‘Suicide Nets’ and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath The Society September 25, 2014 Poetry 1 Comment Lamenting our Complicity in the Installation of Suicide Nets I met a “bum” outside an Apple store holding a sign which read: “I’m taking...
‘O, Scotland’ by Clide Abersuwe The Society September 22, 2014 Humor, Poetry "Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land." —Walter Scott I saw this...
‘When I First Heard the Learn’d Astronomer’ by I. E. Sbace Weruld The Society September 19, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment A counter to a Walt Whitman poem When I first heard the learn'd astronomer explain his proofs and figures, and arrange the particles of this vast...
Poetry on Chinese Communism by Damian Robin The Society September 16, 2014 Poetry 1 Comment Chinese Cameo 1 Here’s a tale of friends and family— Near the founding of the CCP, Zhou Enlai and Sun Bingwen were friends, both Party...
‘A Father’s Poem: a Ten-nos*’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society September 13, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments I hope your life will offer you new opportunities, that you will find contentment in the choices that you seize. Remember family's...
‘Bewintered’ by Jane Blanchard The Society September 10, 2014 Humor, Poetry 2 Comments When snow arrives As long forecast, It sets a scene That does not last; But for the while Snow sits around, All else...
‘A Moon Poem’ by Evan Mantyk The Society September 7, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments For the Mid-Autumn, or Moon, Festival My Ford Explorer would ascend no higher: Stuck half-way up that driveway's first steep hill. 'Twas a...
‘The Truth James Foley Stood For’ and Other Poetry by Cid Wa’eeb El Sur The Society September 3, 2014 Poetry 1 Comment The Truth James Foley Stood For, a Ten-nos* James Foley, searching for the truth, a photo journalist, was murdered in cold blood by a...
Lines Composed Before Finding the ‘Society of Classical Poets’ by Reid McGrath The Society August 31, 2014 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Untitled Savants like to arrange their stars and push their poets into piles: marble-misers who assign the jars according to the artists’...
‘A Lace Piece’ (A Pantoum) by Carol Smallwood The Society August 28, 2014 Beauty, Pantoum, Poetry 1 Comment There’s a wonder about it, the fragile beauty of lace. Many kinds for centuries have been important to own; one can go to Ireland, Flanders, from...
‘From Ego to Muse, from Banality to Beauty: Getting to Poetry’ by James Sale The Society August 25, 2014 Beauty, Essays, Poetry 4 Comments There are a number of reasons for writing poetry, and alas they are not all good; for not all poetry is good, and indeed some ‘poetry’ is not...
‘The Commissars Oppose Falun Gong’ and Other Poetry by James Sale The Society August 22, 2014 Culture, Poetry 6 Comments The Commissars Oppose Falun Gong They were old, had lost their youth, So, like the old, repressed the Truth. They fumbled, rigid in...
‘Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer’ by Cees Wilerd Bui The Society August 19, 2014 Art, Beauty, Culture, Homer, Poetry 1 Comment In Rembrandt's scene of 1653, Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer, there is much that we can see amidst that musty sett(l)ing of gold...
Children’s Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society August 16, 2014 Humor, Poetry 2 Comments The Bored Knight A tired knight rode to his castle After a long day of hassle. He bowed to the land’s king, his lord, “My liege, I’m...
‘Scarlet Terms’ by Wilbur dee Case The Society August 13, 2014 Culture, Poetry 1 Comment The allegory of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne isn't flawless; yet it is, in places, good. The A itself does signify adultery, able,...
‘Spring Haiku’ and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath The Society August 10, 2014 Beauty, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 5 Comments Spring Haiku I’m optimistic; like a brand new tennis ball, everything’s chartreuse. The brook trout’s belly is like a sunset...
‘Helen Keller at Niagara Falls’ by Meryl Stratford The Society August 7, 2014 Popular Poetry Archives 15 Comments She could not see the avalanche cascade from foam-flecked marble rapids, being blind, but torrents of egrets and apple blossoms...
Short Story: ‘The Tin Shant Social Collective’ by Neal Dachstadter The Society August 2, 2014 Humor, Short Stories 8 Comments I. The Tin Shant on the hill in Martinique is stoutly situated, unique in design, and built half a century ago. Though stucco and cinderblock,...
‘Apollo Builds Troy with His Lyre’ by James Sale The Society July 30, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments A miracle, how else to say it then? At first, but ground, absolutely nothing there, A river meandering by, some cattle, gorse, Nettle...
‘The Glass Bottle Tree’ and Other Poetry by Gabe Russo The Society July 27, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments The Glass Bottle Tree When the wind blows through, the tree shakes. The glass bottles tip their sunlight Over a stiff hearth of...
