A Poem On the Banning of the Word ‘Field’ by the University of Southern California, by Paul A. Freeman The Society January 12, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 22 Comments . On the Banning of the Word 'Field' by the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work See the related news story here. In Southern...
‘For the French Revolution’ by Claire He The Society January 12, 2023 Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry 5 Comments . For the French Revolution Oh, this shall tell the tale of France’s past: the revolution brought in ‘eighty nine, when Frenchmen took a stand...
Poems on the Agony of Teenage Girls, by Jeff Kemper The Society January 12, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Be Gone an angry teenage daughter to her absconded mother What irritant incited you to leave And not come back while I was left to grieve? Was it...
‘The Fluctuations of Modernity and Antiquity’ by Laurel Aronian The Society January 11, 2023 Beauty, High School Submissions, Pantoum, Poetry 9 Comments . The Fluctuations of Modernity and Antiquity a pantoum __Something is ahead, A solemn note on open sky, __It rises from the dead, A whizzing plane...
‘Putting Settings in Their Place’ and Other Frivolous Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society January 11, 2023 Humor, Poetry 19 Comments . Putting Settings in Their Place For dilettantes the world’s bereft When table settings aren’t precise. For if the forks aren’t on the...
A Poem for January 6 Prisoners: ‘Letter from a DC Prison’ by Adam Wasem The Society January 10, 2023 Culture, Poetry 62 Comments . Letter from a DC Prison We’d seen the evidence, the ballots dropped In loads of boxes trundled in late-night With ballot counting claimed to have...
‘Antietam’ and Other Poetry by Vicki Roberts The Society January 10, 2023 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 6 Comments . Antietam It was the bloodbath battle of the Civil War; Scores of men died, by musket, the gore; Was this brave dead soldier from north or from...
‘Queen of Jubilees’ by Paul A. Freeman The Society January 10, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . Queen of Jubilees A Queen there was, revered, of global fame--- Elizabeth the Second was her name. For three-score-years-and-ten she ruled the...
‘Elegy for an Unremarkable Man’ by Shaun C. Duncan The Society January 9, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 28 Comments . Elegy for an Unremarkable Man Poor Niel is dead. He’d been off sick since May. Cancer, they said, as if we couldn’t guess, And, since we...
‘Thorns Grow with Song’ by Maura H. Harrison The Society January 9, 2023 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 6 Comments . Thorns Grow with Song It’s time to rend our hearts and look inside The chambered will, into the voices in The vein: thorns grow with song. A hope...
‘I Met a Shepherdess’ by Guido Cavalcanti, Translated by Joseph S. Salemi The Society January 8, 2023 Essays, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation 22 Comments . I Met a Shepherdess by Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1250-1300) translated by Joseph S. Salemi I met a shepherdess in a small copse. More beautiful than...
‘Mourning Louis XVI’ by Brian Yapko The Society January 8, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . Mourning Louis XVI We must not say in public that we mourn--- Sit still, Brigitte, and listen to your père! If we disclose our grief we court the...
‘The Departing Year’ by Satyananda Sarangi The Society January 7, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . The Departing Year This night shall stand and stare with wintry rage Through half-closed windows stained in loss and gain; To measure all...
‘I Will Mock When Your Calamity Cometh’ by Alec Ream The Society January 7, 2023 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . "I Will Mock When Your Calamity Cometh" "...but ye have set at nought my counsel, and would hear none of my reproof: I also will laugh at...
‘Xi’ and Other Poetry by Morrison Handley-Schachler The Society January 7, 2023 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 8 Comments . Xi When Xerxes saw his bridge of boats which spanned The Hellespont destroyed, forthwith he laid Fetters of iron on the waves and flayed With whips...
‘Cambridge Dictionary Women, 2040’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society January 6, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 10 Comments . Cambridge Dictionary Women, 2040 In 2040 leftist sports fans Realized their greatest joys, With legendary women’s records Smashed by athletes...
A Poem Commemorating January 6th and Ashli Babbitt, by Monika Cooper The Society January 6, 2023 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . La Bandera “ never begins an attack, nor, when once engaged, ever surrenders” —Benjamin Franklin It was the feast of the Epiphany. The mall...
‘The Babylonian Exile’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann The Society January 5, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . The Babylonian Exile At first it cut much quicker to the bone: The loss of all, our world brought to the brink. But by and by you slowly start to...
A Poem for Defrocked Priest Frank Pavone: ‘Unholy Orders’ by Joshua C. Frank The Society January 4, 2023 Culture, Poetry 70 Comments . Unholy Orders for defrocked priest Frank Pavone I heard disturbing news: Pope Francis fired a priest For preaching pro-life views To save some of...
‘The Sky with Birds Just Lately Born’ by Peg Glynn The Society January 4, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . The Sky with Birds Just Lately Born Sometimes there’s a sadness in my heart. A stone, a thought, a fearful start. Yet I rise and see the...
