‘Hunter Biden, New Millennial American Painter’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society July 6, 2021 Art, Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . Hunter Biden, New Millennial American Painter “It’s Generic Post Zombie Formalism Illustration” ---Jerry Saltz “a…vaguely psychedelic...
Two Poems on Amber, by Margaret Coats The Society July 6, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . Amber Song I come from amber, Baltic gold, A gem but not a stone, And not a thousand ages old, A girl from pine sap grown, When fully cured, of...
A Poem in Memory Johnny Cash: ‘June’ by Mike Bryant The Society July 5, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 37 Comments . June in memory of Johnny Cash (1932--2003) Johnny was no average guy, __The troubled man in black. His life, by evil, went awry, __And loving...
‘Bird of Prey’ by Raymond Gallucci The Society July 5, 2021 Humor, Poetry 9 Comments . In present, past and future, My parrot’s quite a moocher. She’ll eat whatever suits her __No matter whose it is. If what you’re eating...
‘Fireworks’ by Adam Sedia The Society July 4, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . The roar of battle rends the moonlit skyWith distant thunder as of cannons booming.And bursting, crashing, popping salvos flyAbove the roar, the...
‘July Fourth, 2021’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society July 4, 2021 Culture, Poetry 30 Comments . Do you know as twilight gleams with showers; Fluorescent flowers, that rocket-red-glare flare, Wowing with their pyrotechnic powers That bloom...
A Poem for Independence Day, July 4th, 2021, by Roy E. Peterson The Society July 3, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . The Future's Illumined by the Deeds of the Past inspired by a quote from Alexis de Tocqueville The future’s illumined by deeds of the...
‘Give It a Try’ by Amanda Hall The Society July 3, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 26 Comments . Nothing’s had by show of fear, When another way is clear: Courage to pursue the best When one’s met with Nature’s test. Can one sell a good...
Four Poems Possibly Written by Someone Else, by James A. Tweedie The Society July 2, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . On Death and Life not by John Milton Ere Death’s foul fetters drag me to my tombAs fodder for the very maw of hell,Should not my weary, failing...
A Review of James B. Nicola’s ‘Fires of Heaven’ The Society July 2, 2021 Essays, Poetry, Reviews 7 Comments Fires of Heaven, published by Shanti Arts, 2020, can be purchased here. by James Sale James B. Nicola is one of America’s brightest poetry stars....
A Planned Parenthood Version of ‘I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General,’ by Julian Woodruff The Society July 1, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlTisI_HSgw . The Head of Health and Human Services after W.S. Gilbert’s “I am the Very Model of a Modern...
A Poem on Nevertire, New South Wales, Australia, by David Watt The Society July 1, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments . What’s In a Name? Useless Loop is a small town in Western Australia. Nevertire and Come By Chance are both located in the state of New South...
A Poem for Illinois Poet Laureate Angela Jackson and Other Freestylers, by Joseph Mason The Society June 30, 2021 Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 22 Comments . Ferdinand the Freestyler Angela Jackson is the Poet Laureate of Illinois and Jacqueline Jackson is a poet frequently published by Illinois...
‘The Carnelian Ring: A Still-Life’ by Joseph S. Salemi, and ‘A Note on the Objective Correlative’ The Society June 29, 2021 Art, Beauty, Blank Verse, Essays, Poetry 11 Comments . The Carnelian Ring: A Still-Life Footfalls echo in the memoryDown the passage which we did not takeTowards the door we never openedInto the...
‘The Weight of a Tear’ by David D. Irby The Society June 29, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments . A teardrop's such a little thing, __and yet its burden varies depending on the weight of the __emotions that it carries. One's tears of joy are...
‘Ill Wind’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society June 28, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Ill Wind The wind, no friend, assaults us so unkindly And suffers nothing to abate its force, Though boys who fly their kites adore it blindly, As...
A Poem on Father Francis Gloudeman of California, by Margaret Coats The Society June 28, 2021 Culture, Poetry 38 Comments . A Sign of the Spirit Poet’s note: These heroic couplets paraphrase the conclusion of a recent sermon for which the preacher, Father Francis...
Society of Classical Poets Journal IX Published The Society June 27, 2021 From the Society, Poetry 3 Comments . The Society of Classical Poets Journal IX has been published. It features poetry selected from poetry published on the SCP website between February...
‘A Prayer from Babel’ by Cynthia Erlandson The Society June 27, 2021 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Set forth your true and lively word, O Lord, Amidst this false and deadly earthen tongue With which we are surrounded. For a horde Of men with...
‘Nil by Mouth’ by S.A. Todd The Society June 26, 2021 Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . All criticism of me is now hate speech, not "opinion"--- A forced agreement tyranny, for good. A new dominion where intersectionality has purged...
