‘My Father’s Cardinal’ by Cynthia Erlandson The Society January 11, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . I wonder where my father’s cardinal is--- The colored-pencil drawing that he made In art class---he was only in fourth grade, I’d been...
‘Amen and Awoman’ and Other Poetry on the State of the U.S. The Society January 11, 2021 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments . Wokeness by Russel Winick “Amen and Awoman” the Congressman said, The Leftists all thought it was great. What more woke insanity now lies...
‘With Goals in Tow’ by Janice Canerdy The Society January 10, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . With Goals in Tow I’ve fewer days ahead of me than those I have been blessed to see. Though time moves on so rapidly, my hopes sustain. God...
‘Flodden’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society January 10, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Performing Arts, Poetry 16 Comments . Flodden Historical Note: The Battle of Flodden took place between English and Scottish armies on September 9, 1513. The battle proved a tragic...
Two Poems Making Use of ‘Conceits,’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society January 9, 2021 Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Essays, Poetry 26 Comments . The Death of Today’s Sequoia Flecte ramos, arbor alta, tensa laxa viscera: Et rigor lentescat ille, quem dedit nativitas, Ut superni membra...
‘In Nature’s Loving Show’ by Donald McCrory The Society January 9, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments . In nature’s loving show of all things fair the fruits of youth seem sweetest to the eye, the world applauds youth’s beauty as most rare and...
‘The Inca Kings’ and Other Poetry by Siham Karami The Society January 8, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 2 Comments . The Inca Kings Who stole the kings? Even Pachacutec's mummy now is gone from Lima's hospital display of Inca royalty—the T-Rex of them all,...
‘An Ode To Letters’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society January 8, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 21 Comments . An Ode to Letters We cannot be sure what the future will hold, But I doubt this prediction will fail. That no one will ever unearth in an attic An...
Petrarch’s Canzone 129, translated by Steven Monte The Society January 7, 2021 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation 5 Comments . “Di pensier in pensier, di monte in monte” by Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) __From thought to thought, from mountain to mountain, Love guides...
A Poem on Sir Edward John Poynter’s ‘Faithful unto Death,’ by Peter Hartley The Society January 7, 2021 Art, Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 14 Comments . From Parthenope’s coast each to his post, Beseeching eyes upraised with steady gaze. That night would nature’s cruelty erase A city from the...
‘Uncivil War’ by James A. Tweedie The Society January 6, 2021 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . with reference to Macbeth V,5 . So bleak and dreary, like a stormy day, The world a whirl of whorls of endless rain And wind, with crash and...
‘The Mission of the Magi’ by Jeff Kemper The Society January 6, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments . after Matthew 2:1-12 From distant regions of the east they came, Wise Magi, searching for a royal son, Into Jerusalem with single aim: Determined,...
A Poem on the Revealing of Election Fraud: ‘Epiphany’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 6, 2021 Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . Fools sneered at his rightful place; __“He isn’t our leader” they said. They labeled his traits a disgrace. __En masse, they demanded him...
On the 2020 Election: ‘I Asked the Lord, Please Tell Me’ by Martin Rizley The Society January 5, 2021 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . I asked the Lord, “Please tell me, where's the outrage From those who claim to love the cause of right? Why aren't more people going on the...
‘A Warning from the Red-Light Zone’ by Jeff Eardley The Society January 5, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 48 Comments This ode concerns a wealthy gent, To London Town, one day he went. He’d paid to see an Opera, But got more than he bargained...
Poetry on the Planned Illegitimate Election of Joe Biden as U.S. President The Society January 4, 2021 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 25 Comments . Biden Kneels Before the Red Beast by Damian Robin from a scenario of Evan Mantyk On silver-smoke-screen in mid air __the Red Beast’s horde has...
Rhyming Drugstore Advertisements,1885 The Society January 4, 2021 Culture, Found Poem, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments Selected by Beverly Stock ---From Liver Pills to stuff that kills, and makes it smooth to die, The last is not their mission, though, and yet...
‘To Solitude’ by Chris Laverty The Society January 3, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments . Away with loneness--he whose winter bites, who haunts the wasted wilderness and shores, born in thunder on the misty moors; who, bred by wolves,...
‘Hunting’ and Other Poetry by William Conelly The Society January 3, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . . Hunting My father strides ahead of me.His khaki cap is all I see,beside the barrel of his gun.We’re hunting upland quail that runfrom us in...
‘Nevermore! If Edgar Allan Poe Submitted “The Raven” today’ by Tonia Kalouria The Society January 2, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Raven 14 Comments Dear Edgar, __We’re sorry our response has taken so much time, but it grieves and pains to tell you that you’ve missed our...
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...
