Great Expectations Summary and PDF The Society November 16, 2024 Education, Essays, Poetry 6 Comments The summary and introduction below is from a newly adapted (UK spellings Americanized and punctuation updated), illustrated, and annotated version of...
‘Raking Leaves’: A Poem by Cheryl Corey The Society November 15, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 22 Comments . Raking Leaves The blaze of autumn's orange-gold is gone, And now it's time to rake the fallen leaves, __To clear the cluttered eaves, __And face a...
‘Solid Rock’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society November 15, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . Solid Rock With open heart, but eyes shut tight, led by our feelings, not by sight, they are the rock upon which we once built the fantasy that...
‘First Pick Flamingo’: A Poem by Drilon Bajrami The Society November 14, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . First Pick Flamingo They used to call this player the flamingo; They chaffed and mocked; they were full of bravado. ‘Cause he’s the new kid,...
‘A Brief Respite’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society November 14, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . A Brief Respite From murky depths, I rise, by duty fetched,And breaking surface in the waking world,I find my horizontal self outstretched,Exposed...
‘Jehu Destroys the Temple and Statue of Baäl’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise The Society November 13, 2024 Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 7 Comments . Jehu Destroys the Temple and Statue of Baäl "—What did that madman want?" ---2 Kings 9:11 He saw Jehu Destroys the Temple and Statue of...
‘Beryl Spring’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society November 13, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 28 Comments . Beryl Spring ---Yellowstone National Park Towering torrents of steam and mist Rise next to the side of the road, Beckoning drivers to park and...
‘The Garden’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society November 12, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . The Garden Dense boughs and variegated blooms __That once festooned a garden Are dying as November births __Pellucid forms that harden On them, my...
800 Years of the Sonnet in 12 Minutes: A Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society November 12, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Essays, Poetry 11 Comments . https://youtu.be/B9aMXFVpFEk . . Andrew Benson Brown's epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, chronicles the major events of the American...
Armistice Day Poem: ‘A Recruiter Tells It as It Isn’t’ by Paul A. Freeman The Society November 11, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Rondeau 15 Comments . A Recruiter Tells It as It Isn’t Your World War One recruitment agent prays he finds you well. Your King and Country says we need you for a...
A Poem on Trump Making Susan Wiles Chief of Staff, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 10, 2024 Poetry, Satire 26 Comments . Feeding the Alligators The orange king of lava tongue has won. He sings a spangled song that rings throughout A plundered land where dreams and...
‘Homeostasis’: A Poem by C.B. Anderson The Society November 10, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments . Homeostasis "When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change." —Lucius Cary, Viscount Falkland In general, everybody wishes...
‘The Ghosts of Altamira’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society November 10, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 27 Comments . The Ghosts of Altamira ---a meditation A herd of prehistoric bison; blood beliefs Depicted in concentric whorls with prints of hands. Stick...
‘For the Sake of Ten Thousand: A Supplication from New Sodom’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society November 9, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . For the Sake of Ten Thousand: A Supplication from New Sodom And Abraham came near and said, ‘Would You also destroy the righteous with the...
‘O Lord, Let Me Not Fall’: A Sonnet by Jeffrey Essmann The Society November 9, 2024 Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . O Lord, Let Me Not Fall O Lord, let me not fall today, I pray, Not in some vague or metaphoric way, As into sin or moral turpitude Or somewhat less...
‘Sometimey People’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society November 8, 2024 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . "Sometimey” People Sometimes he’s quite responsive, Sometimes he disappears. Sometimes he’s downright friendly, Sometimes he switches...
‘Contra Computerdom’: A Poem by Mary Jane Myers The Society November 8, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Contra Computerdom I hold this fountain pen with thumb and fingers, burgundy barrel, gold and rhodium nib, Montblanc white-sea-star floating on its...
‘Simplicity’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 7, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 34 Comments . Simplicity “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” ---Sir Isaac Newton I smell you in...
A Sonnet on the Vogelherd Horse and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society November 7, 2024 Art, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Horse Figurine —one inch by one point nine inch, 32,000 to 35,000 years before Giacometti's famous horse A hallowed tiny horse, but missing...
HellWard Canto 1: ‘Hospital’: Extract from the Epic Poem by James Sale The Society November 6, 2024 Epic, Poetry 15 Comments . HellWard Canto 1: Hospital ---lines 1-92 It had to be---that long descent began: About me images, one century That started, stuttered, showed how...
‘Elegy for a Cowboy Cousin’: A Poem by Dan Tuton The Society November 6, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 20 Comments . Elegy for a Cowboy Cousin An autumn wind is stirring strong across the dusty hills, As tumbleweeds leave skittered tracks within the sandy...
