‘It’s Only a Thought’: A Poem by Richard Bailey Johnson The Society August 28, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry, Rondel 7 Comments . It’s Only a Thought It’s only a thought to help pass the night, But what if our love should come to naught? Christ! That would be an unbearable...
‘Leave’: A Poem by Martin Elster The Society August 27, 2024 Beauty, Children's, Poetry 9 Comments . Leave Above the land, suspended, green and grand and splendid, we furnish food for trees, whisper with the breeze till cold winds bluster in and...
‘Tranquil Tokonoma’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society August 27, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 28 Comments . Tranquil Tokonoma One thing a perfect purple rose cannot Accomplish is a type of sadness. Man Is best at that. That is mankind’s special...
‘August Foraging’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society August 26, 2024 Culture, Poetry 27 Comments . August Foraging “It’s hot, it’s dry. No fun outdoors; No fungi, flowers, foliage, fruit For us to eat where Nature stores Wild food. The...
‘Emergence’: A Poem by Venessa Lee-Estevez The Society August 26, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . Emergence A child within the chrysalis, __awaiting to emerge. __Fruition and desire, __hoping to converge. The years prove long and arduous __and...
‘New Directions, or Deviations?’: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society August 25, 2024 Essays, Poetry 25 Comments . New Directions, or Deviations? by Joseph S. Salemi Many years ago I read an account of a discussion between Ezra Pound and an interviewer...
Tools for Writing Classical Poetry—Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown The Society August 25, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Education, Essays, Poetry, Video 26 Comments . https://youtu.be/o4TS45A7KEM . Tools for Writing Classical Poetry ---adapted from the video by Andrew Benson Brown Do you want to be forgotten...
DoorWay Canto 7: ‘Flight to The Eyrie’ from James Sale’s Epic Poem The Society August 24, 2024 Epic, Poetry 14 Comments . DoorWay Canto 7: Flight to The Eyrie In Canto 7, the narrating Pilgrim Poet deviates from the Zodiac, leaving Sagittarius, to visit the...
‘Patient in a Nursing Home’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Pugh The Society August 24, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Patient in a Nursing Home Such a frantic brilliance in the flagpole’s banging chain! I’m blind, __confined, ____but now I know: Winter’s here...
‘The Worst of Our Convictions’: A Poem by T.M. Moore The Society August 23, 2024 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . The Worst of Our Convictions When, finally, the last church shuts its doors; when we run out of new identities to choose from; when the politicians...
Epigrams by Maria Panayi The Society August 23, 2024 Epigrams and Proverbs, Poetry 5 Comments . Epigrams . Bear in mind that whilst you’re sleeping Your enemies are busy scheming. . If you absorb everything without a filter Don’t be...
‘Phoebus’: A Poem by L.M. Shearer The Society August 22, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments . Phoebus I saw the sun catch in your hair, Your silhouette against the glare. I heard your laughter rise and fall And shatter in the frozen...
‘Mainstream News’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society August 22, 2024 Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . Mainstream News "Just 7% of Americans have 'a great deal' of trust and confidence in the media, and 27% have 'a fair amount.' Meanwhile, 28% of...
‘An Invitation’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society August 21, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments . An Invitation While treading my locality's __New-slathered pavement grass, There came a flying, loud "hello" __From sprightly Mr. Das. "Black...
‘Across a Strong Bridge’: A Poem by Alexander King Ream The Society August 21, 2024 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 6 Comments . Across a Strong Bridge upon the marriage of two friends In a weary world that's grown quite old, Where men grow weak, and thought grows cold, Two...
‘The Mannequins Are Melting’ and Other Hot Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society August 20, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . The Mannequins Are Melting The mannequins are melting as we speak Now that the summer heat wave's at its peak. __While passing by the clothing...
‘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 33 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...
