‘A Pleased Jaques’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise The Society January 15, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . A Pleased Jaques ---after a soliloquy in Shakespeare's As You Like It At first there is the infant, grinning widebecause he has escaped his nurse's...
‘My Soul Is at Home in the Depths of the Ocean’ and Other Poetry by Corey Elizabeth Jackson The Society January 15, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . My Soul Is at Home in the Depths of the Ocean My soul is at home in the depths of the ocean; My soul is at home in the cosmos above, Always...
A Rondeau on the Fish Behind the California Water Shortage, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 14, 2025 Poetry, Rondeau, Satire 28 Comments . O Delta Smelt O Delta Smelt of silver scale, O threatened gem of fin and tail, In brackish waters made just so By crimson hands as ill winds...
‘The Lemon Tree’: A Poem by Satyananda Sarangi The Society January 14, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments . The Lemon Tree We leave the house, the nurtured lawn is gone; The garden still resembles lifeless works Of abstract art; at times banana...
‘Out in the Open’: A Poem by Steven Frattali The Society January 14, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments . Out in the Open The slanting rain comes on and on! The cold drops blear and blur the sun When they hang in my eyelashes. My heavy stomp in the mud...
‘Payday’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society January 13, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Satire 14 Comments . Payday Before the crash, the market looked so strong. I doled out cash and credit, buying in While others sold. But, sadly, I was wrong About this,...
‘Magna Lex’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society January 13, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Magna Lex ---to the choirmaster, a Psalm (19) of David. . I The heavens herald God’s resplendency; The skies above display his artistry. By day...
‘Let There Be Light’ and Other Poetry by Cheryl Corey The Society January 12, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Let There Be Light From beyond, there came the Word—a cosmic “Om”That pierced the void with one colossal bang of sound,Releasing undulating...
‘Unnoticed and Unknown’ and Other Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society January 12, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima 13 Comments . Unnoticed and Unknown Unnoticed and unknown, she passes through The homeless strewn along the downtown street. Unnoticed and unknown by people...
‘Emergent Occasions’: A Poem by Maura H. Harrison The Society January 11, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . Emergent Occasions “And even angels, whose home is heaven, and who are winged too, yet had a ladder to go to heaven by steps.” —John Donne,...
‘Three Cascading Endings on Fallen Civilizations’ and Other Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson The Society January 11, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Three Cascading Endings on Fallen Civilizations I. Everywhere, the sands are endless. Look: A joke is made of all my glory. On Stone once sculpted...
‘Winter Night’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society January 10, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments . Winter Night A full moon fills the sky with lustrous light And gives the vault of heaven in the night A golden sheen that gilds the cloudy...
‘My Inner Attorney’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society January 10, 2025 Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . My Inner Attorney "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father...
Two Idylls of Bion of Smyrna, Translated from Greek by Joseph S. Salemi The Society January 9, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Translation 20 Comments . Two Idylls by Bion of Smyrnatranslated by Joseph S. Salemi . Idyll V Great Cypris stood before me in a dreamy hazeHolding by her fair hand the hand...
‘None for All’ and Other Poetry by Peter Lillios The Society January 9, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings 15 Comments . . None for All Backbones wilt and waistlines grow; Brightness dims as diodes glow. It’s history’s course, a simple fact, Declared with...
‘Healing Hands’: A Poem for the National Health Service, by Drilon Bajrami The Society January 8, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Healing Hands ---in appreciation of the care provided (free of charge) by the NHS, the National Health Service of the UK, while I was...
‘Happy’: A Poem by Joseph Stuart The Society January 8, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments . Happy ---for B.K. A ground to play, a set to swing, A slide to slide, a bell to ring: She walks the way of there and then. “Hap-py,” she says;...
On ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and Other Poems by Anna J. Arredondo The Society January 7, 2025 Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry 21 Comments . Watch Out! Now, “The Three Little Pigs” is a tale More for cautioning than for amusing: Learn its lessons and you may prevail; Heed them not,...
‘A Hero in My Head’: A Villanelle by Phillip Whidden The Society January 7, 2025 Poetry, Satire, Villanelle 31 Comments . A Hero in My Head Though never even in the war he loomed A hero there. At least in my blond head, Our father braved it out where Jap planes...
‘The Adoration of the Peacock’: A Poem for Epiphany by Rachel A. Lott The Society January 6, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 13 Comments . The Adoration of the Peacock ---on The Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi The world is a-gawk at a gaudy surprise, for...
A Poem and Video in Honor of Inauguration Day: ‘The Reincarnations of Donald J. Trump’ The Society January 6, 2025 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings, Video 27 Comments . https://youtu.be/LRxp0nZS2hM . video by Andrew Benson Brownpoem by Evan Mantyk . The Reincarnations of Donald J. Trump . I. 218 B.C. Above the...
