‘On the Cost of Doing Evil’ by Lee Goldberg The Society January 25, 2022 Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments . On the Cost of Doing Evil I care not if the sky burns red and human flesh is seared. I pray that all souls will just rot as many long have...
Two Poems for Burns Night 2022, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 25, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 29 Comments . Toasting Burns His words ring out from windswept glens. __They lilt from lapping lochs. I see love through his red-rose lens; __I hear the...
‘Dystopia’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society January 24, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Dystopia Reality is never what it seems To be. It hides itself in shrouds of mist, In bulging envelopes of gilded dreams, In requisite pronations...
Poems by Li Qingzhao, Wang Wei, and Du Mu, Translated by Talbot Hook The Society January 24, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 13 Comments . Mourning the Dead by Li Qingzhao, Southern Song (1084-1155) | from Chinese by Talbot Hook Above in the heavens the star-river flows; Down on the...
‘The High Cost of Low Prices’ by Mark F. Stone The Society January 23, 2022 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . The High Cost of Low Prices Poetry is what I treasure. Books of poems give me pleasure, but my grief’s been hard to measure, since I did some...
‘The Joys of Spring’ by Janice Canerdy The Society January 23, 2022 Beauty, Pantoum, Poetry 5 Comments . The Joys of Spring a pantoum It’s here—sweet long-awaited spring. New blooms smell lovely; skies are blue. The trilling birds are on the...
‘Disambiguation’ and Other Poetry by Anna J. Arredondo The Society January 22, 2022 Acrostic, Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Disambiguation As in the dawn the nature of the beams Of light invading chambers---how they glint, Conceal with shade, or paint with rosy...
‘To Tchaikovsky’ by A.N. Apukhtin, Translated by Olga Dumer The Society January 22, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Translation 13 Comments . To Tchaikovsky by A.N. Apukhtin (1840-1893) | Translated from Russian by Olga Dumer With my musician friend’s departure A minor key pervades my...
An Extract from Canto 4 of James Sale’s StairWell The Society January 21, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry 13 Comments . The English Cantos: StairWell Canto 4 Leaving a broken relationship of the past behind in Canto 3, the poet enters a new world of education and...
Rescuing Contemporary Poetry from Vers Libre: An Essay by Leland James The Society January 21, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 36 Comments . Rescuing Contemporary Poetry from Vers Libre The conservative & informal vs. the free Before addressing my thesis, let me explain my choice of...
‘The Heroes of Beijing’: A Sonnet for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, by Evan Mantyk The Society January 21, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 6 Comments . The Heroes of Beijing on the Jan. 21 movie premiere of Unsilenced, just days before the Beijing Winter Olympics As great as it may be to send those...
Three Poems on Religion (with a short note) by Joseph S. Salemi The Society January 20, 2022 Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Apocalypse The fractured sky splits, flaming at the edge— The earth heaves upwards in explosive wrath. No eye can bear the clay-caked risen...
Two Poems by Friedrich Hebbel, Translated by Sean Thompson The Society January 20, 2022 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 5 Comments . To Sleep, to Sleep by Friedrich Hebbel | translated from German by Sean Thompson To sleep, to sleep and only sleep And never wake and have no...
‘Self-Exile’ by Geoffrey Smagacz The Society January 20, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . Self-Exile "Parue—nec inuideo—sine me, liber, ibis in urbem.” —Ovid While driving underneath I had to pray: the tunnel, God, had better not...
‘Black and Red’ by Daniel Moreschi The Society January 19, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments . Black and Red Within a latent, pathless peak, A mountain’s womb begins to leak The flicker of a fervent hue, When primal mantles stir a...
‘O, Brother’ by Damian Robin The Society January 19, 2022 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . O, Brother Surveillance permeates us now,__George Orwell saw it coming.Stamped social credits mark our brow,__the cityscape is humming, The virus...
A Poem on the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, by Bruce Dale Wise The Society January 18, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 4 Comments . The Winter Games Go On Although detainees must sleep in cramped cells on cement floors, and though they must wear shackles with their numbered...
‘Lockdown’ by Caitlin Venniker The Society January 18, 2022 Beauty, Covid-19, Poetry 9 Comments . Lockdown The day sprawls wider than a yawn, a mouth that sucks a ticking clock, a door that lets the wind blow in, but no one comes to lift their...
‘Sonnetized’ by K. Irene Rieger The Society January 18, 2022 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments . Sonnetized “Why poetry?” My chair leans in his chair And slides me a sabbatical-swelled smirk. The past nine months I’d shouldered all his...
‘Living The Dream’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 17, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Living The Dream “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”...
‘Martin Luther King, Jr. Meets Today’s Left’ by Russel Winick The Society January 17, 2022 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Martin Luther King, Jr. Meets Today’s Left How would the Left see Dr. King Just what reaction would they bring If he today could be our...
