For the 25th Anniversary of the Persecution of Falun Gong: ‘Candlelight Vigil’ by Shindy Cai The Society July 20, 2024 Beauty, Human Rights in China, Poetry 7 Comments . Candlelight Vigil the persecution of the peaceful meditation practice Falun Gong by the CCP began on July 20, 1999 A single candle burns tonight, a...
‘My Vacation Trip in Verse’ by James A. Tweedie The Society July 19, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments . My Vacation Trip in Verse by James A. Tweedie One of the comments in response to the recent “On the Meeting of Poets” post read: “A diary in...
‘Desire’: A Golden Shovel Poem after Langston Hughes’ ‘Dream,’ by Lucia Haase The Society July 19, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . Desire "Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." ---Langston Hughes, 'Dreams' To have, to HOLD what’s...
‘Second Chances’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society July 18, 2024 Beauty, Epigrams and Proverbs, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 14 Comments . Second Chances Just know that you’ve been staked a second chance At any time the future’s looking muddy. Put on your shoes and socks, and join...
‘Colors’ by Kukai, Translated by Joshua C. Frank The Society July 18, 2024 Alliterative, Beauty, Poetry, Translation 24 Comments . Colors by Kukai (空海) (774-835) translated by Joshua C. Frank Colors, fragrant like the flowers, Fade to ash in final hours, Extinguished,...
‘The Small Commission’: A Poem by Paul Erlandson The Society July 17, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments . The Small Commission When school yearbooks are thrust forth to be signed, We give out life advice. We speak our mind, And charge our classmates to...
‘Freedom of Speech vs. the NBA’: A Poem by Drilon Bajrami The Society July 17, 2024 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 8 Comments . Freedom of Speech vs. the NBA The CCP has raged and seethed, oh joy! Daryl Morey was not playing coy, He spoke the truth, a gun then to his...
‘Brainwashed and Hopeless’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society July 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Satire 20 Comments . Brainwashed and Hopeless My old friend is a doctor---very bright, But he just said to me the GOP, Opposed equality and human rights, Here’s how...
A Poem on Cancer Drugs, by Phillip Whidden The Society July 16, 2024 Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Dementing Torture of Benign Drugs against Malignancy His life came to its End. Smell of the medicine Departs chillingly. ...
‘Fire Lurks’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society July 15, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 30 Comments . Fire Lurks I recognize, while watching ghastly nightEncircle statesmanship revoltingly,Bright bursts of a spangled pyrotechnic star.America! No...
A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part V: ‘Nose Blind,’ by Daniel Kemper The Society July 15, 2024 Essays, Poetry, Poetry Forms, Readings 22 Comments . A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part V: Nose Blind by Daniel Kemper After a stressful day, because of issues with which you, dear reader need not...
On the Attempted Assassination of Trump: ‘Trail of Hate’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society July 14, 2024 Culture, Poetry 54 Comments . The Trail of Hate Amid the upbeat crowd a sudden blast Of noise arose like fireworks kissing skies. Fallacious musings struck then swiftly...
‘Washington and the Cherry Tree’: Excerpt from the Mock Epic Poem by Andrew Benson Brown The Society July 14, 2024 Epic, Humor, Poetry 25 Comments . Washington and the Cherry Tree from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 Young George chopped down his father’s cherry tree, Not knowing that a woman...
‘Problem Child’: A Poem by Frank Rable The Society July 13, 2024 Humor, Poetry 9 Comments . Problem Child Barley and hops acquainted, meet, __And yeast completes the marriage. Soon happy news as something brews __With keg for baby...
‘Storming the Bastille’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society July 13, 2024 Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . Storming the Bastille from eyewitness accounts July the twelfth, the City of Light was filled With brigands bought by dimes and dismal speech; How...
‘Anniversary Remembrance’: A Poem by Daniel Pugh The Society July 12, 2024 Humor, Poetry 5 Comments . Anniversary Remembrance Sometimes I envy them the lives they lived, the death they died: They perished at the peak of lovers’ hopes and nuptial...
‘Gunfight at the Oatcake Corral’: A Poem by Jeff Eardley The Society July 12, 2024 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Gunfight at the Oatcake Corral There’s an old English town known as Fargo, In the dark, rugged hills of the west. Where they say, there was many...
‘A Town’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society July 11, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 11 Comments . A Town The difficulty of describing how This town was then, may only be because So little happened there, compared to now, Though what occurred...
“I Worship My Mistress, for I Have Seen Her Beauty”: A Poem by James Sale The Society July 11, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry 26 Comments . “I Worship My Mistress, for I Have Seen Her Beauty” ---Egyptian Coffin Texts, spell 484---a poem for Linda It may be said that I am weak,That...
