‘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...
‘Sara’s Prayer’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society December 18, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments Sara's Prayer* Take me beyond all thought and word, where only beauty can be heard. Then silently, before Your throne, I'll dance, Dear Lord, for...
‘Roots’ by Ramón Rodriguez The Society December 17, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments Cradled in my country’s corn-rich plains, North of the river, good and fertile land, There is a certain wood, that, when it...
‘Childhood Conjugation’ and Other Poetry by David O’Neil The Society December 16, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments Childhood Conjugation Our mother tongue’s a mile-long smorgasbord where children eat for free. With giggling ease they wolf down words that...
‘The Lonely Ghost Speaks’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society December 15, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments The Lonely Ghost Speaks Each night, upon the creaking stairs My footfalls make no sound As, sad and slow, I climb with no Connection to the...
Phobia Limerick Riddles, by Jan Darling The Society December 14, 2019 Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry, Riddles 45 Comments Each poem below describes a phobia. Guess what the person is scared of in each. For extra credit try to name the phobia’s official name....
‘The Winter of Our Contentment’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society December 13, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 23 Comments The Winter of Our Contentment Without the winter there would be no spring, No snowdrops, crocus, scilla, daffodils, Or any other bulbs...
Hiding Behind a Mask: Five Poems by Anna J. Arredondo The Society December 12, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 17 Comments Intruders Beware If you but knew what weakness lies concealed Within this adamantine outer shell— What woes, what worries I'm too proud to...
‘Manichaeus, Heresiarch’ by Carl Hildebrand The Society December 11, 2019 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments Manichaeus, the 3rd century B.C. founder of the heretical religion Manichaeism, addresses the Zoroastrian god Ahura-Mazda Tremble,...
‘An Aussie Christmas’ and Other Poetry by David Watt The Society December 10, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments An Aussie Christmas That joyous time has come to pass When summer’s heat warms man and beast, And wheaten fields burnt burnished brass Cannot...
Ecclesiastes 2, Recast in Classical Poetry, by T.M. Moore The Society December 9, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima 10 Comments Hating Life after Ecclesiastes 2 Within my heart I said, “Come now, and I will test your soul with mirth.” For surely, so I thought, the...
Extract from Canto 9 of James Sale’s English Cantos The Society December 8, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 24 Comments In Canto 8 the poet and Dante, accompanying him, encounter the next-door neighbour, Peter, who brutally murdered his wife for money. Escaping...
Five Sonnets on Grimm’s Fairytales, by James A. Tweedie The Society December 7, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments Grimm Reckonings Summary Thoughts on Five Fairy Tales: A Sonnet Cycle Rapunzel I wish Rapunzel could have saved the day __By climbing...
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’ and Other Poetry by Janice Canerdy The Society December 6, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments ’Twas the Night Before Christmas ’Twas the night before Christmas and all through the malls there was widespread confusion and hot, frenzied...
‘Rosemary, Cypress, Cedar, and Pine’ and Other Poetry by Alexander King Ream The Society December 5, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments Rosemary, Cypress, Cedar, and Pine Rosemary and Cypress, and Cedar and Pine, Green waxen needles and skin of like kind, Deciduous Cypress asleep...
‘Morning in England’ and Other Poetry by Ian Williams The Society December 4, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Morning in England Morning in England: web and dew. The county matters not in name, nor distant city hid from view, for this is Albion in her...
‘Rain’ by James Preston Pack The Society December 3, 2019 Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry 9 Comments Rain, lapping at the windows fast, falls cold and ceaseless, painting lines of marble on the silvered glass while clouds cast dark and...
‘Landscaping, or, How I Came To Believe In Global Warming’ by Martin Hill Ortiz The Society December 2, 2019 Humor, Poetry, The Environment 9 Comments I think that I shall never see A tree that is invisible. The very thought is risible— Or maybe it's advisable To say the word as...
An Advent Calendar Poem: Twenty-four Windows, by Theresa Zappe The Society December 1, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments My Adventskalender in Germany made Of paper and glitter has Heaven displayed Through twenty-four windows. Come open with me Each...
Essay: Wendell Berry and the Depth of a Moment The Society November 30, 2019 Poetry 2 Comments by T.M. Moore The hectic pace that defines the lives of most of us may be doing more than merely serving as a source of stress and irritation. It...
‘To The Poet Leo Yankevich’ by Sally Cook The Society November 29, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Perhaps the color of your world was dun, And you sank in your couch when work was done, To calculate injustice, add the sum, Saw all was...
‘Autumn Glides Away’ by Sarban Bhattacharya The Society November 28, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments There lies a way to heaven by that lake. My sickness gone, I fear no chilly mist; A redwing calls me, dawn is now awake, The fragrant...
A Poem for Thanksgiving Day: ‘Gathered Together’ by C.B. Anderson The Society November 28, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments From cradle to the grave, From womb to musty tomb, The sanity I crave Is in a dining room With family gathered there: Thanksgiving,...
‘There Is a River’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society November 27, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments There Is a River There is a river that I know that flows through quiet meadowland Nearby a row of cottages which by a levee quaintly...
Review: Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society November 26, 2019 Essays, Poetry, Reviews 7 Comments by James Sale Sonnets, 2nd edition. Shanti Arts, 2020 Jesus and Eros, Bardsinger Books, 2014 Theresa Rodriguez is a relatively new and exciting...
‘The Plight of Animals’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society November 25, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 94 Comments The Plight of Animals The plight of animals, how must it be Ordained thus, either by a just God or A merciful? By nature meek and poor, They...
‘Sonnet: America in 2019’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society November 23, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 11 Comments by Caud Sewer Bile A deep state run by rulers lacking thought, a young, unschooled, and mad mob living low, corruption's muddy rivers...
‘Whither Thou Goest…’ by Leo Zoutewelle The Society November 23, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments As I was strolling in a glade of green And paid but little thought to anything, I hardly knew what vistas filled the scene Of birds...
Two Whale Poems, by James A. Tweedie The Society November 22, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments Reflections on a Dead Whale The sound of surf; the scratch of sand on feet; The sight of distant ships; the taste of salt; And on the gentle...
‘On Antonello Da Messina’s The Annunciation’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society November 21, 2019 Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments Palermo’s great basilica is still— All prayers are tongueless for a lonely hour. Here high and holy silence can be breathed Like...
‘The Sonnet of the Reluctant Mariner’ by Emmanuel Flores The Society November 20, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments What might, what gold does Ithaca hold to vex us; Enthralled ‘till when, by whom, for what, and where? Do not the mermaids sing the...
Five Translations of Aesop’s Fables (from Phaedrus, First Century AD Latin Poet) The Society November 19, 2019 Beauty, Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Translation 16 Comments Translations by Terry L. Norton. Original Latin by Phaedrus follows each. The Red Kite and the Doves When doves had from a certain kite fled And...
‘Theatre,’ ‘Opera,’ ‘Sculpture’ and Other Poems by Michael Coy The Society November 18, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 11 Comments 1. THEATRE Strolling Players Dancers, actors, acrobats! Stripey trousers, floppy hats! They weren’t born to swing a scythe, pay a toll...
