‘April Fools’ Day Is Dead’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 1, 2024 Poetry 52 Comments . April Fools’ Day is Dead I’m sad to say this merry day’s no more. It died alongside guts and grit and glee. Insanity (now writ in twisted...
‘The Emmaus Highway’: A Poem on the First Easter by Warren Bonham The Society March 31, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . The Emmaus Highway Each day we wake up and we walk to Emmaus, escaping what has, and what may yet dismay us. Returning each evening downcast and...
‘He Knows Our Hearts’ and Other Poems for Easter by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 31, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 38 Comments . He Knows Our Hearts The Sunday flocks who sing as glory pours Through fancy glass as lusty organs play, The loner bowed in prayer behind closed...
‘Who Believes in Easter Anymore?’: A Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society March 30, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Who Believes in Easter Anymore? "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the...
‘Peter’s Story’: and Other Poems for Easter by Gigi Ryan The Society March 30, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 12 Comments . Peter’s Story a villanelle I’m standing by the Sea of Galilee And Jesus calls for me to come along With James and John, the sons of...
‘Once’: A Poem for Good Friday, by Jeffrey Essmann The Society March 29, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Once Once he was finally dead; once just a piece Of meat nailed to the planks of scabrous wood; Once suffering had done all that it could To him...
‘Stations of the Cross’: A Poem for Good Friday by Morrison Handley Schachler The Society March 29, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Stations of the Cross . I. Pilate Why, Pentheus, Cambyses, why, Why, Antony, in days gone by, Did you the sons of gods defy? __Well, I your madness...
‘The Lilacs on Good Friday’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society March 29, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . The Lilacs on Good Friday Tumult of noontide long ago dismissed— The rent veil unremembered, and the sun Relit, though shrouded in a new...
‘The Lamb’: A Poem for Good Friday by Phillip Whidden The Society March 28, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . The Lamb “And suddenly there was with the angel a heavenly host saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward...
‘The Book on Lefty McBane’: A Major League Baseball Poem by Julian Woodruff The Society March 28, 2024 Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . The Book on Lefty McBane McBane could do no wrong—from his debut, late in his rookie season, right on through his grandfather’s retirement....
‘Distress Signals’: An Extended Villanelle and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson The Society March 27, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Epigrams and Proverbs, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 20 Comments . Distress Signals an extended villanelle Distressing times are coming round again, And all the talking heads now flap their jaws To say it isn’t...
‘The Wisdom of Ric Edelman’: A Poem by Mark F. Stone, Read by Ric Edelman Himself The Society March 27, 2024 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Reading of Mark F. Stone's poem "The Wisdom of Ric Edelman" by Ric Edelman on his show available here:...
‘Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society March 26, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 39 Comments . Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus I think this velvet dinosaur is fine. Please wrap it up. Does this store still take cash? On Tuesday when my daughter’s...
A Poem for the 150th Anniversary of Robert Frost’s Birth: ‘Imagine Mountains’ by Carey Jobe The Society March 26, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Imagine Mountains For the Sesquicentennial of Robert Frost's birth (March 26, 1874 – March 26, 2024) "Let chaos storm! Let cloud shapes swarm! I...
‘The Line For Ashes’: An Ash Wednesday Poem by Joseph Stuart The Society March 25, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . The Line For Ashes Line is long and moving slowly: Step by step, the high and lowly, Halt and limber, shorter, taller, Young and elder, greater,...
‘You Do You’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society March 25, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . You Do You God’s willing to let you do you despite the fact it pains Him to since you’ll go where you should not go, and do much worse than...
‘Deep State Anonymity’: A Poem by Peter Venable The Society March 24, 2024 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . Deep State Anonymity Ah, the devil. His motive? To deceive __And for us to deny, To dismiss him as simply make-believe. He loves attention. Like...
‘Shades of Vesuvius’: A Poem by Stephen M. Dickey The Society March 24, 2024 Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Shades of Vesuvius Seldom does one see horror in a tranche De vie like that in Herculaneum And Pompeii, when a sudden avalanche Of heat and ash...
A Limerick on New Hot Cross Buns with Tick (Check Mark), by Paul A. Freeman The Society March 23, 2024 Culture, Limerick, Poetry 15 Comments . Limerick Perhaps it’s a marketing trick, or else Iceland’s taking the mick; __for what kind of fun __is an Easter Day bun when the cross has...
A Poem Based on Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, by Joshua C. Frank The Society March 23, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . The Whiskey Priest based on The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene I stand condemned because I am a priest, Condemned to die by law here in...
