Write a Poem on One of These Images The Society January 19, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry, Poetry Contests 39 Comments The above photographs were taken and submitted by New York City poet Joe Tessitore. We invite readers to pick one of the images (or both) and write a...
Three Translations of the Poetry of Jean Froissart, by Margaret Coats The Society January 18, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Rondeau, Translation 3 Comments Translator's note: The following consists of three poems by Jehan (or Jean) Froissart (c.1335–c.1410), translated not very literally but as far as...
‘Song at Sunset’ by Connie Phillips The Society January 18, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments Song at Sunset The sun sets ‘neath the mountain top: __A golden orb that blinks And just for seconds lights the sky __Ablaze before it...
‘Requiem for the U.N.’ and Other Poetry by Rod Walford The Society January 17, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Requiem for the U.N. 73 years—countless billions of dollars— And here we are today... Behold the statesmen smartly dressed Assembled from...
‘To You, My Wife’ and Other Poetry by Angel L. Villanueva The Society January 16, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Villanelle 8 Comments To You, My Wife a villanelle To you, my wife, my love I declare, My joy and gain, a gift to me blessed, A morning flower of beauty and...
FoFG 2020 Poetry Contest: Adult, College, and High School Awards The Society January 15, 2020 Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests 1 Comment Fight for Freedom. Write for Freedom. A Great Cause, Plus Over $1,200 in Prizes and No Submission Fee. Today, the communist government of China,...
‘Grapes’ and More Phobia Limerick Riddles by Jan Darling The Society January 15, 2020 Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry, Riddles 9 Comments Grapes Peel me a grape But remove the seed I love the flesh But have no need Of hard encounters In the skin Juicy, fat, dry or thin. On...
Ecclesiastes 3, Recast in Classical Poetry, by T.M. Moore The Society January 14, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima 13 Comments Eternity in Our Hearts after Ecclesiastes 3 I contemplated all these matters from beneath the heaven, seeing things the way God sees...
An American in Rome: Five Sonnets by Ambassador Peter Bridges The Society January 13, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments I. Return to Rome Turn, turn, sing Seeger and the Shakers, turn Till one day all comes right—but is it so? Here down Domitian’s track...
‘My Daughter Sees a Starling on the Lawn’ and Other Poetry by Mark Anthony Signorelli The Society January 12, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments My Daughter Sees a Starling on the Lawn I thought to tell you how the bird was called, What symbol circumscribed the creature’s...
‘Mozart in Heaven’ by Conor Kelly The Society January 12, 2020 Acrostic, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 22 Comments Who is that smiling cherub whose huge wings, Open, extended, like a swan in flight, Lifts him above the angels to a height From which he conducts,...
‘A Moving Experience’ and Other Poetry by Raymond Gallucci The Society January 11, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments A Moving Experience We’re the Stooges Three—your moving company. If it ain’t broke before we tote, it soon enough will be. Your furniture...
‘The Rock’ by Nathaniel Todd McKee The Society January 10, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments In Frenchman bay, near Otter Point, the sea Against an ancient rock comes crashing down. This grey-clad cliff protrudes its stony...
Two Humorous Poems by Daniel Galef The Society January 9, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments Von Sacher-Masoch’s Rebuttal to the Golden Rule If a brutal bash can bring one pleasure, one man’s lash is another man’s...
‘The New Year’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society January 8, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments The New Year The fields stretch out, bare, icy: __Wide, blank, yet-unetched slates, Tabulae rasae, waiting __The chisel of the Fates, But...
‘Shaman of the Waves’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society January 8, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 58 Comments I am the raging tempest tossed upon the fretful sea; you are the calm and quiet gale that steadies me. And yet I am the raging...
‘At Twilight’ by Erin Jeon The Society January 7, 2020 Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry 7 Comments The sun sinks deep into the hill Behind the town that perches still. An amber fog prowls through the street Of cobbled stone and...
‘Moth, Angel of the Night’ and Other Poetry by Michael Zhao The Society January 7, 2020 Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry 8 Comments Moth, Angel of the Night Emerging from a rich cocoon, you shed off your old husk– with legs outstretched and wings unfurled, you head...
‘Surveillance, Twenty Twenty’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society January 6, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments Surveillance, Twenty Twenty I never thought I'd live to see my TV looking back at me! One Nation, Divisible How long have I...
‘Smith on Pollock’ by Julian D. Woodruff The Society January 5, 2020 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 34 Comments It seems the art world all but missed the dart Hurled ‘cross the continent when Hassel Smith Called Jackson Pollock’s paintings...
