On ‘the Best Thing a Man Can Do for His Children’: A Poem by Michael Charles Maibach The Society December 15, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . The Best Thing… What’s the best thing A man can do For his children--- Just what is true? It's not about The sports they play. It's not...
‘Soft the Morning Starlight Shines’: A Poem by Devon Bryce The Society December 15, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments . Soft the Morning Starlight Shines Soft the morning starlight shines __Above in black-hued skies, Whose dark aspect, foreboding mien __Bid me not...
On Poet Michael R. Burch’s Anti-Semitism and Attacks on Poets: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society December 14, 2023 Culture, Essays, Poetry, Satire 33 Comments . Here We Go Again… by Joseph S. Salemi Oh dear… it looks like the hillbilly software salesman is having another moral fit. Michael R. Burch of...
‘The Anarchist’s Wish’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society December 14, 2023 Poetry, Satire 12 Comments . The Anarchist’s Wish “all the great men in the world and all the nobility could be hanged, and strangled with the guts of the...
‘Evening, Washington Metro’: A Poem by Stephen Binns The Society December 14, 2023 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Evening, Washington Metro Entrained, en masse, an ebb as from a beach: the tide drawn by the Capitol (the dome our moon) subsides. We move as one,...
‘Fartgates: Of Biden and Kerry’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Rancio The Society December 13, 2023 Poetry, Satire, The Environment 2 Comments . Fartgates: Of Biden and Kerry That climate crap (no pun intended)They’re pushing is so much projection,A bellywash that’s open-endedFrom an...
‘What’s Left to Say?’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society December 13, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Rhupunt, Rondeau 16 Comments . What’s Left to Say? a rhupunt When women’s plans Are like a man’s, So they act trans, What’s left to say? When folks believe That to...
‘Limericks for Lame Cowboys’ and Other Poetry by Roy E. Peterson The Society December 13, 2023 Humor, Limerick, Poetry 14 Comments . Limericks for Lame Cowboys A cowboy who came from Seattle, Had a habit of disturbing cattle. __The horse made a jump. __He fell on his rump, And...
‘How odd a fallen snow’ and Other Poetry by Stephen M. Dickey The Society December 12, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . 1.How odd a fallen snow’s fresh reassurance,Begotten in a winter’s biting cold,But taking edges off a world waxed old,And slaloming thought...
‘Moon Before Yule’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society December 12, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 37 Comments . Moon Before Yule The ashen lantern leavening the skyBegins in languor to proclaim sublimeFestivity to winter’s weather eye. The dome of heaven...
Andrew Benson Brown Reads ‘Odysseus Strings His Bow’ from Homer’s Odyssey, Solot Translation The Society December 11, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Homer, Poetry, Readings 9 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTgWaNsnpE . . The Odyssey, 21.388-22.125, translated with an eye on Homer's instinctively cinematic style. by...
‘Fugal Harmonies’ and Other Poetry on Music by Mary Jane Myers The Society December 11, 2023 Beauty, Music, Poetry 12 Comments . Fugal Harmonies Softly chanted serpentinous neumes, melodic levitation, heavenbound, monotonal meditative sound; a capella in medieval rooms. Then...
10 Best Poems for Funerals The Society December 10, 2023 Beauty, Best Poems, Essays, Poetry 25 Comments . 10 Best Poems for Funerals by Susan Jarvis Bryant The right poem at a funeral service can make that final farewell extra special, but choosing the...
‘To My Daughter’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society December 10, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . To My Daughter A woman’s life is hard, they say---and true, Though now not as our mothers understood: They battled nature’s facts and...
‘It Was Only a Winter’s Tale’: A Christmastime Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society December 9, 2023 Culture, Love Poems, Music, Poetry 20 Comments . It Was Only a Winter’s Tale based on David Essex's classic 1982 Christmas song The nights are ever short and growing cold; the front door lies...
On Harvard President Claudine Gay’s Recent Anti-Semitic Comments, by Russel Winick The Society December 9, 2023 Poetry, Satire 33 Comments . A Harvard Education Who dares to say that Harvard in The present situation No longer is a purveyor of A top-notch education? Why even its own...
‘Thanksgiving’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society December 9, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . Thanksgiving I’m thankful most for what I can’t describe, Though otherwise I’m clever as can be At secular and sacred repartee. Yet when it...
‘Greta Thunberg Meets the Emerald Queen’: A Poem by Evan Mantyk The Society December 8, 2023 Beauty, Poetry, Satire, The Environment 13 Comments . Greta Thunberg Meets the Emerald Queen Part II of "The Emerald Queen: A Legend from the Future" One day through the forest leaves wafted her...
‘Unsocial Addictions’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society December 8, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 7 Comments . Unsocial Addictions Why do some people lie, brag, or act mean?It must pump them up, like a jolt of caffeine.But soon they come down, right to...