‘I Grieve Bleak Streets’ and Other MLK Day Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society January 17, 2022 Culture, Poetry 31 Comments . I Grieve Bleak Streets I grieve bleak streets where handguns reign in terror Daring inner-city residents To duck and cover. Life used to be...
‘Let It Bleed’ and Other Poetry by Johnny Payne The Society January 16, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments . Let It Bleed My family believes a puzzle piece is missing, that it’s me and if they snap it in, the family will have peace. The picture will be...
Four Poems on Truth and Lies, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 16, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau, Triolet 32 Comments . A Truthful Triolet I want the truth. I want to trust The words that trip from lips that lied. I want all doubt to fade to dust. I want the truth. I...
‘Obsession’: An Alfred Dorn Sonnet and Other Poetry by Tamara Beryl Latham The Society January 15, 2022 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 21 Comments . Obsession an Alfred Dorn sonnet As candles gently glow in amber light The picture centered high upon the wall appears to take a life form of its...
‘Caring’ and Other Poetry by Lionel Willis The Society January 15, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . Caring Now, while Winter’s noisy emptiness moans In the flue, Dearest, look out at all these Somberly unimpatient silent trees Holding aloft...
‘Civis Romanus Sum’ by Alex Rubstein The Society January 14, 2022 Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry 8 Comments . Civis Romanus Sum (I am a Roman citizen) As Paul stood bound and for the whip outstretched, He said to the centurion beside, “‘Tis lawful here...
‘The Spirit of the Anti-Mary’ by Karen Darantière The Society January 14, 2022 Culture, Epic, Poetry 4 Comments . The Spirit of the Anti-Mary a poem in honor of Our Lady of Gualalupe in reparation for the crime of abortion and abortion-tainted medicines All...
‘The Artist’ and ‘The Biker’ by Shari Jo Lekane The Society January 13, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . The Artist Intuitive journey, subconscious creations refuse to diffuse while the muse makes the choice to infuse mystic magic with personal...
‘The Lost’ by Adam Wasem The Society January 13, 2022 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . The Lost The fog rolled heavy, down to blunt the day, Sharp skyscraper tops dissolved into the gray. Pale ghosts condensed, one here or there,...
On the Soccer Player Tattoo Ban and Other Poetry by Paul A. Freeman The Society January 12, 2022 Beauty, Human Rights in China, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 11 Comments . Limerick China’s footballers haven’t a clue why they can’t go and get a tattoo, but I think it might be it’s since President Xi is afraid...
‘The A-bomb Dome in Hiroshima’ by Peter Hartley The Society January 12, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . The A-bomb Dome in Hiroshima The epicentre of the blast was here, This dome, its empty ribcage gaunt and bare, It stands mute testimony to the...
‘The View from Space’ by Ellie Strano The Society January 11, 2022 Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry 12 Comments . The View from Space My helmet gone, I float among the stars As weightless as my lungs deprived of air Asphyxiating slowly, I am far From all I love...
Three Odes With a Grecian Turn, by James A. Tweedie The Society January 11, 2022 Culture, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments . Fleet of Foot Pheidippides A Grecian runner named Pheidippides, From Athens, ran to Sparta with a plea. “We need your help to fight the Persians,...
A Poem on Life: ‘Wondrous Us’ by Alan Nordstrom (Reading) The Society January 10, 2022 Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Video 4 Comments . https://youtu.be/RMcLVFNbueY . Complete poem text here. CREDITSPoetry: Alan Nordstrom (1939-)Audio/Visual Work: Society of Classical...
‘Cascading Nation’ by Jon Parsons The Society January 10, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Cascading Nation Now not so much a nation as a place for pushing through a bruit cacophony of cultures in discordant synergy, dismissing calm...
‘Sadness Has Silent Feet’ and Other Poetry by Fr. Bruce Wren The Society January 9, 2022 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 12 Comments . Sadness Has Silent Feet Sorrow comes on softened steps, __But joy leaps madly in. Where is she with the golden hair __I would yet see again? Is...
‘St. Joseph’s Admonition’ and Other Poetry by Gregory Ross The Society January 9, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau 3 Comments . St. Joseph’s Admonition Forget yourself, and do what’s right, Remember how you gained your sight, So do not pause to quench your pain, Your...
‘It’s Coming for You!’ by Sandi Christie The Society January 8, 2022 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . It’s Coming for You! It’s coming to devour you, you know. There’s no escape no matter where you go. It waits and watches, hides behind the...
‘The Ninth Day of the Emperor’s Wrath’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society January 7, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau Redoublé 22 Comments . The Ninth Day of the Emperor's Wrath a rondeau redoublé The stadium roared at the end of the fight. In triumph the victor uplifted his sword. The...
