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  • Poetry on Piero della Francesca’s ‘History of the True Cross,’ by Michael Coy

    The Society
    January 20, 2021
    Art, Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry
  • ‘Priam, King of Troy, Addresses Cassandra’s Concerns about the Horse’ by Michael Vanyukov

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    January 20, 2021
    Culture, Poetry
    2 Comments
  • ‘Stream’ and Other Poetry by Leland James

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    January 19, 2021
    Beauty, Culture, Poetry
    2 Comments
  • ‘Childhood, 1919’ by David Whippman

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    January 19, 2021
    Culture, Poetry
    20 Comments
  • ‘Virtual Propitiation: Sacrifice of the Quarantined Caregiver’ by Bethany Mootsey

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    January 18, 2021
    Culture, Humor, Poetry
    3 Comments
  • ‘Meditation’ by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), Translated by Joshua Mincio

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    January 18, 2021
    Beauty, Poetry, Translation
    3 Comments
  • ‘Every Little Thing’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Kemper

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    January 18, 2021
    Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Poetry Forms
    58 Comments
  • ‘For Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2021’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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    January 18, 2021
    Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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  • ‘Rosarium’: A Sestina and Other Poetry by Benjamin Thomas Cepican

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    January 17, 2021
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  • ‘A Poet’s Strife’ by Sterling Osborne

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    January 17, 2021
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  • ‘Malingerer’ by Ted Quarterman

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    January 16, 2021
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    January 16, 2021
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‘Summer’s Fall’ by Luke Hahn

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December 8, 2020
Beauty, Poetry
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  Oh, the joy of summer's fall, Tripping on her tassels tall, Laughing with such deep release The ombre maples blush. How she twirls...

A Poem on the 79th Anniversary of the Pearl Harbor Attack, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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December 7, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
36 Comments
. That Day of Infamy ∼ December 7th, 1941 Zeros burst through bluest skies __Like stealthy birds of prey, Set to swoop and pulverize __Pearl...

‘Peradventure Before Naptime’ by Denise Sobilo

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December 7, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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for my two-year-old grandson, Exander “There’s no tale in the world I can’t believe.” I said.“If you have learned belief, you have learned...

Stop the Steal: A Play on the 2020 Election (Excerpt) by Evan Mantyk

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December 6, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
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. Act I Scene I NARRATOR Imagine now the scene: the angry engine, Its beeping brain, its smooth and metal muscles That barely seem to strain beneath...

‘The Toss’ by Phil S. Rogers

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December 6, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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. One night a lean and wizened soul scuffed down the old mill road, while moonlight cast upon the knoll a mounted figure showed. The Horseman sat...

‘To Some Other Poets’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook

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December 5, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
26 Comments
. To Some Other Poets Let hoary heads divine and then divide,Dot i’s and dance on pins and sneer with pride,And ogle with an obverse obfuscationTo...

‘Appeal to the Muse’ and Other Poetry by Amanda Hall

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December 4, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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. Appeal to the Muse O Saint Cecilia, more than just a muse— The very author by this pen and ink— I plead thy help, and never wish to...

‘Tempestuous Seas’ by Rohini Sunderam

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December 4, 2020
Beauty, Poetry
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  And when the time, oh Father, comes To cross this life’s tempestuous seas, Grant that my faith should not succumb, Hold in the end...

‘King Horn’ Middle English Romance, Translation by Russell Spera

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December 3, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation
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  Gather round everyone, come near! My story is for all to hear. A song for you I now shall sing, A song about Murry the King. Murry was...

‘Kindred Souls’ by David D. Irby

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December 2, 2020
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
11 Comments
  The road of love looks smooth at first and seems as if it has no end. The wise know that the way is cursed, and heartache lies around...

‘The Homeward-Bound Armada, 1588’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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December 1, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
21 Comments
X No tengo más que darte —Inscription on a Spanish sailor's gold ring, in the shape of a hand holding out a heart, found off the western coast of...

A Poem on Catholic Bishops Hailing the ‘President-Elect’ and Others by Julian Woodruff

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November 30, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
21 Comments
_ Our Bishops, on Nov. 4, 2020 Our bishops hail the president-elect.Do they suppose the election is decided?Or are they anxious that we all move...

‘My Covid-19 Birthday Bash’ by Jeff Kemper

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November 30, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry
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2 November 2020 Two weeks and counting here I be In clutches of the CCP I don’t delight as I once did In birthday presents, cards, and...

‘Passage in Venice’: A Poem by Royal Rhodes

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November 29, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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  They mix together here waiting for the trim black and gold gondolas heading into side canals that drain and brim with refuse and will...

‘Famine de l’âme’ by Anna J. Arredondo

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November 28, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
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  Famine de l'âme The soul, deprived of one essential thing, Cannot rely on dusty stores of hope; Seeking to mitigate starvation's...

‘A Sonnet for the Citizens’ by Claude Clayton Smith

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November 27, 2020
Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
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  —for Li Hongzhi The unacknowledged legislators know the truth: the Buddha shows one thousand hands to foster heaven’s circulation,...

‘Crying Fowl’: A Thanksgiving Day Poem by C.B. Anderson

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November 26, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry
30 Comments
  The turkey that we blithely ate Had little cause to celebrate The final Thursday in November. It's customary to dismember A hapless...

A Covid Thanksgiving Poem and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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November 26, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
53 Comments
  Thanksgiving 1984 2020 Wear a mask until you eat and never touch your face. Muzzle up between each bite and when you’re saying grace. No...

