‘Postponement’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society September 29, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments Postponement I disappoint some folks of whom I’m fond, But I, in turn, am irritated by The nebulous assurance that beyond This life, in...
A Poem on Toxic Masculinity: ‘Our Worthy Sons’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society September 28, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 61 Comments Our Worthy Sons dedicated to Samuel Our worthy sons should never be ashamed Of who they are and who they’re meant to be. For far too long...
‘Odyssey of Theodicy’ and Other Poetry by Peter Venable The Society September 28, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Odyssey of Theodicy It is a strange fact, clearly biblical— In this case God’s will is most puzzling: At times, He moves mountains...
‘Reflections of an Aging Moon’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society September 27, 2020 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 25 Comments Reflections of an Aging Moon Great brassy stalks of varicolored horns Blow notes to keep the bees awake at noon. Immersed in gaudy zinnia’s...
‘The Winds of Time’ by David Paul Behrens The Society September 26, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments The winds of time will cease to blow, The shining moon will cease to glow, As history comes to an end; Eternity waits 'round the...
‘Dreams on the Horizon’ and Other Poetry by Dave Irby The Society September 25, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments Dream on the Horizon I sail the ocean toward the setting sun to find my dreams that hide within the sky. And I will travel till my days...
On Troublemakers: Two Translations from Phaedrus, by Terry L. Norton The Society September 24, 2020 Children's, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Translation 9 Comments On Troublemakers: Two Translations* from the Latin Poet Phaedrus, Freedman of Augustus (first century A.D.) Translator’s Prologue These little...
‘Castles in Our Heads’ and Other Poetry by Talbot Hook The Society September 23, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments Castles in Our Heads The old Italians once long held The mind as ordered hall; And in their arm-chair coffers swelled A wealth beyond...
A Poem on Trump’s Reaction to Ginsburg’s Death, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society September 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 43 Comments A Lesson Learned from Trump “We are all equal in the presence of death.” ---Publilius Syrus (100 BC) Today I learned a lesson from the...
A Poem on the Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020), by Joe Tessitore The Society September 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments Supreme Farewell As every king and peasant must, A justice stands before the Just. We bid farewell to Sister Ruth, Who trembles now before the...
‘In the Midst of Life We Are in Death,’ a Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society September 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments “In the Midst of Life We are in Death.” --Book of Common Prayer, The Burial of the Dead In sure and certain hope, we toss The soil in,...
‘At the Supper Table of a Progressive’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream The Society September 21, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments . . At the Supper Table of a Progressive They understood riots and death and what's more, "Adore them all really," and down to the core, So dropping...
Ekphrastic Economy: A Review of Memoirs of a Witness Tree, by Randal A. Burd, Jr. The Society September 20, 2020 Essays, Poetry, Reviews 6 Comments Memoirs of a Witness Tree, by Randal A. Burd, Jr. Kelsay Books, 2020 by Andrew Benson Brown Reading Aristotle’s Poetics is in some ways a...
‘Feeding Time’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society September 19, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 23 Comments Feeding Time Chickens feed on chicken feed. Birds on birdseed, yes-indeed! Cattle feed on cattle feed, Twitters feed on Twitter...
A Poem On Nancy’s Visit to a Salon, Violating Covid Restrictions, by Sarban Bhattacharya The Society September 18, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments There’s no age bar on titivating hair, Apart from putting rouge on wrinkled cheek. A Speaker has the right to looking fair, And prune...
‘The Church is Locked on Easter Day’ and Other Poetry by Benjamin Thomas Cepican The Society September 18, 2020 Beauty, Covid-19, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry, Rondeau 7 Comments The Church is Locked on Easter Day a rondeau The Church is locked on Easter Day Despite the stone being rolled away. The Christ awakes to...
A Poem on the Laundering of Drug Money, and Other Poetry by Rod Walford The Society September 17, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments Lucrative On the Laundering of Drug Money As commodities go, you are harmless enough Whether tendered in coin or in crinkly stuff. But...
‘To Those Who Condemn Coleridge for Using Opium’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society September 16, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 26 Comments Weave a circle round him thrice, __And close your eyes with holy dread, __For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of...
‘Logos, Rising’ by Michael Witcoff The Society September 15, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 4 Comments When Logos lived within the heart of man, Then beauty bloomed and flowered forth at will--- And every house was built upon a...
