‘A Clock Describes People’: A Poem by David Whippman The Society April 13, 2024 Culture, Poetry 28 Comments . A Clock Describes People Their faces do not show the time of day But something called emotion: what that is, I've no idea; but I can tell you...
‘Empire’: A Poem by Michael Vanyukov The Society April 13, 2024 Poetry 22 Comments . Empire “We have been nought, we shall be all!” —The Internationale “The Empire is a country for fools” — Joseph Brodsky, Post aetatem...
‘Counsel from a Self-Help Guru’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society April 12, 2024 Culture, Poetry, Satire 21 Comments . Counsel from a Self-Help Guru I haven’t come here purposed with defendingYour excesses or manifold omissions,Or promise all of you a happy...
‘Goodbye, Sweetie’: A Poem on Sugar by Paul A. Freeman The Society April 12, 2024 Humor, Poetry 20 Comments . Goodbye, Sweetie Oh, devil-angel, Sugar! Your time’s done! You rot my teeth, yet melt upon my tongue. I’m forced to hide my black smile from...
‘Lone Musketeer’: A Poem by James Sale The Society April 11, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . Lone Musketeer "To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of...
‘The Meat Purveyor’s Son’: A Sestina by Shirley Bunyan The Society April 11, 2024 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry, Sestina 14 Comments . The Meat Purveyor’s Son Aesthetically impaired, she was the heir to daddy’s fortune. She was plumpish, short and much too close together were...
‘The Snares of Simplicity’: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society April 10, 2024 Essays, Poetry 37 Comments . The Snares of Simplicity by Joseph S. Salemi Liberals, Communists, and capitalists all share one dangerous and demonically-prompted trait. They...
Spring Poems from the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907), Translated by Evan Mantyk The Society April 10, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 20 Comments . Poem I of the three Quiet and Peaceful Melody Poems by Li Bai The clouds like swirling clothes, the flowers like a face, The Spring breeze brushes...
‘A Reverie’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society April 9, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments . A Reverie Some days in August there’s a summer hum Of distant outboard motors, or a plane Relentlessly pursuing a puffed cloud, Echoes of past...
‘How to Build a Monster’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society April 9, 2024 Culture, Poetry, Satire 34 Comments . How to Build a Monster Don’t bother digging corpses up to suture body parts; Don’t seek out full-moon werewolves or unstake vampiric...
‘The Qua-Train’ and Other Poems by Joshua C. Frank The Society April 8, 2024 Humor, Poetry 14 Comments . The Qua-Train In four lines stood iambic feet To board the quatrain from the street. The poem made of quatrain cars Passed each four lines like...
A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic, Part I of An Essay Series by Daniel Kemper The Society April 8, 2024 Essays, Poetry 18 Comments . A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part I: Before the Reading by Daniel Kemper A two-story, square shaped “U” made of corrugated tin. Two...
‘Old New England Logging Camps’: A Poem by Phil S. Rogers The Society April 7, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Old New England Logging Camps My father-in-law oft told me tales __Recalling logging camp— Tough men who cut gigantic trees __In winters cold and...
A Song on Biden after Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B, by Julian Woodruff The Society April 7, 2024 Poetry, Satire, Song Lyrics 18 Comments .\ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8of3uhG1tCI . Uncle Joe B inspired by “The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B,” sung by the Andrews...
Classical Poets Live: Readings of Poetry by Salemi, Yapko, Sedia, and Benson Brown The Society April 6, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 15 Comments ...
‘Ovid in Tomis’ and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers The Society April 6, 2024 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 17 Comments . Ovid in Tomis Relegated, scorned, I languish here in this drab town. Unwitting, I caught sight of what must not be seen; my wretched plight, harsh...
‘State of the Apple Pie’: A Poem by Russel Winick The Society April 5, 2024 Poetry, Satire 28 Comments . State of the Apple Pie I stepped into the finest restaurant, A destination nearly all would want, My expectations firmly in the sky, From its long...
‘Poetry in the Image of God’ by James A. Tweedie The Society April 5, 2024 Beauty, Education, Poetry 12 Comments . Poetry in the Image of God Conjure and weave a calligraphic spell Within the wells of mystic words and themes, And bring to life a voice with tales...
‘A Fitful Veil’: A Poem by Daniel Moreschi The Society April 4, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . A Fitful Veil A wanton wave of pallid hail descends from ashen skies. Its drifts are carried through to every nook and peak by lofty...
‘The Light Under the Door’ and Other Poems by Tiree MacGregor The Society April 4, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 20 Comments . The Light Under the Door for GGG, in lieu of roses On school days, dark on winter mornings, my mother rose Before us all and in her quiet way...
