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  • ‘When the Child Appears’: A Poem by Victor Hugo, Translated by Bruce Phenix

    The Society
    June 13, 2025
    Beauty, Poetry, Translation
    2 Comments
  • ‘Boomerang’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick

    The Society
    June 13, 2025
    Culture, Poetry, Satire
    15 Comments
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    ‘Ode to Chronic Pain’ and Other Poetry by Dan Davis

    The Society
    June 12, 2025
    Culture, Poetry
    4 Comments
  • ‘Reading in Bed’ and Other Poems by Martin Briggs

    The Society
    June 12, 2025
    Culture, Poetry
    5 Comments
  • ‘Stealthy Slayer’: A Riddle by Asther Kane

    The Society
    June 11, 2025
    Poetry, Riddles
    12 Comments
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    The Society
    June 11, 2025
    Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
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    Classical Poets Live, Essays, Poetry, Video
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    Culture, Humor, Poetry
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    Culture, Poetry
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    Culture, Poetry
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    Beauty, Poetry
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    June 8, 2025
    Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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‘The Mannequins Are Melting’ and Other Hot Poetry by Martin Rizley

The Society
August 20, 2024
Culture, Humor, Poetry
10 Comments
. The Mannequins Are Melting The mannequins are melting as we speak Now that the summer heat wave's at its peak. __While passing by the clothing...

‘Stolen Valor’ and Other Poetry for the Democratic National Convention, by Brian Yapko

The Society
August 19, 2024
Poetry, Satire, Villanelle
44 Comments
. Stolen Valor ---a poem in unheroic couplets Osama used his wives as human shields When being hunted down by Navy Seals; Bruce Ismay engineered...

‘Hope’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann

The Society
August 19, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
11 Comments
. Hope Hope feels so strange these days, at times a bit Like something old that now no longer fits; It’s stretched beyond repair and somewhat...

‘Mud’: A Poem by Alan Brayne

The Society
August 19, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
12 Comments
. Mud Our clip-on angel wings are cast from shards of glass, The sorry hymns we sing are drowned in blaring brass. It’s not that we are crazed as...

‘The Web of Sustenance’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

The Society
August 18, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. The Web of Sustenance __Voraciously the lion feeds, But leaves the scraps for jackals and hyenas— __To each according to its needs, In Nature’s...

‘The Leper’: A Poem by Brian Yapko

The Society
August 18, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
51 Comments
. The Leper “When Jesus came down from the mountainside, large crowds followed him. A man with leprosy came and knelt before him and said, 'Lord,...

‘Lucifer’s Lament’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
August 17, 2024
Beauty, Poetry, Satire
25 Comments
. Lucifer’s Lament They’ve gone too far. They’ve set the bar So high that I’m no longer star Of My own show. Their hellish plot Has hurled Me...

‘Lunatic’: A Poem by Peter Venable

The Society
August 17, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
4 Comments
. Lunatic Paused at a churchyard when it’s eventide I see flit by a bright blue butterfly. Magnolia fragrance wafts through the twilight. Somewhere...

‘Holding Dad’s Hands’: Poems by Gigi Ryan

The Society
August 16, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
28 Comments
. Holding Dad's Hands . Friday May 3, 2019 I’m driving fast (at least it’s fast to me,) The nurse’s call gives reason for my haste. She says...

‘The Wise Farmer’: A Poem from the Zen Parable, by Joshua C. Frank

The Society
August 16, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
20 Comments
. The Wise Farmer ---based on a Zen parable attributed to Alan Watts A farmer in China was left by his horse. He took up his plow and continued his...

‘It Won’t Happen Here’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick

The Society
August 15, 2024
Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
. It Won’t Happen Here There were anti-Semites in our Congress, And still they said:  “It will not happen here.” Anti-Jewish protests broke...

‘Moon Glow’: A Poem by Pamela Ruggiero

The Society
August 15, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
19 Comments
. Moon Glow The calm of the twilight should bring him some peace. He sees yellow remnants of sun get deceased. A tropical fragrance now floats...

‘Paperbark Maples’: A Poem by Daniel Kemper

The Society
August 14, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
17 Comments
. Paperbark Maples The leaves grow bright with dew; the trunks grow dark. A contrapuntal autumn morning stirs. The smoothest trees are wrapped with...

‘Winter’s Bed’: A Poem by D.C.C. Randell

The Society
August 14, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
3 Comments
. Winter’s Bed Ere the sun should spread its beams We sleep and pray for candied dreams. An angel to the bedpost flits As hours pass beneath our...

‘Dublin Swans’: A Poem by Louis Groarke

The Society
August 13, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
14 Comments
. Dublin Swans “Wholly serene and sure, with regal composure, allows himself to glide.” ---Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Swan” I stop to watch...

‘Free Verse as Nightmare Surrealism’: A Poem by Phillip Whidden

The Society
August 13, 2024
Culture, Poetry
26 Comments
. Free Verse as Nightmare Surrealism “I thirst for new songs without moons or irises, and without loves that have died.”  ---Lorca, New Songs...

‘Prodigious Dreams’ and Other Poetry by Kevin Farnham

The Society
August 12, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
. Prodigious Dreams Let not these Autumn notes lead you amiss. Autumn, indeed, is come (the signs are all around). This aging empire wanes, its...

A Poem on Children Stabbings and Free Speech in the UK, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
August 11, 2024
Culture, Poetry
34 Comments
. Knock, Knock! ---free speech in the UK is dead Three more children stabbed---a country mourning The murdering of minors by the score. Opine...