‘The Ballad of Darryl O’Day’ by Martin Hill Ortiz The Society January 5, 2020 Humor, Poetry 13 Comments There's a legend that's told in the neighborhood pubs, In the smoke-filled gin joints and the posh country clubs, In the places beer...
‘Gilbert and Sullivan on New York Affluence’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society January 4, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments Hark now to the yuppies’ anthem, And the lifestyle that it preaches— How we all reside on the chic West Side With our Chardonnay and...
Five Sonnets from the Forthcoming Work Commentary, by Michael Curtis The Society January 3, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments Cumæan Below, beyond the tiles now cave’d down, Up from the rubbled earth arose a sound Shrieking in a pitch strung to sting the ear, Some...
‘Bees Are Spectacular’ and Other Poetry by Leo Zoutewelle The Society January 2, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 26 Comments Bees Are Spectacular When people talk of “bees” it well could mean Two things: the sum of separate insects or A colony—some workers and a...
A New Year’s Day Poem: ‘Into 2020’ by Damian Robin The Society January 1, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments On the occasion of New Year's Day 2020, two poems by Damian Robin, a writer and editor living in the United Kingdom.
‘Fireworks Burst’ by Cyrus Jalinous The Society December 31, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments ‘Tis late now in the balmy eve, without the slightest stir, When lighter than a hot balloon cuts through the humid air Such light...
‘The Burning of a Flag’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society December 30, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 17 Comments by Eric Awesud Ble Adolfo Martinez, a man who hails from Ames, Iowa, was sentenced sixteen jailed-years for the burning of a flag. The...
‘Three Hundred Spartans’ by Sancia Milton The Society December 30, 2019 Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry 12 Comments Three Hundred Spartans In twilight’s ash three hundred stars await As blue-black thunder roars with battle drums, Three hundred voices...
‘One Last Candle’ and Other Poetry by Angel L. Villanueva The Society December 29, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments One Last Candle The angry storm approaches in the night, Its curdling howl is heard for miles around. The trees all flinch in fear of nature's...
The Falun Gong Practitioner: A One-Act Play The Society December 28, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Performing Arts, Poetry 13 Comments . A play in one act based on the true story of Li Zhenjun. Play by Evan Mantyk. Characters Narrator / Voice of Tradition Zhenjun “George”...
‘Palimpsest’ and Other Poetry by T.M. Moore The Society December 27, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 8 Comments Palimpsest ...written in their hearts... Romans 2.15 We try, but cannot fully scrape away those ancient words engraved upon the soul. We would...
‘How a Bill Can Succeed on The Hill’ by Mark F. Stone The Society December 26, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments It is rare that a bill can succeed on The Hill based on only the skill of a hobbyist. If you suffer the lack of a plan of attack, what...
‘How Dare You, Santa! How Dare You!’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 25, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 61 Comments Christmas has been canceled—it’s naughty Santa’s fault. His haughty carbon footprint has been a grave assault on melting polar ice...
Poems for Christmas Day 2019 The Society December 25, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Readings 7 Comments Come to Bethlehem / Silent Night Song and Poem by James A. Tweedie Come to Bethlehem, come and see God stripped bare of...
‘Sonnet XXXVIII: The Adoration of the Shepherds’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society December 24, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings 9 Comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA_UsvwgdQ8 Our nakedness was swaddled by the night, With Eden’s worn-out dust our feet were...
‘The Feast of the Nativity’ and Other Poetry by Steve Insalaco The Society December 23, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 4 Comments The Feast of the Nativity ‘Twas the night before a brilliant star They roam the desert near and far, When they happen upon the city of...
‘Carol’ by Stanisław Grochowiak, Translated by Leo Yankevich The Society December 22, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 2 Comments Carol They come slowly—loiter, you might say, Some with olive oil splashed on their bums, Others with enormous crooked thumbs, All full of...
Review: The Secrets of Archery, by Alessio Zanelli, Greenwich Exchange, 2019 The Society December 21, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings 22 Comments by James Sale Alessio Zanelli is a fascinating poet, and probably a fascinating man as well. This is his sixth collection of poems and part of his...
‘Make Christmas a Verb’ by Mark F. Stone The Society December 20, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments For many, the gifts are the be-all and end-all: the big screen, the tablet, the Barbie and Ken doll. For me, gifts I get are like ice in...
‘Looking Forward to Christmas’ by Jack Horne The Society December 19, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments Recalling Christmas in the past: the time I mixed my drink— a cocktail, “Everything we have”… I puked at lunch. I think you ate...