‘Shams’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society January 3, 2023 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Satire 18 Comments . Shams Shams-i Tabrizi was Rumi’s intimate friend and spiritual mentor. I stayed awake those short midsummer nights When naked druids danced...
‘A Broadside’ by Peter Lillios The Society January 3, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings 17 Comments . . A Broadside Drawn up before us, proud and sure, Costumed in their haute couture, And sporting all the best coiffures, With colours purple and...
‘A Holy Picnic’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society January 2, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 32 Comments . A Holy Picnic A small child had a vision in the light Of day, while sitting square upon the rug. It seemed as if she rose to a great height, And...
Two Winter Poems by Phil S. Rogers The Society January 2, 2023 Culture, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments . The Winter Cold I so despise the winter cold; I admit it makes me utter all kinds of truly nasty words, disposition in the gutter. The snow, the...
‘Dark Sky’ by Joseph Stuart The Society January 1, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . Dark Sky Back home, the dark is overborne By a billion busy diodes Emitting artificial light, Thence seeping out into the night. But, up here,...
‘Calendar Poems’: An Essay by Margaret Coats The Society January 1, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Found Poem, Poetry 39 Comments . Calendar Poems by Margaret Coats January loves what goblets hold, And February complains of cold. March plows the fields with furrows new, And...
Two Different Views on New Year’s Resolutions: Poems by David Whippman and Evan Mantyk The Society December 31, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 16 Comments . New Year’s Resolution a villanelle by David Whippman And what have you resolved for the new year? I guarantee your vows will be in vain. Oh, I...
Two New Year’s Eve Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 31, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Satire 30 Comments . Same Old New Year I bid adieu. You shuffle out. A new you shimmies in--- A you without the frown and pout, A happy you of zip and clout, And...
A Poem for Isabel Vaughan-Spruce: ‘Her Silent Prayer’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 30, 2022 Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . Her Silent Prayer for Isabel Vaughan-Spruce Beneath the whisper of suburban trees One sombre, sunless, British afternoon, A hushed and...
Poems Against Birth Control, from Joshua C. Frank The Society December 30, 2022 Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Found Poem, Poetry, Rondeau 21 Comments . Two Empty Chairs “We did the NFP bit for awhile ... and have felt revulsion over it ever since. During that time we might have had at least two...
‘Where Ever-present Joy Knows Naught of Time’ and Other Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson The Society December 29, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Dante, Poetry, Rondeau Redoublé 25 Comments . “Where Ever-present Joy Knows Naught of Time” ---Dante, Paradiso, Canto X, D.L. Sayers translation a rondeau redouble Where ever-present joy...
‘Crimes Against My Sanity’ and Other Poems on Parenting by Anna J. Arredondo The Society December 29, 2022 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 22 Comments . Crimes Against My Sanity At any-given-time o’clock While tidying my house, I find--- Oh look---is that another sock? It really isn’t such a...
‘Addiction’ by Paul Buchheit The Society December 28, 2022 Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Addiction A ripple imperceptible, like hints of amber in the tiring balsams, swells to waves of apprehension, then imprints a vision on my mind,...
‘Freedom in Forgiveness’: A Villanelle by Dan Tuton The Society December 28, 2022 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 17 Comments . Villanelle for Timothy When chains of cold resentment in the end Entangle souls and circle ‘round to bind, There’s freedom in forgiveness, my...
‘On Attending a Holiday Ensemble with My Wife’ by Jeremiah Johnson The Society December 27, 2022 Beauty, Music, Poetry 8 Comments . On Attending a Holiday Ensemble with My Wife We’re gathered in a colleague’s home, Invited to this performance; Watching musicians’ fingers...
‘The Fall of Babylon’ and Other Poetry by William Harrison The Society December 27, 2022 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . The Fall of Babylon Come hear the footsteps march at warlike pace, Come see the merchants weep and craftsmen flee. The vengeful grin on every...
‘Wisdom’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society December 26, 2022 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments . Wisdom When young I dreamed of someday being wise, And pictured brilliant input holding sway. But via jolts of life now realize, There’s wisdom...
‘How Troubling to Know Mrs. Pain’ and Other Poetry by Norma Pain The Society December 26, 2022 Humor, Poetry 32 Comments . How Troubling to Know Mrs. Pain How troubling to know Mrs. Pain. She has written some ludicrous stuff. Some think that she hasn’t a brain, And...
‘St. Joseph’s Hymn of Praise’ and Other Christmas Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society December 25, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 27 Comments . St. Joseph's Hymn of Praise Matthew 2: 10-15: “And when the Magi were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream,...
‘An Iffy Christmas’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 25, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Readings, The Environment 28 Comments . . An Iffy Christmas with a nod and a wink to Rudyard Kipling If you can’t rise above the treetop fairy (That plastic risk to Rudolph’s...
