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  • ‘Ten Floors’: A Love Poem by Russel Winick

    The Society
    August 25, 2025
    Love Poems, Poetry
    3 Comments
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    Poetry, Satire
    2 Comments
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    Poetry, Readings, Symposium, Video
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    Children's, Education, Poetry
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    Culture, Poetry
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‘Pythagoras, Man of Music’ and Other Poetry on Music, by Cheryl Corey

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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November 27, 2023
Poetry
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. My Last Delivery as Attending Physician adapting a line from Carl Sandburg Although she’s labored for eleven hours, determination freckled on her...

A Poem on the Music of Schoenberg, and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers

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November 26, 2023
Beauty, Music, Poetry
16 Comments
. Revolution Puckish Schoenberg, bored with Bach now assaults the tonic scale, pounding (his a frontal shock), on Mozart's coffin, a modernist...

‘2 Peter 3’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann

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November 26, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. 2 Peter 3 “Consider that our Lord’s patience is directed toward salvation.” ---2 Peter 3:15 For once in church (before, I think, the...

Three Poems on Forgiveness, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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November 25, 2023
Beauty, Poetry
38 Comments
. Wayward Their frosty hearts and polished oaken door Slammed shut the night she found her stolen voice. She sang a moonbeam song---a...

‘The Ballad of Baldy McCass’ by Julian Woodruff

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November 25, 2023
Humor, Poetry
18 Comments
. The Ballad of Baldy McCass Canteen I From Utah to Colorado rode that wily desperado. Sometimes off to wild Wyoming or Nevada he went roaming. In...

A Poem on How ‘Israel Is Real’ by Michael Vanyukov

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November 24, 2023
Culture, Poetry
21 Comments
. To Whom It May Concern a common spelling error: “Isreal.” "Woe to those who say of the evil that it is good and of the good that it is evil;...

‘Remembrance’: A Poem by Daniel Howard

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November 24, 2023
Love Poems, Poetry
12 Comments
. Remembrance I When I, a boy whom youth made bold, Had bid my land of birth one last adieu, To search for glory, fame and gold On distant shores, as...

‘A 2023 Survival Villanelle for Potentially Contentious Thanksgiving Gatherings’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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November 23, 2023
Poetry, Rondeau, Satire, Villanelle
30 Comments
. A 2023 Survival Villanelle for Potentially Contentious Thanksgiving Gatherings Keep dinner chatter chirrupy and perky. Don’t prod the pachyderm...

‘Spirit of Thanksgiving Past’: A Poem by Brian Yapko

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November 23, 2023
Beauty, Poetry
24 Comments
. Spirit of Thanksgiving Past O, noble Spirit of Thanksgiving Past, You are a very strange yet gracious host! Of course the thought of going back...

‘The Eve of Thanksgiving’: A Poem by Anna J. Arredondo

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November 22, 2023
Culture, Humor, Poetry
21 Comments
. . The Eve of Thanksgiving ‘Tis the eve of Thanksgiving, and all through the class, The students are wishing the time would soon pass. Though...
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A Poem for the 60th Anniversary of JFK’s Assassination, by Joseph S. Salemi

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November 22, 2023
Poetry, Satire
18 Comments
. Interrogation at the Grassy Knoll: November 22, 1963 Who are you guys? We’re from the CIA. And you? I’m Lucien Sarti from Marseilles. What...

‘World View’: A Poem by James A. Tweedie

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November 21, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
. World View Beyond the line where sea and sky collideLie distant lands beyond myopic sightWhere men and women live and love besideThe self-same...

‘Reversing Babel’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson

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November 21, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
26 Comments
. . Reversing Babel . I. Babel “Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.” ---Genesis 11:1 . An ill wind blows through Babel, where...

‘Perpetual Emotion’: A Poem on Israel and the Jews, by James A. Tweedie

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November 20, 2023
Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. Perpetual Emotion “And everybody hates the Jews.” ---Tom Lehrer, National Brotherhood Week Not many people like the Jews; __By many they are...

On the United Nations, Israel, and Hamas, and Other Poetry by Russel Winick

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November 20, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry
18 Comments
. “United” Nations? The U.N. won’t condemn Hamas’s slaughter,Supporting those who want Jews underwater.Iran’s a U.N. human rights group...
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‘Hero, Leander and Marlowe’: A Poem by Brian Yapko

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November 20, 2023
Love Poems, Poetry
24 Comments
. Hero, Leander and Marlowe Setting: Christopher Marlowe’s flat in London. Date: May 29, 1593. At last I see the tyrant in the Muse--- She...
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‘Wishful Thinking’: A Poem on the Biden Family Criminal Investigation by Mark Stellinga

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November 19, 2023
Poetry, Satire
12 Comments
. Wishful Thinking The “investigation” widens of the traitorous crimes the Bidens __are and have been guilty of for years, As liberal scum like...