‘Inevitable’ by Norma Pain The Society June 26, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments . My eyes espied a little bird And in his mouth… a little worm, That screamed a scream but no one heard. To mourn a worm is quite absurd, I guess...
‘Pride Month’ by Sarban Bhattacharya The Society June 25, 2021 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . To take a walk each day is good of course, But not in June, beware, for this I know: The youngsters march in rallies loud and hoarse, You might be...
Longfellow’s ‘The Arrow and the Song’ Put to Music by Gunny Markefka The Society June 25, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry 4 Comments . Listen to "Arrow Song" by Gunny Markefka, with lyrics from Longfellow. "Arrow Song" is from his album Arrow Songs, which features songs with...
Poetry Challenge: A ‘Raven’-like Poem on the Death of Edgar Allan Poe The Society June 24, 2021 Culture, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests, The Raven 32 Comments . Edgar Allan Poe was known for strange and mysterious tales, in poetry and prose. Perhaps fittingly, the circumstances surrounding his premature...
‘The Hanging Tree’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society June 24, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . The Hanging Tree The story of these bones is clear--- More than one deer was butchered here, Hung from this limb then skinned and bled By him the...
‘A Progressive Englishman Speaks to Jews’ by Damian Robin The Society June 23, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments . In black and white terms, I would say, __You’re all more white than olive, Take Einstein, Rothschild, Proust, Bizet--- __all Western, bourgeois,...
‘The Blackbird’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society June 23, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments . . The Blackbird So what can make this joyous songbird sing That cannot but proclaim its blackbirdhood? In fairest weather and in foul it...
Fairytales in the Age of Transgenderism: Two Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 22, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 22 Comments . Grimm The days of steering princesses from danger With sweet salvation’s life-sustaining kiss From shining-armored knight or regal...
‘Contemplating Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer’ by James A. Tweedie The Society June 22, 2021 Art, Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Homer, Poetry 9 Comments . Contemplating Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer He stands enwrapped in luminous shadowed light, A woven cord of gold across his...
‘When the Statues Were Felled,’ a Rondeau Redoublé by Brian Yapko The Society June 21, 2021 Culture, Poetry, Rondeau Redoublé 32 Comments . When the statues were felled the crass multitude cheered. Historians wept while the rioters yelled. Society crumbled. Debate disappeared. Where...
‘McStalgia’ by Tonia Kalouria The Society June 20, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments . “Daddy! There’s the big yellow ‘M’!” “May I take your order ple---?” “One Big Mac, Coke and fries!” Dad yells,...
A Father’s Day Poem: ‘Our Father’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 19, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau 34 Comments . Our Father loves us, one and all. He lifts us when our spirits fall. He knows the song of heart and mind; He hears the fears of humankind In every...
‘Raison Du Jour‘ and Other Poetry by Gerald George The Society June 19, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments Raison Du Jour Reason is like tea.It’s best at four o’clock,Which is an hour before cocktailsAnd two hours before dark. . . Finding at the...
‘Ode to George Lionel, the Cat’ by Jeff Eardley The Society June 18, 2021 Humor, Limerick, Poetry 23 Comments . It was only a two stone cat, Now what do you think about that? If it sat on your lap, Both your femurs would snap. It was twenty-eight pounds of...
First-Liners Poetry Contest The Society June 17, 2021 Poetry, Poetry Contests 92 Comments . . Winners Announced Here. . CONTEST: Begin with a favorite line from another poem, (or other literature) and "take off" on it in a different...
‘Edinburgh, Scotland, 1978’ by James A. Tweedie The Society June 17, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, cameTo bless new student housing on The Mound.Despite his title and his royal name,Despite the Lord Mayor...
‘No Letters’ and Other Poetry by James Sale The Society June 16, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . No Letters "An odd thought strikes me: we shall receive no letters in the grave." ---Dr. Johnson, from Boswell’s Life Of all the things which I...
‘The CCP Position on the Origin of Covid’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society June 15, 2021 Covid-19, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments . The CCP Position on the Origin of Covid Point to their part Of the globe, And you’re a racist Xenophobe. . . Conmander in Chief Things are...
‘Meeting Petrarch’ by Margaret Coats The Society June 15, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 10 Comments . Francesco, is it you? Be confident. Sorgue vineyard pathways never were too dusty __For you—plump face and figure lusty. Come nearer; focus my...
‘Logic Class’ and Other Poetry by Paul Buchheit The Society June 14, 2021 Culture, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 14 Comments . Logic Class As class convenes I quickly indicate in clear logician's diction of my eagerness to share my disposition to determine if we're here or...
