A Poem on an Old Garden Gnome, by Norma Pain The Society June 7, 2023 Culture, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . Gnome A long-time fixture at our home Is Schnozz, our little garden gnome. This non-complaining happy chap Appears to have a handicap, And looks to...
A Poem on the Odisha Train Crash, by Satyananda Sarangi The Society June 6, 2023 Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Life and Death This life has so much left in store, We think, a day gone by isn't lost; It's made of hours that bear no cost, A hundred gone, a...
A Poem on Piero della Francesca’s Fresco, and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers The Society June 6, 2023 Art, Beauty, Ekphrastic, Love Poems, Poetry 16 Comments . Quattrocento On the Fresco “Madonna del Parto” by Piero della Francesca, Monterchi, Italy, circa 1460 We file into a silent darkened room. Now,...
‘An Aging Senator Returns to the Capitol’: A Poem by Shaun C. Duncan The Society June 5, 2023 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . An Aging Senator Returns to the Capitol Confused and more than half-way gone to Hell, They wheel her in like some decrepit couch They found beside...
Monika Cooper Wins Sacred Poetry Contest, SCP Readers Invited to June 6 Reading-Celebration The Society June 5, 2023 Poetry, Poetry Contests, Readings 23 Comments . Congratulations to SCP Poet Monika Cooper who took First Place in the 2023 Annual Sacred Poetry Contest held by Catholic Literary Arts. See...
A Poem on Creation, by D.R. Rainbolt The Society June 5, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Creation From deep within eternity, the soundOf song burst out! As Perfect Fullness stirred,A melody in wisdom wrought, profound,Complex in form...
‘Emptiness’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann The Society June 4, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . Emptiness “There’s emptiness and then there’s emptiness,” the wise old voice inside me sighing said (and maybe not so wise as old, I’d...
Poems for Parents Whose Children Are Going Away to College, by Paddy Raghunathan The Society June 4, 2023 Beauty, Humor, Pantoum, Poetry 6 Comments . Come September a pantoum Ohio State’s your home come September, Though we'll be lonely, stuck as empty nesters. Our home will be without its...
‘Contract Murder’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society June 3, 2023 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Contract Murder No one is ever quite sure how it’s planned— What’s clear is that a grievance is expressed By injured parties, who directly...
A Cautionary Tale on Dieting: Poetry by Paul Martin Freeman The Society June 3, 2023 Children's, Poetry, Satire 6 Comments . The Number 165: Emily Hyatt A Cautionary Tale . Now this is a story that all those should heed Who think the sole gustatory pitfall is greed. For...
In Response to a C.B. Anderson Poem, and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath The Society June 2, 2023 Beauty, Poetry, Satire 17 Comments . Note to a Sloppy Homeowner in response to C.B. Anderson's “Know How to Mow” Increasing rates are musts for folks like you. “Annoyance tax.”...
‘To Music’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society June 2, 2023 Beauty, Music, Poetry 21 Comments . To Music Oh, Music, wherein lies your wondrous power To pierce the barren heart and open wide Joy's floodgate in the soul, that from inside Fresh...
‘Target Gets Targeted’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society June 1, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 22 Comments . Target Gets Targeted A leftist agenda endorsed,Down customers’ throats it was forced.They now find their business is blighted,You could say that...
‘We Must Invest in Self-Investigation’: A Poem by Damian Robin The Society June 1, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . We Must Invest in Self-Investigation __If past mistakes were soft cupcakes ____to scoff at and reject and so avoid the drill of mending...
A Poem on the 2023 War in Sudan, by Paul A. Freeman The Society May 31, 2023 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . When Two Elephants Fight---Sudan, 2023 The regular army and the Rapid Support Force (RSF) are at war with each other in Khartoum, the capital of...
‘Elegy’: A Poem by Gershon Ben-Avraham The Society May 31, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments . Elegy "Beauty can pierce one like a pain." —Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks When Mother died, she left me all her books. Bewitched by words, how much...
CPL: Reading of FoFG Poetry Competition Winner, Interview with James Sale, and More The Society May 30, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Epic, Human Rights in China, Interviews, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Readings, Video 13 Comments . Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 3: Embrace the Epic, Not the Opaque If you enjoy this video, please like and subscribe...
A Poem on Gaslighting and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society May 30, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 20 Comments . Gaslighted Our friendship limped along for thirty years. I can’t say why. The scornful views you’d share Instilled resentment, anger, even...
‘America’: A Memorial Day Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 29, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . America America, vast land of dreams __From sea to shining sea, Where eagles soar and twilight gleams __On Lady Liberty; America, you lit the...
A Poem for Memorial Day, by James A. Tweedie The Society May 29, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . With Liberty and Justice for All Old Glory may have stripes and stars, But on those stars and stripes are stains— Reminders of a past that’s...
