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  • ‘Sonnet XIII’: A Poem by Jenna Tedesco

    The Society
    May 22, 2025
    Beauty, Poetry
    3 Comments
  • ‘Sound and Fury’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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    Culture, Poetry
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‘Big Shoes’ by Carrie Pearce

The Society
October 7, 2013
Art
The Artist's Statement on Horses: I have always believed that nature lends itself to man. The horse has contributed more to civilization than...

‘On Viewing Dante and Beatrice by Henry Holiday, 1884’ by Beatriz Fernandez

The Society
October 4, 2013
Culture, Dante, Poetry
From Dante, to Beatrice In your father’s garden we first met, a pair in exile, two children playing without a care, in our shared exile. You...

‘Sonnet on Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity From the Sky’ by Beau Ecs Wilder

The Society
October 1, 2013
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
2 Comments
He's placed dramatically center stage by Benjamin West—Benjamin Franklin. His gray hair flies. He's getting on in age. Electricity coming from...

A Gifted Poet Arrested Again After Nine Years in Prison

The Society
September 28, 2013
Poetry
2 Comments
(Minghui.org) Ms. Fu Ying, a Falun Gong practitioner and gifted poet from Liaoning Province, was recently illegally arrested by police in Shenyang...

‘Stopping by Courts on a Sunny Morning’ by Reid McGrath

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September 25, 2013
Humor, Poetry
2 Comments
One night-crawler out on this sparkling court, Dried-up and shriveled, overdone, not red, Neglected to take heed, or to report ‘T was all...

30 Riddles by Evan Mantyk (+Answers)

The Society
September 23, 2013
Humor, Poetry, Riddles
7 Comments
Click here for more riddles I. My mirror image never is that far, I have five different points just like a star, While I’ve no mouth or tongue...

‘Unwanted Guests’ by Catherine Wald

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September 22, 2013
Humor, Poetry
1 Comment
They aren’t mine, these flabby folds of flesh. I have no clue why they have chosen me As target of their sordid misery, Transforming me from...

‘Straining to Photograph a Distant Lake and Trees From a Moving Train’ by Damian Robin

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September 16, 2013
Beauty, Poetry
1 Comment
The lake cradles symmetries of spring trees. The sky scries the membrane of wide waters: unseen breezes, like me, are passers-by somehow touching...

Art: ‘Woe’ by Joshua LaRock

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September 13, 2013
Art
1 Comment
Woe is a work that seeks to engage its viewers in the universal emotion its title suggests.  This man is in the grips of anguish and sorrow. ...

A Poet’s Perspective on Bombing Syria

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September 9, 2013
Poetry
The urge for civility in war is noble and worthy. In an epic poem written over 2,500 years ago, even Homer recounts a Trojan War where the two...

Art: ‘Made in America’ by David Bowers

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September 7, 2013
Art
Is outsourcing to foreign countries a good thing or bad thing? The gradual demise of American manufacturing seems to be part of the meaning behind...

‘The End of the Party’ and Other Poetry by Damian Robin

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September 3, 2013
Poetry
The End of the Party The blood-red dragon struggles To keep China locked, To keep the whole world huddled, ‘Cow’-towed, awed, and...

‘On Kaaterskill Creek’ by Bruce Dale Wise

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August 31, 2013
Beauty, Poetry
On "Kaaterskill Creek" by Erik Koeppel for the memory of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The site is downstream from the Kaaterskill Falls— where...

‘Fortitude’: An Amazing Painting and True Story

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August 28, 2013
Art
One of the oil paintings in the Art of Zhen, Shan, Ren International Exhibition is titled “Fortitude” and depicts a middle-aged man standing...

‘Cataract on a Canvas’ by Bruce Dale Wise

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August 25, 2013
Art, Beauty, Poetry
In Niagara by Frederick Edwin Church, immediately one’s taken in to the great falls. From a remarkably precarious perch, one’s seized by the...

‘My Daughter’s Response to Her Delinquent Driving Instructor’ by Damian Robin

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August 22, 2013
Humor, Poetry
“Granma died, my ex tried suicide,” you confide in me, your credabil- ity nil for one more dark excuse is no use. Let’s...

A Poetic Account of Cruel and Unusual Torture in China

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August 21, 2013
Human Rights in China, Poetry
(The Epoch Times)—The Chinese photojournalist Du Bin, who was released in July after a month’s detention by police, has published online a book...

‘Novice’ by Michael Curtis

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August 19, 2013
Beauty, Poetry
1 Comment
Young knucklehead: Today you’ll bruise your thumb To harden you to pains to come; The sun will burn; the heat will cause you sweat; Dust will...

‘Portrait of a Goddess’ by Evan Mantyk

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August 16, 2013
Beauty, Poetry
Goddess sleek and draped in white, Flowing wisps of long brown hair, Halo hat of holy light, Cherubs floating everywhere. Beads around her long thin...

