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  • ‘Rolling the Dice’: A Poem by Warren Bonham

    The Society
    June 28, 2025
    Culture, Poetry
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    ‘A Whale Is a Whale’: A Poem after Ogden Nash, by Jonathan Bear

    The Society
    June 27, 2025
    Culture, Poetry
    1 Comment
  • ‘Hope’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick

    The Society
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    Culture, Poetry
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    Culture, Humor, Poetry
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‘Best of the Windy City’: A Poem on Chicago and Other Poems by Russel Winick

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January 17, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
12 Comments
. Best of the Windy City Nation’s hub and culture center, O’Hare Airport, millions enter. Stunning architecture sites, The awesomeness of Frank...

‘Elusive Illusive Art’ and Other Poetry by Mike Ruskovich

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January 16, 2025
Art, Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle
1 Comment
. Elusive Illusive Art Where are the pure, illusive works of artthat bubble upward from the deep unknown?Where in this world are worlds Art sets...

Song Version of ‘The Day the Poetry Died’ by Steve Shaffer

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January 16, 2025
Culture, Music, Poetry
23 Comments
. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF6v6ES3FMU . This is song was originally a poem published by the Society of Classical Poets in March,...
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Four Newsy Limericks by James A. Tweedie

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January 15, 2025
Limerick, Poetry, Satire
10 Comments
. Four Newsy Limericks . A pedophile, if you should see one, Must not be reported. The reason? __It could be your fate __That you’d be charged...

‘A Pleased Jaques’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...
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‘None for All’ and Other Poetry by Peter Lillios

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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’

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,...
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  1. Russel Winick on ‘Hope’ and Other Poems by Russel WinickJune 28, 2025

    Thanks Margaret. I’ve long been married to someone who never procrastinates, and I’m still trying to figure out the underlying…

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    What a great concept and brilliant presentation, Warren!

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    Hello, I still don't understand whether haikus should be related to Hiroshige's print. Could you please clarify this for me?

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