‘Youths’ Sonnet’ and Other Poetry by Janice Canerdy The Society December 12, 2014 Culture, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments Youths' Sonnet They view the world through filmy innocence, these youngsters who now hear the future call. Into that forest bountiful and...
‘A Bit of a Giggle-bite’ by Damian Robin The Society December 8, 2014 Humor, Poetry 3 Comments I've had some poems I could submit but now I've got behind a bit, they're packed inside the silent hive of a sev’ral-year-old, old hard...
‘To the Media in America’ by Jane Blanchard The Society December 5, 2014 Culture, Humor, Poetry The British are coming! The whole fourth estate Must wear what is smart For William and Kate. The British are coming! Men, watch how you...
‘Living Buddhas Need Passports’ by Florence Major The Society December 1, 2014 Poetry 2 Comments To incarnate legally─ No reincarnates can be found In Beijing’s atheist compound─ In this city where dead is dead─ A reincarnate could...
‘Our Day in the Sun’ and Other Poetry by Robert King The Society November 24, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment Our Day in the Sun We, each of us, every one Have had our day in the sun Came a time that day was done Let us then no longer dwell On what...
‘The Little Kindnesses’ by Bic Uwel, “Erased” The Society November 17, 2014 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment "...that best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love." ...
‘Life’ and Other Poetry by Hibah Shabkhez The Society November 11, 2014 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment Life Ravaged forests again take root Life nestling within the sturdy acorn Cannot be throttled Ashes reborn yield bitter fruit Fragrance...
‘Dandelions’ and Other Poetry by Kathryn Jacobs The Society November 4, 2014 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments Dandelions She touched their gray-haired afros tenderly: an urban six year old with kinky hair who pounced on dandelions (bud-vases were full...
‘A Nation Mourns: October 22, 2014’ by Wes Caribu Deal The Society November 1, 2014 Poetry Canadian reservist Corporal Cirillo was killed this day at the War Memorial in Ottawa, while standing in his ceremonial and Scottish...
‘The Tip Jar Was Snatched at O Cafe. O!’ by Nancy Weber The Society October 28, 2014 Humor, Poetry The tip jar was snatched at O Cafe. O! “Somebody just picked it up,” mused the guy at the register. I’d stopped in to buy six ounces of...
Fall Haiku and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath The Society October 21, 2014 Beauty, Haiku and Senryu, Humor, Poetry Fall Haiku New England college towns: Pumpkins, apples, breakfast in a warm café. Swamp-maples afire! Rusty colored barns, silos draped in...
‘The Catskill Mountains’ by Ubs Reece Idwal The Society October 15, 2014 Beauty, Poetry From the Pages of Washington Irving, for my Hudson River Friends Whoever 's made a voyage up the Hudson must remember Catskill Mountains, a...
“French Suites” and Other Poetry by Mark J. Mitchell The Society October 12, 2014 Culture, Music, Poetry 2 Comments French Suites Each keystroke is precise, clear as a verb Untouched by modifiers. Sharps and flats Are reliable as death, the light trills All...
Poetry on the Mass Protest in Hong Kong The Society October 9, 2014 Poetry 4 Comments Waiting at a Bustop Under an Umbrella By Damian Robin The pro-democracy tear-soaked bud could burst into a petaled flower...
‘Two Months On’ and Other Poetry by R. Bremner The Society October 7, 2014 Beauty, Poetry Two Months On I walk between the tired trees restless soldiers standing ground pray for just a tiny breeze bringing me a cheerful...
‘610 Office’ by Li ‘Web Crease’ Du The Society October 4, 2014 Poetry 610 is there to take it down, the Falun Gong, that touches Dao. It's clear to see the dangers of forbearance, truth, compassion,...
‘Courage’ and Other Poetry by Michael Curtis The Society October 1, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Courage I saw a tiny spider spin a web Within my humble hut between two beams. He tried to throw a thread across, it ebbed Away. He did not...
‘Beauty’ by Valerie Dohren The Society September 28, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments I saw the face of beauty fixed Upon the rising sun Beyond all mortal compliment Her loveliness there shone Within the constellations...
‘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 Alec Ream 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, we...
‘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...
