‘The Devotee’ by Jeffrey Essmann The Society May 29, 2024 Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . The Devotee She moves from one devotion to the next, From this beloved statue to the text Of some obscure or justly famous saint Who’s good at...
‘I Saw a Naked Wood Nymph’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 29, 2024 Humor, Poetry 25 Comments . I Saw a Naked Wood Nymph I sat down in the forest, a picnic in the shade. I saw a naked wood nymph flitting across the glade. I dropped my sandwich...
‘Rising with the Sap’ and Other Poetry by Monika Cooper The Society May 28, 2024 Blank Verse, Dante, Poetry 18 Comments . Rising with the Sap You would not call them blocks, those obscure streets Where people live. Their driftings trace the hem Of Manchester. I drove...
‘Surviving Caligula’: A Poem on the Roman Emperor, by Brian Yapko The Society May 28, 2024 Culture, Poetry 31 Comments . Surviving Caligula Setting: Caligula’s Palace, the Palatine Hill, Rome Date: 23 January 794 Ab urbe condita (41 A.D.) The Matter: A Praetorian...
A Sonnet for Harrison Butker, by Adam Sedia The Society May 27, 2024 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Love and Vipers for Harrison Butker, the football player criticized for supporting traditional views of women in a commencement address How hated...
A Poem for an Orwellian Memorial Day, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 27, 2024 Culture, Poetry 44 Comments . Memorial Day, 1984 2024 “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ---George Orwell Today we honor those who gave their...
‘The First and Usually Unspoken Rule of Great Writing’: A Poem by Phillip Whidden The Society May 27, 2024 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . The First and Usually Unspoken Rule of Great Writing The greatest rule of writing is to tell A truth, the truth if possible, within The scope of...
‘He Who Was’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society May 26, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments . He Who Was Omnipotence, omniscience __and there’s omnipresence too. If you possess those qualities, __there’s nothing you can’t do. Be here...
‘I Never Do a Happy Dance’: A Poem by Lisa Marie Miller The Society May 26, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments . I Never Do a Happy Dance I never do a happy dance, Or look online to find romance, Speak my sentences upended, Or keep saying I’m offended, Check...
‘Betrayal’ and Other Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 25, 2024 Culture, Pantoum, Poetry, Rondeau, Villanelle 21 Comments . Betrayal a villanelle Today she spied the shadow of a snake Slither through the spreading family tree--- A curse her startled heart finds hard...
‘View from the Beach’: A Poem by Lucia Haase The Society May 25, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . View from the Beach after Robert Frost’s "A Cliff Dwelling" Here hazy seems the azure sky and azure seems the hazy sea. One lone gull lends an...
SCP Poet Lionel Willis (1932-2023) Passes Away The Society May 24, 2024 From the Society, Poetry 9 Comments . The SCP has just learned of the passing of Canadian Member poet Lionel Willis on December 28, 2023. He had been contributing his work since 2021,...
‘Eulogy to the First Ms. Brown’ and Other Poetry by Betsy K. Brown The Society May 24, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima 5 Comments . Eulogy to the First Ms. Brown or a Divine Comedy of Educators . To my aunt—the second daughter of three, And first to leave us just two years...
‘Just Off the Cuff’ and Other Poems by Stephen M. Dickey The Society May 24, 2024 Epigrams and Proverbs, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments . 1. Just off the cuff, I’d cap the alcoholic swill __Before it calls your bluff and saps your will. . 2. The dead, although their tongues are...
‘Newman, Alone’: A Poem by Adam Wasem The Society May 23, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . Newman, Alone Newman, thirty, alone, asleep in bed, Groans, yearning for his mother, years now, dead--- Alive, her vivid female acts above Had...
‘Two Times Two Is Four’: A Poem by T.M.A. Day The Society May 23, 2024 Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Two Times Two Is Four Now Kierkegaard once wrote a book, __Entitled Either/Or, But for myself, I only know, __That two times two is four. For...
Three Love-Crossed Sonnets by James A. Tweedie The Society May 22, 2024 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 21 Comments . Unopened Letters Unopened letters strewn across the floor Addressed to me with your name on the back. Left where they fell inside my slotted...
‘The Cleft’ and Other Poetry by Gigi Ryan The Society May 22, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . The Cleft There’s danger for the harmless dove; she swoops Into the cleft of the great mountainside. Her heartbeat calms as she keeps still and...
‘Dandelions’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society May 21, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 34 Comments . Dandelions “...all the days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow....” ---Ecclesiastes 6: 12 . ____As I stepped out one...
A Poem Based on Joshua Harris’s I Kissed Dating Goodbye, by Joshua C. Frank The Society May 21, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . Chelsea a true story from I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris “Behold not everybody's beauty: and tarry not among women.”...
