‘A Chinese Epic, Chapter II’ by Evan Mantyk The Society July 18, 2016 Epic, Human Rights in China, Poetry 1 Comment Chapter II: Visions and Dreams (For Chapter I click here.) THE band and locals, totaling fourteen, Retired to rest before the looming day. Some...
‘The Wayfarer’ by Edward Ahern The Society July 17, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments The waking’s spun with webs of urgent lure And sleep is shriveled dreaming marred by fear. The life allows the walker nothing sure Or level path...
‘C0d0s0’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dales Wise The Society July 13, 2016 Beauty, Human Rights in China, Poetry 2 Comments C0d0s0 By Leweca Derusbi The Chinese hackers who are known as the Codoso group are infiltrating sites across the Internetic...
‘Lost’ and Other Poetry by Mandy Moe Pwint Tu The Society July 11, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Lost The angel’s cry, the devil’s kiss: How did you let it come to this? You claimed the darkness too: How when the world was screaming, You...
‘ A Meditation on Mohonk Ridge’ by Nathan Cayea The Society July 9, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments When the wind blows true through the land Rustled leaves hold trees that withstand Tempered gusts with vicious intent. So long lives the...
‘Jaded I Lay’ and Other Poetry by Charles Eager The Society July 7, 2016 Beauty, Poetry Jaded I Lay Jaded I lay prostrate in bands Constructed of my self-frustration: The morning waned; so too my elation, Jade-hued, whose kite flew...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Short Student Play Version The Society July 5, 2016 Education, Poetry 1 Comment This rhyming adaption of the 14th century Arthurian poem is suitable for 4-6 students to perform and only takes about 10 minutes or so to...
‘Anasazi’ and Other Poetry by C. David Hay The Society July 3, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments Anasazi Mesa castles in the sky Where paintbrush blooms and eagles fly. A people's passage marked in stone; Artifacts of flint and...
Poetry Competition: Four Lines for the Fourth of July ***Winners Announced The Society June 30, 2016 From the Society, Poetry Contests 51 Comments Write a quatrain (four-line poem) on the topic of America. Post your submissions into the comments section below with your general location, such as...
‘The Pharaoh’s People and the Locusts’ and Other Poetry by John W. L. Toivonen The Society June 29, 2016 Poetry 1 Comment The Pharaoh's People and the Locusts We had our land covered by the locusts. On every leaf the hungry, magnet mouths drew the food in until we had...
A Donald Trump Clerihew and Other Poetry by Dave Martin The Society June 28, 2016 Culture, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments Related Content 'Trump' Presidential Prophecy Poem by Nostradamus Donald Trump (A Clerihew*) Donald “The Donald” Trump Surprisingly took to...
‘Cribbed Agency’ and Other Poetry by Frank De Canio The Society June 27, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Cribbed Agency (After a grating entrée) No matter how I madly strove to make sense of the garlic clove the waitress gave me with my plate, it...
‘Lone Cypress, Pebble Beach’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream The Society June 25, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments . . Lone Cypress, Pebble Beach Crack of stone for rest and bed, Wrack of storm unpressed I tread, Sun and proud and bright and gold; Dun and shroud...
‘Son of Europe’ by Carlos Perona Calvete The Society June 23, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments So turn whereto it dies, Pulse of a draining sun: The face of daylight’s guise The yield that night has won. See on the far-west front, Goes...
‘No One’ by Robert Cooperman The Society June 21, 2016 Humor, Poetry 2 Comments No one can hate you like a former spouse. It sounds like a country-western song, I know, but no one can mutter you’re such a louse as an...
‘The Faerie Mountain’ by Elizabeth Henry The Society June 19, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments Near rugged shores and inky lochs, Schiehallion prevails. As stronghold of the faeries, she’s the guardian of their tales. And at her foot there...
‘So to Speak’ and Other Poetry by Jane Blanchard The Society June 17, 2016 Humor, Poetry 1 Comment So to Speak My teen-aged son talks not as I do; I cannot teach him, yet I try to. If I should use subjunctive mood, He indicates an...
‘Communicating Universal Truths’: An Interview with Betsy Hughes The Society June 16, 2016 Essays, Interviews, Poetry 5 Comments By Sharon Kilarski | Originally Published in The Epoch Times A sonnet by Betsy Hughes offers unmistakable relief; you can actually understand what...
‘April in Washington’ and Other Poetry by David Martin The Society June 15, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments April in Washington Around the basin there’s a ring Of cherry trees now blossoming. Showing off the city’s best, They give its residents a...
‘Spirit’ and Other Poetry by Lorna Davis The Society June 13, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments Spirit Where once a spirit, pure and bright, Would sail on gossamer wings of light And pass through realms of endless night Amid the...
