‘An Open Poem to Evil’ by Mike Bryant The Society June 20, 2022 Culture, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments . An Open Poem to Evil “Gravity is real... it’s hard to keep a bag of shit in the air forever.” ---Alex Wilhelm You goofy spoofin’ kooks are...
‘Apollo in Retirement’ by Margaret Coats The Society June 20, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 42 Comments . Apollo in Retirement Quite early he approached a humble hut, With saxifrage and canneberge sun-brewed To melt the stone that galled the...
‘A Glass for My Father’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society June 19, 2022 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . A Glass for My Father Marie-Maurille de Virot, Mademoiselle de Sombreuil (February 14, 1768—May 15, 1823) My father was the Marquis de...
‘On the Extradition of Julian Assange’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 18, 2022 Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . On the Extradition of Julian Assange The fiends who wield the power here on earth (The ones who gag our speech to gain control) Are shouting out...
‘Who Bled’ by Alec Ream The Society June 17, 2022 Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 8 Comments . Who Bled When all is said and life be trod, One takeaway the Son of God Made clear, when rising from the dead? The winner here's the Guy who...
A Modernization of ‘To His Coy Mistress’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society June 17, 2022 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 13 Comments . A Modernization of “To His Coy Mistress” You say we should some years delay The coming of our wedding day, But God commanded us to try To...
‘In Praise of Bollywood’ by Brian Yapko The Society June 16, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments . In Praise of Bollywood To India! To visit from afar... My journey there would be a dream fulfilled. To visit Delhi, Agra, Bangalore, To ride an...
‘Speechless’ and Other Poetry by Clive Boddy The Society June 16, 2022 Beauty, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 7 Comments . Speechless I have smelt the perfect scent of the flower of a rose, Known intoxicated freedom where frangipani grows. Watched majestic rivers meet...
‘Decolonising the Curriculum’: A Dual Scenario by Paul A. Freeman The Society June 15, 2022 Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Decolonising the Curriculum – Dual Scenario on Salford University's recent treatment of the sonnet. We must decolonise our poetry Because it’s...
‘Why This Time, Why This Place?’ by Michael Charles Maibach The Society June 15, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Why This Time, Why This Place? When I die And leave this land, Please dear Lord Extend Your hand. Extend Your hand To this good soul, Who finds...
‘My Thoughts Laid Bear’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 14, 2022 Humor, Poetry, Readings 24 Comments . . My Thoughts Laid Bear “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t...
What Is ‘Pro-Choice’? and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society June 13, 2022 Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 12 Comments . What Is “Pro-Choice"? If my child were sent to die, Be chopped to pieces like a pig, To spare him death, I’d plead and beg, __His life with...
Classical Poetry and the Martial Ethos: An Essay by Andrew Benson Brown The Society June 13, 2022 Culture, Essays, Homer, Poetry 6 Comments . Classical Poetry and the Martial Ethos by Andrew Benson Brown . The Heroic Age Towards the end of “Egil’s Saga,” one of the masterpieces of...
Lines On Dreadful Instagram Poetry by S.A.Todd The Society June 12, 2022 Culture, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments . "Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing" ---Lines On Dreadful Instagram Poetry A halitosis belch of steam Spewed out in words. Ream after ream Of...
‘Judge Not’ by C.B. Anderson The Society June 11, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Dante, Poetry, Terza Rima 23 Comments . Judge Not We notice, Signor Alighieri, that You have a rather well developed bent For taking your opponents to the mat And showing them that in...
‘Classical Camouflaged’ and Other Poems by James Ph. Kotsybar The Society June 11, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . Classical Camouflaged __It begins, like all prose poems today, with a bit of narrated diary, as though it were a tale by Hemmingway, but...
‘Canzone to the Virgin’ by Petrarch, Translated by Margaret Coats The Society June 10, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 21 Comments . Canzone to the Virgin by Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) Translated by Margaret Coats Virgin beautiful, vested with the sun And crowned with stars,...
Two Sonnets on the Epstein-Maxwell Case, by Shaun C. Duncan The Society June 9, 2022 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Jeffrey Epstein in His Cell On nights like this a lesser man might pray; Instead he dreams of islands in his cell And sends his thoughts a thousand...
‘Nature at Peace’ and Other Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society June 8, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . Nature at Peace The feeder for our hummingbird. Was torn down by a bear today. She didn’t growl a single word She just reached up and had her...
‘A Tribune to Mrs. Malaprop’ by Brian Yapko The Society June 7, 2022 Humor, Poetry 28 Comments . A Tribune to Mrs. Malaprop My fellow poets, lend me your arrears! Of arms and divan I sing. Let’s have three cheers For Mrs. Malaprop, that dole...
