‘The Iron Road’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society October 30, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . The Iron Road Flecked with the dust of snow, the iron rails Lie still and undisturbed beneath a sky Of cloudless blue where eagles freely...
‘Healthy Relics’: Three Sonnets by Margaret Coats The Society October 30, 2024 Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . Elisha's Bones II Kings 4:32–37, 13:20–21 Elisha died, the prophet doubly strong In spirit, and his sepulcher was grand, For he had caused a...
‘Sonnet 83’ by Richard Craven The Society October 29, 2024 Poetry, Satire 4 Comments . Sonnet 83 A thankless task. You churn them singly out. They’re ordered chronologic’ly. And when someone asks idly what they’re all about, you...
‘Lucifer’s Lament’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant: Reading and Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society October 29, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Culture, Poetry, Readings 14 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zId3BCl6M . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His...
‘Passing Through a Graveyard’: A Poem by Robert Nachtegall The Society October 28, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . Passing Through a Graveyard Marred old friends whose breath has passed Are cold friends whose breadth I pass. Some I pray they pray for me. Some...
‘Where Babylonic Rivers Flowed’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society October 28, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Where Babylonic Rivers Flowed after Psalm 137, a lament at the destruction of Jerusalem Where Babylonic rivers flowed We settled down to weep and...
‘Prayer as an Antidote for Unbelief’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society October 27, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Prayer as an Antidote for Unbelief Just imagine if, while you’re entreating the sky, You were met with the wink of a generous Eye. __A very...
‘The Venetian Doge on the Sack of Constantinople’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society October 27, 2024 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . The Venetian Doge on the Sack of Constantinople Setting: Constantinople in the Summer of 1204 AD. Doge Enrico Dandolo of Venice prepares for bed...
‘Autumn’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society October 26, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . Autumn I find myself possessed among the red (The maple) and the yellow (oak); possessed Of some distinct yet subtle joy inbred So deep within me,...
‘A Ballad of Bellport’: A Poem by Margaret Brinton The Society October 26, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . A Ballad of Bellport In stockings and slippers, A dress to her knees, She scans the horizon And takes in the breeze. She glances to Heaven, Peruses...
‘The Java Joe Machine’ and Other Poetry by Gigi Ryan The Society October 25, 2024 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . The Java Joe Machine My jiffy Java Joe machineAllows me to make only oneCup of coffee when I please,Convenient when I’m on the run. But in the...
‘Senior Village’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society October 25, 2024 Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . Senior Village The ambulances come and go. Last night it was the man across The hall, whom I’d begun to know. Another friend, another loss. __I...
‘Not So Grand Poo-bah’: A Poem by Frank Rable The Society October 24, 2024 Poetry, Satire 5 Comments . Not So Grand Poo-bah Middle brother with lesser brain, Descended from the killer Cain. More grasping man you never saw, Believes he is the Grand...
‘The Force of Dreams’: A Sonnet by Phillip Whidden The Society October 24, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry 13 Comments . The Force of Dreams I dreamed of you last night. I dreamed and dreamed, Yet more, as if there never had been dreams In me before. Reality it...
‘Homage to Morton of Merrymount’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society October 23, 2024 Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . Homage to Morton of Merrymount To you I pay this homage and devotion: Thomas Morton, Host of Merrymount— You, whose learnèd writing put in...
‘Contemporary Logic’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society October 23, 2024 Poetry, Satire 16 Comments . Contemporary Logic Tattoos were blanketing her skin, Pierced everywhere, objects put in, Eyelash extensions, purple-haired, “I love my body,”...
‘The Good Life’: A Poem by Rusty Rabon The Society October 22, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . The Good Life What is the good life that God is providing? What is the good life He seeks to impart? How can I know that I live in God’s...
‘S O S’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 21, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 49 Comments . S O S Keep the fleecy wolves from bleating. Hold the pack of jackals back. Seize the greedy grubbers eating Scraps from bowls of those who...
‘The Mask’ and Other Poetry by Peter Venable The Society October 21, 2024 Culture, Poetry 3 Comments . The Mask Sin wears a Cherub’s mask And beams forth paradise. “Come in, recline, and bask.” Discerning eyes looks twice: The gate shuts like a...
‘Look Up’: A Poem Inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, by T.M. Moore The Society October 20, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Look Up Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on a world split apart The prophet scorned the academic dress of those who had invited him to their Parnassus of the...
