‘The Day Louis Armstrong Died’ by Martin Hill Ortiz The Society June 10, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments My father wore his sorrow like a hundred millstone weight. I seldom saw him angry and I never saw him hate. And though he dressed for...
‘Corona Fatigue’ by Raymond Gallucci The Society June 9, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment May 4, 2020 Response is Draconian, As if Napoleon’s Back on the emperor’s throne. Except now with “wanna-bes” Ruining...
An Analysis of ‘The Gods of the Copybook Headings’ by Rudyard Kipling The Society June 9, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Poetry 12 Comments The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper...
A Smorgasbord of Craziness: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society June 8, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments I recently discarded some unnecessary texts, and among them were two past editions (the 17th and the 20th) of Len Fulton’s Directory of Poetry...
Poetry on Riots Across America and Communist Takeover in Hong Kong The Society June 7, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Limerick, Poetry 2 Comments A Riot Limerick by Joe Tessitore The Most Evil has cast the first brick And his antics make decent folk sick. Though he rant and he rail His...
‘Istanbul’ by James A. Tweedie (Part 2 in the Favorite Places Sonnet Series) The Society June 7, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Astride the Golden Horn, where Occident __And Orient collide, the silhouettes __of minarets co-mingle with the scent __of spice and...
‘D-Day Desecration’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 6, 2020 Culture, Poetry 24 Comments “London BLM riot: Cenotaph vandalised on the 76th anniversary of the D-Day Landing” –UK News headline, June 6, 2020 In nineteen...
‘The Captain’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society June 6, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments The captain stood amidst his crew, and wiped the bar for someone new. To make them laugh he'd tell a joke and light himself another...
‘Dear Editor’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 5, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 36 Comments Dear Editor, My odes are grandiose and overblown With pudgy gluts of stodgy adjectives In floods of flabby babble prone to drone, All...
A Dizi Gui Translation: Chinese Children’s Poetry The Society June 4, 2020 Beauty, Children's, Culture, Poetry, Translation 9 Comments The Dizi Gui (弟子规) is an ancient Chinese text for children that was written in the Qing Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Kangxi...
A Poem on the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom, and Other Related Poetry The Society June 3, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 6 Comments The Director General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom by Sarban Bhattacharya His accent’s weird, his hair is pretty grey, He is too calm to...
‘Elegy on a Strauss Waltz’ by Adam Sedia The Society June 3, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 15 Comments The room fills with a charming melody— A choir of violins in soaring flight With basses, cellos pulsing—one, two,...
‘Parade of the Ten Thousand’ by Rupert Palmer The Society June 2, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments Poet's note: This poem is built upon an episode from Xenophon’s Anabasis, in which the Ten Thousand, Greek mercenaries in the employ of Cyrus the...
‘On Reading Irish Saints’ Lives’ by T.M. Moore The Society June 1, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments When reading Irish hagiography, a few instructions should be borne in mind: First, don’t mistake this for the history you’ve read...
A Poem for the George Floyd Riots: ‘The Second Coming’ by W.B. Yeats The Society May 31, 2020 Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video 10 Comments Video and reading by Rob...
‘When You Love’ and Other Poetry by Michael Charles Maibach The Society May 31, 2020 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 19 Comments When You Love When you love The heart of one, Life makes sense With each new sun. You start each day With thoughts of her. You do...
A Coronavirus Triolet and Other Poetry The Society May 30, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry, Triolet 4 Comments A Grave Sin by Satyananda Sarangi How grave's this sin of man to shatter man! The human touch is dreaded, faith has fled; I think of...
Four Poems on Pain and Distress by C.B. Anderson The Society May 30, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 26 Comments Domain of Pain A piercing migraine or a throbbing toothache, A splinter underneath a fingernail, An upset stomach caused by too much...
Poems on Twitter’s Attacks on President Trump The Society May 29, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 10 Comments Fake Checks by Esca Webuilder As Twitterites do fact-checks, which are really only fake, confusing truths with their opinions is their...
Two Poems of the Night, by Martin Rizley The Society May 29, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments The Stranger Above the dark hill in the still Spanish night, The moon, a lone fountain of watery light, Demurely ascends, as she hides her...
