‘The Librarian and the Bonfire’ by Brian Yapko The Society March 24, 2021 Culture, Poetry 31 Comments . The fire roars and spits within the square Blazing angry red. The rabble looks With savage joy; their whooping lards the air. Such glee to see the...
A Poem on Dictionaries: ‘Panlexia’ by C.B. Anderson The Society March 24, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 39 Comments . Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything. —David Bowie A...
‘An Australian Kangaroo Visits the Second Impeachment Trial of President Trump’ by Jan Darling The Society March 23, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 16 Comments . A kangaroo visiting from Australia beholds the kangaroo court attempting to impeach President Trump for the second time and, taking the current...
‘Grain’ and Other Poetry by Stephen Ramsek The Society March 23, 2021 Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry 25 Comments . Grain If the future were a famine And tomorrow were a blight, Would we close our eyes today in Light of Future’s tragic sight? If the future...
‘Pain, Product, and Poetry’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society March 22, 2021 Essays, Poetry 24 Comments I went to my first opera when I was six years old. My mother took me to the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti’s The Saint of Bleecker Street, on...
‘You Are There’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 21, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments inspired by the late John Whitworth’s “The Examiners” Through the burst of youth and giggles in the balm of budding spring, __You are...
‘For John Whitworth (1945-2019)’ by Dwayne Barrick The Society March 21, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . A touch of wit is worth its writ in gold. We miss you, John, for being ever bold. You spoke your mind or, rather, wrote it down with learning...
‘An Intelligent Cup of Coffee’ by Daniel Kemper The Society March 20, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 33 Comments . “That must have been some cup of coffee!” ---Charles Ellik The coffee spins and I am not the same. The time in which I move is muddy,...
‘Daffodils in the Snow’ by Shari Jo LeKane The Society March 19, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments . Memories frozen in pinnacles glow, tattooed in lingering beauty and sorrow now fade by the light of forgotten tomorrows with nowhere to go, yet so...
‘Saint Joseph’s Table’ by Margaret Coats The Society March 19, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . The night before, old furniture And scrap wood set afire Smoke out the winter’s wickedness— An equinoctial pyre Of habits, sins, misfortunes...
‘The Second Roman Empire’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society March 18, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 22 Comments . The Second Roman Empire Those were the days, when Julius Caesar Saw a country and would seize her, And the busty Roman matrons Ran the house and...
‘The PRC’s “To-Do” List’ by James A. Tweedie The Society March 18, 2021 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 14 Comments . Every one of us makes “To-Do” lists to help us on the way So we won’t forget the many things we plan to do each day. Every country has a...
‘This Brave American, Ashli Babbitt’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society March 17, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . This Brave American, Ashli Babbitt “It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.” —Sophocles, “Antigone” by Usa W...
‘Lenin’ and Other Poetry by Duane Caylor The Society March 17, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 27 Comments . Lenin It’s late. He walks the lonely corridor in this part of the Kremlin with his cat hammocked in his arm. He stops before the door of every...
‘The Illiterati’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 16, 2021 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 38 Comments . “Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.” ---Heinrich Heine There is diction to spurn and there’s fiction to...
‘Liberal Artists’ by Sarban Bhattacharya The Society March 16, 2021 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . A little argument and then they hurt; These liberals are so coy and sensitive. They think they know all forms of decent art, And claim consensus...
‘Borealis’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society March 15, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Borealis Where Ursa Minor spins about its tail The cold-chill, sabled void of arctic nights Bestirs to life as unseen hands unveil The shifting...
‘Lives There the Man’ (After Sir Walter Scott) by Roy E. Peterson The Society March 14, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Lives There the Man after “Breathes There a Man with Soul so Dead” by Sir Walter Scott* by Roy E. Peterson Lives there the man who won’t...
A Poem on the Canceling of Dr. Seuss’s McElligot’s Pool, by Julian Woodruff The Society March 13, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 34 Comments . Jelly Guts Rule The book, we’ve been apprised, is most uncool— Young Marco and the farmer by the pool, Wits locked in friendly if serious...
A Poem for Daylight Savings: ‘The Puppeteer’ by Norma Pain The Society March 13, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 22 Comments . Oh hail the master puppeteer, Controller of the strings. The altruistic engineer, Sagaciousness he brings. With breathtaking dexterity, He moves...
‘Gonfalon’ by Paul Erlandson The Society March 12, 2021 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . Around the rearview mirror of my car There hangs a gonfalon of love divine. My talisman, my bright and guiding star, From which both fortitude and...
