‘Old Clem’: Song from Dickens’ Great Expectations Set to Music by Jeff Eardley The Society February 24, 2024 Found Poem, Music, Poetry 15 Comments . Old Clem In his novel Great Expectations, Charles Dickens refers to a song sung by blacksmiths at the forge "Old Clem," which plays an important...
Third Eye: An Ophthalmologic Triptych by Jeffrey Essmann The Society February 23, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . Third Eye An Ophthalmologic Triptych . The Emergency Room I came because the website told me to, My symptoms glowing dully on the...
‘Peacemakers’: A Poem by Michael Vanyukov The Society February 23, 2024 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Peacemakers Islam is sometimes referred to as the Religion of Peace Go on, won’t you bless the peacemakers— The ones who make peace with the...
On Black History Hero ‘Captain Francisco Menendez’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society February 22, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Captain Francisco Menendez Born a Mandinga, on Africa’s west coast, Where farm and hunting toil supported most, But tribal spats and small jihads...
Short Poems of C.B. Anderson Read by Andrew Benson Brown The Society February 22, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 13 Comments ...
A Poem on Pill-Popping and Other Poetry by Norma Pain The Society February 22, 2024 Poetry, Satire 31 Comments . Puddleplat Place The pill-popping people of Puddleplat Place, __Were a very unhealthy lot. You could tell by the pained look on everyone’s...
‘Peaches, Plums, and the Sistine Chapel’: Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 21, 2024 Art, Culture, Pantoum, Poetry 43 Comments . . Peaches, Plums, and the Sistine Chapel . . I. Pondering Prufrock a pantoum . The women come and then they go As foggy muzzles...
‘Authenticity’: A Poem by Margaret Brinton The Society February 21, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Authenticity Some skies stark and vivid, But others milky white. Sometimes lovely azure skies, Or pale with fading light. Some skies gray and...
10 Poems on Builders & Buildings The Society February 20, 2024 Best Poems, Essays, Poetry 6 Comments 10 Poems on Builders & Buildings by Michael Curtis . Temples and architects, builders and buildings are like poets and poems, each creates...
‘On Me’ and Other Poetry by Shamik Banerjee The Society February 20, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . On Me I am a simple Eastern bard __Who moseys by the heather That grows in sweeping fields and loves __To dance in springy weather. I glamourize...
Three Poems Exploring the Experience of Grief and Loss, by James A. Tweedie The Society February 19, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . Lachrimosa As winter pushes fall aside And birds complete their southward flight I sit and watch the water glide Beneath the old stone bridge at...
‘The Name We Leave’ and Other Poetry by Angel L. Villanueva The Society February 19, 2024 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 24 Comments . The Name We Leave When we first breathe and start to peer, What we will be is still unclear. A book of pages yet unturned Is what we are when we...
‘Vast, Vacuous, and Hungry’: A Poem by Maura H. Harrison The Society February 18, 2024 Culture, Poetry 30 Comments . . Maura H. Harrison is a writer, photographer, and fiber artist from Fredericksburg, VA. She is currently an MFA candidate in Creative Writing...
‘You Can’t Control Everything’ and Other Poetry by Roy E. Peterson The Society February 18, 2024 Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . You Can't Control Everything You can't control the wind that blows, The destiny of others' souls, Time and tides and what they bring--- You can't...
A Poem on Descartes’ ‘I Think Therefore I Am’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson The Society February 17, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 26 Comments . Ipse Dixit I say Cogito ergo sum To the animal here in the room. So how do I know I exist? Well, here’s a provisional list: I doubt, and I fear,...
‘In the Woods’ by Eduard Mörike, Translated by Alan Steinle The Society February 17, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 20 Comments . In the Woods by Eduard Mörike (1804-1875) translated from German by Alan Steinle While lying on the grass beneath the leaves, I listen to a...
Sonku Poetry Challenge: Write a Sonnet-Haiku The Society February 16, 2024 Haiku and Senryu, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests 53 Comments . Epic poet and poetry video maker Andrew Benson Brown created a bit of excitement with his invented sonnet-haiku or haiku-sonnet published earlier...
Catullus’s Poems 101 and 51, Translated Bruce Phenix The Society February 16, 2024 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation 12 Comments . Poem 101 by Catullus (circa 84-54 BC) translated by Bruce Phenix Conveyed through many countries, over many seas, to these poor funerary offerings...
Poems on Dogs and Humans, by Joshua C. Frank The Society February 16, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Sestina 16 Comments . Last Visit to the Beach a sestina The beach, untouched by Time throughout the years As millions of waves washed from the sea, As Time transformed...
‘Quilting the News’ and Other Poetry by Mark F. Stone The Society February 15, 2024 Culture, Poetry 47 Comments . Quilting the News Lots of people still don’t know __that what’s portrayed as “news” is often pieced together to __promote the crafters’...