‘The Great War’: A Poem by Mary Gardner The Society May 29, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . The Great War Ever be their memory, Those interred across the sea, Men who, fighting evil, fell, Who endured the martial Hell; Those who to their...
‘For My Grandfather’: A Poem by Amadeus V. The Society May 28, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . For My Grandfather While Sharpton praised low bandits for their grace, And Barack preached self-pity with pure glee, You always taught the simple...
‘Red Flags’: A Sestina Sonnet by Joshua C. Frank The Society May 28, 2023 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Rondel, Sestina 16 Comments . Red Flags a sestina sonnet The national flags of the Westerners’ lands Turn red in the dim, fading light of the sunset, Like Communist...
A Poem on Target’s Transgender Clothing for Youth, and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 27, 2023 Poetry, Readings, Satire, Triolet, Video 93 Comments . Target If you’re too young to take a marriage vow, Stuck at an awkward age that won’t allow A dizzy dose of liquor-laden brew Or puffs of...
‘True Grit’ and Other Poetry by David Whippman The Society May 27, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . True Grit My favourite movie? If I must decide, I'd pick a classic western above all, those epic films of frontier macho pride. Enter the hero,...
‘Some Satirical Epigrams’: Poetry by Shaun C. Duncan The Society May 26, 2023 Blank Verse, Epigrams and Proverbs, Poetry, Satire 12 Comments . Some Satirical Epigrams in hendecasyllabics (essentially trochaic pentameter with a dactyl for the second foot) . Complaint to a Complainer You...
‘The Odd, Flawed and Awed’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society May 26, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . The Odd, Flawed and Awed Inspired by “The Cremation of Sam McGee” by Canadian poet Robert W. Service If you hear from God, though the words...
‘Remorseless’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society May 25, 2023 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 51 Comments . Remorseless Back on 19, returning from the lake, Where she had stowed sling chairs for next week’s meet, Her car broke down. She checked out what...
Poetry on Butterflies, Insects, and Frogs, by Norma Pain The Society May 24, 2023 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments . Butterfly Habit Ungainly butterfly, Misdirected flight. Fascinating random, Unpredictable delight. To and fro… up and down And backwards if you...
Beatrice and the Ineffable Smile: Canto XXIII of Paradise by Dante Alighieri, Translated by Stephen Binns The Society May 24, 2023 Beauty, Dante, Epic, Poetry, Translation 6 Comments . Beatrice and the Ineffable Smile: Canto XXIII of Paradise by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns Just as a bird that stands...
‘On Second Thought’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society May 23, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Epigrams and Proverbs, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments . On Second Thought When words fail, __perhaps it’s not the words at all, __but hobbled minds that cannot call __a lucid image to avail ____the...
A Poem on Cathedrals by Paul A. Freeman The Society May 23, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 62 Comments . Behind the Cathedral Master masons made these bastions their own by blending crafts, attaining structural awe; from Notre Dame, to Salisbury and...
‘In a Soviet Gulag’ by Evan Mantyk: Read by Andrew Benson Brown The Society May 22, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Readings, Satire, Video 13 Comments ...
‘Cain’s Daughter’: A Poem by Patricia Rogers Crozier The Society May 22, 2023 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Cain’s Daughter I was not in the garden when the veil of beauty tore I heard no serpent beckon to me through the orchard door I weep no tears...
‘Abyss’: A Poem by Tom Woodliff The Society May 21, 2023 Love Poems, Poetry 20 Comments . Abyss In deepest, darkest depths of my despair I find myself without a saving grace. A pendulum of pain prevents my prayer from rising upward...
Poems from ‘The Still Beloved’ by Amado Nervo, Translated by Alan Steinle The Society May 21, 2023 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation 22 Comments . Poems from 'The Still Beloved' ('La Amada Inmóvil') by Amado Nervo (1870-1919) translated from the Spanish by Alan Steinle The poems below are...
‘A Poetic Heretic’s Poetry Tips’ and Other Poetry on Poetry, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 20, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 34 Comments . A Poetic Heretic’s Poetry Tips a villanelle inspired by Dr. Salemi's essay "Poetry As The Philosophers Stone" Don’t listen to the howl of...
Book Review: Seven Poems by Jacob Balde, Translated by Karl Maurer The Society May 20, 2023 Poetry, Reviews, Translation 6 Comments . Reviewed Book: Seven Poems by Jacob Balde (Translated by Karl Maurer) Cooper and Posey, 2023 by Monika Cooper In 2022, a small and brand-new press...
‘La Corona’ and Other Poetry by Monika Cooper The Society May 19, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . La Corona A childhood scene recalled by Trump of his mother, Mary MacLeod Trump, in The Art of the Deal, with a parallel to English-Scottish...
‘Matters of Class’: An Alphabet Poem by Paul Martin Freeman The Society May 19, 2023 Children's, Poetry, Satire 18 Comments . Matters of Class . Saying hello The modest o’s the most polite of letters; But is he facing up today or down? Each day he questions those he...
