‘To My Beloved Husband’: A Sonnet by Isabel Scheltens The Society December 19, 2022 Love Poems, Poetry 13 Comments . ---To My Beloved Husband Our married love is no ethereal sound Which dies away when wedding bells cease tolling: No idle lust for courting or...
‘The Tartini Tones’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society December 18, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry 26 Comments . The Tartini Tones Combination tones generated by violins of good quality can be easily heard, affecting the perception of the intervals. The...
‘Winter’s Perfection’ and Other Poetry by Carl Kinsky The Society December 18, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . Winter’s Perfection A Zen aesthetic guides winter’s perfection--- uncluttered, austere, natural, still, subtle, embracing flaws and daring...
‘The Portrait’ and Other Poetry by Lionel Willis The Society December 17, 2022 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . The Portrait I dreamed I was an artist, and had made A likeness of the one I loved for all To wonder at, and, that the homage paid Might grow, I...
‘Arrival of Spring’ and Other Humorous Love Poems by Andrew Benson Brown The Society December 17, 2022 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 26 Comments . Arrival of Spring Each wing delivers news of a young earth: The nightingale, the end of moonless woes, The dove, the peace of melting mountain...
‘Autumnal Wind’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Howard The Society December 16, 2022 Love Poems, Poetry 12 Comments . Autumnal Wind Autumnal Wind, who are in speed as swift As was the Spring with which my life began, If you would sigh upon this lonely man, And...
‘Toward Yehuling, 1211’ by Talbot Hook The Society December 15, 2022 Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Toward Yehuling, 1211 Unfolding steppes emerge as flattened plains Of long grasses of gold and April-green, While crystal streams, like bold and...
‘Lessons in Love’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 15, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 52 Comments . Lessons in Love inspired by William George Falconer (1922 – 2006) I. The First The photo flew from Grandad’s falling wallet. It fluttered to...
‘Supplication to Erato and Melpomene’ and Other Poetry by K.S. Anthony The Society December 15, 2022 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 6 Comments . Supplication to Erato and Melpomene Erato, decked in crimson roses; green branches of myrtle, Help me forge the words to win her heart: My crippled...
A Poem on the Season of Depression: ‘Yet’ by James A. Tweedie The Society December 14, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments . Yet The withered dune grass slumps beneath a sere Gray frozen sky, as winter tag-teams fall And nighttime frost compels the Black-Tailed deer To...
‘In a Soviet Gulag’ and Other Humorous Poems by Evan Mantyk The Society December 13, 2022 Humor, Poetry, Satire 16 Comments . In a Soviet Gulag from an oft repeated joke There was a break in the relentless cold And then the guard stepped out for quite a while. Such changes...
Upon the Death of the Poet’s Brother: ‘Gathering in the Names’ by Martin Hill Ortiz The Society December 12, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Gathering in the Names for Michael Vincent Laureate Ortiz Hill (1957-2022) I'll add names to my life until I'm subtracted, And my name is as long...
‘Tuesday Afternoon’ by Jonathan Shoulta The Society December 12, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . Tuesday Afternoon I sit beside a lake and fish, And read The Captive Mind. An hour gone, I stand and switch My bait for a new kind. But cheddar...
‘Sister Thérèse Scatters Flowers’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society December 11, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Sister Thérèse Scatters Flowers Soeur Madèleine has brought me this bouquet--- Vermillion, scarlet, each rose bright and pretty. She’s kind...
‘The 2022 State Dinner’ by Cheryl Corey The Society December 10, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Satire 17 Comments . The 2022 State Dinner Elites come to Washington and dine On lobster harvested in Maine. (They plan To regulate the catch, create a ban, Because...
‘Child’s Garden’ by Paul Buchheit The Society December 10, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 22 Comments . Child's Garden To never end, we thought, the morning light that kissed our eyes, and breezes whispering with cherub voices, pausing to invite us...
2022 FIFA World Cup Poetry Challenge The Society December 9, 2022 Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests 21 Comments . Write a poem about the 2022 FIFA World Cup happening now and post it in the comments section below. To get the ball rolling (pun intended), here...
‘Elegy for Miran Sutherland’ by Joshua C. Frank The Society December 9, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 28 Comments . Elegy for Miran Sutherland Miran Sutherland was miscarried at 14 weeks. Read his story here. His earthly life a hundred days, He died inside his...
A Poem on the Harry and Meghan Netflix Show, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 8, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Satire, Villanelle 54 Comments . A Right Royal Circus a villanelle Roll up! Roll up! Come hear the desperate call Of sparkless Markle and her spurned buffoon. With pleas for...
‘Covid on a Clear Day’ by Laurie Holding The Society December 8, 2022 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . Covid on a Clear Day One day I window watched for things to write; the next day I was lost, and underneath the spell of fever, hot, with skin...
