremner The Society March 16, 2017 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment Celestial Teevee Something that’s always puzzled me: Does the Creator watch us on celestial teevee the way we watch Modern Family? If...
Remaking Education From the Poetry Up The Society March 15, 2017 Deconstructing Communism, Education, Essays, Poetry 8 Comments By Evan Mantyk Last year, the College Board released a significantly redesigned Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). The SAT is used by millions of...
‘Flying Coast to Coast on the Anniversary of 9/11: Courage, In-Flight’ by Alan Salé The Society March 14, 2017 Poetry, Terrorism 1 Comment Cold and Uncertain shaken and stirred; Flying through clouds so quickly they’re blurred. Hold, comfort and buckle me in; Make us trust in...
‘Songbirds Sing’ and Other Poetry by Debbie Johnson The Society March 12, 2017 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments Songbirds Sing (Triolet Sonnet) As songbirds sing with joy of spring, unfolding blossoms show their hues. From my front porch the wind...
‘On the Press-ident’ by Caud Bile Sewer The Society March 11, 2017 Culture, Poetry 3 Comments The Press is not the enemy, but Donald Trump is right; the Press is disingenuous; they cannot get it right. Left in the midst of overladen,...
‘All the Poets Who Rhymed Are Dead’ (A Short Story) The Society March 10, 2017 Humor, Poetry, Short Stories 3 Comments By Dona Fox It was Friday night. I fought my way across the campus through special effects left over from a Grade-B horror movie. Lightning...
‘Upon the Pompeii Exhibition at the National Gallery’ by David Essex The Society March 8, 2017 Culture, Poetry or Mutatis Mutandis The mode of most catastrophe is gradually, then suddenly. Time slowly ratchets up the stress in states that tend to stay at...
On Robert Frost’s ‘The Pasture’ and William Carlos Williams’ ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ The Society March 7, 2017 Essays, Poetry, Popular Poetry Archives 49 Comments By Wilbur Dee Case One of the most unlikely poems of the Modernist period is that by Robert Frost: "The Pasture." It is unlikely for many reasons....
‘The World Is Still Too Much’ and Other Poetry by Cheryl Corey The Society March 6, 2017 Beauty, Humor, Poetry, The Environment The World Is Still Too Much Too much, and much too much, it still goes on: The men and women who covet wealth and bling, And acquisition...
Interview with Unofficial Trump Inaugural Poet Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society March 5, 2017 Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Interviews, Poetry 13 Comments By Evan Mantyk One week in mid-January this year, in the relatively obscure world of poetry, Joseph Charles MacKenzie’s “Pibroch for the...
‘Insomnia’ by Joshua Lefkowitz The Society March 4, 2017 Humor, Poetry 1 Comment When I struggle for sleep, I dust off a classic and try counting sheep: Trouble is, my sheep show off, they leap like Olympians over their...
Poetry on the Photography of Mark Wyatt, Poetry by Alec Ream The Society March 3, 2017 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry All photos by Mark Wyatt / All poetry by Alec Ream Chant of the Wooded Hall Chlorophyll concordant eaves Soaring ceiling, verdant leaves Torah spell...
‘Sonnet for an Arabian Autumn’ and Other Poetry by Diane Woodcock The Society March 2, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 1 Comment Sonnet for an Arabian Autumn After William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 This time of year you will in me perceive When all things green take on...
‘A Note on Rumi to the Global Diversity Committee’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society March 1, 2017 Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments Teaching the Inner Couplets of one Rumi Has left me truly desolate and gloomy. They say he’s great, this Sufi poet Rumi, But...
‘By Design’ by David Sloan The Society February 28, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment This time of year makes it hard to believe in randomness. Maples flame up, then out, visible symmetry undressed as roots-in-air...
‘Unseen Universe’ by Rena Velasquez The Society February 27, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment Often I ponder things unseen Eons of light and mysterious beings The breathtaking fallout as stars collide A silent womb where souls...
Poetry Based on Holocaust Testimonies The Society February 26, 2017 Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry 2 Comments A Million Thoughts Based on the Holocaust testimony of Bertha Haberfeld By Surina Patel A million thoughts are rushing through my brain, The...
‘Darkness’ and Other Poetry by Christine Lawson The Society February 25, 2017 Beauty, Children's, Poetry 2 Comments Darkness No longer did they see the need For things called books they used to read. Music—no longer symphonies, But simple tunes composed...
‘Console Her With the Atheist’s Philosophy’ by Samuel Johnson The Society February 24, 2017 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 2 Comments Console her with the Atheist’s philosophy: ____Never mind! Your grandma’s dead. It’s Nature’s way of denoting an atrophy ____In...