An Election Day Poem: ‘Voting Advice’ by Warren Bonham The Society November 5, 2024 Poetry, Satire 15 Comments . Voting Advice When we vote in each election,few with brains will ever run.So, when we make our selection,we elect a simpleton. When a massive...
Nov. 5 Guy Fawkes Day Poem, by Paul A. Freeman The Society November 5, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments . Guy Fawkes Night Makeover November 5th! To Guy Fawkes let’s be kind--- no burning him in effigy this year. His hanged-and-drawn-and-quartered...
A Poem for the 2024 Presidential Election: ‘Polarities’ by C.B. Anderson The Society November 4, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Polarities The only certain solidarity among the Self-Reliant is the ease with which their pride in insularity is spoken of like some esteemed...
Six Riddles for Autumn 2024, by Evan Mantyk The Society November 4, 2024 Humor, Poetry, Riddles 14 Comments . I. I travel thanks to water, But do not float or sail. More quickly than an otter And have a smoke-like tail. What am I? . II>. II. When at...
Looking Back: ‘The Death of the Old Met’ and Other Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society November 3, 2024 Poetry 19 Comments . The Death of the Old Met 1883-1967 Unsinging silence fills the empty spaceWhere once the divas aria-ed and trilledPuccini’s La Bohème before...
‘Loose Me!’: A Villanelle by T.M. Moore The Society November 3, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 8 Comments . Loose Me! “Loose him, and let him go.” ---John 11.44 O loose me, Jesus! Jesus, set me free from all that binds my soul and blinds my...
‘Fall Back: Central Standard Time’: A Daylight Savings Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society November 2, 2024 Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Fall Back: Central Standard Time Already it is dark: the falling arc Of each advancing year, when the eager moon, To catch the setting sun, comes...
‘Hey Gen Z, There’s a Huge Inheritance Coming Your Way’: An Election Poem by Mark F. Stone The Society November 1, 2024 Poetry, Satire 24 Comments . Hey Gen Z, There’s a Huge Inheritance Coming Your Way Inheritance? What could it be? __A house? A yacht? A jet? No way. It’s much, much...
‘The Knucklehead Defense’ and Other Poetry by Warren Bonham The Society November 1, 2024 Poetry, Satire 15 Comments . The Knucklehead Defense If you’ve implied that you have fought in war,but meant your statements more as metaphordesigned so you’ll appear to be...
‘Lady Gwyn’: A Halloween Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 31, 2024 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Lady Gwyn I hear the scratching of a claw--- A disembodied monkey’s paw Scraping at decaying bones. I feel a gust of ghostly moans Wuther...
‘Song of the Spirit’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society October 31, 2024 Beauty, Music, Poetry, The Raven 28 Comments . Song of the Spirit After midnight slightly drowsy, Contemplating writing lousy, While the script-score I redacted, Something in my head...
‘The Iron Road’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society October 30, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . The Iron Road Flecked with the dust of snow, the iron rails Lie still and undisturbed beneath a sky Of cloudless blue where eagles freely...
‘Healthy Relics’: Three Sonnets by Margaret Coats The Society October 30, 2024 Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . Elisha's Bones II Kings 4:32–37, 13:20–21 Elisha died, the prophet doubly strong In spirit, and his sepulcher was grand, For he had caused a...
‘Sonnet 83’ by Richard Craven The Society October 29, 2024 Poetry, Satire 4 Comments . Sonnet 83 A thankless task. You churn them singly out. They’re ordered chronologic’ly. And when someone asks idly what they’re all about, you...
‘Lucifer’s Lament’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant: Reading and Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society October 29, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Culture, Poetry, Readings 14 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zId3BCl6M . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His...
‘Passing Through a Graveyard’: A Poem by Robert Nachtegall The Society October 28, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . Passing Through a Graveyard Marred old friends whose breath has passed Are cold friends whose breadth I pass. Some I pray they pray for me. Some...
‘Where Babylonic Rivers Flowed’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society October 28, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Where Babylonic Rivers Flowed after Psalm 137, a lament at the destruction of Jerusalem Where Babylonic rivers flowed We settled down to weep and...
‘Prayer as an Antidote for Unbelief’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society October 27, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Prayer as an Antidote for Unbelief Just imagine if, while you’re entreating the sky, You were met with the wink of a generous Eye. __A very...
‘The Venetian Doge on the Sack of Constantinople’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society October 27, 2024 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . The Venetian Doge on the Sack of Constantinople Setting: Constantinople in the Summer of 1204 AD. Doge Enrico Dandolo of Venice prepares for bed...
