Book Review: Woodland Poems by Douglas Thornton The Society August 15, 2016 Essays, Poetry, Reviews 1 Comment By James Sale This is a curious collection from Douglas Thornton: ambitious, epic in its style, containing many great lines and ideas, but also...
‘Unintended Consequences Gone Down a Half Century Before Brexit’ by Gerard Sarnat The Society August 14, 2016 Poetry 7 Comments “London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down. London Bridge is falling down my fair lady.” During segregation grocery stores...
‘Against the Light’ and Other Poetry by Carol Smallwood The Society August 12, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Against the Light Watermarks are visible when held against light whispering quality, distinction, louder than a shout— are also used in...
‘If You’re a Beggar, Be a Chooser Too’ and Other Poetry by Courtney Dowe The Society August 10, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 7 Comments If You're a Beggar, Be a Chooser Too (Villanelle) If you're a beggar, be a chooser too, For less is more and more can be a curse. The world will...
‘Once a Man, Twice a Child’ by Lucy Giardino Cortese The Society August 8, 2016 Humor, Poetry 1 Comment Old age recycles the body An infant once pink turns blue Nature recalls with rapid speed To complete life’s circle anew Fuzzy hairs on baldy...
‘Technology’ and Other Poetry by David Paul Behrens The Society August 6, 2016 Poetry 5 Comments Technology I am sick of this world Technology has gone wild I miss the peace of mind I used to have as a child Everyone seems so...
‘Petals in the Winter’ and Other Poetry by Zachary Dilks The Society August 4, 2016 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments Petals in the Winter Three petals on a lily like the snow were held aloft And though the wind through window whipped it so just one fell off Two...
‘Nuptial Evening’ by Yousuf bin Mohammad The Society August 2, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments This eve set as elegant exhibit of skin deep beauty for old yearning stares, is time’s harsh labor’s brief retreat. The hands,...
‘Questions for the Gods: Sisyphus’ by Alan Toltzis The Society July 29, 2016 Culture, Poetry 2 Comments for Claudia Why didn’t Sisyphus simply walk away and climb, unencumbered, up the smooth cleft worn in the undulant hillside, up and over that...
‘Marv’lous Melody’ and Other Poetry by Sara Spry The Society July 27, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment Marv’lous Melody I read the words all leaping from the page And hear the joyful rhythm in my head But stop for you, an even-tonéd sage And...
‘Javelin Ekphrastic’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream The Society July 25, 2016 Culture, Poetry 1 Comment . . Javelin Ekphrastic Out of the air and shot from a thrust, Clout of the spear, forethought where it must, Wrought from the ancient and taut and...
‘Dieting Can Be Hell’ by Kathy Figueroa The Society July 23, 2016 Humor, Poetry 2 Comments This dieting can be Hell With nary a late-night snack I wage a constant battle When the hunger pangs attack And should I dare venture out To...
‘In Defense of the Aesthetic Sense’ and Other Poetry by Gil Hackel The Society July 21, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments In Defense of the Aesthetic Sense When lovely melodies arouse and wake My dormant bliss, or true words do the same, Dark, dour-visaged men...
‘Passing Through the Woods of Ash’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society July 19, 2016 Beauty, Human Rights in China, Poetry 3 Comments Dedicated to Falun Gong practitioners who have peacefully resisted persecution by the communist regime in China for 17 years, since July 20,...
‘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...