Three Summer Senryu by Matt O’Hays The Society September 14, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Haiku and Senryu, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments July 4, 2020 A monument falls Rioters have no remorse What happened this fourth? Summer 2020 Sunny days are...
‘London’s Docklands, Pre-Gentrification’ and Other Poetry by Peter Austin The Society September 13, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments London’s Docklands, Pre-Gentrification from a sonnet by Wordsworth Earth has not anything to show more foul Unless it be the same neath...
‘Losing It’ and Other Poetry by Jeff Eardley The Society September 12, 2020 Beauty, Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments Losing It He staggered round his living room in stunning disbelief As for the very umpteenth time, he’d gone and lost his teeth. He...
‘Remember 9/11’: A Rondeau by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society September 11, 2020 Culture, Poetry, Rondeau, Terrorism 29 Comments They tried and failed. They’re trying still To steal our freedom; break our will--- The terrorists who torment days With ire and fire...
A Poem on the Real Definition of Fascism: ‘Misdirection’ by Russel Winick The Society September 11, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 28 Comments Misdirection Some dictionaries and encyclopedias still define “fascism” as a far-right system of rule. They need to look again. The...
A Poem for Nantes Cathedral, by Margaret Coats The Society September 10, 2020 Beauty, Chant Royal, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments For Nantes Cathedral Ravaged by Arson in July 2020, a Tribute This holy place, where the enthusiasm of builders was succeeded by doubt...
A Poem on the Earliest Known English Poet, Caedmon, by Philip Rosenbaum The Society September 9, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . Poet's Note: The Venerable Bede tells us that in the 7th century Caedmon, “having lived in a secular habit till he was well advanced in years,...
Poetry on the Passing of the Poet’s Wife, Part II, by Peter Hartley The Society September 8, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 26 Comments No Longer There I wonder if a change has come about. No longer do I feel that she is there As physical a being in her chair To me as I to...
‘To a Prisoner of Conscience’ by Martin Rizley The Society September 7, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 8 Comments In Response to an Article on the Persecution of Falun Gong Practitioners in China I read the other day about the pain That you endure in some...
A Poem on Nancy Pelosi’s Maskless Salon Trip, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society September 6, 2020 Covid-19, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 30 Comments A Cut Above Why shouldn’t Nancy break a lockdown rule To bless us with her chestnut-tress finesse? As Speaker of the House she’d look...
‘Vote Joe’ by Wortley Clutterbuck The Society September 6, 2020 Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry, Readings 3 Comments There’s lots of riots in the street or so I’ve heard from someone’s tweet; they’re pulling out all of the...
‘Before the Plague’ by Daniel Kemper The Society September 5, 2020 Beauty, Covid-19, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments Before the plague I never knew my hands. The need to purify the human touch has turned my vision inward, but though much is taken; much...
‘Take Me Out to the Ball Game, 2020’ by Joe Tessitore The Society September 4, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 27 Comments I am a cardboard cutout. I sit here in the stands. I do not think. I do not blink. I do not clap my hands. You are a cardboard...
A Cat Monologue by E.V. Wyler The Society September 3, 2020 Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry 27 Comments 'I Shall A Mighty Hunter Be!' “I shall a mighty hunter be, The King of Kills, by God’s decree! Savannahs always guarantee a vantage...
‘We Siblings Three’ and Other Poetry by Randal A. Burd, Jr. The Society September 2, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments We Siblings Three Attempt to add the hours we have shared: One hundred thousand, maybe thousands more? Our paths conjoined for several...
‘Backyard Bliss’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society September 1, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 36 Comments Backyard Bliss I hear hope’s song fill skies today __In trills beyond my door. Her citrus kiss burns through the grey __As martins dip...
The Society of Classical Poets 2021 Poetry Competition The Society September 1, 2020 From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Contests 11 Comments Winners Have Been Announced Here. "Poetry ... is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal,...
2021 High School Poetry Competition The Society September 1, 2020 From the Society, High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests 1 Comment "Poetry ... is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular."...
2021 Poetry Translation Competition The Society September 1, 2020 From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Translation 2 Comments "Poetry ... is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular."...
‘My Sickness Is a Mistress’ by Kevin Blankinship The Society August 31, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments I made her a bed with cushions and throws but she refused and slept in my bones. My skin, too tight for both my sighs and hers so she...
Three Poems on Drinking, by C.B. Anderson The Society August 30, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments The Angels’ Share Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God’s...
