‘Deep State Anonymity’: A Poem by Peter Venable The Society March 24, 2024 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . Deep State Anonymity Ah, the devil. His motive? To deceive __And for us to deny, To dismiss him as simply make-believe. He loves attention. Like...
‘Shades of Vesuvius’: A Poem by Stephen M. Dickey The Society March 24, 2024 Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Shades of Vesuvius Seldom does one see horror in a tranche De vie like that in Herculaneum And Pompeii, when a sudden avalanche Of heat and ash...
A Limerick on New Hot Cross Buns with Tick (Check Mark), by Paul A. Freeman The Society March 23, 2024 Culture, Limerick, Poetry 15 Comments . Limerick Perhaps it’s a marketing trick, or else Iceland’s taking the mick; __for what kind of fun __is an Easter Day bun when the cross has...
A Poem Based on Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, by Joshua C. Frank The Society March 23, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . The Whiskey Priest based on The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene I stand condemned because I am a priest, Condemned to die by law here in...
A Poem on Israel: ‘We Are Wrong’ by Michael Vanyukov The Society March 23, 2024 Culture, Poetry 70 Comments . We Are Wrong You shall remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you went out of Egypt, how he happened upon you on the way and cut off...
Andrew Benson Brown Reads Poems by S.J. Bryant, Erlandson, Binns, Maibach, and Cooper The Society March 22, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 10 Comments ...
‘Queen Esther’s Lot’: A Poem for Purim, by Margaret Coats The Society March 22, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Queen Esther's Lot for the Jewish holiday of Purim (“Lots”) Oh, to be taken from home’s holy ways, Delivered to a king uncircumcized, And...
A Poem on the George Stephanopoulos and Nancy Mace Interview, by Warren Bonham The Society March 21, 2024 Poetry, Satire 12 Comments . Victim Shaming Nancy Mace, a U.S. Congresswoman for South Carolina, was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos, former Communications Director for...
A Poem on Climate Change: ‘Change’ by James A. Tweedie The Society March 21, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment 11 Comments . Change Scrub the rock with glacial ice until the granite’s smooth and bare. Let the river cut through earth until it leaves a canyon there. Let...
‘March 21st, Saints Cranmer and Bach’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society March 21, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . March 21st, Saints Cranmer and Bach Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, burned at the stake March 21, 1556 . Johann Sebastian Bach, born March 21,...
A Poem for Lent: ‘St. Perpetua’ by Jeffrey Essmann The Society March 20, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . St. Perpetua Eyewitnesses of the atrocity Report that on that Carthage afternoon, Already scourged and gored repeatedly By savage bulls, she fell...
‘Words Matter’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 20, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 65 Comments . Words Matter . I. Out of Context Cheats cherry-pick the words that suit their ploy To shame the names of those who disagree With all they say. If...
‘Sanderling’: A Poem by Kensley Greene The Society March 19, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 21 Comments . Sanderling What saffron stylus could but trace the rusty scallop of the dancing wing, what sculptor’s chisel sharpened to the quick could cleave...
‘To the Passenger Pigeon’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society March 18, 2024 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . To the Passenger Pigeon As once, upon the Great Plains, thundering herds of buffalo, innumerable, held sway, a genocide befell these dull-plumed...
‘St. Patrick’s Day 2024’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 17, 2024 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . St. Patrick's Day 2024 for an Ireland suffering terribly under the weight of forced migration Where is the one who rid the Emerald Isle Of...
‘Coffee Limericks’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society March 17, 2024 Humor, Limerick, Poetry 45 Comments . Coffee Limericks . I love to have coffee each morning, Including the act of the pouring: __I smell the aroma, __Come out of my coma, And wonder...
‘Watching’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society March 17, 2024 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Watching It hardly matters what I’d read (Another plangent exposé Of something solid in the world That bit by horrid bit unfurled Into a source...
‘The Tenpenny Bit’ and ‘Kesh Jig’: Tunes for St. Patrick’s Day Performed by Jeff Eardley The Society March 17, 2024 Music, Poetry 21 Comments . Musician and SCP poet Jeff Eardley performs the traditional Irish tunes "The Tenpenny Bit" and "Kesh Jig" in honor of St. Patrick's Day....
‘Infernos on the Pages of Literary Journals’: A Poem by Phillip Whidden The Society March 16, 2024 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Infernos on the Pages of Literary Journals That one barbaric yawp might just have been All right, but then it ricocheted right down The later...
‘Choices’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society March 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . Choices Some lovers only give the rose, __Some only choose to take, Although the florist keeps a bunch __For every partner's sake. The sun has...
