‘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...
‘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...
‘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...
‘Cracks in the Ground’ and Other Poetry by Skye Campbell The Society August 1, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 7 Comments . Cracks in the Ground Today the mourning parish bells have pealed. Men broke the dirt with family gathered round, And sang the songs of Heaven while...
