‘The Ghosts of Altamira’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society November 10, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 27 Comments . The Ghosts of Altamira ---a meditation A herd of prehistoric bison; blood beliefs Depicted in concentric whorls with prints of hands. Stick...
‘For the Sake of Ten Thousand: A Supplication from New Sodom’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society November 9, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . For the Sake of Ten Thousand: A Supplication from New Sodom And Abraham came near and said, ‘Would You also destroy the righteous with the...
‘O Lord, Let Me Not Fall’: A Sonnet by Jeffrey Essmann The Society November 9, 2024 Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . O Lord, Let Me Not Fall O Lord, let me not fall today, I pray, Not in some vague or metaphoric way, As into sin or moral turpitude Or somewhat less...
‘Sometimey People’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society November 8, 2024 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . "Sometimey” People Sometimes he’s quite responsive, Sometimes he disappears. Sometimes he’s downright friendly, Sometimes he switches...
‘Contra Computerdom’: A Poem by Mary Jane Myers The Society November 8, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Contra Computerdom I hold this fountain pen with thumb and fingers, burgundy barrel, gold and rhodium nib, Montblanc white-sea-star floating on its...
‘Simplicity’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 7, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 34 Comments . Simplicity “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” ---Sir Isaac Newton I smell you in...
A Sonnet on the Vogelherd Horse and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society November 7, 2024 Art, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Horse Figurine —one inch by one point nine inch, 32,000 to 35,000 years before Giacometti's famous horse A hallowed tiny horse, but missing...
HellWard Canto 1: ‘Hospital’: Extract from the Epic Poem by James Sale The Society November 6, 2024 Epic, Poetry 15 Comments . HellWard Canto 1: Hospital ---lines 1-92 It had to be---that long descent began: About me images, one century That started, stuttered, showed how...
‘Elegy for a Cowboy Cousin’: A Poem by Dan Tuton The Society November 6, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 20 Comments . Elegy for a Cowboy Cousin An autumn wind is stirring strong across the dusty hills, As tumbleweeds leave skittered tracks within the sandy...
An Election Day Poem: ‘Voting Advice’ by Warren Bonham The Society November 5, 2024 Poetry, Satire 15 Comments . Voting Advice When we vote in each election,few with brains will ever run.So, when we make our selection,we elect a simpleton. When a massive...
Nov. 5 Guy Fawkes Day Poem, by Paul A. Freeman The Society November 5, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments . Guy Fawkes Night Makeover November 5th! To Guy Fawkes let’s be kind--- no burning him in effigy this year. His hanged-and-drawn-and-quartered...
A Poem for the 2024 Presidential Election: ‘Polarities’ by C.B. Anderson The Society November 4, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Polarities The only certain solidarity among the Self-Reliant is the ease with which their pride in insularity is spoken of like some esteemed...
Six Riddles for Autumn 2024, by Evan Mantyk The Society November 4, 2024 Humor, Poetry, Riddles 14 Comments . I. I travel thanks to water, But do not float or sail. More quickly than an otter And have a smoke-like tail. What am I? . II>. II. When at...
Looking Back: ‘The Death of the Old Met’ and Other Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society November 3, 2024 Poetry 19 Comments . The Death of the Old Met 1883-1967 Unsinging silence fills the empty spaceWhere once the divas aria-ed and trilledPuccini’s La Bohème before...
‘Loose Me!’: A Villanelle by T.M. Moore The Society November 3, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 8 Comments . Loose Me! “Loose him, and let him go.” ---John 11.44 O loose me, Jesus! Jesus, set me free from all that binds my soul and blinds my...
‘Fall Back: Central Standard Time’: A Daylight Savings Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society November 2, 2024 Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Fall Back: Central Standard Time Already it is dark: the falling arc Of each advancing year, when the eager moon, To catch the setting sun, comes...
‘Hey Gen Z, There’s a Huge Inheritance Coming Your Way’: An Election Poem by Mark F. Stone The Society November 1, 2024 Poetry, Satire 24 Comments . Hey Gen Z, There’s a Huge Inheritance Coming Your Way Inheritance? What could it be? __A house? A yacht? A jet? No way. It’s much, much...
‘The Knucklehead Defense’ and Other Poetry by Warren Bonham The Society November 1, 2024 Poetry, Satire 15 Comments . The Knucklehead Defense If you’ve implied that you have fought in war,but meant your statements more as metaphordesigned so you’ll appear to be...
‘Lady Gwyn’: A Halloween Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 31, 2024 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Lady Gwyn I hear the scratching of a claw--- A disembodied monkey’s paw Scraping at decaying bones. I feel a gust of ghostly moans Wuther...
