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  • ‘A Message from The Party of Unity’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

    The Society
    January 26, 2021
    Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
    5 Comments
  • ‘Ode to Spring’ and Other Poetry by Andrew Elliott

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    January 26, 2021
    Beauty, Culture, Poetry
    2 Comments
  • ‘Father And John: How It Once Was’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook

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    January 25, 2021
    Beauty, Culture, Poetry
    13 Comments
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    January 25, 2021
    Beauty, Culture, Poetry
    39 Comments
  • To Joe Biden: ‘Abiding the Storm’, by David Watt

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    January 24, 2021
    Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
    15 Comments
  • ‘Uninspired’ by Siri Espy

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    January 24, 2021
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    January 23, 2021
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  • ‘Lament for Henderson’s’: A poem for Burns’ Night 2021, by Margaret Coats

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    January 23, 2021
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    January 22, 2021
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    January 22, 2021
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    January 21, 2021
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  • On Rembrandt’s ‘Return of the Prodigal Son’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

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    January 21, 2021
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Petrarch’s Canzone 129, translated by Steven Monte

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January 7, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation
5 Comments
. “Di pensier in pensier, di monte in monte” by Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) __From thought to thought, from mountain to mountain, Love guides...

A Poem on Sir Edward John Poynter’s ‘Faithful unto Death,’ by Peter Hartley

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January 7, 2021
Art, Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry
14 Comments
. From Parthenope’s coast each to his post, Beseeching eyes upraised with steady gaze. That night would nature’s cruelty erase A city from the...

‘Uncivil War’ by James A. Tweedie

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January 6, 2021
Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
10 Comments
. with reference to Macbeth V,5 . So bleak and dreary, like a stormy day, The world a whirl of whorls of endless rain And wind, with crash and...

‘The Mission of the Magi’ by Jeff Kemper

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January 6, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Poetry
2 Comments
. after Matthew 2:1-12 From distant regions of the east they came, Wise Magi, searching for a royal son, Into Jerusalem with single aim: Determined,...

A Poem on the Revealing of Election Fraud: ‘Epiphany’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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January 6, 2021
Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
32 Comments
. Fools sneered at his rightful place; __“He isn’t our leader” they said. They labeled his traits a disgrace. __En masse, they demanded him...

On the 2020 Election: ‘I Asked the Lord, Please Tell Me’ by Martin Rizley

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January 5, 2021
Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
16 Comments
. I asked the Lord, “Please tell me, where´s the outrage From those who claim to love the cause of right? Why aren´t more people going on the...

‘A Warning from the Red-Light Zone’ by Jeff Eardley

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January 5, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
48 Comments
  This ode concerns a wealthy gent, To London Town, one day he went. He’d paid to see an Opera, But got more than he bargained...

Poetry on the Planned Illegitimate Election of Joe Biden as U.S. President

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January 4, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
25 Comments
. Biden Kneels Before the Red Beast by Damian Robin from a scenario of Evan Mantyk On silver-smoke-screen in mid air __the Red Beast’s horde has...

Rhyming Drugstore Advertisements,1885

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January 4, 2021
Culture, Found Poem, Humor, Poetry
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Selected by Beverly Stock ---From Liver Pills to stuff that kills, and makes it smooth to die, The last is not their mission, though, and yet...

‘To Solitude’ by Chris Laverty

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January 3, 2021
Beauty, Poetry
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. Away with loneness--he whose winter bites, who haunts the wasted wilderness and shores, born in thunder on the misty moors; who, bred by wolves,...

‘Hunting’ and Other Poetry by William Conelly

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January 3, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
. . Hunting My father strides ahead of me.His khaki cap is all I see,beside the barrel of his gun.We’re hunting upland quail that runfrom us in...
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‘Nevermore! If Edgar Allan Poe Submitted “The Raven” today’ by Tonia Kalouria

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January 2, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Raven
14 Comments
  Dear Edgar, __We’re sorry our response has taken so much time, but it grieves and pains to tell you that you’ve missed our...

A ‘New Year’s Revolution’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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January 1, 2021
Coronavirus, Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Holidays, Humor, Poetry
31 Comments
. . The Rub   I’ve had a taste of wonder and I cannot give it back. I’ve seen each deep state blunder and the swamp’s heart dipped in...

‘Have No Regrets’ by Damian Robin

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December 31, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Poetry
11 Comments
  . Old doors to opportunitiesare gone, so, not one opens.Enticements that were there, just tease,no keys, just slot-less tokens. Lost gains are...

‘Ode on ​Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Ganymede and the Eagle’ and Other Poetry by Talbot Hook

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December 31, 2020
Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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. . Ode on ​Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Ganymede and the Eagle Bending down in offering, a Boy extends a shallow bowl; Craning neck of eagle dips,...

‘To U.S. Citizens This Christmas’ by Damian Robin

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December 30, 2020
Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
17 Comments
  . O hail you lied-to, baffled Yanks,__false-fed with sick afront’ry,If only rigging votes were pranks__not killing your good country. I know...

“Pride Goeth . . . .” and Other Sonnets by James A. Tweedie

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December 30, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
“Pride Goeth . . . .” “How dare you, sir! Your libel will not stand!” The words flew out across the now-hushed room. “Retract your...

