The Struggle for the Formalist Tradition: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society December 13, 2020 Deconstructing Communism, Essays, For Educators, Poetry 58 Comments Why are many young persons so bad at writing formal poetry? Why do they struggle and labor and twist and turn when trying to compose formal...
‘Stages of Arrested Development’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society December 12, 2020 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 36 Comments . Stages of Arrested Development __The lads who once had wet their beds __Adventured off in brand-new Keds, Exploring every corner of...
‘On Your Marx’ and Other Poetry on Karl Marx by Damian Robin The Society December 11, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments _ On Your Marx If humans ran a Human Race, __Karl Marx would not be in it. The human depth that he could trace __would leach out in a minute. For he...
‘Philoctetes: A Myth Retold’ Excerpt, by Bruce Wren The Society December 10, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments What is One to do with a Useless Man?: Philoctetes: A Myth Retold is a poetic play by Fr. Bruce Wren. Act 5 Scene 2 Philoctetes alone (singing...
Poetry on Exposing Fraud in the 2020 U.S. Election The Society December 9, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry 8 Comments . Strange Election inspired by President Trump's speech on election fraud (below) by Evan Mantyk Strange numbers were appearing in the dead of...
Poem Found on Our Lady of Guadalupe Painting, Translated by Margaret Coats The Society December 9, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Found Poem, Poetry, Translation 26 Comments The Painting of the Virgin God, seeing in America a child Embracing Faith with jubilation meet, Took up His paints, and on a flowered sheet By...
Turn a Joke into a Poem—Poetry Challenge The Society December 8, 2020 Humor, Poetry, Poetry Contests 77 Comments Poet Susan Jarvis Bryant challenges her fellow poets to adapt a favorite joke into a poem with meter and rhyme. Enjoy her examples and then post your...
‘Summer’s Fall’ by Luke Hahn The Society December 8, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments Oh, the joy of summer's fall, Tripping on her tassels tall, Laughing with such deep release The ombre maples blush. How she twirls...
A Poem on the 79th Anniversary of the Pearl Harbor Attack, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 7, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 36 Comments . That Day of Infamy ∼ December 7th, 1941 Zeros burst through bluest skies __Like stealthy birds of prey, Set to swoop and pulverize __Pearl...
‘Peradventure Before Naptime’ by Denise Sobilo The Society December 7, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments for my two-year-old grandson, Exander “There’s no tale in the world I can’t believe.” I said.“If you have learned belief, you have learned...
Stop the Steal: A Play on the 2020 Election (Excerpt) by Evan Mantyk The Society December 6, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Exposing Election Fraud, Poetry 20 Comments . Act I Scene I NARRATOR Imagine now the scene: the angry engine, Its beeping brain, its smooth and metal muscles That barely seem to strain beneath...
‘The Toss’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society December 6, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . One night a lean and wizened soul scuffed down the old mill road, while moonlight cast upon the knoll a mounted figure showed. The Horseman sat...
‘To Some Other Poets’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society December 5, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . To Some Other Poets Let hoary heads divine and then divide,Dot i’s and dance on pins and sneer with pride,And ogle with an obverse obfuscationTo...
‘Appeal to the Muse’ and Other Poetry by Amanda Hall The Society December 4, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . Appeal to the Muse O Saint Cecilia, more than just a muse— The very author by this pen and ink— I plead thy help, and never wish to...
‘Tempestuous Seas’ by Rohini Sunderam The Society December 4, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 21 Comments And when the time, oh Father, comes To cross this life’s tempestuous seas, Grant that my faith should not succumb, Hold in the end...
‘King Horn’ Middle English Romance, Translation by Russell Spera The Society December 3, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 6 Comments Gather round everyone, come near! My story is for all to hear. A song for you I now shall sing, A song about Murry the King. Murry was...
‘Kindred Souls’ by David D. Irby The Society December 2, 2020 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 11 Comments The road of love looks smooth at first and seems as if it has no end. The wise know that the way is cursed, and heartache lies around...
‘The Homeward-Bound Armada, 1588’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society December 1, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments X No tengo más que darte —Inscription on a Spanish sailor's gold ring, in the shape of a hand holding out a heart, found off the western coast of...
A Poem on Catholic Bishops Hailing the ‘President-Elect’ and Others by Julian Woodruff The Society November 30, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments _ Our Bishops, on Nov. 4, 2020 Our bishops hail the president-elect.Do they suppose the election is decided?Or are they anxious that we all move...
‘My Covid-19 Birthday Bash’ by Jeff Kemper The Society November 30, 2020 Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments 2 November 2020 Two weeks and counting here I be In clutches of the CCP I don’t delight as I once did In birthday presents, cards, and...
