‘Admonition’: A Poem by Edward Stansell The Society June 7, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 23 Comments . Admonition It is a form of madness To long for days of yore. And bitter is the sadness O'er those who've gone before. Now we, ourselves, must...
‘Poetry Is Warfare’: A Poem by Gigi Ryan The Society June 6, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Poetry Is Warfare A poem is the writer’s battle pleaAgainst asceticism’s barren call.Truth and beauty (air that poets...
‘On the 80th Anniversary of D-Day’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society June 6, 2024 Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . On the 80th Anniversary of D-Day Humanity once more is under threat,when eighty years ago a Western frontwas opened up at Normandy to...
‘Today My Brown Sedan Is Two’ and Other Poetry by Shamik Banerjee The Society June 6, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Today My Brown Sedan Is Two Today, my brown sedan is two, But I behave as if it's twenty, So freezing by a showroom's door, I scan the...
‘To a Cicada’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society June 5, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 23 Comments . To a Cicada So, welcome back, you ancient thing! Some time ago, your tribe took wing; But here you are again, my friend, These summer nights with...
‘Under the Umbrella’: A Poem by Joshua C. Frank, Inspired by Brassens’ Le Parapluie The Society June 5, 2024 Love Poems, Music, Poetry, Translation 23 Comments . Under the Umbrella inspired by “Le Parapluie” (“The Umbrella”) by Georges Brassens (1921-1981) Rain fell in waves throughout the street; A...
‘The Harmonies of Holst’: A Poem by Mary Jane Myers The Society June 4, 2024 Beauty, Blank Verse, Music, Poetry 10 Comments . The Harmonies of Holst While doing errands, driving roundabout, I listen to the classic music station. An orchestra plays a courtly lyric...
‘They Say Somebody Said This; It Must Be True!’ and Other Poems by Janice Canerdy The Society June 4, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Satire 8 Comments . . They Say Somebody Said This; It Must Be True! Some people love to share with you news they’ve been told, but may not know all juicy details....
‘The Figure Skater’ and Other Poems by Daniel Kemper The Society June 3, 2024 Beauty, Music, Poetry 14 Comments . The Figure Skater Across the frozen way, stamping, sprinting, faster as hurried steps display something that she'll master her body starts to...
‘Before Checkmate’: A Poem by Peter Venable The Society June 3, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments . Before Checkmate “Tis all a Checker board of nights and days Where Destiny with men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and...
A Poem on the Trump Conviction: ‘The Witch Hunt’ by Brian Yapko The Society June 2, 2024 Culture, Poetry 42 Comments . The Witch Hunt I’ve been a lawyer for a long, long time And seen a lot of things that shouldn’t be--- Like rape and murder; every type of...
A Poem for the Trump Conviction: ‘Finding the Crime’ by Warren Bonham The Society June 2, 2024 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Finding the Crime “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime” ---Lavrentiy Beria, Head of the Secret Police under Josef Stalin Every...
‘At Dorr Point’: A Poem by Kevin Farnham The Society June 2, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . At Dorr Point Our far too brief excursion about to cease,We walked the woods to Dorr Point—one last partingImmersion in resuscitating peace.But...
‘Selling Short’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson The Society June 1, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 14 Comments . Selling Short The winter wind’s a shot across your brow, An addend to the sense of deficit You wrestle with inside the here and now. You’re...
‘A Formalist Walks into a Bar…’ and Other Poetry by Drilon Bajrami The Society June 1, 2024 Poetry, Satire 11 Comments . A Formalist Walks into a Bar... “Dear barkeep, give me something most unsweet,I like my drinks with an astringent bite.And please forego the...
‘Upon Learning of Trump’s Conviction’ by UK Poet James Sale The Society May 31, 2024 Poetry, Satire 17 Comments . Upon Learning of Trump's Conviction _America is big;__Does things in style:Like setting up a President__And rigging his trial. _America is...
‘Phone Home’: A Poem on the Jodrell Bank Observatory, by Jeff Eardley The Society May 31, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments . Phone Home I often talk to radio astronomers, The kind of guys who like to stay anonymous, Who chew on reams of stellar data every day From...
The Day After Trump’s Conviction: ‘God Knows’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 31, 2024 Culture, Poetry 69 Comments . God Knows Tomorrow’s torched and trampled on the street. __We hear the battle cry Of demons dancing to the Devil's beat __As truth and faith run...
A Sonnet for the 100th Anniversary of the Leopold and Loeb Case, by Adam Sedia The Society May 31, 2024 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Leopold and Loeb Or, the Consequences of Ideas A Frenchman’s thought-experiments Argued by Englishmen until A German stripped pure thought from...
‘Out Walking’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society May 30, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 33 Comments . Out Walking I hear the heath alive to free A heart from hearthside reverie, _And with my rambling feet __Start out in stealth, Intent on...
‘A Tiny Tabby’: A Poem by E.V. Wyler The Society May 30, 2024 Humor, Poetry 28 Comments . A Tiny Tabby Beside our garden’s scalloped fence, where English Ivy’s vines are dense, we viewed an unexpected sight; a mini tiger, gold and...
‘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...
