A ‘New Year’s Revolution’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 1, 2021 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 32 Comments . . The Rub I’ve had a taste of wonder and I cannot give it back. I’ve seen each deep state blunder and the swamp’s heart dipped in...
‘Have No Regrets’ by Damian Robin The Society December 31, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Old doors to opportunitiesare gone, so, not one opens.Enticements that were there, just tease,no keys, just slot-less tokens. Lost gains are...
‘Ode on Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Ganymede and the Eagle’ and Other Poetry by Talbot Hook The Society December 31, 2020 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 36 Comments . . Ode on Bertel Thorvaldsen’s Ganymede and the Eagle Bending down in offering, a Boy extends a shallow bowl; Craning neck of eagle dips,...
‘To U.S. Citizens This Christmas’ by Damian Robin The Society December 30, 2020 Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . O hail you lied-to, baffled Yanks,__false-fed with sick afront’ry,If only rigging votes were pranks__not killing your good country. I know...
“Pride Goeth . . . .” and Other Sonnets by James A. Tweedie The Society December 30, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments “Pride Goeth . . . .” “How dare you, sir! Your libel will not stand!” The words flew out across the now-hushed room. “Retract your...
‘Christmas Present’ by Joe Tessitore The Society December 29, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry 39 Comments . Long the shadow that it casts, Christmas present, o’er our pasts. In its darkness made to bask, Mumbling carols through a mask. Oh, the...
‘Anno Domini 1348’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society December 29, 2020 Beauty, Covid-19, Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Anno Domini 1348 ‘Tis thirteen months since those twelve ships of death Docked in Messina bearing vicious plague From the Black Sea. The fevers,...
A Poem on the Jan. 6 Electoral Vote Count, by Christopher Flint The Society December 28, 2020 Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . The Burden of Truth Our founders feared and could foresee that politics might come to be far more intense than mere debate of means to best...
‘The Monkeys and the Dragonflies’ by Terry L. Norton The Society December 28, 2020 Children's, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments adapted from a Filipino folktale __Once, when the sun was at its height, A dragonfly thought she’d alight Upon a branch. The air was...
‘The Iroha Poem’ by Kūkai (空海) (774–835), Translated by Francesca Leader The Society December 27, 2020 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 18 Comments . The leaves may shine with colored gloss, But they will fall, forever lost. In this false world, what soul, I ask, May hope in timelessness to...
‘A Sonnet on Taking a Leap of Faith’ by Brian Yapko The Society December 26, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments This is the day for manifesting soul To flesh, for making contemplation real; Incorporeal yet real and whole Advancing to some heavenly...
A ‘Walking in a Winter Wonderland’ Parody by David D. Irby The Society December 25, 2020 Poetry 7 Comments . Freezing in a Winter Wonderland to be sung to the melody of "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" I am cold. Are you listening? On my nose, ice is...
‘The Night after Christmas’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society December 25, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . The Night after Christmas You better not cry. “Deplorable” might be how best to putit, just to underscore the gravityof chores that border on...
‘A Wretch Like Me’ by Joe Tessitore The Society December 25, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . To miss the mark, to lose my way,to choose the dark, on Christmas Day. No star I see, no Virgin Birth.No joy for me, no peace on earth. But for a...
‘Can You See the Star?’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society December 24, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Wake up and raise the blinds, to see the light, The colors; hark, the carols, feel the cheers Emerging, from within this Holy Night. Hear choirs...
‘Christmas Is a Person’: Words & Music by Jim Tweedie The Society December 24, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry 21 Comments Christmas trees and Christmas carols, Christmas lights and reindeer, too.Christmas cards and Christmas presents, wrapped with paper, bows and...
‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer—a Sonnet’ and Other Poetry by Paul A. Freeman The Society December 24, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments . Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer---A Sonnet Poor Rudolph was a reindeer with a nose resembling a bulb of bright red hue. The other reindeer laughed...
‘Voices from Childhood’: A Christmas Poem by David Watt The Society December 24, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments X The play of the breeze brings the music of childhood, The tinkle of laughter as light and as clear As were our voices when singing in Wildwood The...
‘Stepfather’ by Daniel Kemper The Society December 23, 2020 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . The hills that Joseph meditated on were black and just a bit like elephants, but if somehow they counterpointed dawn, there was no sign of its...
‘Rote Musings’ by Edward Ahern The Society December 23, 2020 Poetry 9 Comments My day dredges through its habits like chicken wings that flop through flour, like tame lettuce-nibbling rabbits, so to say, lacking...
A Poem on the Covid-19 Vaccine: ‘Needled’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 22, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 45 Comments . “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” ---Albert Einstein If I put forth a...
‘In This Post-Christian Era I Believe’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society December 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 28 Comments In This Post Christian Era “For he nil falsen no wight, dar I seye, That wol his herte al hoolly on him leye.” ---Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Love...
‘Apocalypse’: Three Sonnets by Peter Hartley The Society December 21, 2020 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 29 Comments _ I How will I know you or will you know me?When every bird has hurtled to the ground,When every whale and every fish has drowned,And every beast,...
‘The Rape of Lady Liberty’ and Other Poetry on Election Fraud The Society December 20, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments . . The Rape of Lady Liberty In Memoriam: November 3, 2020 by Patrick Henry Redivivus They did the awful deed within the dark--- Brute men with...
‘Evocation’ by Leo Zoutewelle The Society December 20, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments I set up my beloved theodolite And slowly, gently, aimed it at the moon, Then focused sharply on the lovely site, Which put its fragile eye piece...
Three Poems on Photography, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 19, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau 32 Comments . Still “Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it” ---Ralph Waldo Emerson I aim and shoot...
‘From a Prophet to the Emperor’ by Sterling Osborne The Society December 18, 2020 Culture, Poetry 6 Comments The corpses laid before your cast iron throne will never wake again. Their eyes alone accuse you from the veinous marble floor, but you...
‘The Screen Is Life’ by Michael Charles Maibach The Society December 17, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment The screen is life, The screen is king, The screen is now Our everything. The place we learn, The place we meet, The place we go When friends we...
‘Dominion’ and Other Poetry on Voter Fraud The Society December 16, 2020 Culture, Poetry 28 Comments . Dominion “No one but the enemy will tell you what the enemy is going to do.” ---Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game by Susan Jarvis...
‘The House of Life’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society December 16, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments The House of Life to Stephen Come in, my friend, and warm yourself; come in out of the cold! The night is dark, and icy winds blow harshly on the...
‘At Sea with the Virus’ by Damian Robin The Society December 15, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments based on a true story My wife’s in bed with lowered head and even lower mood. Her chin’s on her chest and she’s not impressed though at...
‘My 2020 Christmas List’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 14, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . The coziest wrap of a cuddle To wear under snow-swollen skies; The grin of a kith-and-kin huddle To glisten in sparkling eyes; A tipple of...
‘Prince Hamlet Speaks About Election Fraud’ by Evan Mantyk The Society December 14, 2020 Culture, Poetry, Shakespeare 34 Comments . . Prince Hamlet Speaks About Election Fraud Prince Hamlet speaks about election fraud:"O villainy! Ho! Let the door be locked.Treachery! Seek it...
The Struggle for the Formalist Tradition: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society December 13, 2020 Deconstructing Communism, Education, Essays, 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, 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 Challenge, Poetry Contests 87 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...
