On Alma Tadema’s Coign of Vantage and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers The Society January 24, 2023 Art, Beauty, Ekphrastic, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments . . On Alma Tadema’s Coign of Vantage Flora peeks over the marble parapet, a dizzying perch above the azure Aegean. The Roman fleet is...
Transgression, Fake and Genuine: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society January 23, 2023 Essays, Poetry 40 Comments . Transgression, Fake and Genuine by Joseph S. Salemi When Henry Harland and Aubrey Beardsley brought forth their groundbreaking periodical...
A Poem on the World Economic Forum’s Davos 2023, by Julian D. Woodruff The Society January 23, 2023 Culture, Music, Poetry 20 Comments . WEF, Davos, ‘23—A Modern Reply after “Endless Pleasure, Endless Love”* Endless hooey, endless snow, We’re exposed to here below. Ever on...
‘On a Terrible Orchestral-chorale Concert’ by Peter Venable The Society January 23, 2023 Humor, Poetry 4 Comments . On a Terrible Orchestral-chorale Concert Trapped here with vain musicians---what a fate! An echo chamber that I can't escape. Conductors lead,...
‘Ever Flowing’ by Dusty Grein The Society January 22, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments . Ever Flowing Upon the rushing river’s bank I stand, deep water, ever flowing as it goes. The turbulence of my life it reflects as if my mortal...
“John Adams in Heaven,” from Legends of Liberty by Andrew Benson Brown The Society January 22, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry 18 Comments . John Adams in Heaven John and Abigail Adams are being guided through heaven by John Milton. He takes them to a villa in the Elysian Fields, where...
‘Iambic Barktameter’ by Mark F. Stone The Society January 21, 2023 Culture, Humor, Poetry 31 Comments . A Note on Iambic Barktameter I have an Australian Shepard named Sunny who loves poetry. I didn’t believe it at first, but she proved it to me....
‘Bats at Sunset’ and Other Poetry by Maxim D. Shrayer The Society January 21, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 22 Comments . Bats at Sunset The monster is rotund, vile, enormous, three-muzzled, and barking ---Vasily Trediakovsky, after Virgil The woods are lovely, dark,...
Launch Event for Michael Pietrack’s Legacy: You Are Invited The Society January 20, 2023 Children's, Poetry 7 Comments . SCP Members and readers are invited by poet Michael Pietrack to his Virtual Launch Party on Saturday, January 21 at 12 Noon EST. The...
‘The Calendar’ and Other Poetry by Jez Punter The Society January 20, 2023 Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . The Calendar You are the festive dregs of January,you liven February with Valentine’s.You are the March that gives spring sanctuary,you are the...
‘Moments from Dante’s Inferno’ by Paul Buchheit The Society January 20, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry 15 Comments . Moments from Dante’s Inferno Prepared to travel, if the gods allowed, I saw the woods were dreary, dark as death. I chose to heed a blessing...
‘Banish the Thought’ by Susan J. Cappellari The Society January 19, 2023 Beauty, Poetry, Triolet 6 Comments . Banish the Thought Who are you? Not me, I know You creep and crimp my edges fray, An apparition of Dickens’ play--- Who are you? Not me, I...
‘Swimming with Dreams and Memory’ and Other Poetry by Pippa Kay The Society January 19, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau 21 Comments . Swimming with Dreams and Memory My childhood dreams and memories remain through adulthood and old age. My doll speaks. My toy car surfs that tidal...
Poem on the Failed British Space Launch, by Jeff Eardley The Society January 18, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Science 16 Comments . “Newquay, we have a problem” January 9, 2023 We’ve gathered in thousands to witness the blast-off, We’re sipping Champagne with our eyes...
‘Greta’s Smorgasbord of Hate’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society January 18, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 61 Comments . Greta's Smorgasbord of Hate I love the pretty trees, the trees love me! They make me dance and sing, they make me shout And sulk and give loud...
‘Gloucester in July’ by Patricia Rogers Crozier The Society January 18, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Gloucester in July A thousand silent saints and angels Hewn from vertex, plane, and angle Raised by blow of mason’s hammer Raised from stone to...
‘Beatitude’ by Gregory Ross The Society January 17, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau 6 Comments . Beatitude Be glad and smile, for they revile, The Truth they mock and put on trial, The Beauty they do not possess, The Good, they curse, and will...
‘El Pescado’ and Other Poetry by Monika Cooper The Society January 17, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . El Pescado They gloat: the age of Pisces, it is over. They chant to call Aquarius’ forces in. In the deep labyrinths we sought the sign, The...
‘The Christmas Story’ and Other Poetry by Lauren V. Leon The Society January 16, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . The Christmas Story An angel of the Lord, Came forth with joyful news, Of Him Who is adored, Messiah of the Jews. The angel hailed the one, A...
‘The Wind’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society January 16, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . The Wind Listen, listen! Do you hear it? It is on the march tonight--- The incessant winter wind that blows throughout the wood and glade. Like a...
‘Worth Disguised’ by Christiana Thomas The Society January 15, 2023 Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry 13 Comments . Worth Disguised The hammer lifts, the anvil rings, The room with screaming noises brings __A torture, here inflicted. The bellows pump, the fire...
‘Cookies’ and Other Sweet Poetry by Norma Pain The Society January 15, 2023 Humor, Poetry 22 Comments . Cookies I bought a bag of cookies for a snack, But they were way too sweet… I took them back. I tried each one to make sure this was true. I...
‘Civilisations Forget the Taste of Their Own Tails’ by James Lucas The Society January 14, 2023 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Civilisations Forget the Taste of Their Own Tails To see a friend possessed By the time’s ideological incantations, To see a world soon...
‘Bingo Ladies’ by Mary Gardner The Society January 14, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 35 Comments . Bingo Ladies Gray-haired gals meet twice a week, Have their luncheon with the clique At the Wendy’s in Coppell. After they have talked a...
Poems on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 13, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 29 Comments . Out, out, brief candle! ---Macbeth I am black-dog blue and blinded by the glitzy gaze of stars. Lucent moons will never light __my skyless eye. I...
‘This Side of Eternity’ by Anna J. Arredondo The Society January 13, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 21 Comments . This Side of Eternity I. Imagination, you’re a two-edged sword, The universe your oyster, opened wide; Conceiving all the boon life might...
‘For Sophie Pakaluk Barrows’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society January 13, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . For Sophie Pakaluk Barrows based on The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God by Michael Pakaluk in pie quebrado meter Before God made her soul...
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...
