‘In The Beginning’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society January 1, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . In The Beginning We’re stuck in the middle, unsure of the ending but guessing the outcome by how things are trending should make it apparent...
‘Nero Redivivus’: A Poem by Shaun C. Duncan The Society January 1, 2024 Culture, Epic, Poetry 20 Comments . Nero Redivivus Others suppose that he was not killed, but withdrawn instead so that he might be supposed killed and that he is still alive and in...
‘On Turning the Page of a New Year—2023-2024’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society December 31, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . On Turning the Page of a New Year---2023-2024 The hour-glass is almost void of sand,a rounding of the sun described in grainsthat drain away. Now...
‘A Prayerful Pantoum for the Perpetually Pessimistic’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 31, 2023 Beauty, Humor, Pantoum, Poetry 39 Comments . A Prayerful Pantoum for the Perpetually Pessimistic "We'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne." ---Robert Burns For bellyachers...
‘New Year’s Eve’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society December 31, 2023 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 24 Comments . New Year's Eve So swiftly tick the minutes to the close Of these twelve months, this day, and life itself! Which jars of clay will stay upon the...
‘Woke Christmas’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society December 30, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire, Triolet 6 Comments . Woke Christmas We dream of Christmas like we used to know, With Santa Claus and sleigh rides in the snow, Big families all together,...
‘After the Stroke’: A Poem on Aphasia, by Mary Gardner The Society December 30, 2023 Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . After the Stroke Aphasia: an impairment of a previously held ability to produce or understand spoken, written, or signed language, due to disease...
‘Anniversary Pastoral for Benedict XVI’ by Margaret Coats The Society December 30, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Anniversary Pastoral for Benedict XVI Trustworthy Shepherd of all shepherds, hear Today’s renewed appeal in concord made For Benedict, departed...
Mythological Limericks on Defloration by Joseph S. Salemi The Society December 29, 2023 Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 31 Comments . Mythological Limericks on Defloration . Venus and Adonis Adonis was cute as a berry And Venus was sexy and merry— __The boy said “No...
A Poem on Frozen Embryos and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society December 29, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Triolet 12 Comments . They Have Our Genes They have our genes; they’re human beings, Our fifteen frozen embryos. Regardless of your disagreeings, They have our genes;...
‘An Abandoned Cemetery’: A Poem by Carey Jobe The Society December 29, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 34 Comments . An Abandoned Cemetery Pines thinly hid them on the forest floor: huge, useless molars, only three or four upright---a sign remembrance, too, had...
An End of the Year Poem and Christmas Musical Medley by Jeff Eardley The Society December 28, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry 22 Comments . Christmas Medley performed by Jeff Eardley . . Absent Friends The Christmas lights are twinkling on the houses all around. All we need’s a...
‘The Evening The Times Newspaper Turned Into Jane Eyre’: A Poem by Lucius Falkland The Society December 28, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . The Evening The Times Newspaper Turned Into Jane Eyre My life had become like a broadsheet,__The Telegraph, maybe The Times:The financial...
‘Common Currency’: A Poem by Peter Duff The Society December 28, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . Common Currency There’s little written that cannot be said in some way that misunderstands or read as was not meant to be. There’s little...
‘I Know Them Well’: A Villanelle by Mike Ruskovich The Society December 27, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 8 Comments . I Know Them Well Don't preach to me of heaven and of hell expecting me to tremble and to cower. They're here on Earth, and yes, I know them...
A Video Excerpt of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Reading, by Andrew Benson Brown The Society December 27, 2023 Alliterative, Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 16 Comments . https://youtu.be/MZLhwCyQLcs . Read the complete translated text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight here. . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems...
‘At The Metropolitan Museum’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society December 26, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments . At The Metropolitan Museum one good reason for the French Revolution Once at the Met, we walked the halls, and she Looked past locked doors, each...
‘To One Outspoken’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society December 26, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . To One Outspoken for A.B. If I had but a fraction of the zeal That burns in you like a volcanic flame And rings like a war-trumpet’s brazen...
‘Christmas 2010’: A Poem by Mike Bryant The Society December 25, 2023 Love Poems, Poetry 34 Comments . Christmas 2010 "Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you." ---Loretta Young I hadn't given up on love. I simply thought it...
‘Christmas Hallelujah’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society December 25, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Christmas Hallelujah sung to the melody of “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen When I hear a song of destiny, Of peace and love and harmony, From...
‘The Ancient Christmas Tree’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society December 25, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 28 Comments . The Ancient Christmas Tree A Dream Memory . The ridge out the window was blanketed white With snow that had fallen that long winter’s night. A...