‘Shadows of Regret’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society March 12, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments . I watched as the convening mist rose twisting through the trees; It changed gray shapes and silhouettes, and shattered inner ease. I closed my...
‘Advice from Dante’ on Mask Wearing and Other Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson The Society March 11, 2021 Covid-19, Culture, Dante, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments . Advice from Dante “If you hear nostrums* in the market cried, Behave like men, and not like witless sheep.” ---Dante, Paradiso, Canto V Behave...
‘Kismet’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society March 11, 2021 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 15 Comments . . Kismet If I'd been younger, or you not so old, Or we'd met at a different time and place, Would there have been within your heart a space For...
‘The Final Solution, Take Two’ by Joe Tessitore The Society March 10, 2021 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 27 Comments . I heard the harvested remains Of infants coursing through my veins Will save me from the Wuhan Flu--- I’m gonna get some, how ‘bout...
‘Bang!’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 10, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 35 Comments . Bang! “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.”---This quote was attributed...
An Essay on the Canceling of Dr. Seuss: ‘If I Ran the Circus’ by Michael Curtis The Society March 9, 2021 Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments . Girolamo Savonarola Here we are at circus, you and me and all the others, facing each and every way in the Age of Absurdity. Rather alike some...
‘Political Conversation’ by Russel Winick The Society March 9, 2021 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . between friends of 40+ years “Just what about Obama don’t you like?” “I fear his plans will force a big tax hike. His National Labor...
‘The Pox Fox’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 8, 2021 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 33 Comments . This silver-furred yogi of how to stay fit, This bespectacled guru of health, Is a growly voiced sage of...
‘The View from the Hill’ by Martin Rizley The Society March 8, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments . "He has made everything beautiful in its time. . ." (Ecclesiastes 3:11) The sun shines so brightly on this verdant hill Where I sit in silence so...
‘The English Cantos: Volume 2: StairWell. Canto 1 Ascent’ by James Sale The Society March 7, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry 13 Comments . The poet has now escaped Hell, and has arrived in Purgatory or what he calls the StairWell. But he seems to have been abandoned by Dante, and has a...
Poem Circulating Online Laments Canceling of Dr. Seuss Books The Society March 6, 2021 Children's, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 35 Comments The author of the above poem, circulating online, is unknown. From The Epoch Times (March 2, 2021) "Biden Omits Mention of Dr. Seuss From ‘Read...
‘The Tango Argentine’ by Daniel Kemper The Society March 6, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Do they still dance on old walkwayswith lowered shoulders, mastered breathand almost martial, measured gazethough one that's bent on life, not...
‘Tradition’ by Troy Camplin The Society March 5, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . I've battled beside Gilgamesh, the Bull Of Heaven slain by us. I've fought beside Achilles, hot beside a burning hull, And watched as Agamemnon,...
‘The White Man’s Burden’ by Rudyard Kipling: Poem, Background, and Analysis The Society March 4, 2021 Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry 60 Comments . A Teaching Tool for High School English Language Arts or Global History Teachers by Evan Mantyk . Background of Kipling and British India Rudyard...
‘Who Knew’ and Other Poetry by Áine Mae The Society March 4, 2021 Beauty, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 22 Comments . . Who Knew How often I crushed autumn leaves Until I saw a robin drink From one that cupped the fallen rain, And many times too, I did...
A Review of James A. Tweedie’s Mostly Sonnets: Formal Poetry in an Informal World The Society March 3, 2021 Beauty, Essays, Poetry, Reviews 13 Comments Reviewed Book: Mostly Sonnets: Formal Poetry in an Informal World by James A. Tweedie, Dunecrest Press, July 2019 by Theresa Rodriguez As a fellow...
Poetry Challenge: Write a Sonnet in Iambic Monometer The Society March 2, 2021 Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests, Poetry Forms 122 Comments . This challenge was conceived by Paul A. Freeman after reading a sonnet in iambic monometer by James A. Tweedie, "Allergies." Mr. Freeman's example...
‘In Your Dreams Grandad’ by Jeff Eardley The Society March 2, 2021 Humor, Poetry 22 Comments . . He met her one Summer, the girl of his dreams, A freckle-faced beauty just out of her teens. He chatted her up, and he thought he’d done...
A Poem on the Tyranny of Google, by Bruce Dale Wise The Society March 1, 2021 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . . Frankly, There Are Many Ways To Spell Uggly “the Baleks von Bilgen…new coat of arms—a giant crouching under a fir tree” —Heinrich...