‘Endless Dream’ and Other Poetry by Angel L. Villanueva The Society May 28, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 4 Comments Endless Dream I walk the trail, in hopes of reaching you, As winter sheds her tears of crystal ice. I rise above snow drifts, the trail to...
‘The Climber’ and Other Poetry by Rod Walford The Society May 27, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments The Climber inspired by and dedicated to Chris Bonington and my erstwhile heroes Don Whillans and Dougal Haston He has conquered crags and...
Philip Larkin: A Very English Bleakness (An Essay) The Society May 26, 2020 Essays, Poetry 20 Comments by David Whippman In 1984, Philip Larkin was asked to become the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. This position is, in principle, the most...
‘At the Cemetery’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society May 25, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 28 Comments At the Cemetery “Drowned together while playing with a sled on the ice of the Saw Mill Pond at Kensico. Dec. 5, 1871.”...
Poems for Memorial Day 2020 The Society May 24, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments Solemn Silent Soldiers Rest by Roy E. Peterson, written May 22, 2020 Solemn, silent soldiers rest Beneath the green earth’s sheltering...
‘San Francisco’ by James A. Tweedie (Part 1 in a Sonnet Series) The Society May 24, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 45 Comments ...
‘Bereaved’ by Jeffrey Kemper The Society May 23, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments 17 March 2019 When bleeds the heart with heartache harsh and deep, And coiling loins are toiling, boiling hot, And tears descend across...
‘Mastering Magic’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant The Society May 22, 2020 Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments Mastering Magic Set the questing mind on fire with magic, Learn the ancient lore then follow through. Effortlessness must be...
‘Oh, What Is Prayer?’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society May 21, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments Oh, What Is Prayer? Oh, what is prayer? Is it a mystery, that bridges earth and heaven in a cry, that reaches to the infinite? A sigh, A...
Keats in the Time of Coronavirus: An Essay The Society May 20, 2020 Beauty, Covid-19, Culture, Essays, Poetry 34 Comments by Sultana Raza In April 1820, Keats was already aware that he had tuberculosis, and in spring of that year, he was experiencing fever, a bad...
‘Hummingbird Communion’ and Other Spring Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 20, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 54 Comments Hummingbird Communion I watch them play at dawn of day, as molten gold is splashed their way, on feathers flecked with flashing green and...
William Butler Yeats and the Occult: An Essay by Adam Sedia The Society May 19, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Poetry 29 Comments Clarity and Obscurity Part III Read Part I: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Read Part II: "Concrete" Poetry and the Fall of...
‘Hippocrene’ by Anissa Nedzel Gage The Society May 18, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments O do not chasten me with tales of fine __Fresh wells of wisdom and of warriors bold, __Or sacred veins of Ethiopian gold, Your more than...
‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning (1812-1889) and ‘My Next Duchess’ by Lawrence Jones The Society May 17, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments My Last Duchess The Duke of Ferrara recalls his last wife. by Robert Browning That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if...
‘The Rats of Kathmandu’: Two Sonnets by Peter Hartley The Society May 16, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments I. The rats infesting Kathmandu Airport Appear to co-exist in peace with man And have, it seems, since local time began, Been treated...
Ten Great Spenserian or Scottish Sonnets The Society May 15, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Love Poems, Poetry 22 Comments Edmund Spenser by Margaret Coats Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) wrote 121 sonnets of rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee, including 87 in his love...
Poetry Challenge: ‘My country used to be… ‘ The Society May 14, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests 51 Comments New York poet Joe Tessitore challenges poets to begin a poem with these words: My country used to be... Post your...
‘I Loved You…’ by A.S. Pushkin, Translated by Kristina Buric The Society May 14, 2020 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation 1 Comment I Loved You... I loved you, and I probably still do, and for a while, the feeling may remain, But let my love no longer trouble you... I do not wish...
Friends of Falun Gong 2020 Poetry Contest Winners Announced The Society May 13, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Readings, Video 2 Comments FIRST PLACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96xN0VV7JU The Virus and the Cure by Rob Crisell One hundred years of tyranny, One hundred...
‘The Pilot’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society May 12, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments all poems by Bruce Dale Wise The Pilot by Air Weelbed Suc I saw him flying overhead, a pilot in a plane, and looking down, he gazed...