‘The Poet’s Good Pen’: A Poem by Michael Charles Maibach The Society February 15, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . The Poet’s Good Pen Take up your good pen. Write only words true. Now open your heart--- Your worth will shine through. Among the spare lines A...
‘Crosses and Losses’ and Other Love Poems by Joshua C. Frank The Society February 14, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry, Satire 20 Comments . Crosses and Losses I tried to write a poem to acclaim The passion flashing like a lightning strike Between a man and woman, though the same Return...
‘Contagious Joy’ and Other Valentine’s Day Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society February 14, 2024 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Villanelle 24 Comments . Contagious Joy a villanelle You always find a way to make me smile. Like sunlight tracing rainbows in the rain, Contagious joy is never out of...
‘Vintage Love’: A Poem by Gigi Ryan The Society February 14, 2024 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 16 Comments . Vintage Love Love is as a grape when it begins, Unblemished by the bruises and the sins That will come in time. For now it is Refreshing sweetness...
‘When?’ and Other Valentine’s Day Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 14, 2024 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Villanelle 26 Comments . When? I’ll love you when the bee has lost its buzz, When wolf and bear have quit their howl and growl, When lambs don’t sport a snow-spun...
‘February 14, 2024’: An Ash Wednesday-Valentine’s Day Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society February 13, 2024 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 19 Comments . . February 14, 2024 A heart of burning love, an ashen cross Converge today: the marriage of two kinds Of love. The feast day is St....
‘Ash Wednesday Valentines’: Poems by Charles d’Orléans, Translated by Margaret Coats The Society February 13, 2024 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation 27 Comments . Ash Wednesday Valentines by Charles d’Orléans (1394-1465), translated by Margaret Coats . I. Who’s there? Who comes so early, who? “It’s I...
‘I Am the Stone’ and Other Poetry on Israel by Brian Yapko The Society February 13, 2024 Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . I Am the Stone I am the stone The humble stone the barefoot shepherd boy Selected from the muddy river bed; The stone which fit inside the sling he...
‘The Southern Cross’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society February 12, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . The Southern Cross The caravels escaped at last The roiling tides of Bojador And entered tropic seas far past What any chart described...
‘Off Switch’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society February 12, 2024 Poetry, Satire 36 Comments . Off Switch My brain hurt every time I thought, so then I thought “I’d rather not.” I found the off switch to my brain and thought, “Why...
Nocturnal Litanies I & II: Poems by Cynthia Erlandson The Society February 11, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . . Nocturnal Litany I “From all malevolence the night employs….” ---James Agee, “Epithalamium” . From all malevolence the night employs To...
A Love Sonnet and Other Poetry by Andrew Yeager The Society February 11, 2024 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Villanelle 5 Comments . Love Sonnet The glint of summer’s evening leaves a glow upon her cheek, so soft and plain and fair— the glister of the twilight hours show the...
‘The Austrian Non Placet Comes in Time’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society February 10, 2024 Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . The Austrian Non Placet Comes in Time (Recess at the papal conclave in Rome, August 1903. One cardinal speaks to a small group of his allies) Two...
The Monster Geryon: Canto XVII of Dante’s Inferno, Translated by Stephen Binns The Society February 10, 2024 Dante, Poetry, Translation 6 Comments . The Monster Geryon: Canto XVII of Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns “Behold the stinger tail upon that...
A Poem on Sister Cindy and Brother Jed and Other Poetry by Alexander King Ream The Society February 10, 2024 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . The Screaming Screed and Stench Sister Cindy, Brother Jed, Before the cellphone, rumor spread, "They're speaking on the Common, dude, Their...
‘Ode to a Dodo’ and Other Dodo Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 9, 2024 Humor, Poetry, Triolet 40 Comments . Ode to a Dodo inspired by Paul A. Freeman’s "Paradise Island" O tragic fowl of cataclysmic fate, Your magic thrives beyond your wretched...
‘Babel’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society February 9, 2024 Culture, Poetry 3 Comments . Babel There was a time when all the world one tongue Among its peoples shared, and language preened Itself with fluffed-up thoughts that...
‘How Septuagenarian’s Cope’ and Other Poetry by Peter Venable The Society February 9, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments . How Septuagenarian’s Cope Past seventy. Age does prevail. __The day is growing dim. I’ve managed through life’s calms and gales— I still...
‘I See Dead People’: A Poem on Biden’s Gaffes, by Brian Yapko The Society February 8, 2024 Poetry, Satire 31 Comments . . I See Dead People Don’t tell me that my mind’s no longer keen And that I should be in a nursing home. I’m still in charge, as sharp as a...
What Happened to Great Poetry?—A Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society February 8, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Essays, Poetry 33 Comments . . . What Happened to Great Poetry? by Andrew Benson Brown When was the last time you sat down and thoroughly enjoyed a serious poem written by a...
