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  • Short Pandemic Poems by Joe Tessitore

    The Society
    April 10, 2021
    Coronavirus, Haiku and Senryu, Humor, Poetry
    12 Comments
  • ‘Dusk Till Dawn’ and Other Poetry by Áine Mae

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    April 10, 2021
    Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
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    April 9, 2021
    Beauty, Culture, Poetry
    11 Comments
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    April 8, 2021
    Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
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  • A Translation of François Villon’s ‘Ballade of Prayer to Our Lady,’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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  • Four Poems for Early Spring, by C.B. Anderson

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‘You Are There’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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March 21, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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inspired by the late John Whitworth’s “The Examiners”  Through the burst of youth and giggles in the balm of budding spring, __You are...

‘For John Whitworth (1945-2019)’ by Dwayne Barrick

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March 21, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
15 Comments
. A touch of wit is worth its writ in gold. We miss you, John, for being ever bold. You spoke your mind or, rather, wrote it down with learning...

‘An Intelligent Cup of Coffee’ by Daniel Kemper

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March 20, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
33 Comments
. “That must have been some cup of coffee!” ---Charles Ellik The coffee spins and I am not the same. The time in which I move is muddy,...

‘Daffodils in the Snow’ by Shari Jo LeKane

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March 19, 2021
Beauty, Poetry
16 Comments
. Memories frozen in pinnacles glow, tattooed in lingering beauty and sorrow now fade by the light of forgotten tomorrows with nowhere to go, yet so...

‘Saint Joseph’s Table’ by Margaret Coats

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March 19, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
34 Comments
. The night before, old furniture And scrap wood set afire Smoke out the winter’s wickedness— An equinoctial pyre Of habits, sins, misfortunes...

‘The Second Roman Empire’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook

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March 18, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
22 Comments
. The Second Roman Empire Those were the days, when Julius Caesar Saw a country and would seize her, And the busty Roman matrons Ran the house and...

‘The PRC’s “To-Do” List’ by James A. Tweedie

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March 18, 2021
Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry
14 Comments
. Every one of us makes “To-Do” lists to help us on the way So we won’t forget the many things we plan to do each day. Every country has a...

‘This Brave American, Ashli Babbitt’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

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March 17, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
22 Comments
. This Brave American, Ashli Babbitt “It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.” —Sophocles, “Antigone” by Usa W...

‘Lenin’ and Other Poetry by Duane Caylor

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March 17, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
24 Comments
. Lenin It’s late. He walks the lonely corridor in this part of the Kremlin with his cat hammocked in his arm. He stops before the door of every...

‘The Illiterati’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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March 16, 2021
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
34 Comments
. “Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.” ---Heinrich Heine  There is diction to spurn and there’s fiction to...

‘Liberal Artists’ by Sarban Bhattacharya

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March 16, 2021
Culture, Poetry
21 Comments
. A little argument and then they hurt; These liberals are so coy and sensitive. They think they know all forms of decent art, And claim consensus...

‘Borealis’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie

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March 15, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
. Borealis Where Ursa Minor spins about its tail The cold-chill, sabled void of arctic nights Bestirs to life as unseen hands unveil The shifting...

‘Lives There the Man’ (After Sir Walter Scott) by Roy E. Peterson

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March 14, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. Lives There the Man after “Breathes There a Man with Soul so Dead” by Sir Walter Scott* by Roy E. Peterson Lives there the man who won’t...

A Poem on the Canceling of Dr. Seuss’s McElligot’s Pool, by Julian Woodruff

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March 13, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
33 Comments
. Jelly Guts Rule The book, we’ve been apprised, is most uncool— Young Marco and the farmer by the pool, Wits locked in friendly if serious...

A Poem for Daylight Savings: ‘The Puppeteer’ by Norma Pain

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March 13, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
21 Comments
. Oh hail the master puppeteer, Controller of the strings. The altruistic engineer, Sagaciousness he brings. With breathtaking dexterity, He moves...

‘Gonfalon’ by Paul Erlandson

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March 12, 2021
Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry
10 Comments
. Around the rearview mirror of my car There hangs a gonfalon of love divine. My talisman, my bright and guiding star, From which both fortitude and...

‘Shadows of Regret’ by Phil S. Rogers

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March 12, 2021
Beauty, Poetry
3 Comments
. I watched as the convening mist rose twisting through the trees; It changed gray shapes and silhouettes, and shattered inner ease. I closed my...

‘Advice from Dante’ on Mask Wearing and Other Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson

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March 11, 2021
Coronavirus, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
20 Comments
. Advice from Dante “If you hear nostrums* in the market cried, Behave like men, and not like witless sheep.” ---Dante, Paradiso, Canto V Behave...

‘Kismet’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez

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March 11, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
15 Comments
. . Kismet If I'd been younger, or you not so old, Or we'd met at a different time and place, Would there have been within your heart a space For...

‘The Final Solution, Take Two’ by Joe Tessitore

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March 10, 2021
Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry
27 Comments
. I heard the harvested remains Of infants coursing through my veins Will save me from the Wuhan Flu--- I’m gonna get some, how ‘bout...