Two Poems Inspired by Shakespeare Quotations, by Joseph S. Salemi The Society May 20, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Shakespeare 25 Comments . Miss Crespo’s Halloween Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; ‘tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted...
‘AI’s Promise’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Kemper The Society May 20, 2024 Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . AI's Promise What is the latest ingenious ability makers have made out as mental agility? Smoothly unveiling the newest utility, __though it...
‘King George III Declares War’ from Vol. 2 of Andrew Benson Brown’s Mock Epic Poem The Society May 19, 2024 Epic, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . King George III Declares War from Legends of Liberty, Volume 2 Note: The British have won a pyrrhic victory at Bunker Hill. King George, who has...
Poems About Doing the Dishes, by Julian Woodruff The Society May 18, 2024 Humor, Poetry, Song Lyrics 18 Comments . Dishing Out Advice Why are there always dishes in the sink? So lazy and undisciplined. You’d think they might show just a little more respect and...
‘He Lied About His Age’: A Poem by Joyce E. Rogers The Society May 18, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . He Lied About His Age 'Twas May of nineteen seventeen, our country now at war. Will had decided to enlist, this great world to explore. His...
‘Saturn’: A Poem by Alan Orsborn The Society May 17, 2024 Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 14 Comments . Saturn "When we have shuffled off this mortal coil" —Shakespeare "According to medieval thought, the worst planet was Saturn, sponsor of death,...
A Poem for the 30th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, by Paul A. Freeman The Society May 17, 2024 Culture, Poetry 27 Comments . Rwanda, April 1994 Inside Nyamata Church the pews are piledwith clothes, the blood that drenched them dull and dry.What demon turned sane men and...
‘An Incomplete Account of How Things Are’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society May 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 28 Comments . An Incomplete Account of How Things Are __From where I drift, One hundred meters from the shore, The elemental thunderous roar __That’s falling...
‘Herman the Cripple’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society May 16, 2024 Culture, Music, Poetry 44 Comments . Herman the Cripple A body helpless in deformity Was mine, though loving parents carried me Full seven years in sick infirmity, Then placed me in...
‘Go Woke, Go Broke’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society May 15, 2024 Poetry, Satire 22 Comments . Go Woke, Go Broke Sports Illustrated’s prize was doing great. Big bucks each year from the swimsuit edition. But then it seemed keen to...
‘The Dead’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society May 15, 2024 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . The Dead They’re pretty but the dopamine Has hollowed out their pale blue eyes. They sit there, staring, silent, numb, (They only need to move...
‘And Yet We Wash Our Hands’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 14, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . And Yet We Wash Our Hands When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, butthat instead an uproar was starting, he took waterand washed his hands in...
‘Look Homeward, Sweet Afton’: Poem by Brian Yapko, Set to Music by Jeff Eardley The Society May 14, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Song Lyrics 32 Comments . Music by Jeff Eardley . Look Homeward, Sweet Afton after Robert Burns Look homeward, Sweet Afton, back to thy green braes, Recalling with pride...
Book Review: What Was and Is—Formal Poetry and Free Verse by Theresa Werba The Society May 13, 2024 Poetry, Reviews 5 Comments . Book Reviewed: What Was and Is---Formal Poetry and Free Verse, by Theresa Werba, Bardsinger Books, April 2024 by James A. Tweedie With What Was...
Winners of Friends of Falun Gong 2024 Poetry Competition Announced The Society May 13, 2024 Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests 9 Comments . FIRST PLACE . Free to Be the PRC by James A. Tweedie According to the PRC’s unwritten protocol,To be Chinese these days it seems you can’t be...
‘Rosella’: A Mother’s Day Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 12, 2024 Poetry 16 Comments . Rosella My Lone Star mother beams a summer smile As golden as the sun-hugged coastal plains. In snake-proof boots she trekked that extra mile To...
‘A Mother’s Day Sonnet’ by Evan Mantyk The Society May 12, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 22 Comments . A Mother’s Day Sonnet I hope you have a happy Mother’s Day And take a moment out to feel the love I’m sending to you there, though...
A Poem on D.C.’s S.W.A.M.P., by Warren Bonham The Society May 11, 2024 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . S.W.A.M.P. Soulless, Warped, And Monstrous People look at us as smelly “sheeple.” Easily manipulated. Otherwise, we’re mocked and...
‘Hookerville School’: A Poem on the One-Room Schoolhouse by Phil S. Rogers The Society May 11, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Hookerville School Built just before the Civil War, employed till twenty-nine, This one-room school that stands today withstood the test of...
‘Orpheus’: A Poem by James Sale The Society May 10, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . Orpheus We want the heroes back so we can learn: Herakles smashed his way to hell and stormed By violence the ferryman and three-faced dog; Even...
