SCP Poetry Competition Winners’ Symposium—You’re Invited! The Society May 28, 2025 From the Society, Poetry, Readings . The SCP Poetry Competition Winners’ Symposium You're Invited! Who: Everyone is invited to attend, Members and non-members alike Date:...
‘Song of the Heron’ by Ueda Bin, Translated by Yoshikaze Kawakami The Society May 28, 2025 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 6 Comments . Song of the Heron by Ueda Bin (after the French of Emile Verhaeren) translated from Japanese by Yoshikaze Kawakami By the bleak golden...
‘A Taste of Northern New England’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson The Society May 27, 2025 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . A Taste of Northern New England I’ll never feel at home in Robert Frost’s Vermont—too many deconstructed walls, And far too many melancholy...
‘Forsythia Fading’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society May 27, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . Forsythia Fading ---after Robert Frost and A.E. Housman Green leaves push yellow blooms away. Bold colors leave, their lives an hour Compared with...
‘On a Raging Storm’ and Other Poetry by Jeff Kemper The Society May 26, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . On a Raging Storm Storms raged in the eastern U.S. in Spring of 2019. Is it a freak of summer or the norm? A gale, a blast, a squall is roaring...
‘Ten Pennies Per Paper Poppy’: A Memorial Day Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 26, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . Ten Pennies Per Paper Poppy ---a childhood memory of Memorial Day Ten pennies per paper poppy I helped my mother sell We sold some fifty...
‘A Waltz of Longing’: A Poem by Jacob Schultz The Society May 25, 2025 Love Poems, Poetry 8 Comments . A Waltz of Longing In the heat of the day, we begin With a glance and a breath, cheek to chin. Though our steps misalign, still we glide With a...
Hurricane Poems: ‘The Genesis Wind’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society May 25, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau Redoublé 24 Comments . The Genesis Wind ---written in the wake of Hurricane Milton I close my eyes to better gauge the gusting wind. It howls and tantrums hard against...
‘Kissing Cousin’ and Other Poems by Joseph S. Salemi The Society May 24, 2025 Culture, Humor, Poetry 33 Comments . Kissing Cousin I see her every two years, usuallyWhen someone dies or marries. And we kissAs if we were old lovers, passionately,Just as a silly...
‘Wedding Night’ by Christine de Pisan, Translated by Margaret Coats The Society May 24, 2025 Love Poems, Poetry, Translation 20 Comments . Wedding Night by Christine de Pisan (1364--c. 1430)translated by Margaret Coats A sweet supremacy marks marriage;I prove it from experience.I have...
‘What the Caterpillar Calls the End’: A Poem by Scharlie Meeuws The Society May 23, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . What the Caterpillar Calls the End ---for those who are becoming The light grew dim, the air grew still, The green world closed, the leaf went...
‘The Dyer’s Second Tale—A Medieval Heist’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society May 23, 2025 Chaucer, Poetry 12 Comments . The Dyer’s Second Tale---A Medieval Heist Here beginneth the Dyer’s Second Tale . Part I The Third Crusade had reached its bloody height,And...
‘Sonnet XIII’: A Poem by Jenna Tedesco The Society May 22, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . Sonnet XIII On days you do not need my sound embrace, When tenderness and warmth envelop you And Fortune shines upon your amber face And suffering...
‘Sound and Fury’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 22, 2025 Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . Sound and Fury . I. Of Farcical Requital He craved the slavish praise his patter wooed. His slick, linguistic syrup charmed the ear Of she who...
‘The Noble Train of Artillery’ from an Epic Poem by Andrew Benson Brown The Society May 21, 2025 Epic, Poetry 15 Comments . The Noble Train of Artillery ---from Legends of Liberty Volume 3 The cold, gray dawn illuminated flakes Of snow dusting an elevated hill Where a...
‘Know Your Place’: A Poem by Peter Venable The Society May 21, 2025 Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments . Know Your Place __“Know your place!” In grammar school, that stung like mace.“To the corner!”—my timeout place. __“Know your...
‘Apollo, Mnemosyne, and Poetry’: A Chapter from James Sale’s Gods, Heroes and Us The Society May 20, 2025 Essays, Poetry 25 Comments . Apollo, Mnemosyne, and Poetry Chapter 9 from Gods, Heroes and Us (Bruges Group, May, 2025) by James Sale Our last chapter discussed the imperative...
‘Spring Has Sprung’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 20, 2025 Humor, Poetry 26 Comments . Spring Has Sprung Spring has sprung. It has begun--- _Birds nesting in the tree. It’s warm again. The cackling hen _Can go outside to...
‘The Poppy’: A Poem by Akiane Kramarik The Society May 19, 2025 Art, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . The Poppy I walk a poppy universe, I rattle the hourglass’s isles, Where time slows down and turns to hope And I’m a brush that paints for...
‘Young Catherine’s Vision’ and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers The Society May 19, 2025 Beauty, Ekphrastic, Poetry 13 Comments . Young Catherine’s Vision ---on St. Catherine of Siena Invested with the Dominican Habit by Giovanni di Paola A maiden kneels on gray da Torre...
