High School Reunion Poems by Russel Winick The Society November 22, 2024 Humor, Limerick, Poetry 20 Comments . Montana High School Reunion The big fella who grew up in Butte, Claimed his high school sweetheart was so cute, __Going back would be grand __A...
‘Contemplative Days’: A Poem by Margaret Brinton The Society November 21, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Contemplative Days A sky of dim and pale display __Brings forth late autumn calm. "A restful peace," it seems to say; __My soul receives the...
‘Smile’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 21, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments . Smile “Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.” ---Connie Stevens I didn’t weigh your sway and worth__Until you left my...
The Trochaic Poems of Dorothy Parker: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society November 20, 2024 Essays, Poetry 20 Comments . The Trochaic Poems of Dorothy Parker by Joseph S. Salemi A few poets become famous, while most go down into oblivion. But a small scattering of...
‘Talk Around the Urn’: A Poem by Frank Rable The Society November 20, 2024 Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Talk Around the Urn In our Sunday best, on folding chairs, We solemnly talk around the urn; A tear, a sniffle, show who cares For the loved one who...
‘A Colossal Event of Avoidance’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society November 19, 2024 Poetry, Satire 18 Comments . A Colossal Event of Avoidance “This is a colossal event of avoidance not just in the state of Florida, but you will find avoidance in the...
‘Melancholy Hues (of Autumn)’: an Ode by Paul A. Freeman The Society November 19, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . Melancholy Hues (of Autumn) ---an ode The third of four trimesters of the yearsees summer flag. The mercury recedesand chilly grey replaces skies...
‘A Vacillating Villanelle On Perception’ by Peter Venable The Society November 19, 2024 Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 4 Comments . A Vacillating Villanelle On Perception "Understanding the world for a man is reducing it to the human, stamping it with his seal. The...
‘Truth Streaked Across the Sky’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society November 18, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Truth Streaked Across the Sky Truth streaked across the skyAlighting on a foreign strand,Where politicians buried itBeneath the lying sand. The...
‘Saint Andrew’: A Poem by Robert Nachtegall The Society November 18, 2024 Poetry, Satire 5 Comments . Saint Andrew My Uncle Andrew lived his lifeInflicting others pain and strife.‘Twas always said by mother dear“No good shall come of it, you...
‘Just Doin’ Our Job’: A Sonnet in Terza Rima by T.M. Moore The Society November 17, 2024 Children's, Poetry, Science, Terza Rima 3 Comments . Just Doin' Our Job As if they didn’t have enough to do already---harvesting the light to make food for the tree and seeing to it you and I have...
‘Sailing to Illusium’ and Other Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society November 17, 2024 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Sailing to Illusium Unheralded, the ancient oracle Appears and disappears, pronounce announcing Creaturely mortality while singing Dirges under...
‘Diners’: A Sonnet by Adam Wasem The Society November 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 20 Comments . Diners For single men alone, what impulse spurs us To find them everywhere? –the burned-out lights, the squat brick block, so many times...
Great Expectations—Classical Poets Student Edition The Society November 16, 2024 Education, Essays, Poetry 6 Comments . Great Expectation Classical Poets Student Edition The summary and introduction below is from a newly adapted (UK spellings Americanized and...
‘Raking Leaves’: A Poem by Cheryl Corey The Society November 15, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 22 Comments . Raking Leaves The blaze of autumn's orange-gold is gone, And now it's time to rake the fallen leaves, __To clear the cluttered eaves, __And face a...
‘Solid Rock’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society November 15, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . Solid Rock With open heart, but eyes shut tight, led by our feelings, not by sight, they are the rock upon which we once built the fantasy that...
‘First Pick Flamingo’: A Poem by Drilon Bajrami The Society November 14, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . First Pick Flamingo They used to call this player the flamingo; They chaffed and mocked; they were full of bravado. ‘Cause he’s the new kid,...
‘A Brief Respite’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society November 14, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . A Brief Respite From murky depths, I rise, by duty fetched,And breaking surface in the waking world,I find my horizontal self outstretched,Exposed...
‘Jehu Destroys the Temple and Statue of Baäl’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise The Society November 13, 2024 Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 7 Comments . Jehu Destroys the Temple and Statue of Baäl "—What did that madman want?" ---2 Kings 9:11 He saw Jehu Destroys the Temple and Statue of...
‘Beryl Spring’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society November 13, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 28 Comments . Beryl Spring ---Yellowstone National Park Towering torrents of steam and mist Rise next to the side of the road, Beckoning drivers to park and...