A Poem on ‘Red Carpet’ Dresses by Cheryl Corey The Society July 11, 2024 Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . The Red Carpet There's nothing left to tease imagination When so-called starlets, vying for attention, Sashay the carpet practically nude; And you...
‘The Expert Class’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society July 10, 2024 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . The Expert Class “Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see” ---Benjamin Franklin The experts with professorships are filled with...
‘My Patchwork Quilt’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society July 10, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 23 Comments . My Patchwork Quilt Somewhere within my closet a patchwork quilt rests there; The patches cut by hands and with stitches sewn with care. The...
‘Houses Made of Stone’: A Poem on Great Zimbabwe by Paul A. Freeman The Society July 9, 2024 Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Houses Made of Stone Masvingo, southern Africa’s the place; a backwater, land tired and over-farmed, where army ants cut underbrush and...
‘Promises Made, Promises Kept… Give Me a Break!’ and Other Poetry by Mark Stellinga The Society July 9, 2024 Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Promises Made, Promises Kept... Give Me a Break! We know, because they promise us their virtuous intent when allocating funds is always currency...
‘Becalmed’: A Poem by Peter Venable The Society July 8, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments . Becalmed When life is smooth—a gentle breeze On a porch swing—the garden lush. Retirement! Do as I please. Watch leaflets stir—two bluebirds...
‘Street 3/4’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society July 8, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . Street 3/4 On both sides of this street, there are small stores Of groceries, canned food, medicine, and toys. Beside a Hindu shrine whose iron...
‘The Lord of His Castle’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society July 7, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 38 Comments . The Lord of His Castle Setting: King Stephen’s siege of Newbury Castle, England during the English civil war known as “The Anarchy.” The year...
‘I Need My Coffee’: A Villanelle by Gigi Ryan The Society July 6, 2024 Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 24 Comments . I Need My Coffee I need my coffee; don’t get in the way Of that which wakes me up and makes me tick. Addicted? Yes. I’ll quit another...
‘A Console Table’: A Villanelle by Julia Griffin The Society July 6, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 12 Comments . A Console Table after a Google entry A console table in the entryway __Provides a focus for a guest Inside your home: a welcome, you might say. A...
‘A Hurricane by Any Other Name…’: A Poem on Hurricane Beryl, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society July 5, 2024 Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . A Hurricane by Any Other Name... The lights went out in Mexico today. A fury hit Cancun with no remorse. With death upon her breath, she makes her...
‘Dandelion Dreams’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society July 5, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 21 Comments . Dandelion Dreams ---to Melody, on the occasion of her fifth birthday I see her, through the window, picking flowers. Adrift upon a sea of green,...
‘The Convert’: A Poem by Benjamin Cannicott Shavitz The Society July 5, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . The Convert “Uh, Professor, I don’t get it, Why do people choose to read that? Does it just not fit my taste?” She said, “If you really...
‘It Goes Without Saying’: A July 4th Poem by Warren Bonham The Society July 4, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . It Goes Without Saying "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with...
‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society July 4, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 38 Comments . . Battle Hymn of the Republic The Lord doth come; the grapes of wrath are crushed! Behold His fiery sword of Victory. He heartens those whose...
‘American Dream Where Did You Go?’: A July 4th Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society July 4, 2024 Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . American Dream Where Did You Go? American dream, where did you go? Visions grand that I loved so? Land of opportunity Heading toward...
‘Endless Dreaming’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society July 3, 2024 Ekphrastic, Poetry, Villanelle 20 Comments . Endless Dreaming a villanelle I lunge ahead in bed and start to scream. The nightmare’s end is far; I’m still inside A dream within a dream...
‘Fed Up’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society July 2, 2024 Poetry, Satire 20 Comments . Fed Up It’s not just fogies and the aging nanniesThat look askance at all the mixed-up trannies.The everyday American has had itWith flagrant...
‘Militant Books’ and Other Poetry by Skye Campbell The Society July 2, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 6 Comments . . Militant Books Marshaled ranks of silent books Formed on shelves as in brigade, Fill the wooden dusty nooks Waiting for their next...
‘The Rise of Washington’: Excerpt from the Mock Epic Poem by Andrew Benson Brown The Society July 1, 2024 Epic, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . The Rise of Washington from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 IT’S TIME! Let’s give our story’s star some space. He’s famous through the land,...
‘Becoming a Poet Laureate’: A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part IV, by Daniel Kemper The Society July 1, 2024 Essays, Poetry, Readings 17 Comments . A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part IV: Becoming a Poet Laureate by Daniel Kemper Inflationary times. The invisible hands of markets or of...
