Reading [Classical] Poetry Will Save the World: Crisis Magazine The Society November 14, 2021 Culture, Essays, Poetry 5 Comments . Below is an excerpt from a Crisis Magazine article "Reading Poetry Will Save the World" by Auguste Meyrat, published November 13, 2021. (The...
‘Racial Idiocy’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society November 14, 2021 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Racial Idiocy My son was on a city team,__Where two kids caught my eye:Stefon---warm and articulate,__And Marcus---risk deemed high. I thought that...
The SCP Christmas and New Year 2021 Poetry Reading, Online The Society November 13, 2021 From the Society, Poetry, Readings 1 Comment . You are invited to a reading of exquisite poetry and conversations with the poets. This reading is part of a quarterly series of online poetry...
‘Nature’s War’ by Pat Tyrer The Society November 13, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Nature's War From far beneath the frozen soil the iris pushes high,Extending wide it reaches up to touch the sun and sky. Yet in the greening of...
On Three Pre-Raphaelite Paintings, by Peter Hartley The Society November 12, 2021 Art, Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 52 Comments . . The Hireling Shepherd painting by William Holman Hunt This comely wench was Emma Watkins, she Who sat for Hunt in eighteen fifty-two. Too...
On World Leaders Falling Asleep at the U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow: COP26 The Society November 12, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment 7 Comments . At the COP26 We all have piled up at the COP,For in a day the World may stop!No really, that’s what voters sayAnd that’s enough, so I’m here...
For Veterans Day and Remembrance Sunday: ‘Where Poppies Blow’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 11, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Today I feel the stirrings of the Dead In crimson-littered fields where poppies blow. I hear embittered groans and gasps of dread From churning...
‘From a Classified Location in England’: A Veteran’s Day Poem by Brian Yapko The Society November 11, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 33 Comments . From a Classified Location in England Dear Jim---my son---I write from far away. From England, Spring of 1944. June first! That means you’re six...
‘Colours of War’ by Paul A. Freeman The Society November 11, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Colours of War What colour was the war to end all wars?We’ve watched as men, in grainy black and white,go o’er the top to face the chomping...
A Poem for Veteran’s Day 2021, by Roy E. Peterson The Society November 11, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . The Soldier Keeps the Wolf at Bay The soldier keeps the wolf at bay So we may never see it. That is why the young today Simply don’t believe...
‘For Better or for Worse?’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society November 10, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . For Better or for Worse? Poetic genius, swallowed from a bottle; Ingested from an opiate-filled pipe; Imagination speeding at full-throttle; A...
‘Biden Has an Accident at the Vatican’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society November 9, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . Biden Has an Accident at the Vatican Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia: Where Peter is, there is the Church. Ubi Bergoglius, ibi merda: Where Bergoglio is,...
‘Imperial Invitation’ by Margaret Coats The Society November 9, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Imperial Invitation Fair neighbor, come, pass through entrancing gates I made to veil surprises and seclude My masterpiece of panoramic zest, Where...
‘Robert Jack Eardley’ by Jeff Eardley The Society November 8, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 28 Comments . Robert Jack Eardley was, for many years, Chief Psychiatrist for the U.S. Justice Department. In 2000, he organised a family gathering of thousands...
‘Bywords’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant The Society November 7, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 27 Comments . Bywords Language rang and wedged within our mind. Centuries of words were drawn like swords. A surfeit, rhymes, soliloquies entwined, As singers...
‘Hypnosis’ by Judy Koren The Society November 7, 2021 Culture, Pantoum, Poetry 6 Comments . Hypnosis Come over here, then, and sit in this chair, Gaze at this candle-flame, empty your mind, No need to worry, no need to beware--- I am so...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Free PDF The Society November 6, 2021 Alliterative, Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry 7 Comments Following the introduction below is a translated version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in PDF made free for download for teachers, students, and...
‘An Interlude’ by Sally Cook The Society November 6, 2021 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 22 Comments . He was the stream and she the underbrush; The rain that fell upon his upturned face. She was the shadowed glade in evening's hush That memorized...
‘Last Rites’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society November 5, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima 8 Comments . Last Rites Let not the Rock of Ages ever break Or send apostate magi to the stake; A golden era favoring good men Will likely never come around...
‘End of Summer’ by Angel L. Villanueva The Society November 5, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments . When summer left and took her warming shawl, The birds towards the south began to fly. The leaves of wizened trees began to dye, As shorter days...