‘Skellig Michael’: A Blank Verse Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society October 20, 2024 Beauty, Blank Verse, Poetry 14 Comments . Skellig Michael a remote island off the Irish coast A whispered, whistled wind resounds the echo Of the circling gannets’ raucous cry. While far...
‘The Night My Father Punched the Cow’: A Poem by Sally Cook The Society October 19, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . The Night My Father Punched the Cow The night my father punched the cowWas dark and windy, late; and nowHis job was dangling on a row,And he was...
‘The Walk’: A Poem by Martin Elster The Society October 19, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments . The Walk Whether you call it a walk or a run, some animals tread on the water for fun, to flee, chase their food, or show off for their...
‘Tattered’: A Poem by Venessa Lee-Estevez The Society October 18, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments . Tattered I watched a butterfly today, grappling with the barbarous breeze. She was suspended and entrapped under a canopy of trees. Her tattered...
‘Mother Government’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society October 18, 2024 Poetry, Satire 25 Comments . Mother Government We modern people don’t believe that pointless rituals relieve the crushing angst felt deep within, that we once thought was...
‘The Waste Land: 2028’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society October 17, 2024 Poetry, Satire 35 Comments . The Waste Land: 2028 You said you loved her---everything about her---Her color, accents, laugh, that she was woke.Her joy outweighed all duty and...
‘Apologies at Antoninus Pius’s Table, 155 A.D.’: A Poem by Christopher Fried The Society October 17, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . Apologies at Antoninus Pius’s Table, 155 A.D. . I. Rome’s Glory “Arriving at this feast, how proud I stand that Rome endures to succor those...
‘To Melody, on Her Wedding Day’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society October 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . To Melody, on Her Wedding Day And now the hour has come for you to fly, To leave your early nest and take the air For vistas yet unseen (though God...
‘Old Chestnut’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society October 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments Old Chestnut I’m the spirited girl with the chestnut hair, Common countenance pale, smile occasionally stressed, High forehead and wide, sculpted...
‘Washington’s Armor’ from Andrew Benson Brown’s Mock Epic Poem The Society October 15, 2024 Epic, Poetry 8 Comments . Washington’s Armor Under a watchful sky, a thick, long snake Was slithering: red regulars and blue Virginians groaned while dragging banners to...
‘Sudan, 2005—On the Death of Dr. John Garang’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society October 15, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Sudan, 2005 ---on the death of Dr. John Garang, Liberation Fighter and Sudanese Vice President Garang is dead! An accident, they say--- his...
‘Three Death Musings’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society October 14, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . Three Death Musings . 1 One day the conqueror worm will conquer me And therewith render life the Joker's joke. Ensuing laughter will then posit...
‘Westward, with Columbus’: A Poem for Columbus Day by Paul A. Freeman The Society October 14, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Westward, with Columbus The North Atlantic Ocean was awashwith monsters and leviathans, or sowe fearfully supposed, and thought it toshby sailing...
‘Their Principal Principle’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson The Society October 13, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . Their Principal Principle With their hideous lies and a gleam in their eyes They disable each new generation, For the best route to power in...
‘A Roman Noble on Constantine the Great’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society October 13, 2024 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . A Roman Noble on Constantine the Great Setting: A villa on the outskirts of Rome, ab urbe condita 1082 (329 A.D.) Cornelia, no. The household gods...
‘Peter Pan’s Soliloquy’: A Poem by Joshua C. Frank The Society October 12, 2024 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Peter Pan’s Soliloquy In Never Land, each sunrise brings anew A day of play and laughter to pursue. I meet the mermaids, swim in their...
‘To the Autumn Birches’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society October 12, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . To the Autumn Birches The languid light of waning day Glares undiffused by any cloud, Still strong, defying its decay, Then breaks on a dark...
‘Odd One Out’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society October 11, 2024 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Odd One Out Moored to the screen, he barely gets involved In vapid, paltry things his workmates seem To swap their saneness for—magnetic...
‘It Must Be True’: A Poem by Daniel Freeman The Society October 11, 2024 Poetry, Satire 22 Comments . It Must Be True In The Jungle Book Kipling describes the “Bandar-log”—the monkeys of the Seeonee Jungle—whose scatterbrained chatter is...
‘Ghosts of the Watchtower’: A Poem by Kyle Fiske The Society October 10, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rubaiyat 10 Comments . Ghosts of the Watchtower The end-of-summer breeze gives hint with cool caress Of coming autumn gales and forecasts of distress. But who beneath the...