‘Bang!’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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March 10, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
35 Comments
. Bang! “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”---This quote was attributed...

An Essay on the Canceling of Dr. Seuss: ‘If I Ran the Circus’ by Michael Curtis

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March 9, 2021
Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry
5 Comments
. Girolamo Savonarola Here we are at circus, you and me and all the others, facing each and every way in the Age of Absurdity. Rather alike some...

‘Political Conversation’ by Russel Winick

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March 9, 2021
Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. between friends of 40+ years “Just what about Obama don’t you like?” “I fear his plans will force a big tax hike. His National Labor...

‘The Pox Fox’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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March 8, 2021
Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry
33 Comments
 . This silver-furred yogi of how to stay fit,  This bespectacled guru of health,  Is a growly voiced sage of...

‘The View from the Hill’ by Martin Rizley

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March 8, 2021
Beauty, Poetry
13 Comments
. "He has made everything beautiful in its time. . ."  (Ecclesiastes 3:11) The sun shines so brightly on this verdant hill Where I sit in silence so...

‘The English Cantos: Volume 2: StairWell. Canto 1 Ascent’ by James Sale

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March 7, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry
11 Comments
. The poet has now escaped Hell, and has arrived in Purgatory or what he calls the StairWell. But he seems to have been abandoned by Dante, and has a...

Poem Circulating Online Laments Canceling of Dr. Seuss Books

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March 6, 2021
Children's, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
32 Comments
The author of the above poem, circulating online, is unknown. From The Epoch Times (March 2, 2021) "Biden Omits Mention of Dr. Seuss From ‘Read...

‘The Tango Argentine’ by Daniel Kemper

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March 6, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
. Do they still dance on old walkwayswith lowered shoulders, mastered breathand almost martial, measured gazethough one that's bent on life, not...

‘Tradition’ by Troy Camplin

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March 5, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
4 Comments
. I've battled beside Gilgamesh, the Bull Of Heaven slain by us. I've fought beside Achilles, hot beside a burning hull, And watched as Agamemnon,...

‘The White Man’s Burden’ by Rudyard Kipling: Poem, Background, and Analysis

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March 4, 2021
Culture, Essays, For Educators, Poetry
51 Comments
. A Teaching Tool for High School English Language Arts or Global History Teachers by Evan Mantyk . Background of Kipling and British India Rudyard...

‘Who Knew’ and Other Poetry by Áine Mae

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March 4, 2021
Beauty, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry
22 Comments
. . Who Knew How often I crushed autumn leaves Until I saw a robin drink From one that cupped the fallen rain, And many times too, I did...

A Review of James A. Tweedie’s Mostly Sonnets: Formal Poetry in an Informal World

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March 3, 2021
Beauty, Essays, Poetry, Reviews
13 Comments
Mostly Sonnets: Formal Poetry in an Informal World by James A. Tweedie, Dunecrest Press, July 2019 by Theresa Rodriguez As a fellow sonneteer, I...

Poetry Challenge: Write a Sonnet in Iambic Monometer

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March 2, 2021
Poetry, Poetry Contests, Poetry Forms
97 Comments
. This challenge was conceived by Paul A. Freeman after reading a sonnet in iambic monometer by James A. Tweedie, "Allergies." Mr. Freeman's example...

‘In Your Dreams Grandad’ by Jeff Eardley

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March 2, 2021
Humor, Poetry
22 Comments
. . He met her one Summer, the girl of his dreams, A freckle-faced beauty just out of her teens. He chatted her up, and he thought he’d done...

A Poem on the Tyranny of Google, by Bruce Dale Wise

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March 1, 2021
Culture, Poetry
24 Comments
. . Frankly, There Are Many Ways To Spell Uggly “the Baleks von Bilgen…new coat of arms—a giant crouching under a fir tree” —Heinrich...

‘The Magpie’s Chorus’ and Other Poetry by David Watt

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March 1, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
33 Comments
. The Magpie’s Chorus With sunlight at full power And silence in the air, I sought a shaded bower, A cool drink, and a chair. But then, I heard the...

On Gov. Cuomo: ‘Governor Mussolini’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

The Society
February 28, 2021
Coronavirus, Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Humor, Poetry
32 Comments
. Governor Mussolini Fifteen thousand souls,Killed by the stroke of his pen,For whom no bell tolls. . . Covid Chronicles I saw a naked face...

‘Free Verse: Recondite Done Right!’ by Tonia Kalouria

The Society
February 28, 2021
Humor, Poetry, Poetry Forms
13 Comments
. In Astrophysics, I’m ranked “One,” and Greek and Latin I find fun. All serve me well at Crossword “Times,” with each day’s matrix...

‘Eyes on the Prize’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

The Society
February 27, 2021
Beauty, Poetry
33 Comments
. Eyes on the Prize __What time it is Can be determined only by the Sun. __The choice is his, By whom all duties have been duly done, __To set the...

‘A Song of Saint Francis’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

The Society
February 26, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
16 Comments
. A Song of Saint Francis Good friends, I wander vale and hill The Master’s words upon my lip; My only thought: to do His will And sing such Love...
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