‘Gravitas’ by Andrew Benson Brown: On the Sack of Rome, 390 B.C. The Society June 6, 2022 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . "Gravitas" On the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 B.C. adapted from Livy’s “Ab Urbe Condita,” Book V, Chapters 38-42 The sunset torched the...
Share Your Poetry on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Part III The Society June 5, 2022 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Share your poetry on currently unfolding Russo-Ukrainian war in the comments section below. We received a large response on our first post of...
‘The End Begins’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant The Society June 5, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Rondeau Redoublé 20 Comments . The End Begins a rondeau redoublé Now the end begins, do not despair. It’s meant to be. What better battlecry? It’s time for positivity and...
‘And Turn’ by Jack Granath The Society June 5, 2022 Beauty, Blank Verse, Poetry 1 Comment . And Turn Thanks for the twenty seconds of Your crisp, medicinal perspective, Encapsulated in a laugh That shook like a bragging monkey’s...
‘Three Poems on Problems’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society June 4, 2022 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . Servant of the Servants of God Servus Servorum Dei —a title of the Pope A small informal gathering of clergy From satin cassocks down to the...
‘From Heathrow to Houston’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 4, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 30 Comments . From Heathrow to Houston I heard my words would never change a thing From those who had a nose for senseless stuff. They warned me that my odes...
‘Habakkuk’s Prayer’ and ‘The Patriot’s Prayer’ by Jeff Kemper The Society June 3, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Habakkuk’s Prayer after Habakkuk 3:2, 16-19; excerpts of the prophet’s prayer as he awaited certain destruction of his nation, Judah, by the...
‘A Man’s Retreat’ and ‘A Woman’s Domain’ by Cheryl Corey The Society June 2, 2022 Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments . A Man’s Retreat A man’s retreat is his garage—a place To keep his vehicle, yes; but also space To store his manly, miscellaneous hoards: The...
Poems for Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 1, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 33 Comments . More than My Queen My Queen has always been a noble force--- A force for good on chilly English days. Her friendly face, her air of grace---my...
‘The Twins’ by Norma Pain The Society June 1, 2022 Children's, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments . The Twins _Said one foot to the other, _“Please don’t nag, you’re not my mother, I am sick to death of listening to your woes. _You lament...
Expansive Poets, Classical Poets, and the Future of Poetry: An Essay by Michael Curtis The Society May 31, 2022 Essays, Poetry 5 Comments . Expansive Poets, Classical Poets, and the Future of Poetry by Michael Curtis Modern poetry is not—it is neither poetry nor modern. Poetry is...
‘Uvalde’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 30, 2022 Culture, Poetry 65 Comments . Uvalde I’m struck with news and views today __As youth and truth lie dead. Words bruise me in a mad melee __Of mind-marauding...
‘Memories of Memorial Day’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 30, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Memories of Memorial Day Sad son standing all alone Staring at the marker stone. Father died he never knew--- Died for him and died for...
A Memorial Day Poem: ‘Liberty’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 30, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 27 Comments . Liberty If skies were ever-blue each lustrous day, If moons were in bold bloom each raven night, If life was never fouled by disarray And all...
‘Race Then and Now’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society May 29, 2022 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Race Then and Now Race did not matter, The way we were taught. It never should influence Judgments or thought. Just look at the person, We’re...
‘Simplicity’ by Jeffrey Essmann The Society May 28, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . Simplicity I’m aching for a vague simplicity: Sophistication’s dainties have grown cold And tepid on the plate and suddenly My tastes lean...
The SCP Classical Figures Poetry Reading The Society May 27, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Readings 7 Comments . You are invited to a reading of exquisite poetry and conversations with the poets. . Date & Time Sunday June 26, 2022 2 p.m. (New York...
‘Karl Barth Platz’ and Other Poetry by Adam Wasem The Society May 27, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments . Karl Barth Platz 1999 Perhaps we walked the same worn cobblestones, Between the same sheer walls, shops clean and trim, Down the same pathways,...
Review of Modern Art: An Exhibition in Criticism, a Book of Poetry by Michael Curtis The Society May 27, 2022 Art, Essays, Poetry, Reviews 11 Comments . Reviewed Book: Modern Art: An Exhibition in Criticism, by Michael Curtis, National Civic Art Society, 2022 by Evan Mantyk On May 12, 2021, a...
‘Press On, Regardless’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society May 26, 2022 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . Press On, Regardless Conduct a full internal audit, Then throw all caution to the wind. Expect a decent measured plaudit No hypercritic can...