‘Song of the Spirit’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society October 31, 2024 Beauty, Music, Poetry, The Raven 28 Comments . Song of the Spirit After midnight slightly drowsy, Contemplating writing lousy, While the script-score I redacted, Something in my head...
‘The Iron Road’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society October 30, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . The Iron Road Flecked with the dust of snow, the iron rails Lie still and undisturbed beneath a sky Of cloudless blue where eagles freely...
‘Healthy Relics’: Three Sonnets by Margaret Coats The Society October 30, 2024 Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . Elisha's Bones II Kings 4:32–37, 13:20–21 Elisha died, the prophet doubly strong In spirit, and his sepulcher was grand, For he had caused a...
‘Sonnet 83’ by Richard Craven The Society October 29, 2024 Poetry, Satire 4 Comments . Sonnet 83 A thankless task. You churn them singly out. They’re ordered chronologic’ly. And when someone asks idly what they’re all about, you...
‘Lucifer’s Lament’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant: Reading and Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society October 29, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Culture, Poetry, Readings 14 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zId3BCl6M . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His...
‘Passing Through a Graveyard’: A Poem by Robert Nachtegall The Society October 28, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . Passing Through a Graveyard Marred old friends whose breath has passed Are cold friends whose breadth I pass. Some I pray they pray for me. Some...
‘Where Babylonic Rivers Flowed’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society October 28, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Where Babylonic Rivers Flowed after Psalm 137, a lament at the destruction of Jerusalem Where Babylonic rivers flowed We settled down to weep and...
‘Prayer as an Antidote for Unbelief’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society October 27, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Prayer as an Antidote for Unbelief Just imagine if, while you’re entreating the sky, You were met with the wink of a generous Eye. __A very...
‘The Venetian Doge on the Sack of Constantinople’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society October 27, 2024 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . The Venetian Doge on the Sack of Constantinople Setting: Constantinople in the Summer of 1204 AD. Doge Enrico Dandolo of Venice prepares for bed...
‘Autumn’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society October 26, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . Autumn I find myself possessed among the red (The maple) and the yellow (oak); possessed Of some distinct yet subtle joy inbred So deep within me,...
‘A Ballad of Bellport’: A Poem by Margaret Brinton The Society October 26, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . A Ballad of Bellport In stockings and slippers, A dress to her knees, She scans the horizon And takes in the breeze. She glances to Heaven, Peruses...
‘The Java Joe Machine’ and Other Poetry by Gigi Ryan The Society October 25, 2024 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . The Java Joe Machine My jiffy Java Joe machineAllows me to make only oneCup of coffee when I please,Convenient when I’m on the run. But in the...
‘Senior Village’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society October 25, 2024 Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . Senior Village The ambulances come and go. Last night it was the man across The hall, whom I’d begun to know. Another friend, another loss. __I...
‘Not So Grand Poo-bah’: A Poem by Frank Rable The Society October 24, 2024 Poetry, Satire 5 Comments . Not So Grand Poo-bah Middle brother with lesser brain, Descended from the killer Cain. More grasping man you never saw, Believes he is the Grand...
‘The Force of Dreams’: A Sonnet by Phillip Whidden The Society October 24, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry 13 Comments . The Force of Dreams I dreamed of you last night. I dreamed and dreamed, Yet more, as if there never had been dreams In me before. Reality it...
‘Homage to Morton of Merrymount’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society October 23, 2024 Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . Homage to Morton of Merrymount To you I pay this homage and devotion: Thomas Morton, Host of Merrymount— You, whose learnèd writing put in...
‘Contemporary Logic’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society October 23, 2024 Poetry, Satire 16 Comments . Contemporary Logic Tattoos were blanketing her skin, Pierced everywhere, objects put in, Eyelash extensions, purple-haired, “I love my body,”...
‘The Good Life’: A Poem by Rusty Rabon The Society October 22, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . The Good Life What is the good life that God is providing? What is the good life He seeks to impart? How can I know that I live in God’s...
‘S O S’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 21, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 49 Comments . S O S Keep the fleecy wolves from bleating. Hold the pack of jackals back. Seize the greedy grubbers eating Scraps from bowls of those who...
‘The Mask’ and Other Poetry by Peter Venable The Society October 21, 2024 Culture, Poetry 3 Comments . The Mask Sin wears a Cherub’s mask And beams forth paradise. “Come in, recline, and bask.” Discerning eyes looks twice: The gate shuts like a...
‘Look Up’: A Poem Inspired by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, by T.M. Moore The Society October 20, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Look Up Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on a world split apart The prophet scorned the academic dress of those who had invited him to their Parnassus of the...
