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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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...
Sonnet on Giorgione’s ‘Tempest’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society June 24, 2013 Art, Poetry Near a brief flash of lightning sits a bird, a white one on a gray and sloping roof, and rests against big blue clouds, like a surd, almost...
‘Portrait of a God’ by Evan Mantyk The Society June 21, 2013 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment God of men who’s dressed in white, Beard on face of long brown hair, Halo pattern traced in light, Nimbus flowing through the air. Glowing...
‘An Oklahoma Nightmare’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society June 19, 2013 Poetry An Oklahoma Nightmare Leashed from the continent, it flew— on 20 May 2013— and caught the currents of the airy blue— colliding winds that...
‘Pastoral’ by Brandon Briggs The Society June 17, 2013 Poetry 1 Comment In meadows green and pastures sweet, My love and I, we first did meet; She watched me tend my flock by day, And yet at night she went away. She...
‘Metamorphic Rock’ by Reid McGrath The Society June 13, 2013 Poetry Pressure is what the loam feels when, buried and dis-tracted, it cannot function right; when it cannot get at the rain and light; when it, by a...
