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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
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  • ‘Stream’ and Other Poetry by Leland James

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    January 19, 2021
    Beauty, Culture, Poetry
    2 Comments
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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
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  • ‘Meditation’ by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), Translated by Joshua Mincio

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    Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Poetry Forms
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Poetry on Voter Fraud Across the Nation

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November 11, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
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  On Voter Fraud after Li Hongzhi’s poem "On the General Election" by Evan Mantyk Is chivalry dead in the hearts of the people? I knew...

‘Mary Le Cuisinier’ by Beverly Stock

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November 10, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry
2 Comments
  Mary had a little lamb His fleece was white as snow. This little lamb, we’ll call him Stan, Starred at a livestock show. Stan...

Poems for Remembrance Day 2020

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November 9, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
  Remember, Remember… by Susan Jarvis Bryant No thankful foot falls on the London street In honour of our brave and voiceless...

‘Shooting Star’ and Other Poetry by Shari Jo LeKane

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November 9, 2020
Beauty, Poetry
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Shooting Star Upon the early fall of night my eyes behold a shooting star, electric streak in twilight sea, now here alive, then gone you...

The Aeneid, Book I, Lines 1-50: A Rhyming Translation by Len Krisak

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November 8, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry, Translation
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The complete new translation can found from Hackett Publishing here. My poem sings of one man forced from Troy by war. Fate harried him to find a...

‘Poem for the Second Inauguration of President Donald J. Trump’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

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November 7, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Readings
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originally published on November 2, 2020 on MacKenzie Lyric Poetry Where shall they hide now, the merchants of death, Who cloaked our eyes and...

‘Perfectionist Inclined’ and Other Poetry by Lynn Kong

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November 7, 2020
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  Perfectionist Inclined Maligned by self-encasing brine, defined By certainty's demise, self-image lies Within a shrine. Perfectionist...

A Poem on Voter Fraud: ‘God Knows!’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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November 6, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
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  “The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.” ---Albert Einstein The issue...

‘Yearning for Castles and Gargoyles’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Kemper

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November 6, 2020
Art, Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
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  Yearning for Castles and Gargoyles Among the towers never made of ivory, protruding lewdly over walls of mottled stone, misshapen forms,...

‘The Ballad of Babi Yar’ by Theresa Rodriguez

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November 5, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
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  Over 100,00 people were killed at Babi Yar between September 29, 1941 and November 6, 1943. Oh, come and gather round to hear This story...

‘Isaac’ and Other Poetry by J.R. Solonche

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November 5, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
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  Isaac They woke no earlier than usual, just dawn, as though it were another day of tending flocks. At once he saw the way was different,...

A Poem on Voter Fraud: ‘Red Skies’ and Others by Bruce Dale Wise

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November 4, 2020
Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry
30 Comments
  Red Skies by Usa W. Celebride Along th’ Atlantic Ocean and around the grand Great Lakes, on the horizon one can see the bright, blue...

‘A Verse for the Morning After’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

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November 4, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
  A Verse for the Morning After As thieves and pirates count our votes And set us at each other’s throats And fiddle while our cities...

‘Retired’ and Other Poetry by Frank De Canio

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November 4, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
  Retired I’ve lost the ship I banked upon to shield me from this stormy world. For I’ve since crossed the Rubicon and sails no longer...

Post Your Election Day Poems Here

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November 3, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry
31 Comments
Post your Election Day poem in the comments section below.    Quatrains They “battle for the soul of the nation” And have their voting...

A Poem on ‘Black Lives Matter’ and Others by C.B. Anderson

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November 3, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Ekphrastic, Poetry
18 Comments
  Context Is Everything When you attempt to cut some string A hammer doesn’t do a thing— Jackknives matter. When life has gotten back...

‘The American Revolution: An Epic Poem,’ Chapter III, by Andrew Benson Brown

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November 3, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry
20 Comments
The American Revolution: An Epic Poem Chapter I Chapter II by Andrew Benson Brown   Chapter III: The New-World Mercury The historical...

An Over-18 Riddle: ‘Let’s Do It!’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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November 2, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry, Riddles
35 Comments
Let's Do It! The surgeon does it in a snip within a stitch of time. The comic does it with a quip, the actor with a line. Morticians do it clad...

‘A Fragmentary Introduction to the Geo-Political America of the Progressive Left’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie

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November 1, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
23 Comments
A Fragmentary Introduction to the Geo-Political America of the Progressive Left Exuding virtue-signaling savoir-faire, "The Vanguard of the...

‘Maxwell Schollenberger’ by Theresa Rodriguez

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October 31, 2020
Culture, Poetry
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  Twelve-year old Maxwell Schollenberger was found dead in a home in Annville, Pennsylvania, in May 2020, where he had been starved, imprisoned...