‘The Ultimate Christmas Gift’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 25, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . The Ultimate Christmas Gift “Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.” ---Dr. Seuss This gift winks in the sparkle of...
New Lyrics and a New Musical Arrangement for a Familiar French Carol, by James A. Tweedie The Society December 24, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry 6 Comments . Author/Composer’s Note: The noël, Il est Né le Divin Enfant (“He is Born, the Divine Christ Child”) is one of the most beloved and...
‘The Eternal Design May Appear’ and Other Christmas Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson The Society December 24, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . . “Even now, in sordid particulars, the eternal design may appear.” ---T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral . Among the moan of kine and smell...
‘Sleigh Rides Do Not a Christmas Make’: A Poem by C.B. Anderson The Society December 24, 2023 Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments . Sleigh Rides Do Not a Christmas Make While folks down under get to ride their bicycles __And dine alfresco at a Christmas picnic, We blokes up over...
‘The Wisemen and the Shepherds’: A Christmas Poem by Jeremiah Johnson The Society December 24, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . The Wisemen and the Shepherds after Eileen Duggan The camels’ footfalls over and around Baked dunes, through pebbled streams, on forest...
‘Christmas by Force’: A Poem by Gigi Ryan The Society December 23, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Christmas by Force The jostling beast increases the distress Of Mary whose first labor has progressed. Joseph of the donkey’s reins keeps...
‘Christmas’: A Spenserian Sonnet by Jeffrey Essmann The Society December 23, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Christmas I don’t recall the tree or what we ate With sentiment Dickensian and sweet. The tree was in a Midwest way ornate; The food: potatoes...
‘Decay’ and Other Poetry by Janice Canerdy The Society December 23, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . . Decay What causes a relationship to fail? Decay sets in when thoughtlessness persists, when selfishness extends beyond the pale, and chances to...
‘Midwinter’: A Christmas Poem by Martin Rizley The Society December 23, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . Midwinter “O blesséd day we now enjoy, from heaven it is granted. He brings us bliss, He shows Himself for all our joy and worship! O may...
‘Goodwill Toward Men’: A Satire on the Pope, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 22, 2023 Poetry, Satire 40 Comments . Goodwill Toward Men I’m reeling with the latest headline shock. The Mother of our Savior’s hit the skids. Her reputation’s on the chopping...
Dancing Bear: A Christmas Party Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society December 22, 2023 Humor, Poetry 16 Comments . Dancing Bear I came late to the party. I should have stayed away. When I walked in, I heard the din of party in full sway. I cannot much remember...
Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’: Adapted by Talbot Hook, Read by Andrew Benson Brown The Society December 22, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Culture, Poetry, Readings 4 Comments . A Christmas Carol Complete text here:...
The Mother Lode of Odes by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 22, 2023 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 26 Comments . . To a Budding Ode with apologies to John Keats . I’m in the mood to crack your odic code; To load your stanzas in the mode of...
‘Love Nibbles and Bites’: A Poem by Ken Gosse The Society December 22, 2023 Love Poems, Poetry, Satire 8 Comments . Love Nibbles and Bites He saw she was sad; deep inside, he was glad. He smiled, quite mild, and said, “My dear child, you once were beguiled by...
On Maine Storm Delaying Electric Vehicle Mandate: A Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society December 21, 2023 Culture, Poetry, The Environment 25 Comments . Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin in reference to the recent storm in Maine In Maine the Governor had to delay A hearing where the government had...
Book Review: Songs of My Life and Death by Peter Hartley The Society December 21, 2023 Poetry, Reviews 8 Comments . . Reviewed Book: Songs of My Life and Death by Peter Hartley, Grosvenor House Publishing Limited, May, 2023 by Susan Jarvis Bryant . Songs of My...
‘Curse of the Desert’: A Poem by Stuti Sinha The Society December 21, 2023 Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Curse of the Desert Ill-tempered droughts strip lands of foliage sheath. Its barren womb still yields a wilted crust that liberates, from layers...
‘Red and Green’: A Poem of Food, by Norma Pain The Society December 21, 2023 Humor, Poetry 28 Comments . Red and Green . Red Tomatoes Tomatoes fresh or in a jar Must top the list of red by far. Good in various cuisine, Rich in healthy...
Translation and Musical Arrangement of Old French Carol, by James A. Tweedie The Society December 20, 2023 Culture, Music, Poetry, Translation 8 Comments . Whence Come You, Shepherdess? . Translator's Note: “D’où Viens-tu, Bergère” was one of a number of old songs and carols from the French...
