‘Research Guideline’ and Other Poetry by James Ph. Kotsybar The Society February 5, 2014 Beauty, Poetry Research Guideline Throughout investigative history, a basic principle has long held sway: When we unravel Nature’s...
‘Metaphorical Meditation Musings’ and Other Poetry by Rama Devi The Society February 2, 2014 Beauty, Poetry Metaphorical Meditation Musings My thoughts, like waves of ocean's surface swells that roll repeatedly, then crash on shore, neglect...
‘Contemporary Chinese Holocaust’ by Jim Dunlap The Society January 29, 2014 Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Imprisonment, torture, pathetic wrong - begat from a people of age-old culture, wit, classic beauty, artistry and song: practices akin to...
‘Greeks, Bearing Gifts’ and Other Poetry by Phill Doran The Society January 26, 2014 Culture, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment Greeks, Bearing Gifts The coils of wood cascade as worn blades glide from cedar lengths, rough-hewn deformed and coarse, while nearby,...
A Sonnet by Evan Guilford-Blake The Society January 23, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment What wonder! - In the arcs described by wings Aloft and floating on the fair spring air. In graceful glides, parabolas of dare Defying, in ascent,...
‘The Rainbow’ and Other Poetry by Robert Woods The Society January 20, 2014 Beauty, Poetry The Rainbow A wave of color binds our sentiments before it fades. For each emotion, is a subtlety in hue expressed, And through life's...
“Ballet Lesson” and Other Poetry by Betsy M. Hughes The Society January 17, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Ballet Lesson The flow has ebbed and left a tidal pool. A little tern wades in with webbed feet So delicate they wobble in the...
Humorous Poetry by Wayne Lee The Society January 14, 2014 Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments Calpurnia’s Paranoia Beware the Ides of March, she said— if you ignore the signs, you’re dead. But Caesar did not share her...
‘Stars from a Different Sky’ by Robert Walton The Society January 11, 2014 Beauty, Poetry Sparks from nearby campfires Might be stars of paradise Glimpsed through twilight’s window Too briefly for surmise Of their height above the...
‘Building for Eternity’ by Richard D. Lackman The Society January 8, 2014 Humor, Poetry 4 Comments He looked all around him and saw monuments so vast Built with good intentions to endure and hold steadfast Awesome structures pointing up to heaven...
‘Bounty’ and Other Poetry by Bronwen Hudson The Society January 6, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Bounty When apples hang untouched on branches’ bottom, Or beans lie grounded, neither grown nor dead, Or bulbs down-nestle into...
Haiku by Evan Mantyk The Society January 3, 2014 Beauty, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry The Persecution of Falun Gong I. Meditating group One clear crisp day at Shanghai In earth’s sunny loop II. What is...
A New Year’s Eve Poem: ‘The Pendulum’ by Lee Ubis Cardew The Society December 31, 2013 Culture, Poetry The pendulum o' th' old grandfather clock goes back and forth, and forth and back, and back and forth, and forth and back, again, again,...
‘Ode to Matters of Fact’ and Other Poetry by Joseph Psarto The Society December 30, 2013 Humor, Poetry 2 Comments Ode to Matters of Fact The best advice I've ever read -- if you don't breathe you'll soon be dead. And secondly -- a pleasant...
‘Smile’ by Kylee Draper The Society December 27, 2013 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment It spreads like wildfire when you give a smile. At first you won’t really notice at all, But if you wait patiently for a small while, You’ll...
Essay: ‘Twas the Night after Rhyme… The Society December 24, 2013 Poetry 4 Comments By Clinton Van Inman Editors who reject classical styles of poetry in submissions usually respond with, “I hate meter, rhythm and rhyme.” It...
Preparing for Winter and Spring by Damian Robin The Society December 21, 2013 Poetry An English Autumn’s Coming Indoors, a crisp leaf skates on smooth floorboards, gunned by silent puffs from our gapped doorway – A...
‘The Actor’s Prayer’ by Francesca Cappelli The Society December 18, 2013 Culture, Poetry You came to life from dreams and thoughts and whispers. You were told and you were – forever true. The centuries have left you young...
Poetry on Opera by U. Carew Delibes The Society December 15, 2013 Beauty, Culture, Performing Arts, Poetry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBmdmFCtTNU Near the End of Don Giovanni The terror starts with the entrancing entrance...
‘Cosmorama’ by Kemar Cummings The Society December 12, 2013 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment Beyond the skies is universal eternity. Nebulous ghosts of dust float around In the black hole of space. A night profound As death itself, as life...