‘The Garden’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society November 12, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . The Garden Dense boughs and variegated blooms __That once festooned a garden Are dying as November births __Pellucid forms that harden On them, my...
800 Years of the Sonnet in 12 Minutes: A Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society November 12, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Essays, Poetry 11 Comments . https://youtu.be/B9aMXFVpFEk . . Andrew Benson Brown's epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, chronicles the major events of the American...
Armistice Day Poem: ‘A Recruiter Tells It as It Isn’t’ by Paul A. Freeman The Society November 11, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Rondeau 15 Comments . A Recruiter Tells It as It Isn’t Your World War One recruitment agent prays he finds you well. Your King and Country says we need you for a...
A Poem on Trump Making Susan Wiles Chief of Staff, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 10, 2024 Poetry, Satire 26 Comments . Feeding the Alligators The orange king of lava tongue has won. He sings a spangled song that rings throughout A plundered land where dreams and...
‘Homeostasis’: A Poem by C.B. Anderson The Society November 10, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments . Homeostasis "When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change." —Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland In general, everybody wishes...
‘The Ghosts of Altamira’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society November 10, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 27 Comments . The Ghosts of Altamira ---a meditation A herd of prehistoric bison; blood beliefs Depicted in concentric whorls with prints of hands. Stick...
‘For the Sake of Ten Thousand: A Supplication from New Sodom’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society November 9, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . For the Sake of Ten Thousand: A Supplication from New Sodom And Abraham came near and said, ‘Would You also destroy the righteous with the...
‘O Lord, Let Me Not Fall’: A Sonnet by Jeffrey Essmann The Society November 9, 2024 Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . O Lord, Let Me Not Fall O Lord, let me not fall today, I pray, Not in some vague or metaphoric way, As into sin or moral turpitude Or somewhat less...
‘Sometimey People’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society November 8, 2024 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . "Sometimey” People Sometimes he’s quite responsive, Sometimes he disappears. Sometimes he’s downright friendly, Sometimes he switches...
‘Contra Computerdom’: A Poem by Mary Jane Myers The Society November 8, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Contra Computerdom I hold this fountain pen with thumb and fingers, burgundy barrel, gold and rhodium nib, Montblanc white-sea-star floating on its...
‘Simplicity’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 7, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 34 Comments . Simplicity “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” ---Sir Isaac Newton I smell you in...
A Sonnet on the Vogelherd Horse and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society November 7, 2024 Art, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Horse Figurine —one inch by one point nine inch, 32,000 to 35,000 years before Giacometti's famous horse A hallowed tiny horse, but missing...
HellWard Canto 1: ‘Hospital’: Extract from the Epic Poem by James Sale The Society November 6, 2024 Epic, Poetry 15 Comments . HellWard Canto 1: Hospital ---lines 1-92 It had to be---that long descent began: About me images, one century That started, stuttered, showed how...
‘Elegy for a Cowboy Cousin’: A Poem by Dan Tuton The Society November 6, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 20 Comments . Elegy for a Cowboy Cousin An autumn wind is stirring strong across the dusty hills, As tumbleweeds leave skittered tracks within the sandy...
An Election Day Poem: ‘Voting Advice’ by Warren Bonham The Society November 5, 2024 Poetry, Satire 15 Comments . Voting Advice When we vote in each election,few with brains will ever run.So, when we make our selection,we elect a simpleton. When a massive...
Nov. 5 Guy Fawkes Day Poem, by Paul A. Freeman The Society November 5, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments . Guy Fawkes Night Makeover November 5th! To Guy Fawkes let’s be kind--- no burning him in effigy this year. His hanged-and-drawn-and-quartered...
A Poem for the 2024 Presidential Election: ‘Polarities’ by C.B. Anderson The Society November 4, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Polarities The only certain solidarity among the Self-Reliant is the ease with which their pride in insularity is spoken of like some esteemed...
Six Riddles for Autumn 2024, by Evan Mantyk The Society November 4, 2024 Humor, Poetry, Riddles 14 Comments . I. I travel thanks to water, But do not float or sail. More quickly than an otter And have a smoke-like tail. What am I? . II>. II. When at...
Looking Back: ‘The Death of the Old Met’ and Other Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society November 3, 2024 Poetry 19 Comments . The Death of the Old Met 1883-1967 Unsinging silence fills the empty spaceWhere once the divas aria-ed and trilledPuccini’s La Bohème before...
‘Loose Me!’: A Villanelle by T.M. Moore The Society November 3, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 8 Comments . Loose Me! “Loose him, and let him go.” ---John 11.44 O loose me, Jesus! Jesus, set me free from all that binds my soul and blinds my...
