A Poem on Uyghur Concentration Camps: ‘All Aboard’ by Cheryl Corey The Society May 17, 2021 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 5 Comments . Two by two, the Uyghur stand in long Lines. They carry nothing to call their own, The final destination, a great unknown, A distant, re-education...
‘I, Judas’ by Jeff Kemper The Society May 17, 2021 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . My erstwhile master taught me well And I supposed I could adjust As did the comrades in our cell, But when he said he’d bite the dust I levied...
‘Not a Sparrow Falls’ by Peter Hartley The Society May 16, 2021 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 21 Comments . A portent for our loss, this bird, so nigh Its end. The slowly creeping dusk had dared It to emerge, its doughty spirit bared, Eyes bright as...
A 100th Birthday Celebration Poem, by James A. Tweedie The Society May 16, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Unimaginable written in celebration of the 100th birthday on May 16th of the Poet's mother, Marjorie Tweedie, a resident of Walnut Creek,...
‘A Woke Recipe for Disaster’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 15, 2021 Culture, Pantoum, Poetry, Rondeau, Villanelle 26 Comments . A Woke Recipe for Disaster a villanelle Heap fresh and zesty chaos on despair. Rub salt in history’s wounds till hatred sticks, Then sugar...
‘My Paola’s Love’ by Martin Rizley The Society May 15, 2021 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 5 Comments . My Paola’s love is constant as the sun That daily sheds its beams on hill and dale; No sooner set, it hastes again to run With steady pace, the...
‘In Praise of the Helicap’ by Jeff Eardley The Society May 14, 2021 Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . in response to Mike Bryant's "CDC: New Guidance" “The Helicap’s a wondrous thing,” I heard the salesman say, I ordered one from Amazon, it...
A Poem on the Near-Earth Asteroid Apophis and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society May 14, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Apophis Apophis is the name of a near-earth asteroid that passed by our planet a few months ago, a name it shares with the Ancient Egyptian evil...
Winners of the Friends of Falun Gong Poetry Contest Announced The Society May 13, 2021 Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests 12 Comments . Congratulations to the winners! Readings of the top three winning poems have been published here: . FIRST...
‘On the Beating Up of Sarah Liang’ by Damian Robin The Society May 12, 2021 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 12 Comments . Sarah Liang is a veteran reporter with the Hong Kong Epoch Times who was recently assaulted by communist agents. It seems there’s little hope to...
‘The Bunyip’s Spell’ and Other Poetry by David Watt The Society May 12, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . The Bunyip’s Spell A native girl of spirit strong, As graceful as the flitting fishes; Went swimming in a billabong, Against her mother’s...
‘Epigrams for Today and Tomorrow’ by C.B. Anderson The Society May 11, 2021 Culture, Epigrams and Proverbs, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments . Raw Now, listen, if you want to know the truth: The world's a battleground of claw and tooth. . Spare the Details Elections, like the spawning of...
‘Ode to Numbness’ by Thomas Benstead The Society May 11, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments . Piteous Fools! The time has comeWhen all men seek to be is numb.The toils of our daily lifeDo overwhelm us all with strifeWithin ourselves; we aim...
A Poem for Derek Chauvin, by Evan Mantyk The Society May 10, 2021 Culture, Poetry 30 Comments . An Angel Speaks to the Imprisoned Derek Chauvin “Although it has been difficult,__I know you’ll make it through.Of course you never were at...
‘For a Friend Fighting Cancer’ and Other Poetry by Lee Goldberg The Society May 10, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments . For a Friend Fighting Cancer And so it seems before the dawn that darkness reigns and hope is gone. I understand that is the way you feel. But...
‘Precious Procedure and Process’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society May 9, 2021 Essays, Poetry 55 Comments . When I was eighteen years old, something happened that had a profound effect on my view of the world. Next door to us in Woodside there lived an...
‘How to Be Trendy on Campus’ by Sarban Bhattacharya The Society May 9, 2021 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments . Entering college is an easy way Of making lots of friends, a herd of mares; Just drink a toast to Lenin any day, Down vodka’s revolution with...
A Mother’s Day Poem from a Mother to a Son, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 8, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 38 Comments . A Sonnet for My Son On Mother’s Day, I simply have to say I’m humbled by my role and heartened too. The gift of you has paved a wondrous way To...
‘The Praise of Age’ by Walter Kennedy (1450–1508), Translated by Margaret Coats The Society May 8, 2021 Beauty, Chant Royal, Culture, Poetry, Translation 23 Comments . At Matins’ hour, the middle of the night,I woke, and soon found I was not alone;A man who seemed past sixty to my sightThis sentence said, and...