‘Camino D’Oro’ (A Villanelle) by Robert Walton The Society June 11, 2016 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 2 Comments Our paths vanish; our footsteps fade From forest glades, from wave-damp sands From sunlight’s dazzle and twilight’s shade. Babes...
‘This Will Not Make the News Today’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society June 9, 2016 Poetry 1 Comment This Will Not Make the News Today "My mother told me to take nothing stronger than aspirin." —Bruce Dale Wise By Dr. Weslie Ubeca O, we have...
‘On Turning Eighty’ by Robert King The Society June 8, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments Though I’m eighty and have survived I’m the oldest man that never lived My life flew by too fast for that Each mountain climbed now...
‘2016 Primaries’ and Other Poetry by John W. Steele The Society June 7, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment 2016 Primaries This season, Mr. Trump’s a raging wildfire, a storm ignited by reality TV, fodder for anyone who likes good satire. He’s...
‘The Lady and the Unicorn’ by Dylan Schrader The Society June 5, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Gaunt fades the twilight, nearly gone, a weary world wearing thin Since last the unremembered sun smiled upon the land below, And sluggish sinks...
On the 27th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre: Three Poets Speak The Society June 4, 2016 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 6 Comments Post your Tiananmen Square poems in the comments section below. Tiananmen By James Fenton, Hong Kong, 15 June 1989 Tianamen Is broad...
‘Don’t Feed the Trolls’ by Alan Jankowski The Society June 3, 2016 Culture, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments To some the world revolves around them, And nothing else can matter. They’ll do anything to reach that end, Including endless idle...
‘Go Forth, Graduates!’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges The Society June 1, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments Go Forth, Graduates! To all you graduates, fare well! This world is yours today. Don’t follow the masses who sell Their minds or don...
‘What If’ by Pamela Corbett The Society May 31, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments What if the tall tales we’re told as children, are in fact true?Lost stories about elves, hobbits, and knights of great virtue-Waging battles of...
A Biographical Remark in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis The Society May 29, 2016 Essays, Poetry, Shakespeare 5 Comments By Douglas Thornton "And lo I lie between the sun and thee" (Venus and Adonis; line 194) To see the poet in the act of composition, to hear his...
Imitating Three Shakespeare Sonnets, by James Sale The Society May 27, 2016 Beauty, Poetry, Shakespeare, Translation 3 Comments Original Shakespeare followed by imitation. Sonnet 49 Against that time, if ever that time come, When I shall see thee frown on my...
‘If I Could Be’ by Hayden Bergman The Society May 25, 2016 Humor, Poetry If anything I could choose to be, certainly the pig I would choose; with an oink and a roll in the mud, of me, no man would...
‘Zhang Dejiang’s Hong Kong Visit, May 2016’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society May 23, 2016 Human Rights in China, Poetry 2 Comments Zhang Dejiang's Hong Kong Visit, May 2016 By Li "Web Crease" Du "But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao You ain't going to make...
Poems on Child Abuse by Damian Robin The Society May 21, 2016 Poetry 4 Comments Grooming Kids get pressed down tight in rooms — closed rooms with bare soft furnishing — fresh flowers tunnelled, forced to...
Can the Writing of Poetry Be Taught? The Society May 16, 2016 Education, Essays, Poetry 14 Comments By James Sale In our egalitarian and democratic societies we very much hope and want all good things to be available to all people if they have a...
‘The Frail Security of Mediocrity’ by Buffy Worsham The Society May 14, 2016 Beauty, Poetry I thought that maybe you’re no longer free To think separately from Time’s favored paths Choosing its well-worn roads to unmarked...
‘A Chinese Epic, Chapter I’ by Evan Mantyk The Society May 12, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Epic, Human Rights in China, Poetry 5 Comments Chapter I: Arrival in Beijing Inspired by real events Sing to me, Muse, who flies through Heaven’s realms, Sing of that night when...
‘The Mirror True’ and Other Poetry by Sheri-Ann O’Shea The Society May 10, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment The Mirror True When all at once I seem to see you there I find I never knew you from the first When all that I once thought you seems...
Poetry Review: ‘Heroes and Wonders’ by Ben Zwycky, 2015 The Society May 8, 2016 Essays, Poetry 5 Comments By James Sale Poetry is a delicate balance of language that is prone to either too much yin or too much yang; or put another way, as the poet...
‘Spring’ and Other Poetry by Corey Browning The Society May 7, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments Spring O hallow tulip, flower of the spring, I cannot wait until the sun may bring, From out the earth your amethystine grace, Your...