‘Yet Another Year’: A Birthday Poem by Satyananda Sarangi The Society December 7, 2023 Alexandroid, Beauty, Poetry 21 Comments . Yet Another Year The birthday bells reverberate __Through haunted towns That lead you to an ancient gate __Beside which clowns Laugh aloud and...
Two Poems on Creative Writing by James A. Tweedie The Society December 7, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . There Is a Way? Is there a way for beauty to be painted with a word? Is there a way to write in ways so music can be heard? Is there a way to make...
‘Convictions of My Thoughts and Deeds’: A Poem by Richard Brancato The Society December 6, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . Convictions of My Thoughts and Deeds Convictions of my thoughts and deeds are vapors, not substantial things. There are no clouds that hold the...
‘The Risen’: A Poem by Ryan Wade Biller The Society December 6, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments . The Risen Though now the hearth is left to smolder __And light will soon be gone; Fire shall rise from hearts far bolder __And shine like morning...
‘Sonnet for Mom’ by Gigi Ryan The Society December 5, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 24 Comments . Sonnet for Mom (October 21, 1933 - March 28, 2014) I could not see how much she cared for me; Her faults were amplified in my young mind. But now...
Andrew Benson Brown Reads Poems by J. Kemper, Corey, Pietrack, M. Bryant, and Anderson The Society December 4, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 15 Comments ...
‘Abraham and the Binding of Isaac’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society December 4, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 57 Comments . Abraham and the Binding of Isaac after Genesis 22 I cannot sleep although the moon is high. I’m numb. Before me looms the sacred hill. My son...
Art and Belief: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society December 3, 2023 Essays, Poetry 35 Comments . Art and Belief by Joseph S. Salemi When I consider the question of art and belief, I recall the words of the world-famous Indian dancer, Sujata...
‘Lee in the Furnace’: A Poem on Robert E. Lee by Monika Cooper The Society December 3, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 28 Comments . Lee in the Furnace "He who thinks of Lee Must think of Washington. . ." ---Herman Melville So Oleh, Chief, my other grandfather, Mine on the...
‘Insouciance’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society December 2, 2023 Beauty, Poetry, Terza Rima 19 Comments . Insouciance When circumstances wear you down Consider this important fact: It’s easier to smile than frown. When autumn leaves have all turned...
‘Tampering with Permanence’: A Seattle Pantoum by Alison Jennings The Society December 2, 2023 Beauty, Pantoum, Poetry 9 Comments . Tampering with Permanence a Seattle pantoum __Here where I live, a cloud looks like a mountain; mountains float. Like love, illusions laugh out...
‘Pythagoras, Man of Music’ and Other Poetry on Music, by Cheryl Corey The Society December 1, 2023 Music, Poetry 15 Comments . Pythagoras, Man of Music Pythagoras was of mathematical mind. No matter where he went, he’d often find Relationships to numbers. For example, The...
‘Voyage to Scotland’: Poems by Margaret Coats The Society December 1, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Voyage to Scotland Constantius II, son of Constantine and emperor from 337 to 361, hoped to glorify Constantinople by collecting relics of all...
‘Killing Common Sense’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society November 30, 2023 Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . Killing Common Sense The savagery of leftist rage __is getting more intense. There’s no rest from the war they wage __upon our common sense. The...
‘There Are Not Enough Hours in the Day’: A Poem by Geoffrey Smagacz The Society November 30, 2023 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . There Are Not Enough Hours in the Day There are not enough hours in the dayto take all of the naps I want to take.As soon as I have sprung up...
‘If You Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society November 29, 2023 Epigrams and Proverbs, Found Poem, Poetry, Satire 21 Comments . If You Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter If solidified oil with chemical clutter That helps it look yellow and tasty to eat Makes you think...
Death in Life, Life in Death: Canto XXXIII of Inferno, Translated by Stephen Binns The Society November 29, 2023 Dante, Poetry, Translation 15 Comments . Death in Life, Life in Death: Canto XXXIII of Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns The sinner raised his face from...
‘What Sort of Freedom?’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society November 28, 2023 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . What Sort of Freedom? What sort of freedom is it that proclaims Its export to the savage and demands Oceans of youthful blood to back its...
‘You Might Be a Leftist Liberal Democratic Clone’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society November 28, 2023 Poetry, Satire 19 Comments . You Might Be a Leftist Liberal Democratic Clone You might be a leftist liberal Democratic clone, If you think someone else should pay your student...
‘The Return to Ithaca’: Brian Yapko’s Poem Set to Music by Jeff Eardley The Society November 27, 2023 Homer, Love Poems, Music, Poetry 28 Comments . . Music by Jeff Eardley . . The Return to Ithaca by Brian Yapko This shall not be forever, This life spent on the sea. __I’m going to find...
‘My Last Delivery as Attending Physician’ and Other Poetry by Duane Caylor The Society November 27, 2023 Poetry 8 Comments . My Last Delivery as Attending Physician adapting a line from Carl Sandburg Although she’s labored for eleven hours, determination freckled on her...
