‘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...
‘A Can of Worms’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 13, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 38 Comments . A Can of Worms I saw it in the writing on the wall. I couldn’t help but read between the lines. I knew that pride would come before a fall; A...
‘Anti-Racist Cant’ by Julian Woodruff The Society June 13, 2021 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . False statements spurn. Let’s shut them out completely. Quash so–called free speech. Cancel all you can. Do people think deplorables sing...
The Perils of “Perfection”: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society June 12, 2021 Essays, Poetry 40 Comments . Persons devoted to formal, metrical poetry are susceptible to a specific disease, much in the same way as light-skinned persons are apt to get bad...
A Review of Amanda Hall’s The Gift of Life: An Epic in Verse The Society June 12, 2021 Essays, Poetry, Reviews 31 Comments Reviewed Book: The Gift of Life: An Epic in Verse by Amanda Hall, 2021. by Margaret Coats So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives...
‘Two Lives’ by Michael Charles Maibach The Society June 11, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . When soldiers die,They give two lives.The one they had, And one denied: The spouse not met,The child unknown,The life unsaved,The welcome...
‘Providence’ by Stephen Ramsek The Society June 11, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments . The mystic steed gave chase to red-eyed day, His forelock flying in the morn’s raw gust. Providence, my constant mount with whom I, On hills and...
‘Storage and Retrieval’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society June 10, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . Storage and Retrieval In the dank cellar of the human mind Are stored a lifetime’s worth of rusted tools And strands of uttered words, both cruel...
‘Back to The Beginning’ by Mike Bryant The Society June 10, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 45 Comments . “I want answers. I want all the words the poem whispers to be made flesh, to sit opposite me, and to shout out the reason for our existence…”...
A Poem on Foster Care: ‘Fostering Faith’ by Bethany Mootsey The Society June 9, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Fostering Faith Will you slip through the system’s wide cracks Like a ball down a driveway’s storm drain? Will you bounce between homes,...
To the Class of 2021: A Graduation Poem by Benjamin Daniel Lukey The Society June 8, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Hardship and Destiny to the Class of 2021 The time is now at hand; the bow is bent To shoot you forth across the open sky. And as you think on what...
‘Golden Anniversary’ by Johanna Donovan The Society June 8, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 12 Comments . Will this reclaim the long-lost Muse perched on the tree of I.O.U.’s? Can I now join Miss E. B. Browning as she proclaimed her love---its...
‘The Change of Seasons’ by Lucia Haase The Society June 7, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . The Summer's ushered in to close Spring's tale;New chapters are revealed in nature's story. The seasons' story arc will without failExpress great...
A Poem on Critical Race Theory, by James A. Tweedie The Society June 6, 2021 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 21 Comments . Signs of the Times “Post-modern” is the “ism” of the land; Reality is hanging by a thread. Objective truth? Rejected out of hand. And God...
A Poem on Affirmative Action: ‘Unintended Consequence,’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society June 6, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments . Unintended Consequence The African-American High schooler had poor grades. Folks worried for his future, Seeing little effort made. Some caring...
‘A Slice’ and Other Petrarchan Sonnets by Peter Austin The Society June 5, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments . A Slice from a sonnet by Eleanor Alexander For me, my friends, no graveside vigil keep, With gnashing teeth and sodden handkerchief And grievous...
What’s Writing Classical Poetry All About? The Society June 4, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry, Readings 11 Comments Originally published in The Epoch Times by James Sale Very recently, I hosted a live online poetry event for New York’s Society of Classical Poets...
‘Tank Man—Remembering The Unknown Rebel’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 4, 2021 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 23 Comments . During the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Tank Man (his name has been reported as Wang Weilin, a 19-year-old student) was arrested for “political...
A Poem on the Australian Mice Plague, by Norma Pain The Society June 3, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . To the Residents Down Below I am a bookish kind of rat And like each rat before me, I’ve come to the conclusion that There’s few folks that...
‘The Birthday Rose’ by Cheryl Corey The Society June 3, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments . Her birthday cake was verily a sight--- A work of art, a sugary-sweet confection, That much to all the revelers’ delight, The baker decorated to...
‘Épuration’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society June 2, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . On the Greek isle of Tilos are the ruins of the sanctuary of Pythian Apollo. Over them has been built the Church of the Archangel Michael. "Now rot...
Comments on the Decline of American Universities The Society June 2, 2021 Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry 4 Comments American historian Victor Davis Hanson and Canadian professor Jordan Peterson recently commented on the decline of American universities. Though they...
‘Resist!’ by Joe Tessitore The Society June 1, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . The enemy has canceled me And yet, as far as I can see, I still exist, I am still here And so resist and have no fear. Theirs is a vile, historic...
Two Poems on Old Age, by C.B. Anderson The Society June 1, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 26 Comments . Default, to a Fault There are as many deeds I ought to do As there are jobs in urgent need of doing. My task is knowing whether to pursue Them, or,...
A Memorial Day Poem: ‘Friends on the Wall’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 31, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . To my friends on the wall who fought valiantly,We thank all the dead for ensuring we’re free.Remembrance, though fleeting, is etched on this...
Two Poems for Memorial Day 2021, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 30, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . R e w i n d... If time could suck the bullet from torn flesh, And pry its steely bite from splintered bone, Stitch tattered life and limb to start...
‘#shun #shame #shazam! Land of the Canceled’ by Tonia Kalouria The Society May 30, 2021 Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . “We’re running things now; we are great, you are small.” “You will talk as we think, or you’ll not talk at all.” No longer...
Metrical Variation: Part I, Freedom from Concession The Society May 29, 2021 Essays, Poetry 35 Comments by Daniel Kemper “Metrical variation” is widely used in discussing late twentieth and early twenty-first century poetry writing. Although this...
‘The Empty Bed’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society May 28, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . He wakes up with the morning’s light, __stares at the empty bed. A ritual for fourteen years __since tears have all been shed. The empty coffee...
‘Chaos Abounds’ and Other Poetry by Randal A. Burd, Jr. The Society May 27, 2021 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 5 Comments . Chaos Abounds What thoughts are left unthought? What is profound? Does any quest of value still remain? So much that once was sacred, now...
A Limerick on Life and Other Poetry, by Joe Tessitore The Society May 26, 2021 Beauty, Haiku and Senryu, Limerick, Poetry 19 Comments . Limerick I have lived my whole life about me And at last I can finally see That my choice only smothers, Life is all about others And the truth...
