‘Thanksgiving Memories’ by James A. Tweedie The Society November 24, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Thanksgiving Memories A honeyed ham impaled with clove; Mashed yam with bits of sweet pecan; A turkey lurking in the stove With tryptophan to make...
‘A Thanksgiving Offering’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society November 24, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . A Thanksgiving Offering We offer thanks to You who made this Earth The sun and stars, for health and love and mirth. For granting us the sacred...
On the Islamic Palestinians’ Recent Terror Attack: ‘Just Say It’ by Brian Yapko The Society November 23, 2022 Culture, Poetry 35 Comments . Just Say It Two bombs exploded in Jerusalem Today. A boy of just 15 is dead--- A Jewish student on his way to school. And 18 more were wounded, all...
‘When Light Begins to Dim’ by James Green The Society November 23, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments . When Light Begins to Dim When light begins to dim and color fades, the shape of things begins to matter more. An edge defines, the angles hint, and...
‘Heirs to Alexander’ and Other Poems on the Kalasha People by Margaret Coats The Society November 23, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . Heirs to Alexander These snuff-brown mounds piled up ten thousand feet Gaze on toward Hindu Kush peaks twice their height; Green threads of valleys...
Prose-That’s-Really-a-Sonnet Poetry Challenge The Society November 22, 2022 Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests 51 Comments . Construct a convincing paragraph of well-written, coherent prose that also happens to be a properly composed Shakespearean sonnet. This challenge...
‘Inviting Some Friends to a Birthday Dinner’ by Jeremiah Johnson The Society November 22, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Inviting Some Friends to a Birthday Dinner after Ben Jonson's "Inviting a Friend to Supper" Tonight, dear friends, you’re welcome to...
‘Nero Before the Tomb of Simon Magus’ by Shaun C. Duncan The Society November 21, 2022 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Nero Before the Tomb of Simon Magus And Peter, looking steadfastly against Simon, said: “I adjure you, ye angels of Satan, who are carrying...
‘The Elders’ by John Creekmore The Society November 21, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments . The Elders I watched them wilt, I watched them fade, I watched them pass In the evening shade, And now I tread The path they trod, Having walked...
‘Clowns Teach Writing Classes’ by Janice Canerdy The Society November 20, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Satire 25 Comments . Clowns Teach Writing Classes Students’ attitudes were dismal; composition skills, abysmal! Desperate to make things better, teachers asked expert...
‘Valiant Men’ by Angel L. Villanueva The Society November 19, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments . Valiant Men The sailors brave the angry storm __As waves the ocean brings. It seems to them one hundred years Of fighting death despite their...
Science or ‘The Science’? A Poem by Mike Bryant The Society November 18, 2022 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . Science or “The Science”? “‘The Science' and science are opposites.” ---Richard Lindzen So you believe “The Science”? That is...
‘Potina’s Charm’ by Michael Curtis The Society November 18, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Potina’s Charm In this excerpt from the screen novella, Potina, Lady of the Stag, Potina speaks to Kaptara, the god of the volcano that she...
Three Poems on Mortality, by James A. Tweedie The Society November 17, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . Leaves Behind In size and shape and symmetry The leaves upon a maple tree Are like small selfies of the tree itself. And in their veins the leaves...
‘A Sleepless Night’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Howard The Society November 17, 2022 Love Poems, Poetry 10 Comments . A Sleepless Night Lest I should suffer sleeplessly this night Of loathsome loneliness, whose strength severe So weakens me that many a bitter...
‘No News Is Good News’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society November 16, 2022 Culture, Epigrams and Proverbs, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments . No News Is Good News The world contrives, in many different ways, To overload the minutes of our days __With items that anesthetize __The...
‘Unmasked Musings on the Plea for Pandemic Amnesty’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 16, 2022 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . Unmasked Musings on the Plea for Pandemic Amnesty upon reading this Atlantic article Today I hear a murmur of surrender--- A shifty whisper from...
‘Repaired’ by Dean Z. Douthat The Society November 16, 2022 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 12 Comments . Repaired Debris drifts down my lacrimosa stream shards discarded when my life exploded. Her cheating ripped apart my every seam left a rubble heap...
‘The Return of Trump’: A Poem by Evan Mantyk The Society November 15, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . The Return of Trump No matter how you try to stop Don Trump __He always will come back. __He’ll lie in wait then jump __In tiger-like...
For Gene Cernan, ‘The Last Man on the Moon’ by Jeff Eardley The Society November 15, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . The Last Man on the Moon for Gene Cernan My gaze was set toward the Western sky, To see if I could see him flashing by, I’d never felt so glad to...
