The SCP Spring 2021 Poetry Reading, Online The Society May 23, 2021 From the Society, Poetry, Readings 10 Comments . Videos of this event now available here. You are invited to a reading of exquisite poetry and conversations with the poets. This reading is part...
‘On Turning Seventy’ by James A. Tweedie The Society May 23, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 37 Comments . Today I will be turning seventy, An age I’ll claim with some temerity. I’ll welcome it with both serenity And sober, grave, austere...
‘Sunset’ by Michael Miller The Society May 22, 2021 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 7 Comments . A life alone is at its center bare, A quiet conversation with myself, A single, threadbare suit I always wear, A volume set aside upon life's...
‘Climate Charge’: A Poem for Pentecost by Margaret Coats The Society May 22, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima 36 Comments . The Spirit blazes in an upper room; A hundred twenty flames spout sparks to cast Christ’s wildfire on the earth, and make it bloom. The...
‘The Winds of War Now Howl’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 21, 2021 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . May 12, 2021 The weakness of this president’s admin Has put us in the mess that we are in. The winds of war now howl all over the place From...
‘The Good Shepherd’ by Brian Yapko The Society May 21, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 27 Comments . My count of sheep was off as twilight fell And father’s friend, Ben Ezra’s lamb was gone! I had to find her! Searching past the well I climbed...
‘The State of Art’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society May 21, 2021 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . The State of Art The art world has completely turned around. Now critics blind themselves, or close their eyes, Shout how their contacts and their...
A Woke Version of Cole Porter’s ‘Anything Goes’ by Julian Woodruff The Society May 20, 2021 Culture, Humor, Music, Performing Arts, Poetry 26 Comments . Everyone Knows Fog and smoke! Such confusion we’re subject to! So much danger to me and you From the yahoos without a clue! Now we’re...
A Poem from Storm-Hit Texas, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 19, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 27 Comments . My Texas Tempest Silver Lining It’s said that during times of heightened pain Your world contracts. You’ll find it’s apt to shrink--- A...
Two Poems about Stone, by Joseph S. Salemi The Society May 19, 2021 Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Isolde and the Men of Stone Who could believe, except on ancient trust? The stones grew pliant, yielding into shape When softer nature touched...
‘Phones’ After Poe’s ‘Bells’ and Other Poetry by Paul Buchheit The Society May 19, 2021 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . The Phones with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe Phones, phones, phones, See the people with their phones, Silver, pink and paisley phones, On the...
An Interpretation of DarkSide Ransomeware’s Apology, by Bethany Mootsey The Society May 18, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments . Light Side an interpretation of the apology by the DarkSide ransomware hackers Our motives are mercenary, and apolitical.Putin puts in a good...
A 2020 Election Allegory: ‘The Purloined Lectern’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society May 18, 2021 Culture, Poetry, The Raven 5 Comments . The Purloined Lectern by C. Aubre DeWiles It was the fall, November, 2020, in the night. My friend, Earl Dolan Page, and I were chatting in low...
‘The Dove Returned’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society May 18, 2021 Beauty, Children's, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau 12 Comments . The Dove Returned The dove returned! The Earth is dry; A golden sun lights up the sky. This ark shall rest on land again Each creature freed from...
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...