Cat Poems by Gigi Ryan The Society May 18, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . Sally November rains brought to our basement door From the woods some pleading, needy eyes Staring from a fur mass, soaking wet. Our catless home...
‘Today Like Yesterday’: A Poem by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Translated by Paul Burgess The Society May 18, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Translation 13 Comments . Today Like Yesterday by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836-1870) translated by Paul Burgess Today like yesterday, tomorrow like today: ___A sky of only...
‘Bonanza’: A Poem by Jonathan Kinsman The Society May 17, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments . Bonanza The March of rains has staked its claim, its boast _To brag upon these thousand hills, and opened the sluice of the motherlode to mantle...
‘Jargon’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society May 17, 2025 Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Jargon The devil will manipulate, through jargoneers who fabricate non sequitur profundity tuned with the proper frequency that will, before you...
‘Going Home to Campania’: A Poem by Patricia Rogers Crozier The Society May 16, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . Going Home to Campania I come back to my cool and quiet road, Testudo-shielded by umbrella pines, Where pavement cracked and garbage overflowed To...
‘Size Lies’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society May 16, 2025 Love Poems, Poetry, Satire 14 Comments . Size Lies Clothing manufacturers are fond of tricks today, Making female customers feel good in one slick way--- Whatever size they’ve always...
‘The Water Closet’ and Other Bathroom Poetry by Cheryl Corey The Society May 15, 2025 Culture, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments . The Water Closet An earthen pit, an outhouse stool, a chamber pot— We’ve long dispensed with these, the whole damn stinking lot! The housewife...
‘Eternity’ and Other Love Poetry by Angel L. Villanueva The Society May 15, 2025 Love Poems, Poetry 15 Comments . Eternity If I could give her just one gift, What would she want that gift to be? Would she prefer a diamond ring Or roses spread across the...
‘The Spring Has Come’ and Other Poems by Alan Steinle The Society May 14, 2025 Beauty, Poetry, Rondeau 18 Comments . The Spring Has Come The mating call of the black-capped chickadee (a North American songbird) sounds like "Hey, Sweetie!" "Hey, Sweetie!"—this is...
‘If You Ever Break Down’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society May 14, 2025 Poetry, Satire 10 Comments . If You Ever Break Down If you ever break down somewhere far from your friends _And you stick out your thumb for a ride. Don’t expect that a...
Winners of Friends of Falun Gong 2025 Poetry Competition Announced The Society May 13, 2025 Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests 1 Comment . FIRST PLACE . Captured Souls by Twila Brase Seized by force, a mighty throng The captured souls of the Falun Gong. Intact for now, breathing...
‘Pressed for Time’: A Poem by C.B. Anderson The Society May 12, 2025 Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Pressed for Time Though life is good, it doesn’t last that long, And so we’re always left desiring more. Remember, though, you bought it for a...
‘Ogre Food’: A Poem by Steve Cooper The Society May 12, 2025 Humor, Poetry 14 Comments . Ogre Food My parents, dear, although you love me so; and in your love, wish only for my best. Yet, to the first-grade class I will not go, nor...
National Limerick Day: Post Your Limerick Here The Society May 12, 2025 Limerick, Poetry 79 Comments . May 12 is National Limerick Day in the United States, corresponding to Limerick-writer Edward Lear's birthday. Poet James A. Tweedie invites you to...
‘Written in a Cubicle’ and Other Poems by Shamik Banerjee The Society May 11, 2025 Culture, Humor, Poetry 11 Comments . Written in a Cubicle What spurs me, in this breathing grave of coffee mouths and cheeks unshaved, to stand upon my chair and shout, __"I'm out! I'm...
‘Back in the U.S.S.R.’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society May 11, 2025 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . Back in the U.S.S.R. ---St. Petersburg, Russia. The present. Your borscht, Dmitri. Come and eat, smart boy. You asked me how life was? Well take a...
An Ekphrastic Poem on Pearce’s ‘Saint Genevieve’ by Jeffrey Essmann The Society May 10, 2025 Ekphrastic, Poetry 9 Comments . Genevieve Perhaps those languid eyes are looking up At angels hymning in the dove-grey sky, So soft and saccharine (and fluent in Provincial...
‘Supernova’: A Poem on Ben Shimoni and Other Poetry by Margaret Coats The Society May 10, 2025 Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . Supernova With no notice, the rockets destroyed festive peace,And a volley of bullets brought death and dismay.Ben ran straight to his car, telling...
‘Ghost Town’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society May 9, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . Ghost Town With phantoms, I have lived for far too long. Both day and night, I’ve sighed, without a song. In vacant shells, I’ve tried to make...
‘An Unfortunate Encounter’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society May 9, 2025 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . An Unfortunate Encounter ---27 March 2025 A ragamuffin mob surrounded mewhilst on an errand, walking in the street.They pressed in close, they...