Henny and Sal: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society November 14, 2022 Education, Essays, Poetry 12 Comments . Henny and Sal by Joseph S. Salemi My father, Salvatore J. Salemi, was a noncommissioned officer in G-2 (Military Intelligence) during the Second...
‘Blake’s Tyger’ by Paul Buchheit The Society November 14, 2022 Poetry, Satire 18 Comments . Blake's Tyger Tyger Tyger, burning bright, sorry if I'm impolite: What immortal put a hand to verse we'll never understand? Face it, face it,...
‘Writing a Poem’ by Sally Cook The Society November 13, 2022 Beauty, Education, Poetry 15 Comments . Writing a Poem Our planet moves, and so do we, By forces that we cannot see. Rhyme, meter always seem to track The rhythm of the planet. Lack Of...
‘Lullaby of New Mexico, Part Two’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society November 13, 2022 Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau 34 Comments . Lullaby of New Mexico, Part Two Part One can be read here. Duerme Papi---Dad, it’s time to rest. I smooth your blanket here at Desert Sage And...
‘Do Not Return’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society November 12, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 26 Comments . Do Not Return "...forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead." ---Philippians 3:13 Do not...
‘No Extra Lives’ by Joshua C. Frank The Society November 11, 2022 Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . No Extra Lives While all his friends were learning skills To gain them wives or pay their bills, John fought with monsters on a screen, Got...
‘Cop27—A Sonnetised Summary’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 10, 2022 Poetry, Satire, The Environment 54 Comments . Cop27---A Sonnetised Summary upon reading the Cop27 VIP jet dinner menu A swarm of jets belch fumes that blight the blue As contrails stripe...
Poem on a Long-Surviving World War II Veteran: ‘Our Superman’ by Margaret Coats The Society November 10, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 51 Comments . Our Superman Porfirio Landa (1925–2022), one of the United States Army’s longest surviving World War II veterans The modest glory of this...
‘Mother Nature Is Bipolar’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society November 9, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment 24 Comments . Mother Nature Is Bipolar Mother Nature is bipolar. She needs to take a pill. One minute she's a blowhard. The next one she is still. I've seen her...
‘The Cricket’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann The Society November 9, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments . The Cricket These mornings there’s a cricket cross the way Whose chirrup purls and eddies in the air, Autumnal now and cool, to counterpoint The...
A Get-Out-And-Vote Poem: ‘Lest We Forget’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 8, 2022 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Lest We Forget Today’s the day I cast my hard-won vote (My voice and choice, my prized ancestral gift) Bought with guts and...
‘Hell Rising’ by C.B. Anderson The Society November 8, 2022 Culture, Epigrams and Proverbs, Poetry, Satire 29 Comments . Hell Rising They’ve come with a purpose: to numb or perturb us __By infecting the already-sick, And with them they bring a more tangible...
‘Who’s Behind the Door’ by R.M. Zimmerman The Society November 7, 2022 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Who's Behind the Door The quiet words, the trembling lips, __we’ve heard it all before. Keen questions dwell within our minds, __like who’s...
‘Autumn Trail’ by Dan Tuton The Society November 6, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments . Autumn Trail Dreamy glimpses of a world recalled and yet to come: The Stagecoach Trail declines and wends through thickets under trees, Illumined...
‘Think (Ideo)logically’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society November 5, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Satire 11 Comments . Think (Ideo)logically Say---friend or foe? What else could people be? … Stop thinking, since it’s useless, and it’s hard. We’ll do your...
Two Poems by Victor Hugo, Translated by Joshua C. Frank The Society November 5, 2022 Love Poems, Music, Poetry, Translation 10 Comments . Guitar by Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Translated by Joshua C. Frank Gastibelza, the rifleman coming to town, Sang loud and clear: “Has someone seen...
‘CDC: Save the Planet from Poison CO2!!’ by Mike Bryant The Society November 4, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Satire, Science, The Environment 113 Comments . CDC: Save the Planet from Poison CO2!! “We used to think CO2 was a harmless trace gas… How wrong we were!” ---Dr. Dillard “Sparky”...
‘Poetry 101 Lecture’ by Mary Gardner The Society November 4, 2022 Culture, Education, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments . Poetry 101 Lecture Today we shall discuss why poems have a poor repute (Though if one dislikes poetry, apology is moot). Let’s take four types of...
‘1914 Sierra Honeymoon’ by James A. Tweedie The Society November 3, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . Note: The above photos are of the poet's grandparents, Herbert W. & Evelyn Slater Tweedie in 1914 Wedding Picture; Glacier Point, Yosemite; Top...
‘Sonnet to a Friend’ by Johanna Donovan The Society November 3, 2022 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 19 Comments . Sonnet to a Friend It’s you who’ve been a constant in my life from earliest thirst and to this very day. You’ve helped me sail through...