‘Let’s Go, Brandon…’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society November 4, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 22 Comments . "Let's Go Brandon" People don’t want to say “F--k” When dealing with President Schmuck. So they say “Let’s go, Brandon” instead To a...
A Poem on Glenn Youngkin Winning the Governor Seat of Virginia, by Margaret Coats The Society November 4, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . New Day for the Old Dominion "This is what unity looks like" —Glenn Youngkin, Virginia governor-elect Virginians venture toward a vivid day Of...
Poetry Contests Accepting Rhyming and Metered Poems The Society November 4, 2021 Poetry, Poetry Contests 10 Comments by Evan Mantyk A strange phenomenon in recent years, probably dating back to the mid 20th century and with roots in Whitman, is an aversion toward...
‘The Mystery of the Amber Room’ by Brian Yapko The Society November 4, 2021 Art, Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 21 Comments . A fabled place adrift in history Which makes the spirit ache for what was lost; A masterpiece destroyed in mystery Then resurrected at a crippling...
‘Vitamin DC: In Praise of Dark Chocolate’ by Jeff Kemper The Society November 3, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 29 Comments . When I crave from my enclave something to eat (Not apples or peas or muffins or meat) I steady my stare at my pantry’s archive And spot a great...
‘Autumn in Vermont’ and Other Poetry by Lucia Haase The Society November 2, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . Autumn in Vermont October’s maples blaze a way __around a tall church steeple and sugar maples have their say __by raining gold on people. Such...
Poems by Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800—1844) The Society November 1, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 7 Comments . translated from Russian by Sasha A. Palmer . Prayer God above, King divine! Heal this spirit of mine! Earthly lies drive away Lest they lead me...
‘A Vagabond Song’ by Bliss Carman, Put to Music by Jack DesBois The Society October 31, 2021 Beauty, Music, Poetry, Readings 7 Comments . . A Vagabond Song by Bliss Carman (1861-1929) There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood -- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And...
‘Tokens of the Liberal Artist’ by Sarban Bhattacharya The Society October 31, 2021 Art, Culture, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments . The cats are creatures of a liberal kind, For on the laps of commie artists, you’ll find Them. Coffee too you’ll find in their domain, Not to...
‘Approaching Halloween’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society October 30, 2021 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Approaching Halloween “You live in the same kind of grayness as the filthy stuff that formed you.” —Jack Finney, The Invasion of the Body...
‘BOO!’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 30, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 29 Comments . BOO! I feel a fleshless...
‘Glastonbury’ and Other Poetry by Andrew Benson Brown The Society October 30, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . Glastonbury A deathless tree stood witness while The marshlands round a nearby isle Were drained and bared a hill forlorn; A lonesome tree, long in...
A Poem on Fauci and ‘Dead Puppies,’ by Joe Tessitore The Society October 29, 2021 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments . Dead Puppies On a break from the propaganda mill I found puppies I thought I could kill, So I shot them with zombie-rich juice--- I am Fauci, I...
Poems on the Grim Reaper and God, by Roy E. Peterson The Society October 29, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . How Grim Is the Grim Reaper? How grim is the Grim Reaper? Rapacious and rambunctious; Solemn stalker, soul seeker, Slayer uncompunctious. How dim...
‘The Asinine Armoress: Hannah Gutierrez Reed’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society October 28, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments . To all the tough women in Texas who actually know how to handle guns. My daddy got the job for me. He wanted me to work. And daddy’s got a lot of...
‘We’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant The Society October 28, 2021 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 24 Comments . We Sum total of all life is death, And breath sustains us for a time. We’ll live until we’ve spent God's dime. The meter's running faster...
‘An Incident on the Cornish Cliffs’ by Peter Hartley The Society October 28, 2021 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . So many things were churning in his mind When scrambling down the track towards the cove, To take especial care or drop behind Them both, decide...
‘It’s Raining Now in New York City’ by Martin Rizley The Society October 27, 2021 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 23 Comments . It's raining now in New York City; Yes, I know that's true. For like that dreamer, Walter Mitty, Daydreams take me, too, To fabled places far...
‘Face-to-Face’ and Other Poetry by Damian Robin The Society October 26, 2021 Beauty, Covid-19, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments . Face-to-Face Meeting up, Darjeeling tea, So familiar, you and me. Here’s your cup, you raise it up Do a little "cheers" to me, Joke on...
‘Men Before Work’ and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath The Society October 25, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Men Before Work for Dana Gioia It’s dark and cold. The fleet comes filtering in. They take a breath. They get out of their cars. Half-hidden in a...
