‘Driven from Their Homes’ and Other Israel-Inspired Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society June 11, 2024 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . . Driven from Their Homes Deported and despised. Compelled to leave. 900,000 driven from their homes With pain enough to fill one-million...
‘The Latest Gender Identity’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society June 10, 2024 Poetry, Satire 17 Comments . The Latest Gender Identity He’s fat, but he identifies as skinny, Insisting everybody call him “Mini.” He now, of course, considers...
‘Cape Canaveral’s Pioneers Asleep’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society June 10, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments . Cape Canaveral’s Pioneers Asleep I wonder if the lights across lagoon Waves, little though they are, the lights and waves, Portend some goodness...
Two Strange Poems by Joseph S. Salemi (with a Note) The Society June 9, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 18 Comments . The Universal Horoscope and Zodiac Twelve figures in the blazoned zodiac Set by the gods in their unchanging track Spin in a regulated, yearly...
‘The Song of Everlasting Sorrow’ by Bai Juyi, Translated by Evan Mantyk The Society June 9, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry, Translation 19 Comments . The Song of Everlasting Sorrow Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi (772-846) wrote this poem about Tang Emperor ("Son of Heaven") Xuanzong (685-762) and his...
On the Meeting of Poets James A. Tweedie, Jeff Eardley, Peter Hartley, and Margaret Coats in the UK: Poems and Other Writings The Society June 8, 2024 Culture, Essays, Poetry 19 Comments . In Spring 2024, UK poets Jeff Eardley and Peter Hartley crossed paths with American poets James A. Tweedie and Margaret coats in...
‘Winter into Spring Sonnet’ by Jedediah Smith The Society June 8, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments . Winter into Spring Sonnet The garbage dump outside the town is white as winter’s snowfall claims the castoff chair from autumn’s cluttered...
Book Review: Legends of Liberty Volume II by Andrew Benson Brown The Society June 7, 2024 Poetry, Reviews 4 Comments . Book Reviewed: Legends of Liberty Volume II by Andrew Benson Brown, Bard Owl Publishing, March 2024 by Theresa Werba Andrew Benson Brown has...
‘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...