‘I Am With Child’ by Michael Charles Maibach The Society May 8, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment .For all my lifeI felt alone---Out on the road,As well as home. I saw couples With children near,Filled to the brimWith sweetness dear. But then it...
Split Nursery Rhyme Poetry Challenge The Society May 7, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests 69 Comments . Split a line from a nursery rhyme and use the halves to open and close a poem. Post yours in the comments section below. This challenge comes from...
‘A Personal Relationship’ by Daniel Kemper The Society May 7, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Part II of the Coffee Trilogy. (Part I can be found here.) In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ...
‘Ode to an Osprey’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 6, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 37 Comments . Today I spied you, red in beak and claw.You perched atop a roadside pole to dineOn scaly prey with silver skin, pecked raw—A mullet dish of...
‘I Asked the Moon’ by David Irby The Society May 6, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments . I asked the moon, "Do you feel all alone?" She said, "I have no time. I've lots to do. To all the stars, I am a chaperone. Tonight I'm in good...
‘There Once Was a Very Big Lie’: A Limerick by Joe Tessitore The Society May 5, 2021 Covid-19, Culture, Limerick, Poetry 43 Comments . There once was a very big lie, That our country refused to deny. While we did what they told us, To the Commies they sold us And we kissed all our...
‘Living in a Purple Wood’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 5, 2021 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 16 Comments .. Whoever said that change is good Is living in a purple wood Behind a tree behind a bough; A purple horse and purple cow, For progress is a purple...
‘Dactylic Proverbs’ by James A. Tweedie The Society May 4, 2021 Culture, Epigrams and Proverbs, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Forms 19 Comments . Set your priorities—don't be uncouth—know the Secret to happiness lies in this truth: “Though the Sum of all things is a secret worth...
’52 B.C.’ by Cindy Hill The Society May 4, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Six hundred years before Old Sarum fell, the might of Rome faced down the Gallic tribes on earthen ramparts between circles scribed, intent to...
‘Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia’ by Mike Bryant The Society May 3, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Readings 33 Comments . "To indulge in hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian tergiversation is not to show your erudition: rather, it is to be superficial.” ---Steven...
Epitaphs of Great Poets and Writers The Society May 3, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 46 Comments Compiled by Roy E. Peterson Readers are encouraged to add other great poets' and writers' epitaphs in the comments section below, or write a poem for...
Three Poems after Ecclesiastes 9, by Jeff Kemper The Society May 2, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . One Fate Ecclesiastes 9:1-6 Shall I portend, and shall I explicate What eyes can see themselves, ere they go blind? The moral and sagacious of...
‘Prayer’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society May 1, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Prayer Of people who pray, Routinely or not, He wonders what the case is. Are they of belief Prayer has an effect, Or touching all the...
Reflections on China’s God of War Statue on International Workers Day—May 1 The Society May 1, 2021 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Poetry 8 Comments by Michael Curtis When next you float down the Yangtze River through Jingzhou City, likely you will notice Guan Yu, God of War, looking rather...
‘The People, Yes’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society April 30, 2021 Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . "I Lived and languished.” —Andrei Platonov by "Weird” Ace Blues Last year we learned th’ Empire struck back with fierce synergy. The...
‘Like Abelard and Heloise’ and Other Poetry by Arthur L. Wood The Society April 30, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings 6 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5FdfL8sVRM Like Abelard and Heloise Like Abelard and Heloise This woman has the gorgeous mind. Her touch of...
On Wearing Masks: ‘For Shame’ by Joe Tessitore The Society April 29, 2021 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . written while walking out my front door You weren’t born with that thing on your face, So look in your mirror and see the disgrace Of a coward...
‘Like a Bell’ by Robert Boucheron The Society April 29, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments . Like a bell struck in the clear night, A voice that no one hears Tells me to leave my bed and write With ink distilled from tears. The stars...
An Ancient Prophecy on Vaccinations Discovered by Margaret Coats The Society April 28, 2021 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Vaticination Sibylla says, Fear archers of immunity! Beware the vanguard shock troops sharpening double tongues, Whetted with grave authority To...
An Ode: ‘Spring Mourning’ by Daniel R. Leach The Society April 28, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments . The first soft days of Springtime greet my eyes __Like a young girl’s face smiling fresh and clean, The sunlight falls, like hope, from...
On the Hypocrisy of Gov. Newsom, and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society April 27, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 17 Comments . The Tale of Governor Do-as-I-Say-Not-as-I-Do-som It’s funny how Democracy In many states now colored blue Produces rank hypocrisy, A birthright...