‘The Cracks of Doom’ by James A. Tweedie

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November 25, 2020
Culture, Poetry
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  Pandemic epidemic, fever, chills; As viral spiral sickens, quickens, kills. We’re tasked and masked with no place left to go. A...

‘Where Are the Leaves?’: A Late Autumn Rondeau by Jeff Kemper

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November 25, 2020
Beauty, Poetry
22 Comments
  Where are the leaves that branches bore? They’re falling fast on forest floor, A cornucopia outspread, Of orange, yellow, brown, and...

‘This Grief of Mine’ by Sally Sandler

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November 25, 2020
Beauty, Poetry
19 Comments
  Don’t place your limits on this grief of mine or try to cheer me out of feeling sorrow. I need to wear it for a longer time and...

‘Shisendo, Hall of the Poetry Immortals’ by Margaret Coats

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November 24, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Video
23 Comments
  The Shisendō is a hideaway villa in the eastern hills of Kyoto, Japan, created by poet and calligrapher Jōzan Ishikawa (1583–1672) as a...

On the History of Cricket, and Other Poetry by Jeff Eardley

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November 23, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
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  Cricket The game of Cricket, I’ll relate, Goes back to fifteen fifty-eight, Upon a field in Guildford way, In Surrey, many miles...

‘Mozart on his Kegelstatt Trio’ and Other Poetry by Julian Woodruff

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November 22, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Music, Poetry
42 Comments
Mozart on His Kegelstatt Trio Quite recently I wrote a little trio While wasting time at skittles with some friends. We needed something for the...

Poems on a World Full of Lies, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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November 21, 2020
Culture, Poetry
42 Comments
Hearts of Darkness a rondeau redoublé A heart of darkness mocks and flouts the rules. It robs our orb of honesty and light. It tempts then...

‘The Mask’ and Other Poetry by Peter Venable

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November 21, 2020
Poetry
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  The Mask Sin wears a cherubic mask And beams forth paradise. “Come in, recline, and bask.” The discerning eye looks twice: The gate...

A Fable about Cancel Culture: ‘Vulture Culture’ by Christopher Lindsay

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November 20, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
6 Comments
Above the clouds, a vulture soars, the leader of a culture war. The bird of prey is wide awake, ready to punish grave mistakes. A rooster crows...

‘The Violence in Philadelphia’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

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November 19, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
7 Comments
The Violence in Philadelphia “Par le regne des maleureux chetis“ —Eustache Deschamps by Urbawel Cidese Say first what caused the...

‘All Divinity Is Love or Wonder’ and Other Poetry by Cindy Hill

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November 18, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
3 Comments
All Divinity Is Love or Wonder* New Harbor October 2020 All Divinity is love or wonder. The moon pulls up the sea, while rocks plunge...

‘To Know the Mobs of Modern Days’ by Jared Pearman

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November 18, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
9 Comments
Originally Published by the SCP on November 24, 2019   dedicated to my wife, who was mobbed and defamed for political gains They've come...

On the Main Stream Media’s Fake News, a Poem by Russel Winick

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November 17, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
14 Comments
  Truthfulness I walked through our lovely suburban downtown, Which always is ranked as the best. But everywhere windows and doors had gone...

‘On Romantic Longing’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley

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November 17, 2020
Beauty, Poetry
17 Comments
  On Romantic Longing* Was it when autumn filled the air With musty smells and chimney smoke, This feeling in me first awoke, Which...

‘Pope Urban II Sonnet-Speech, Clermont, 1095’ and Other Poetry by Paul A. Freeman

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November 16, 2020
Beauty, Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry
5 Comments
_ Pope Urban II Sonnet-Speech, Clermont, 1095 Oh Noblemen, I’m charged by God to warn that Christendom is threatened by the Turk. Torched churches...

Winners of the ‘Napa Valley Winery’ Ekphrastic Poetry Contest

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November 15, 2020
Beauty, Ekphrastic, Poetry, Poetry Contests
13 Comments
Thank you to everyone who participated! This was a great effort for a meaningful purpose: the recent burning down of the Chateau Boswell winery in...

Three Translations of Goethe and an Original Musical Setting for One of Them, by James A. Tweedie

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November 15, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Readings, Translation
15 Comments
  Introductory Note These paraphrased translations represent three short poems composed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a person so well-known that I...

A Poem on Losing Someone to Motor Neuron Disease (MND), by Peter Hartley

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November 14, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
A Wheelchair They kept their car-doors shut and windows closed, Nor left their house but stayed inside, disposed To hide if D were waiting...

Three Poems for My Wife, by Jeff Kemper

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November 13, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
13 Comments
  On Marriage I married a girl named Sue And alas! She married me too!     As Then, So Now When years ago and many ages...

Two Poems Critical of Communist Regimes, by Brian Yapko

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November 12, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
14 Comments
  On a Turtle of Broken Jade The tiny turtle made of milky jade Was smuggled by Jun’s parents from afar Evoking memories that flame and...

An Exercise in Dactylics: ‘Love’s Song and Dance’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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November 11, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry
23 Comments
  She was the one who approached me and spoke, Saying my lectures had swept her away. Maybe we could have occasional chats After class...

Veteran’s Day 2020 Poem: ‘Remembering’ by James A. Tweedie

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November 11, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
  Thoughts following a visit to the World War 2 National Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. Eugene Ovid Lambert was my...
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