‘The Beast of Bodmin Moor’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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October 31, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry
38 Comments
In British folklore, the Beast of Bodmin Moor is a phantom feral cat. Bodmin Moor (Cornwall, England) is a hub of horror, with regular sightings and...

A Covid Halloween Poem: ‘Halloween, 2020’ by Cynthia Erlandson

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October 31, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
21 Comments
Is this a werewolf’s trick, or witch’s treat? A devil’s joke? Humanity’s defeat? Who would have thought we’d live to see the day When...

An Office Romance and Other Poetry by Anna J. Arredondo

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October 30, 2020
Culture, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
26 Comments
  Nothing Ventured an office romance "What more do you want?" he inquired without guile. ---Can it really be true that my feelings don't...

‘Autumn Ecstasy’ and Other Autumn Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson

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October 29, 2020
Beauty, Poetry
32 Comments
  Autumn Ecstasy In ecstasy has autumn come With burning bush, chrysanthemum, And quaking aspens shaking fast While crackling oak leaves...

‘Fire’ by Russel Winick

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October 28, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
  A family that I read about Lost everything acquired. Their house, collections, photographs, All vanished in a fire. Thank God no one...

‘Your Memory Starts to Slip’ by Jeff Eardley

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October 27, 2020
Humor, Poetry
35 Comments
  Now when you get to sixty-five, your memory starts to slip, But when you get to seventy, you have to get a grip. It’s best if you can...

‘1865 or 2021?’ by Leo Zoutewelle

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October 26, 2020
Culture, Poetry
44 Comments
  The constant growl of battles down the ways, The daily angst that never seems to stall, The hate of feelings hurt that always stays, The...

Chant Royal on Urban Disturbances by Margaret Coats after Eustache Deschamps (c.1346–1406)

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October 25, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Translation
32 Comments
  Renowned but wayward Troy, vain Babylon, Harsh Nineveh, and languid Rome were felled; Long ago they exercised dominion, But since from...

Essay: ‘Portrait of a Millennial Art Student’ by Sally Cook

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October 24, 2020
Art, Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Poetry
22 Comments
  You’ve grown up in the public school system, and it shows. You are sensitive to the world around you, and in touch with your...

20 Riddles by Evan Mantyk

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October 23, 2020
Children's, Culture, Poetry, Riddles
42 Comments
Post your answers in the comments section below. I. A place that never is in its own place And where it is is where it’s made to be; Not that...

‘Why Tens of Millions Support President Trump’ by Mark F. Stone

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October 22, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
31 Comments
  On voting day, we hope the nation’s __red---a bright vermilion. Let’s count the reasons to choose Trump. __There are a half a...

Four Poems on Writing, by C.B. Anderson

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October 22, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
21 Comments
  Vocations Always there are things we should be doing; Others, though, are better left unfinished. Also, there are ends well worth...

‘Consumer Rights’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

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October 22, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, News of Note, Poetry
18 Comments
All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise. Originally published by the SCP 9/26/18 Consumer Rights by Cal Wes Ubideer Accountability, transparency, and...

‘The Immigrant’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley

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October 21, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
18 Comments
  The Immigrant As his ship now departs to cross over the sea, He looks back as he fondly remembers The dear family he leaves, the quaint...

‘From a Fly on the Bidens’ Wall’ by Susan J. Bryant

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October 20, 2020
Humor, Poetry
21 Comments
  “Hunter, you’ve disgraced the name of 'Biden.' Your laptop’s in the hands of some porn cop! I’ve told you, as a Biden you’ll be...

‘A Hunt Along the Cahaba’ by Gregory Ross

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October 20, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
11 Comments
  after Chesterton's "Lepanto" Note: Cahaba Run is a river in Alabama Dogs dash in black and tan through clouds of briar and bush, All...

‘Tewkesbury Mason’s Mark’ by James A. Tweedie

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October 19, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
29 Comments
Ego Feci Hoc A man, I was, of flesh and blood and bone, Nine-hundred years ago, I lived and died; A Norman mason skilled at cutting stone, An...

‘Breathe Free or Die’ by Joe Tessitore

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October 18, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
57 Comments
  There are smiles that we will never see. There are kisses that will never be. There are songs that we will never hear For this thing...

‘The Reindeer’ and Other Poems by Brian Yapko

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October 17, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
  The Reindeer The reindeer winter-cries in vain for his lost mate His cry turns brittle frosty-mist, ascends the clouds. His hooves make...

A Poem on Merriam-Webster Dictionary Changing the Definition of Sexual Preference, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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October 16, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
52 Comments
Newspeak During a hearing held on October 13, Senator Hirono informed Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett that the term “sexual...
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