‘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 1 Comment 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...
‘Fredericksburg’ by Claire Marie de la Grange The Society June 10, 2013 Poetry 1 Comment The Union army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind Fredericksburg is remembered as...
‘Grains of Time’ and Other Poetry by Dino Cass The Society June 5, 2013 Poetry Grains of Time Somewhere through the hour glass, slip grains of time, eroding fast. Past and present times collide, revealing all truths hidden...
‘The Ring’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society June 3, 2013 Poetry The Ring for E. S. and W. S. "my precious," —Gollum, in The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien I only knew but one tall dude who had a...
‘A Vision at the Portal of Elysium’ by Ed ‘Bear’ C.U. Lewis The Society June 1, 2013 Poetry 1 Comment I saw him standing at the gate of heaven. It was in a dream, but seemed so real I was in awe. Behind him in my vision all was white and lit. Dear...
‘Awakened Eyes’ by Clayton L. Sanders The Society May 30, 2013 Poetry Nothing to see here, they say each breath, People starving, as they feed us to death, Puppets on strings, all of us they bind, Right from our...
‘The Old Brown Carpet’ and Other Poetry by Kathy Figueroa The Society May 28, 2013 Poetry The Old Brown Carpet Hurray! I don't have to vacuum The old, brown carpet, anymore! At last, I managed to get it Removed from the dining room...
‘Bait Trap’ by Catherine Wald The Society May 26, 2013 Poetry Like roaches fighting over baited trap we climbed and clambered, even pushed and shoved while scrambling for some nourishment like love we’d...
‘Exchange’ and Other Poetry by Damian Robin The Society May 24, 2013 Poetry Exchange They go to take the heart of you, mark your skin & cut you through. With silk knives, their sharp skill connives to stroke...
‘The Wars That Men Have Fought’ by Glenn Meisenheimer The Society May 22, 2013 Poetry My love, accursed, will never let me go. I mourn your loss and all those wasted years. The wars that men have fought for causes, though, Can...
‘The Challenge’ by Eddie Morales The Society May 20, 2013 Poetry Come, tell me your story, master of prose. Use elements of the proper language To sway me to your side, and if all goes Well, hallowed will your...
Epping Forest The Society May 18, 2013 Poetry Spirit of green engendered in liberty Sweeping across the glanded glades Tangled tree spirits in tarnished brief Dancing shades of sunlit lauded...
‘Her Eyes’ by Ronald Ragan The Society May 16, 2013 Poetry Soft warm eyes searching, yearning full plump lips pouting and burning she looks upward in hope and desire burning inside consumed by fire. Big...