‘Bollical Dogs’ in Response to T.S. Eliot’s ‘Jellicle Cats’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society January 5, 2025 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 26 Comments . Bollical Dogs I have a complaint! T.S. Eliot hogs All the fun with his stories of Jellicle Cats! So let me (inspired by zoo catalogs) Write of...
‘Caleb in Canaan’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society January 5, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Caleb in Canaan Green fields, walled towns, strong foes, but we are fit To overcome. Forward, I say. It’s ours. These forty days of foraging...
‘The Shepherd God’: A Poem by Jane Schulert The Society January 4, 2025 Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry 14 Comments . The Shepherd God On Autumn eves when solipsistic stars__Peer down on bloody, towering oaksWhose gnarled, twisted branches create bars__Encaging man...
‘A Freshman Pep Talk’: A Poem by Julian Woodruff The Society January 4, 2025 Humor, Music, Poetry 10 Comments . A Freshman Pep Talk ---upon reading “Composers to Listen to While Studying,”by Andrew Benson Brown, in The Epoch Times, Nov. 2, 2024 You’re...
‘Topics Over Time’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society January 3, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Topics Over Time At 10 boys talk about the games in which they’ve played. At 14 they discuss the girls and “progress” made. At 16 there’s...
‘Kill or Cure?’ and Other Healthcare Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 3, 2025 Poetry, Satire 31 Comments . Kill or Cure? “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patientwhile nature cures the disease.” ---Voltaire . Possible Side Effects: May...
‘Enduring Sight’ and Other Poetry by Mike Ruskovich The Society January 2, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 3 Comments . Enduring Sight Our blindest heroes walk among us, here, where legendary blindness gives us sight. King Oedipus still lives, and so does Lear in...
‘Americans in Florence’ and Other Poems by Mary Jane Myers The Society January 2, 2025 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry, Satire 19 Comments . Americans in Florence Ooo David! Whoa, you’re well-hung! But why a foreskin, underslung? Your left hand, do you hold a sling or dead Goliath's...
‘Oh, the Days’: A Poem on Motherhood, by Gigi Ryan The Society January 1, 2025 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 16 Comments . Oh, the Days Oh, the days of poop and vomit! My best dress had drool upon it While I walked my teething child Up and down the hall for miles. Oh,...
Two Meditations in Verse by T.M. Moore The Society January 1, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Meditation 4 "Now our Lord bestowed great gifts through small means..." ---Homily on Our Lord (11) "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or...
‘My New New Year’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 31, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 44 Comments . My New New Year I’m shunning bards of lilt and kilt tonight. My cup o’ kindness guzzled dry by kin Has urged the spurning of that worn-out...
‘December 31’: A New Year’s Poem and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society December 31, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments . December 31 __Another year _Gasps out its dying breaths. __Oh, do not spare _Any further Death’s ___Swift hand _From seizing its demand! __Do...
‘A Creation Myth’: A Poem by Evan Mantyk The Society December 30, 2024 Culture, Epic, Poetry 17 Comments . A Creation Myth The curtain opens. A million violinsCrescendo. Trumpets blare. A single drumBeat booms. In perfect time, the cosmos spins.The Hero...
‘Nordic Memories’: A Poem by Dan Tuton The Society December 30, 2024 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Nordic Memories They rise with the dawn of fashion Their eyes for new booty are keen, To ride the tide of nostalgia For something that they’ve...
‘Lines Written in a Time of Illness’ and Other Poetry by A.J. Illingworth The Society December 29, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Lines Written in a Time of Illness My body is weak, and this reflects my soul,Who baser pleasures is obsessed to know;For the mind, of late,...
‘The Matters of Life’: A Poem by Margaret Brinton The Society December 29, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . The Matters of Life With furrowed brow she knits away her troubles,Her wrinkled face so tight and drawn with age.The skeins of yarn unwind in rapid...
‘Help! I Can’t Stop Speaking in Iambic!’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society December 28, 2024 Humor, Poetry 33 Comments . Help! I Can’t Stop Speaking in Iambic! Help! I can’t stop speaking in iambic Pentameter! No matter what I say, Somehow it keeps on coming out...
‘On Learning of a Lover’s Death’ and Other Poetry by Cheryl Corey The Society December 28, 2024 Beauty, Ekphrastic, Poetry 18 Comments . On Learning of a Lover’s Death Your parting words were not exactly nice, But when I read the news that you had died, At least for old times’...
‘The Blank-Page Stage’ and Other Poetry by Warren Bonham The Society December 27, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . The Blank-Page Stage I once embraced the blank-page stage, when words would somehow always rhyme, but now my brain shows signs of age, and operates...