‘Passage in Venice’: A Poem by Royal Rhodes The Society November 29, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments They mix together here waiting for the trim black and gold gondolas heading into side canals that drain and brim with refuse and will...
‘Famine de l’âme’ by Anna J. Arredondo The Society November 28, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 23 Comments Famine de l'âme The soul, deprived of one essential thing, Cannot rely on dusty stores of hope; Seeking to mitigate starvation's...
‘A Sonnet for the Citizens’ by Claude Clayton Smith The Society November 27, 2020 Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 3 Comments —for Li Hongzhi The unacknowledged legislators know the truth: the Buddha shows one thousand hands to foster heaven’s circulation, so the...
‘Crying Fowl’: A Thanksgiving Day Poem by C.B. Anderson The Society November 26, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 30 Comments The turkey that we blithely ate Had little cause to celebrate The final Thursday in November. It's customary to dismember A hapless...
A Covid Thanksgiving Poem and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 26, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 53 Comments Thanksgiving 1984 2020 Wear a mask until you eat and never touch your face. Muzzle up between each bite and when you’re saying grace. No...
‘The Cracks of Doom’ by James A. Tweedie The Society November 25, 2020 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Pandemic epidemic, fever, chills; As viral spiral sickens, quickens, kills. We’re tasked and masked with no place left to go. A...
‘Where Are the Leaves?’: A Late Autumn Rondeau by Jeff Kemper The Society November 25, 2020 Beauty, Poetry, Rondeau 22 Comments Where are the leaves that branches bore? They’re falling fast on forest floor, A cornucopia outspread, Of orange, yellow, brown, and...
‘This Grief of Mine’ by Sally Sandler The Society November 25, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments Don’t place your limits on this grief of mine or try to cheer me out of feeling sorrow. I need to wear it for a longer time and...
‘Shisendo, Hall of the Poetry Immortals’ by Margaret Coats The Society November 24, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Video 23 Comments The Shisendō is a hideaway villa in the eastern hills of Kyoto, Japan, created by poet and calligrapher Jōzan Ishikawa (1583–1672) as a...
On the History of Cricket, and Other Poetry by Jeff Eardley The Society November 23, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments Cricket The game of Cricket, I’ll relate, Goes back to fifteen fifty-eight, Upon a field in Guildford way, In Surrey, many miles...
‘Mozart on his Kegelstatt Trio’ and Other Poetry by Julian Woodruff The Society November 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Music, Poetry 42 Comments Mozart on His Kegelstatt Trio Quite recently I wrote a little trio While wasting time at skittles with some friends. We needed something for the...
Poems on a World Full of Lies, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 21, 2020 Culture, Poetry, Rondeau 42 Comments Hearts of Darkness a rondeau redoublé A heart of darkness mocks and flouts the rules. It robs our orb of honesty and light. It tempts then toys...
‘The Mask’ and Other Poetry by Peter Venable The Society November 21, 2020 Poetry 1 Comment The Mask Sin wears a cherubic mask And beams forth paradise. “Come in, recline, and bask.” The discerning eye looks twice: The gate...
A Fable about Cancel Culture: ‘Vulture Culture’ by Christopher Lindsay The Society November 20, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 6 Comments Above the clouds, a vulture soars, the leader of a culture war. The bird of prey is wide awake, ready to punish grave mistakes. A rooster crows...
‘The Violence in Philadelphia’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society November 19, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 7 Comments . The Violence in Philadelphia “Par le regne des maleureux chetis“ —Eustache Deschamps by Urbawel Cidese Say first what caused the violence in...
‘All Divinity Is Love or Wonder’ and Other Poetry by Cindy Hill The Society November 18, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments All Divinity Is Love or Wonder* New Harbor October 2020 All Divinity is love or wonder. The moon pulls up the sea, while rocks plunge...
‘To Know the Mobs of Modern Days’ by Jared Pearman The Society November 18, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 9 Comments Originally Published by the SCP on November 24, 2019 dedicated to my wife, who was mobbed and defamed for political gains They've come...
On the Main Stream Media’s Fake News, a Poem by Russel Winick The Society November 17, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 14 Comments Truthfulness I walked through our lovely suburban downtown, Which always is ranked as the best. But everywhere windows and doors had gone...
‘On Romantic Longing’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society November 17, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments On Romantic Longing* Was it when autumn filled the air With musty smells and chimney smoke, This feeling in me first awoke, Which...
‘Pope Urban II Sonnet-Speech, Clermont, 1095’ and Other Poetry by Paul A. Freeman The Society November 16, 2020 Beauty, Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments _ Pope Urban II Sonnet-Speech, Clermont, 1095 Oh Noblemen, I’m charged by God to warn that Christendom is threatened by the Turk. Torched churches...