‘The Funeral March of a Marionette’ by U. Carew Delibes The Society July 24, 2014 Beauty, Performing Arts 1 Comment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJQTF0bkq8s The Funeral March of a Marionette is by Charles Gounod. The marionette's...
‘Currency of Compassion’ and Other Poetry by Heath Alderman The Society July 21, 2014 Beauty Currency of Compassion Throughout the history of humanity conscious coveting with eyes, insanity anxious and eager to grasp with empty...
‘First Parting’ by Robert Walton The Society July 18, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments When the last candles smoldered on the funeral eve, And no echo of condolence rippled midnight silence, I rose in scented darkness and took my...
‘Fathers and Grandfathers’ and Other Poetry by Neal Dachstadter The Society July 15, 2014 Beauty, Poetry Fathers and Grandfathers When we see our Brethren bold, Reach the age called Growing old, Men grow thoughtful, mind afire, With the...
‘August Reverie’ by Angela Porter The Society July 12, 2014 Beauty, Poetry I walked around the garden, and did think. If I had my own how would I create? With enclosed space I’d make myself here sit. Comfortably, and I...
‘True to Nature’ and Other Poetry by Dean Robbins The Society July 9, 2014 Beauty, Poetry True to Nature Men take up arms to battle in the sun, anticipating minor victories won o'er valiant, steadfast foes who, if they could, would...
‘Aspens Turning’ by Donald Mace Williams The Society July 7, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments The aspens are turning, my neighbor said. I went to see. Mostly gold, some red, They stood and whirled, their white trunks bare. A bright sheen...
‘LinkedIn’s Censorship in China’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society July 5, 2014 Beauty, Poetry Originally published in The Epoch Times. LinkedIn's Censorship in China LinkedIn connects people the world over, Crafting a cozy café oceans...
Translations of Classical Hungarian Poetry by Frederick Turner and Zsuzsanna Ozsváth The Society July 3, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Poems from the Hungarian Poetry Reading 9/19/2013 Twenty Years Later By János Vajda (1827–1897) / Translation by Zsuzsanna Ozsváth...
‘I Left My Gloves at the Analyst’s’ by Nancy Weber The Society June 30, 2014 Humor, Poetry 4 Comments I left my gloves at the analyst's He called to say he'd found them Black, he said, lined with cotton Green, I said, lined with satin He saw them...
‘Yin and Yang’ by Jane Blanchard The Society June 27, 2014 Humor, Poetry 1 Comment “Hello, again!” the sun does say when rising on a morn in May. “Thanks for the break,” replies the moon. “I need to go to bed...
‘The Calm’ by John Gray The Society June 24, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment That distant bellow is merely a case Of west wind rushing through the tamarack In a race with itself to cliff and back, Far from the lake's quiet...
Essay: ‘To Rhyme or Not to Rhyme?’ by James Sale The Society June 21, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Popular Poetry Archives 81 Comments Imagine that you were lost in a wilderness and had to find your way out. Fortunately, you have with you a number of things, or tools if you will. In...
Children’s Poetry by Scáth Beorh The Society June 18, 2014 Humor 1 Comment Some People Say Some people say that giraffes were petite and they grew their necks out to properly eat, or they were once dinosaurs who lost...
‘Seasong’ and Other Poetry by Mandy Moe Pwint Tu The Society June 15, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Seasong I heard the wreathéd coral horn That Triton blew, and less forlorn Did suddenly I feel: I heard the sirensong afar I launched a ship...
‘The Living Thinking on the Dead’ by Alberdi Ucwese The Society June 12, 2014 Art, Beauty, Poetry On the painting "Le berges d'Arcadie" by Nicolas Poussin The rugged mountains in the distance stand beyond, above the three, young shepherds and...
‘At the Moment of Our Death’ and Other Poetry by Robert King The Society June 9, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments At the Moment of Our Death At the moment of our death As we draw our final breath Should we not project a fear Of the prospect of not being...
New Tang Poets Reading The Society June 4, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment Held on May 26, 2014, at Da Tang, in New York, participants read Tang Dynasty poetry, translated poetry previously written by attendees,...
‘Blue and Yellow Barn-Swallows’ and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath The Society June 2, 2014 Beauty, Humor, Poetry Blue and Yellow Barn-Swallows She made a note to note when they arrived. It’s obvious whenev’r they fin’lly do. Over the cows they dipped...
‘Give And Take’ by Damian Robin The Society May 30, 2014 Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Our ends and deaths sit with us all the time defining executioners and crime; and though we try to keep them from our door, many...