‘Aurora Borealis, 1865’ by Bruce Dale Wise

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August 13, 2013
Art, Beauty, Poetry
1 Comment
How weird and eerily appears, that solar surge, Aurora Borealis, 1865, by Hudson River School's Frederic Edwin Church. The skyscape is so alien,...

Art Speaks: Exploring Traditional Art

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August 12, 2013
Art
Art Speaks is the Epoch Times’ global art exploration project. Here we explore works of art created before 1900 from all parts of the...

Children’s Poetry by Leland James

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August 10, 2013
Humor, Poetry
The Three Little Pigs —a story retold There were three little pigs, one, two, three —roly-poly and pink, as pink as could be— porkers...

‘Avocado Grove’ and Other Poetry by Anonymous

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August 7, 2013
Beauty, Poetry
Avocado Grove On dry, withered leafs Until drizzle leaves Sitting silently The fruit’s ripe, big crops Giant green rain drops Hang...

Haiku by Ibe Ware Desu, LC

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August 4, 2013
Beauty, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry
1 Comment
Nearby a wasp lights, twitching its pointed stinger in the summer heat. As I drive my car, an eagle flies overhead. How far have I come? An...

‘Turtles All the Way Down’ By James Ph. Kotsybar

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July 31, 2013
Beauty, Poetry
They operate contrary to the rules of common sense that we hold dear as proof that what we know is right, that we’re no fools and senses we...

‘Rushing to Get the Hay In’ by Reid McGrath

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July 30, 2013
Beauty, Poetry
2 Comments
The Farmer’s Wife He may as well be sitting on a piece Of junk john-boat out on some open lake. The field is shorn, divested of its...

‘On a Picture of Dürer’s’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
July 29, 2013
Art, Beauty, Poetry
1.  In 373, at Antioch, Jerome asked himself if he were not a disciple of Cicero rather than Christ, his eternal home; and thereupon abandoned...

William Trost Richards: A Lesser-Known American Great

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July 26, 2013
Art
3 Comments
By Christine Lin NEW YORK—How could staring at a canvas barely two square feet transport a person to the hillsides of Pennsylvania or the...

‘La Mancha’ by Durlabh Singh

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July 23, 2013
Culture, Poetry
1 Comment
Bereft of the poetry of his soul The knight took refuge in the house of death Into darkness he went with his mind crushed Wandering lust gone and...

‘A Disturbing Riddle’ by Evan Mantyk

The Society
July 19, 2013
Poetry, Riddles
4 Comments
A disturbing riddle was told to me: “The city of evil that starts with ‘B’ That has six more letters after that one, Will be, by bloody...

‘Chicken Frost’ by Don Shook

The Society
July 17, 2013
Humor, Poetry
3 Comments
The chicken crossed the road I heard. Which was so silly, so absurd, Especially for so dumb a bird. But when she started to come back She met...

‘Flight of Fancy’ by James Ph. Kotsybar

The Society
July 14, 2013
Beauty, Poetry
3 Comments
Alone, I take a flight to see some friends, I gaze out over ocean from the clouds and marvel, as the plane I’m in ascends with all of us above...

‘The Trojan War’ by Evan Mantyk

The Society
July 9, 2013
Homer, Poetry
2 Comments
The Trojan War has finished its long course. Achaeans won by sneaking past the vaulting walls As if they were a gift: a wooden horse. A decade...

‘Nobody in Particular’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
July 5, 2013
Poetry
3 Comments
I wonder if I'll ever see a banished piece of Poetry of mine in print. I hope and pray and squint; but yet, I have to say, that I may not live...

‘Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge’ by Alec Subre Wide

The Society
July 2, 2013
Poetry
2 Comments
Across the trough o' th' mighty Hudson River at Poughkeepsie, New York, there's a cantilever bridge of steel, connected to a walkway rail trail...

‘Silent Drums at Gettysburg’ by Robert Walton

The Society
July 1, 2013
Poetry
Drums lie tilted, battered and still; Grass fires gutter; none are left to kill; Bitter smoke coils through leafless trees; A stunned horse...

‘Uni-verse’ by Alan Nordstrom

The Society
June 30, 2013
Poetry
1 Comment
Implicitly the Cosmos has design, Just as I hold the pattern in my mind Of how this sonnet’s feet and rhymes align With where some latent motive...

A Sonnet for Falun Dafa Day by Evan Mantyk

The Society
June 29, 2013
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
Written in May 2010 / Revised April 2020 Trumpets blast and Heaven opens, light shoots through, Gods of all the Kingdoms smile now anew, Legions...

Painter Erik Koeppel Revives an American Tradition

The Society
June 29, 2013
Art
By Mary Byrom Last year, painter Erik Koeppel left New York City’s big art scene behind. He moved to a small town surrounded by the picturesque...

Painting: ‘Metamorphosis’ by Steven J. Levin

The Society
June 26, 2013
Art
2 Comments
Steven J. Levin was born in Minneapolis MN in 1964.  His interest in art began early, when as a young boy, Levin would spend hours drawing alongside...
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