On CBS Confirming Hunter Biden’s Laptop, and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society December 7, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Satire 27 Comments . CBS Has Now Verified CBS says it’s now verified, The laptop Hunter took in for repair. And other breaking news that it’s supplied Is Washington...
On Ford Madox Brown’s ‘The Last of England’: An Ekphrastic Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society December 7, 2022 Beauty, Ekphrastic, Poetry 5 Comments . On Ford Madox Brown's "The Last of England" Their balcony beringed with cabbages, They fix their eyes on the receding shore And blankly call to...
‘China’s Silent Screams’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 6, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 25 Comments . China’s Silent Screams The CCP will never hear the screams Of those who strive to find their way back home. It steals all hope and...
‘Grifters’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society December 6, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Satire 19 Comments . Grifters With smug, aggressive faux urbanity __They do their worst to seize control. They think it signals perfect sanity __When they adopt a regal...
A Poem for Donald Trump: ‘Nessun Dorma’ by Monika Cooper The Society December 6, 2022 Beauty, Blank Verse, Music, Poetry 4 Comments . Nessun Dorma after the Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni The aria "Nessun Dorma" was played for Donald and Melania Trump's...
‘What Now Will They Build?’ by Michael Charles Maibach The Society December 5, 2022 Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . What Now Will They Build Written upon reading about anti-colonizer graffiti recently found on a Lincoln statue. Read the story here. We see angry...
‘Aunt Helen’ by Geoffrey Smagacz The Society December 5, 2022 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 16 Comments . Aunt Helen Aunt Helen told me it was time to go. It hurt her to sit upright in the bed, a fact I'd rather that I didn't know. It's OK, I can turn...
‘Advent Poem’ by Alena Casey The Society December 4, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . Advent Poem When October leaves have fallen and November skies are grey, The stores proclaim that Jesus, hope, and joy are on the way. The virgins...
‘What Geese May Teach’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society December 4, 2022 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments . What Geese May Teach My mother had the power that knowledge wields, So questions such as—Would you like to go? Were never invitations, but...
‘Last Letter from Florence’ by Lionel Willis The Society December 3, 2022 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Last Letter from Florence A recent incident recalls the fears Your letters have expressed: that seven years In this art-laden place might rob me...
A Poem on Underage Transgender Surgery: ‘Making Children Lie’ by Maura H. Harrison The Society December 3, 2022 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Making Children Lie __Canker of mind, the soul Denied—a lonely social wound Is making children lie with pruned __And grafted lines, their...
‘Instructions Set in Bone’ and Other Poetry by Peter Lillios The Society December 2, 2022 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Readings 21 Comments . . Instructions Set in Bone With my own knife, by my own hand, I carve these words in no-man’s-land Upon the skull of my late foe, Who...
Inspired by the ‘Trans’ Jesus Sermon: ‘Check Out Your Church’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 1, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Satire 39 Comments . Check Out Your Church inspired by this article: Queen's former chaplain, others slam 'perverse' Cambridge sermon about 'trans' Jesus: ' Repulsive...
Legends of Liberty, Volume 2: ‘Lightning Ben’ by Andrew Benson Brown The Society December 1, 2022 Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry 31 Comments . Lightning Ben an excerpt from Legends of Liberty, Volume 2 Sing, muse! Bestow your gifts on—blah blah blah. I opened my first book with that. You...
‘Boots Before Us’ and Other Poetry by Julian Woodruff The Society December 1, 2022 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . Boots Before Us a sequel to "Shear Wickedness" The time had come. Poor Boots was sinking low, and further down no fitting place to know. Our...
‘Pope-Lion’ by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Translated by Joseph S. Salemi The Society November 30, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Satire 8 Comments . Pope-Lion by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863)translated from Romanesco by Joseph S. Salemi Before Pope Genga went down to the grottoTo be four...
‘Pearls at the Wake’ by Peter Venable The Society November 30, 2022 Humor, Poetry 6 Comments . Pearls at the Wake I must admit I glance at the obits.Is there someone I know? Someone close-knit?I see faces of strangers I don’t know—I...
‘Late Autumn Twilight’ by Martin Rizley The Society November 29, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 24 Comments . Late Autumn Twilight The still earth beckons sweetly. I must go. The dry reeds on the creek have gathered round. The waters, in suspense, have...
‘From Left to Right’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society November 29, 2022 Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . From Left to Right I started out a liberal, __Just like my family was. It made me feel superior, __That’s what leftism does. But once I moved...
‘FTX & Other Damn Scams’ by James A. Tweedie The Society November 28, 2022 Poetry, Satire 8 Comments . FTX & Other Damn Scams If you want to make some money Dangle golden dreams like honey And then claim that you can turn dross into gold. When...