‘Christmas Present’ by Joe Tessitore

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December 29, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Holidays, Poetry
39 Comments
. Long the shadow that it casts, Christmas present, o’er our pasts. In its darkness made to bask, Mumbling carols through a mask. Oh, the...

‘Anno Domini 1348’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

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December 29, 2020
Beauty, Coronavirus, Culture, Poetry
22 Comments
. Anno Domini 1348 ‘Tis thirteen months since those twelve ships of death Docked in Messina bearing vicious plague From the Black Sea. The fevers,...

A Poem on the Jan. 6 Electoral Vote Count, by Christopher Flint

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December 28, 2020
Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
4 Comments
. The Burden of Truth Our founders feared and could foresee that politics might come to be far more intense than mere debate of means to best...

‘The Monkeys and the Dragonflies’ by Terry L. Norton

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December 28, 2020
Children's, Culture, Poetry
20 Comments
  adapted from a Filipino folktale __Once, when the sun was at its height, A dragonfly thought she’d alight Upon a branch. The air was...

‘The Iroha Poem’ by Kūkai (空海) (774–835), Translated by Francesca Leader

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December 27, 2020
Beauty, Poetry, Translation
18 Comments
. The leaves may shine with colored gloss, But they will fall, forever lost. In this false world, what soul, I ask, May hope in timelessness to...

‘A Sonnet on Taking a Leap of Faith’ by Brian Yapko

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December 26, 2020
Beauty, Poetry
14 Comments
  This is the day for manifesting soul To flesh, for making contemplation real; Incorporeal yet real and whole Advancing to some heavenly...

A ‘Walking in a Winter Wonderland’ Parody by David D. Irby

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December 25, 2020
Poetry
7 Comments
. Freezing in a Winter Wonderland  to be sung to the melody of "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" I am cold. Are you listening? On my nose, ice is...

‘The Night after Christmas’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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December 25, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Poetry
14 Comments
. The Night after Christmas You better not cry. “Deplorable” might be how best to putit, just to underscore the gravityof chores that border on...

‘A Wretch Like Me’ by Joe Tessitore

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December 25, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Poetry
18 Comments
 . To miss the mark, to lose my way,to choose the dark, on Christmas Day. No star I see, no Virgin Birth.No joy for me, no peace on earth. But for a...

‘Can You See the Star?’ by Daniel Magdalen

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December 24, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Poetry
11 Comments
. Wake up and raise the blinds, to see the light, The colors; hark, the carols, feel the cheers Emerging, from within this Holy Night. Hear choirs...

‘Christmas Is a Person’: Words & Music by Jim Tweedie

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December 24, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Music, Poetry
21 Comments
  Christmas trees and Christmas carols, Christmas lights and reindeer, too.Christmas cards and Christmas presents, wrapped with paper, bows and...

‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer—a Sonnet’ and Other Poetry by Paul A. Freeman

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December 24, 2020
Culture, Holidays, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer---A Sonnet Poor Rudolph was a reindeer with a nose resembling a bulb of bright red hue. The other reindeer laughed...

‘Voices from Childhood’: A Christmas Poem by David Watt

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December 24, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Poetry
17 Comments
X The play of the breeze brings the music of childhood, The tinkle of laughter as light and as clear As were our voices when singing in Wildwood The...

‘Stepfather’ by Daniel Kemper

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December 23, 2020
Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
.   The hills that Joseph meditated on were black and just a bit like elephants, but if somehow they counterpointed dawn, there was no sign of its...

‘Rote Musings’ by Edward Ahern

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December 23, 2020
Poetry
9 Comments
My day dredges through its habits like chicken wings that flop through flour, like tame lettuce-nibbling rabbits, so to say, lacking...

A Poem on the Covid-19 Vaccine: ‘Needled’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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December 22, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry
40 Comments
. “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” ---Albert Einstein If I put forth a...

‘In This Post-Christian Era I Believe’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez

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December 22, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
28 Comments
In This Post Christian Era “For he nil falsen no wight, dar I seye, That wol his herte al hoolly on him leye.” ---Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Love...

‘Apocalypse’: Three Sonnets by Peter Hartley

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December 21, 2020
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
28 Comments
_ I How will I know you or will you know me?When every bird has hurtled to the ground,When every whale and every fish has drowned,And every beast,...

‘The Rape of Lady Liberty’ and Other Poetry on Election Fraud

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December 20, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Humor, Poetry
7 Comments
. . The Rape of Lady Liberty In Memoriam: November 3, 2020 by Patrick Henry Redivivus They did the awful deed within the dark--- Brute men with...

‘Evocation’ by Leo Zoutewelle

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December 20, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
I set up my beloved theodolite And slowly, gently, aimed it at the moon, Then focused sharply on the lovely site, Which put its fragile eye piece...

Three Poems on Photography, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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December 19, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
30 Comments
. Still   “Many eyes go through the meadow,  but few see the flowers in it” ---Ralph Waldo Emerson  I aim and shoot...

‘From a Prophet to the Emperor’ by Sterling Osborne

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December 18, 2020
Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
  The corpses laid before your cast iron throne will never wake again. Their eyes alone accuse you from the veinous marble floor, but you...

‘The Screen Is Life’ by Michael Charles Maibach

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December 17, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Poetry
1 Comment
The screen is life, The screen is king, The screen is now Our everything. The place we learn, The place we meet, The place we go When friends we...
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