A Psalm of Christmas, A Psalm of Life The Society December 12, 2013 Beauty, Poetry Revised October 18, 2021 A Psalm of Christmas What the heart of the young activist said to the psalmist by Evan Mantyk Tell me not in boring...
‘The Reverie of Space’ By Julio Toro San Martin The Society December 9, 2013 Beauty, Poetry In darkness, in the mantling of the night, When Earth is calm, and troubling noises cease, I turn with wonder-looking eyes, to please My dulled...
Three Unfunny Limericks by Damian Robin The Society December 6, 2013 Limerick, Poetry In the Play Pit As Cameron stands, cap in hand, The jailers of New Middleland Keep a straight face As they keep him in place While...
‘Juxtaposition’ by Reid McGrath The Society December 6, 2013 Beauty, Poetry Here is a blonde-marked maple tree: Stands by the road so stolidly While mourners make their floral shrines And in the night a taper shines; But...
‘My Wish Fulfilled by Practicing Medicine’ by Dr Rong Shu The Society December 3, 2013 Culture, Poetry 1 Comment I look upon how much people suffer Wishing Bian Que and Hua Tuo* were now here Predestiny links us now and forever To fulfill my wish: a...
‘The Meadow’ by Doug Thornton The Society November 27, 2013 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment Whether if my promise be known or not, Of which I spoke when lying on this spot, The weeds have covered up my trail; Their stalks show not the...
‘Those Catskill Mountain Climbs’ and Other Poetry by Brandon Berman The Society November 24, 2013 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment Those Catskill Mountain Climbs I've walked from Ayers rock to Sydney I've seen all those majestic sites I've beheld the peaks of Mt....
Humorous Poetry by Don Shook The Society November 21, 2013 Humor, Poetry 5 Comments I Think Therefore “I think,” said Descartes, “and therefore I am.” declared many years ago, way before spam. It predated facebook and...
‘A Sonnet Saluting Lady Snow’ and Other Poetry by Mike Scheidemann The Society November 15, 2013 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment A Sonnet Saluting Lady Snow Snow is a rainfall in frozen repose; Rainbow rich in hues, delicate its shape After lightning strikes; its thunder...
‘On Leighton’s Procession’ by Evan Mantyk The Society November 12, 2013 Art, Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment A godly painting held over their heads As they process through a street in Florence, Each face is free from manic glee or dread And transcends...
Flower duet – Anna Netrebko & Elina Garanca (Lakmé de Delibes) The Society November 9, 2013 Performing Arts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf42IP__ipw Duo des fleurs Léo Delibes By U. Carew Delibes Along a stream, the daughter of a...
‘A Rose for Ezra Pound’ by Leland James (+Commentary) The Society November 6, 2013 Culture, Essays, Poetry 3 Comments “He strove to resuscitate the dead art/Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime"/In the old sense. Wrong from the start …” –Ezra Pound, “Hugh...
‘I Pray It’s Not Too Late’ and Other Poetry by Mark A. Sautter The Society November 3, 2013 Culture, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments I Pray It’s Not Too Late I’ve walked in the eye of a hurricane Safe between its walls of rain And when the winds swept in again I stood...
‘Lightness’ by Carol Lynn Grellas The Society October 28, 2013 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments Where lightness finds the passage through the dark the thoroughfare of dimness, where we’ll soar about the sun undone, unborn again, but...
“Beauty is Truth …” by Leland James The Society October 25, 2013 Beauty, Poetry —a sonnet of differing with Keats Behold this naked truth, and say not Beauty: a body splayed, nailed cruelly to a tree, spit upon, a jeering...
‘Wake Well This Day’ by Jim Scott The Society October 22, 2013 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments Wake to this dawn like no day before you. Rise to this morning like no other morn. Night is now past and life can’t ignore you. Feel in the...
‘Manifesto’ by Damian Robin The Society October 19, 2013 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment Clouds skip away from the full shine of the full moon The palace is lit up The maestro lifts his stick Majesty begins The richness of kings at...
‘April 2003’ and Other Poetry by Brandon Briggs The Society October 16, 2013 Beauty, Poetry April 2013 The snow has thawed; it's Spring again Crickets sing to the beat of rain The sky is dark, the air is warm Again, the bugs begin to...
‘Faery Dust Anarchy’ and Other Poetry by Jim Dunlap The Society October 13, 2013 Beauty, Culture, Poetry Faery Dust Anarchy With winds awhistling through the trees and air sprites dancing on the breeze, you'll hear the pipes from Éirinn’s lands...
‘Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion’ The Society October 10, 2013 Poetry 1 Comment The Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion is the most famous Chinese calligraphy work of Wang Xizhi, composed in the year 353....
