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 Alec 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...
Poems from the Night, by Sarah Stoltzfus Allen The Society February 8, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Triolet, Villanelle 10 Comments . Bedtime Stories in triolets He’d curl her close and hold her tight and let the words dance in the air. The dragons soared and knights did...
‘Proof of Climate Change’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society February 7, 2024 Poetry, Satire, The Environment 40 Comments . Proof of Climate Change The proof of existential crisis climate change is seen In too much snow, too little snow, and all that’s in between. When...
‘Paradise Island’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society February 7, 2024 Culture, Poetry 33 Comments . Paradise Island Some years ago, from cliff top and from shore,a flock of birds that never touched the skylooked out upon an ocean ship that borea...
‘The Knitted Dress’: A Poem by Norma Pain The Society February 6, 2024 Humor, Poetry 39 Comments . The Knitted Dress I began with the best of intentions, Though in hindsight I have to confess, That the scope of my project’s dimensions Were a...
‘My Beatrice III’: A Poem by Stephen Binns The Society February 6, 2024 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 9 Comments . My Beatrice III Affording still these glimpses like the first, those moments you were yet without a name; between us was the distance...
Poems on Bach’s Ricercar Fugue and Sonata F–A–E of Schumann et al., by Julian Woodruff The Society February 5, 2024 Culture, Humor, Music, Poetry 10 Comments . A Musical Offering When Bach arrived at Sanssouci, King Frederick said, “Sir, you must be tired. My fortepianos may help to revive you. Please,...
‘The Fall of Time: A Haiku Sonnet’ by Andrew Benson Brown The Society February 5, 2024 Haiku and Senryu, Love Poems, Poetry 46 Comments . The Fall of Time A Haiku Sonnet . Thinning coat of frost Whitening the ground with grief— Love forever lost Wrinkles on the leaf Yellowing a...
Poems on the U.S. Southern Border by Texan Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 4, 2024 Culture, Poetry, Rondeau, Triolet 42 Comments . Off Guard Coyotes drag their quarry past the line Drawn in the sand to stop the ghastly game Of selling wide-eyed tots to vile swine--- No...
‘A Temporary Exhibit’ and Other Water Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society February 4, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 11 Comments . A Temporary Exhibit A million drops of water will be sprayed Across my yard today. And each of them Will capture the refraction of each blade Of...
‘Masks’: A Poem by Jeff Eardley The Society February 4, 2024 Humor, Poetry 26 Comments . Masks When tourists arrive in our village, The question that most of them ask, Is, “Why is it all of your menfolk, Are walking around wearing...
‘Left Outside’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Kemper The Society February 3, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . Left Outside The shopping cart, precisely ordered now while searching for those perfect little lines of lights for decorations---anyhow, I'm sure...
‘Sunshine’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society February 3, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Sunshine Sun, shine on me—come and stay! Dry my tears, send gloom away. Warm my soul, chilled to the bone By the freezing wind that’s...
‘Gawain’s Prayer in the Wilderness’: An Alliterative Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society February 2, 2024 Alliterative, Beauty, Education, Poetry 22 Comments . Gawain’s Prayer in the Wilderness …the wildrenesse of Wyrale; wonde ther bot lyte That auther God other gome with gode hert louied. (…the...
Two Sonnets by James Sale The Society February 2, 2024 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 33 Comments . Had I held you in the fields of Hay beside The Wye and on an afternoon that cleared To brilliance, although the sun soon would Sink to an evening...
From Michael Bunker’s Surviving Off Off-Grid, and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society February 2, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 28 Comments . In a Home based on Michael Bunker’s grandmother (b. 1909) as described in his book Surviving Off Off-Grid . I Old, blind, and helpless,...
The Best Poems of 2023: Winners of SCP International Poetry Competition The Society February 1, 2024 Best Poems, From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Contests 28 Comments . The Best Poems of 2023: Winners of the 12th Annual SCP International Poetry Competition Judges Joseph S. Salemi, James Sale, Evan Mantyk, Sally...