Dante Enters Hell: Canto III of Inferno, Translated by Stephen Binns

The Society
August 11, 2024
Dante, Poetry, Translation
5 Comments
. Dante Enters Hell: Canto III of Dante's Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns THROUGH ME YOU REACH THE CITY OF...

‘Washington Assumes Command at Cambridge’: from the Mock Epic Poem by Andrew Benson Brown

The Society
August 11, 2024
Epic, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
. Washington Assumes Command at Cambridge from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 Devoted Billy Lee, a stalking fox, Observed his master’s swaying...

Poems from Foundations of the Cross by Cynthia Erlandson

The Society
August 10, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
. But Who Am I? “But Moses said to God, ‘Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?’”...

‘Sicilian Samurai’: A Poem on Giovanni Battista Sidotti, by Margaret Coats

The Society
August 10, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
36 Comments
. Sicilian Samurai circa 1700 He made a startling, militant request To journey to Japan—strange land long closed To foreign influence. The Pope’s...

‘Regime Change’: A Poem by James A. Tweedie

The Society
August 9, 2024
Poetry, Satire
14 Comments
. Regime Change Banana republics are known for how they Take power from rulers and give it away To those who the country’s Deep State might...

‘The Outdoor Concert’: A Poem by Tod Benjamin

The Society
August 9, 2024
Beauty, Music, Poetry
4 Comments
. The Outdoor Concert ---Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at Wilton House, 2004 The long thick winding snake must stretch two hundred paces, Of early...

‘Beltane Dream’: A May-time Poem by Patricia Rogers Crozier

The Society
August 8, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
7 Comments
. Beltane Dream Did I pass that way in dreams or waking? For truthfully, it seems to me a dream: Fields of yellow through the green hills...

‘Chasing Time’ and Other Poetry by Warren Bonham

The Society
August 8, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
7 Comments
. Chasing Time  "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a...

Postmodernism and Poetry: Final Disintegration and Hope for Renewal, by Adam Sedia

The Society
August 7, 2024
Essays, Poetry
30 Comments
. Postmodernism and Poetry: Final Disintegration and Hope for Renewal “The only way forward from Postmodernism is as a reaction against it—not a...

‘Cold Blooded Murder’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
August 7, 2024
Humor, Poetry
26 Comments
. Cold Blooded Murder It is a hot and muggy Sort of Texas day. Time to do my stalking And hunting down my prey. I’m armed and dangerous. My weapon...

‘The Loons of Colby Lake’: A Poem by Michael Pietrack

The Society
August 6, 2024
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
22 Comments
. The Loons of Colby Lake a true story As thawing white gave way to budding green, two loons upon the lake would mark the Spring, and they would...
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‘The Faltering’: A Poem by Ed Ahern

The Society
August 6, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
9 Comments
. The Faltering In time the sharpest mind begrimes with rust and memories are flaked from softened steel. Beliefs once clutched and voiced in utter...

‘Like Him’: A Poem by James Sale

The Society
August 5, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
29 Comments
. Like Him "But we all, with unveiled faces, looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to...

‘The Lighthouse’: A Poem by Martin Rizley

The Society
August 5, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
19 Comments
. The Lighthouse In honor of the Thridrangar Lighthouse and the intrepid men who built it. Alone it stands, perched high atop a rock That rises from...

‘Boycott the Bullies’: A Poem for the Real Women Boxers, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
August 4, 2024
Culture, Pantoum, Poetry
37 Comments
. Boycott the Bullies ---a pantoum for the real women boxers at the Paris Olympics Don’t let a slappy chap punch out your lights. Refuse the...
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‘Back-Door Pastoral’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

The Society
August 4, 2024
Poetry, Satire
14 Comments
. Back-Door Pastoral Apologies to all you urbanites, To decent people who prefer to live Amidst the noise with far too many lights, Who find it much...

‘Patton on the Lipizzaner Horses’ and Other Poetry of Vienna by Brian Yapko

The Society
August 4, 2024
Poetry
28 Comments
. . Patton on the Lipizzaner Horses  I’m certain that I’ve done all this before: I’ve hid old frescoes, ordered statues buried, Helped salvage...

A Poem on ‘The 2024 Olympics’ and Its Opening, by Cheryl Corey

The Society
August 3, 2024
Art, Culture, Poetry
20 Comments
. The 2024 Olympics . I. Excusez-moi, s’il vous plait, But having seen your lewd display, I’ve chosen not to watch your Games; Despite too late,...

‘Ephemeral’: A Poem by Rohini Sunderam

The Society
August 3, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
24 Comments
. Ephemeral Our lives are like a summer’s day So swift, so swift, it flies away. A butterfly that’s newly born The brief blush of an early...

‘Beauty’ and Other Poems by Shindy Cai

The Society
August 3, 2024
Beauty, Children's, Poetry
8 Comments
. Beauty Flowers are the faded stars that fall from silver skies, Raindrops are the sacred tears that leak from angel eyes. The wind is but a melody...

A Poem on Jewelweed, by Gigi Ryan

The Society
August 2, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
12 Comments
. In the Shade There Meekly Grows a Plant urushiol (yoo-roo-shee-awl) is the name of the compound in poison ivy that causes allergic reactions. In...

‘When I Have Penned My Final Thoughts’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee

The Society
August 2, 2024
Beauty, Poetry
18 Comments
. When I Have Penned My Final Thoughts _When Ihave penned my final thoughts and left to meet_the sky,don't organize my table; let the sheet,the...
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