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...
A Poem on the Music of Schoenberg, and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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...
A Poem for the 60th Anniversary of JFK’s Assassination, by Joseph S. Salemi The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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 The Society 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...
‘Hero, Leander and Marlowe’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society 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...