A Poem on Israel: ‘We Are Wrong’ by Michael Vanyukov The Society March 23, 2024 Culture, Poetry 70 Comments . We Are Wrong You shall remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you went out of Egypt, how he happened upon you on the way and cut off...
Andrew Benson Brown Reads Poems by S.J. Bryant, Erlandson, Binns, Maibach, and Cooper The Society March 22, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 10 Comments ...
‘Queen Esther’s Lot’: A Poem for Purim, by Margaret Coats The Society March 22, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Queen Esther's Lot for the Jewish holiday of Purim (“Lots”) Oh, to be taken from home’s holy ways, Delivered to a king uncircumcized, And...
A Poem on the George Stephanopoulos and Nancy Mace Interview, by Warren Bonham The Society March 21, 2024 Poetry, Satire 12 Comments . Victim Shaming Nancy Mace, a U.S. Congresswoman for South Carolina, was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos, former Communications Director for...
A Poem on Climate Change: ‘Change’ by James A. Tweedie The Society March 21, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment 11 Comments . Change Scrub the rock with glacial ice until the granite’s smooth and bare. Let the river cut through earth until it leaves a canyon there. Let...
‘March 21st, Saints Cranmer and Bach’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society March 21, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . March 21st, Saints Cranmer and Bach Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, burned at the stake March 21, 1556 . Johann Sebastian Bach, born March 21,...
A Poem for Lent: ‘St. Perpetua’ by Jeffrey Essmann The Society March 20, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . St. Perpetua Eyewitnesses of the atrocity Report that on that Carthage afternoon, Already scourged and gored repeatedly By savage bulls, she fell...
‘Words Matter’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 20, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 65 Comments . Words Matter . I. Out of Context Cheats cherry-pick the words that suit their ploy To shame the names of those who disagree With all they say. If...
‘Sanderling’: A Poem by Kensley Greene The Society March 19, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 21 Comments . Sanderling What saffron stylus could but trace the rusty scallop of the dancing wing, what sculptor’s chisel sharpened to the quick could cleave...
‘To the Passenger Pigeon’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society March 18, 2024 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . To the Passenger Pigeon As once, upon the Great Plains, thundering herds of buffalo, innumerable, held sway, a genocide befell these dull-plumed...
‘St. Patrick’s Day 2024’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 17, 2024 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . St. Patrick's Day 2024 for an Ireland suffering terribly under the weight of forced migration Where is the one who rid the Emerald Isle Of...
‘Coffee Limericks’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society March 17, 2024 Humor, Limerick, Poetry 45 Comments . Coffee Limericks . I love to have coffee each morning, Including the act of the pouring: __I smell the aroma, __Come out of my coma, And wonder...
‘Watching’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society March 17, 2024 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Watching It hardly matters what I’d read (Another plangent exposé Of something solid in the world That bit by horrid bit unfurled Into a source...
‘The Tenpenny Bit’ and ‘Kesh Jig’: Tunes for St. Patrick’s Day Performed by Jeff Eardley The Society March 17, 2024 Music, Poetry 21 Comments . Musician and SCP poet Jeff Eardley performs the traditional Irish tunes "The Tenpenny Bit" and "Kesh Jig" in honor of St. Patrick's Day....
‘Infernos on the Pages of Literary Journals’: A Poem by Phillip Whidden The Society March 16, 2024 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Infernos on the Pages of Literary Journals That one barbaric yawp might just have been All right, but then it ricocheted right down The later...
‘Choices’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society March 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . Choices Some lovers only give the rose, __Some only choose to take, Although the florist keeps a bunch __For every partner's sake. The sun has...
‘Serenade’ and ‘Serenity’: Poems by Margaret Coats The Society March 15, 2024 Beauty, Epigrams and Proverbs, Poetry 30 Comments . Serenade Down dash the splashlets of rain to the ground; Streams from the eaves full and fluent resound. Guests gaily chatter, and clatter their...
A Poem on How Native Americans Were Swindled Out of Manhattan, by Mark Stellinga The Society March 15, 2024 Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . Native Americans Were Swindled Out of Manhattan in 1634 Knowing Eyes—an aging elder, born in Black Bear County Famed for being fearless and the...
‘For Dorothy’ and Other Poems by Joseph S. Salemi The Society March 14, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 28 Comments . For Dorothy I have at times sat silent in this chair And furtively cast looks about the room Admiring, or to jot a mental note Of someone’s...
Portrait of ‘Ivan, The Barber, 1882-1963’: A Poem by Phil S. Rogers The Society March 14, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . His Stories Were His Legacy Ivan, The Barber, 1882-1963 . Covered in a heavy blanket, __he sat and watched the rain; it had been more than thirty...