‘Thoughts Upon Hearing of the Taiwan Earthquake’: A Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society April 3, 2024 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Thoughts Upon Hearing of the Taiwan Earthquake Big earthquake in Taiwan. My first concern: “Will China take advantage and attack?” Why did that...
‘The Mock Savior’s Song’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 3, 2024 Poetry, Satire, The Environment 24 Comments . The Mock Savior's Song also known as the Mobster Quadrille, after Lewis Carroll Saving critters from extinction (lonely lovelies, prone and...
Request for Papers on Poetry and Poetics for PAMLA 2024 Conference The Society April 3, 2024 Essays, Poetry 1 Comment (Advertisement) Request for Papers---PAMLA 2024 Conference Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association . Deadline for Proposals: April 30,...
Nazi Death Songs: Poems on Rudolf Hess and Rudolf Höss by Margaret Coats The Society April 3, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . Rudolf Hess Deputy Führer found strangled at Spandau Prison, August 17, 1987 Odd winter whirlwinds occupy my brain With telepathic messages I...
Soviet Tactics I Witnessed and Still in Use Today by ‘Masters of Deception’: by LTC Roy E. Peterson The Society April 2, 2024 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 38 Comments . Soviet Tactics I Witnessed and Still in Use Today by LTC Roy E. Peterson Outside of the Chinese Communist Party, which itself uses forms of...
A Poem for Israel: ‘Sapphire Space and Eden Green’ by Alec Ream The Society April 2, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . Sapphire Space and Eden Green "...and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the...
‘Hymn to Evolving Faith’: A Poem by David Culwell The Society April 1, 2024 Poetry, Satire 5 Comments . Hymn to Evolving Faith after C.S. Lewis Lead us, Liberalism, lead us Past hidebound inerrancy; Prick us with your needle, bleed us Of our elders’...
‘Glimmers’: A Poem by Daniel Tuton The Society April 1, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Glimmers Alone in rumination, distant dawn Eludes the desperate aching of my eyes, My senses blunted by a cheerless pall, Upon a cratered...
‘April Fools’ Day Is Dead’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 1, 2024 Poetry 52 Comments . April Fools’ Day is Dead I’m sad to say this merry day’s no more. It died alongside guts and grit and glee. Insanity (now writ in twisted...
‘The Emmaus Highway’: A Poem on the First Easter by Warren Bonham The Society March 31, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . The Emmaus Highway Each day we wake up and we walk to Emmaus, escaping what has, and what may yet dismay us. Returning each evening downcast and...
‘He Knows Our Hearts’ and Other Poems for Easter by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 31, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 38 Comments . He Knows Our Hearts The Sunday flocks who sing as glory pours Through fancy glass as lusty organs play, The loner bowed in prayer behind closed...
‘Who Believes in Easter Anymore?’: A Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society March 30, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Who Believes in Easter Anymore? "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the...
‘Peter’s Story’: and Other Poems for Easter by Gigi Ryan The Society March 30, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 12 Comments . Peter’s Story a villanelle I’m standing by the Sea of Galilee And Jesus calls for me to come along With James and John, the sons of...
‘Once’: A Poem for Good Friday, by Jeffrey Essmann The Society March 29, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Once Once he was finally dead; once just a piece Of meat nailed to the planks of scabrous wood; Once suffering had done all that it could To him...
‘Stations of the Cross’: A Poem for Good Friday by Morrison Handley Schachler The Society March 29, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Stations of the Cross . I. Pilate Why, Pentheus, Cambyses, why, Why, Antony, in days gone by, Did you the sons of gods defy? __Well, I your madness...
‘The Lilacs on Good Friday’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society March 29, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . The Lilacs on Good Friday Tumult of noontide long ago dismissed— The rent veil unremembered, and the sun Relit, though shrouded in a new...
‘The Lamb’: A Poem for Good Friday by Phillip Whidden The Society March 28, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . The Lamb “And suddenly there was with the angel a heavenly host saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward...
‘The Book on Lefty McBane’: A Major League Baseball Poem by Julian Woodruff The Society March 28, 2024 Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . The Book on Lefty McBane McBane could do no wrong—from his debut, late in his rookie season, right on through his grandfather’s retirement....
‘Distress Signals’: An Extended Villanelle and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson The Society March 27, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Epigrams and Proverbs, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 20 Comments . Distress Signals an extended villanelle Distressing times are coming round again, And all the talking heads now flap their jaws To say it isn’t...
‘The Wisdom of Ric Edelman’: A Poem by Mark F. Stone, Read by Ric Edelman Himself The Society March 27, 2024 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Reading of Mark F. Stone's poem "The Wisdom of Ric Edelman" by Ric Edelman on his show available here:...