‘Prayerwise’ and Other Poetry by Monika Cooper

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November 19, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
22 Comments
. Prayerwise for Gloria (1934-2013) Tough, keen, opinionated, shrewd:Collected junk, shared what she foundWith those who shared her roof and...

‘Fungible Assets’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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November 18, 2023
Beauty, Poetry, Satire
26 Comments
. Fungible Assets A pint’s a pound the world around. Now, lay your oars athwart the gunwales And let your aching muscles get some rest. Relieving...

A Poem on Babylon Then and Now, by G.M.H. Thompson

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November 18, 2023
Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. Babylon (or Shelly's "Ozymandias" Paraphrased) . Oh Babylon, sweet Babylon, how long your skeleton has rotted in the sun— your name intoxicates...

‘Love Songs for Malcolm’: Poetry by Margaret Coats

The Society
November 17, 2023
Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
35 Comments
. . Love Songs for Malcolm . I. Quickly you approach, King Malcolm, Firm and steady is your tread, Predetermined on defeating Faint reluctance in the...

‘To Some Religious Brothers’: A Poem by Patrick Murtha

The Society
November 17, 2023
Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
. To Some Religious Brothers Beg! pray! or preach!  Or make one gravel-throated noise, Make murmur or a whimper or a single moan! Burble or belch or...
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Classical Poets Live: Torquato Tasso, ‘King of Poets’

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November 16, 2023
Classical Poets Live, Epic, Poetry, Readings
16 Comments
Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 8: Torquato Tasso, "King of Poets" If you enjoy this video, please like and subscribe on...

‘What Do You Do When You No Longer Drink’ and Other Poetry by Geoffrey Smagacz

The Society
November 16, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
19 Comments
. What Do You Do When You No Longer Drink What do you do when you no longer drink, no tossing out the empties in a bag as one by one you hear that...

Poems Based on Kamala Harris Speeches, by Jeff Kemper

The Society
November 15, 2023
Poetry, Satire
31 Comments
. Assorted Sonic Salads (i.e., Kamalisms) being the first installment of a repository of wisdom from the Vice President of the United States of...

Three Poems by Sally Cook

The Society
November 15, 2023
Beauty, Poetry
34 Comments
. Poetry A poem, subscribing to a plan, Flies higher than the highest planes, Seems safer than a rose-red tan, Or traffic in the fastest lanes, Where...
poem/bryant/culture

‘It Seems Like Only Yesterday’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick

The Society
November 14, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
. It Seems Like Only Yesterday Votes and virtue did not yield Control of our own border, And context did not supersede A breach of law and...

‘Sounds Like Paradise’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
November 14, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
32 Comments
. Sounds Like Paradise Kids are in the backyard playing; __The dog is playing too. I think that sounds like Paradise--- __Doesn’t it to you? Wife...

‘Beware the Lion’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley

The Society
November 13, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
. Beware the Lion "Your adversary the devil prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour" ---1 Peter 5:8 Beware the lion! Stealthily...

A Poem for Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, by Margaret Coats

The Society
November 12, 2023
Culture, Poetry
96 Comments
. Superior Pontiff for Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, deposed November 11, 2023 Our Father in heaven gives the Bread On which the need of...

‘The Navy’ and Other Love Poems by Paul Fort, Translated by Joshua C. Frank

The Society
November 12, 2023
Love Poems, Music, Poetry, Translation
10 Comments
. The Navy by Paul Fort (1872-1960) translated by Joshua C. Frank We find them all again in brief In little loves that last one day, Every joy and...
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  1. Cynthia L Erlandson on ‘On 125 Anniversary of Nietzsche’s Death’: A Poem by Warren BonhamAugust 25, 2025

    What a wonderful summary of a perverse life. I love your many hilarious rhymes!

  2. Cynthia L Erlandson on ‘Ten Floors’: A Love Poem by Russel WinickAugust 25, 2025

    What a sweet love story that led to marriage! It is an amusing poem, too, especially that you were talking…

  3. Arthur Goikhman on Inspiring Muse Poetry ChallengeAugust 25, 2025

    thx Roy!

  4. Martin Rizley on A Poetic Retelling of the Myth of Icarus and Daedalus, Martin RizleyAugust 25, 2025

    Thank you, Margaret, for your appreciative comments. I've always found the story of Icarus and Daedallus thrilling and tragic and…

  5. Martin Rizley on A Poetic Retelling of the Myth of Icarus and Daedalus, Martin RizleyAugust 25, 2025

    Thank you Patricia for your feedback. I grew up with these stories and loved them as a child. We had…

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