‘Serenade’ and ‘Serenity’: Poems by Margaret Coats The Society March 15, 2024 Beauty, Epigrams and Proverbs, Poetry 30 Comments . Serenade Down dash the splashlets of rain to the ground; Streams from the eaves full and fluent resound. Guests gaily chatter, and clatter their...
A Poem on How Native Americans Were Swindled Out of Manhattan, by Mark Stellinga The Society March 15, 2024 Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . Native Americans Were Swindled Out of Manhattan in 1634 Knowing Eyes—an aging elder, born in Black Bear County Famed for being fearless and the...
‘For Dorothy’ and Other Poems by Joseph S. Salemi The Society March 14, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 28 Comments . For Dorothy I have at times sat silent in this chair And furtively cast looks about the room Admiring, or to jot a mental note Of someone’s...
Portrait of ‘Ivan, The Barber, 1882-1963’: A Poem by Phil S. Rogers The Society March 14, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . His Stories Were His Legacy Ivan, The Barber, 1882-1963 . Covered in a heavy blanket, __he sat and watched the rain; it had been more than thirty...
‘Homophonophobic’: A Poem by Michael Pietrack The Society March 13, 2024 Humor, Poetry, Readings 34 Comments . . Homophonophobic (This poem is so vain and humorous you’ll burst a vein or break your humerus) My editor returned my latest piece, but all...
‘The Alleged Bulldozer’ and Other Poetry on Married Life by Mark F. Stone The Society March 13, 2024 Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . The Alleged Bulldozer My wife told me, shortly after we got married, that I “bulldozed” her into the marriage. Bulldozed you into marriage? A...
DoorWay Canto 5: ‘Waters of the Crab’ from James Sale’s Epic Poem The Society March 12, 2024 Epic, Poetry, Terza Rima 19 Comments . DoorWay Canto 5: Waters of the Crab From Canto 4 in the constellation of Taurus, the Bull, the poet has been led by Michael, the Seraph, to the...
A Poem on St. Monica, St. Augustine’s Mother, by Brian Yapko The Society March 12, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 27 Comments . Monica's Consolation for Margaret Coats, who introduced me to St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) and his mother, St. Monica (332-387) Caritas, enter!...
‘For Paavo Nurmi’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Kemper The Society March 11, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 23 Comments . For Paavo Nurmi who trained against his stop-watch and in medias rez we begin as the runners approach the penultimate turn. Though their torsos are...
‘Good Intentions’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society March 11, 2024 Poetry, Satire 19 Comments . Good Intentions “One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and...
‘Bowing to Power’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson The Society March 10, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . Bowing to Power Although they might Not do what’s right, The very strong Are never wrong. If you complain, You’ll feel the pain That’s...
‘Samson, Tribe of Dan’: A Poem by Alec Ream The Society March 10, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Samson, Tribe of Dan "Dan is a serpent in the path. He bites the horse's heel and causes the rider to fall backward." ---Jacob, Genesis 49 My...
‘The Stoat and the Old Goat’: a Children’s Tale by Jeff Eardley The Society March 9, 2024 Children's, Poetry 17 Comments . The Stoat and the Old Goat This tale concerns a little stoat, With eyes of black and velvet coat, Who frolicked in the virgin snow, Above the...
‘Stop All The Clocks’: A Poem by Radhika Soni The Society March 9, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry 18 Comments . Stop All The Clocks after W.H. Auden Stop all the clocks, stop all humdrum, Silence the warblers, their constant hum; Bid the sun to pause, just...
Legends of Liberty — Prologue Read by Andrew Benson Brown The Society March 8, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Epic, Poetry, Readings 21 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGLFPOccCAI https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7NwnsyJD044?feature=share . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems...
Two Poems on Story Time, by Joshua C. Frank The Society March 8, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . Story Time The father, he sits on the couch with a book, A child in each arm, and one more on his knees; The mother, the same. All the other ones...
‘Home Invasions’: Three Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society March 7, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 11 Comments . Hatching A gelid mass of wings that seethed and surged— A squeamish sight that caught me by surprise— A swarming hatch of termites had...
‘Sunday Morning Flock of Starlings’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise The Society March 7, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments . Sunday Morning Flock of Starlings He saw, while driving down the roadway, off 288, a flock of starlings at the electrical substation gate. It was...
‘Philanthropaths & Puppets’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 6, 2024 Culture, Poetry 30 Comments . Philanthropaths & Puppets Philanthropath: a psychopath masquerading as a philanthropist. ---the Urban Dictionary . I. So Rose the Puppeteer He...
‘Original Smile’ and Other Poetry by Stephen M. Dickey The Society March 6, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . Original Smile Fossil remains show nothing of the first Facial flourish dimpling a human cheek. Was it some reflex as a female nursed Her young...
