‘Winter’s Call’ and Other Poetry by Angel L. Villanueva The Society November 17, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments Winter's Call O, can you hear her? Yonder autumn days? A siren's voice, as silent steps she takes? Her nuanced hymn brings frosty morning...
Two Odes to Leonidas, Spartan King The Society November 16, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments Ode to Leonidas, King of Sparta by Ian Williams Stern Sire and Father of the ancient West! Sacred, your primogeniture appears before the...
On the Equity Meme: ‘The Rime of the Balanced Boxes’ by Ron L. Hodges The Society November 15, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry The Rime of the Balanced Boxes after Samuel Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner Part I Now, the training time had ended, The conference day...
‘Still Going’ and Other Acrostic Poems by Anna J. Arredondo The Society November 14, 2019 Acrostic, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments Still Going It may appear that I’ve run out of chances, No more to rise from absolute defeat, Victim of most hostile circumstances— I...
‘Moloch’ and Other Poetry by Richard Jordan The Society November 13, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 9 Comments Moloch Beneath the sands and salted fields there lies A desert land of men once prosperous And proud. They raised a gilded city With their...
Write a Poem on One of These Hong Kong Protest Images The Society November 12, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Ekphrastic, Poetry 14 Comments The above images are from the pro-democracy protests going on right now in Hong Kong, as the populace peacefully resists...
‘Quasimodo’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society November 12, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments “Look not on the face, young girl, look at the heart.” —Quasimodo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame A vile, lumbering mass, so hideous, Rejected...
Two Poems for Veterans Day 2019 The Society November 11, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments Two original poems for Veterans Day 2019: "Veterans Day" by Roy E. Peterson and "Glory Glimpsed" by T.M. Moore
‘The Journey Home’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society November 10, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments The Journey Home Enwrapped in flesh we come to earth, Created in our Maker's image, Where from the moment of our birth We're parties to a...
‘The Tricoteuses’ and Other Poetry by Frank L. Ludwig The Society November 9, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments The Tricoteuses The starving market women marched, marched on Versailles with kitchen knives; both marching and not marching meant they were...
‘The Sound of Sunset’ by James A. Tweedie The Society November 8, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments The gold-etched clouds of evensong intone A whisper of rhapsodic melody; Kaleidoscopic shards of psalmody Aflame with facet-fire of...
‘Reparations’ by T.M. Moore The Society November 7, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry Owe no one anything but to love one another. —Romans 13.8 What shallowness, what an impoverished view of human life, that reckons men to...
On the Whistleblower: ‘What Is His Name?’ The Society November 6, 2019 Acrostic, Culture, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments by Caud Sewer Bile Elitist, social climbing parvenu, reclusive expert in the CIA, in touch with DNC dirt-digging too, caught leaking from the...
‘Black Cat’: Derived from ‘Schwarze Katze’ by Rainer Maria Rilke The Society November 6, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Translation 7 Comments Black Cat a poem derived from "Schwarze Katze" by Rainer Maria Rilke, as translated by Martin Hill Ortiz A crash! I spot a ghost that...
A Villanelle and Video by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society November 5, 2019 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Readings, Video, Villanelle originally published on MacKenzie Lyric Poetry Oh, run with the sun and the wind in your hair! Before the day-star sets in the west: Love flowers...
‘On the Untimely Demise of My Hair’ and Other Poetry by Rob Crisell The Society November 4, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments On the Untimely Demise of My Hair In days gone by when life for me looked bright, And I rejoiced in the clear dawn of youth, My hair filled my...
‘Sarnia Bound’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society November 3, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments Sarnia Bound To the Sarnian shores, I´ll set my course when the sky at dawn turns pale, And the sea waves glow with sun-streaked...
‘Mysterium Tremendum’ by Peter Venable The Society November 2, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments Mysterium Tremendum is a central idea in Rudolf Otto's "The Idea of the Holy" I muse upon the sea’s expanse And soar into a troubled...
Write a Poem on One of These Photographs The Society November 1, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Contests 40 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...
‘Mailied’ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Translated and Read by David B. Gosselin The Society October 31, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Translation 6 Comments Mailied by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) How brightly nature Shines this morning! What radiant sun! How the fields sing! The...
‘Sonnet For All Who Follow Me’ by Leo Yankevich The Society October 30, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments Leo Yankevich passed away in December 2018. This poem was submitted by Sally Cook. Crows and leaves beyond the windowpane, a cup of...
‘Divorce – Brexit Style’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 29, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments My husband posed his need to leave; a family vote was cast. The outcome brought me to my knees and left my heart aghast. Now, I’m a tad...
‘The Constant Truth’ by Tod Benjamin The Society October 28, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Short Stories 10 Comments The Constant Truth A Reflection on the Times of My Life I. The Old Days A sheep filled meadow lay adjacent to our street Where...
A Poem by Michelangelo, ‘The Woman Who Passed Me’ by Charles Baudelaire: Translations by Michael Coy The Society October 27, 2019 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 39 Comments He Wishes to Immortalise His Mistress by Michelangelo Buonarroti How is it, ma mignonne, (as we all know) that figures carved in mountain...
Sonnets on the Four Seasons and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society October 26, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments Spring In spring the crocuses broke out as bold As brass from refuge in their barren clay. They speared the air in colourful array And blazoned...
‘Destiny in Blue’ by David Watt The Society October 25, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments In a town by the sea, where the salt air’s free, Lived a widower and his daughter. She was known as Claire-Kate; or by title First...
‘Campaign of 1940-1952’ and Other Poetry by Christopher Fried The Society October 24, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments Campaign of 1940-1952 True Cincinnati spirit is the love of hearth, the principles of isolation, a life in works of service to the...
‘In Memory of the Lake’ by James Christy The Society October 24, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment 4 Comments I hear Boeung Kak has now been filled with gritty sand, turned mud, now earth. The lake’s become a dusty field, yet memory preserves a...
Ecclesiastes 1, Recast in Classical Poetry, by T.M. Moore The Society October 23, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima 16 Comments Wind and Vanity after Ecclesiastes 1 My name is Solomon, and you may know me as the king of Israel, David’s son, a man of wisdom unsurpassed....
‘Life’s Woes’ by Michael Maibach The Society October 22, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments In every life Woe presses down, We falter then— Face to the ground. This woe in me— Am I alone? Without high ground, Can’t see my...
‘Let Me Go Gentle into That Dark Night’ by Rohini Sunderam The Society October 21, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 22 Comments after Dylan Thomas Let me go gentle into that dark night Let me not rage against the dying light There is another light that beckons...
‘Time’ and Other Poetry by Paul Oratofsky The Society October 21, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 34 Comments Time Time to time to time—from tock to tick, to wall to window topple, stop, then stop: a tower, wrist, a rest, a clerk, a click— around...
Four Garden Poems by Anna J. Arredondo The Society October 20, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 33 Comments Ultimatum To My Friendly Neighbor Regarding His Overly-friendly Pet* Dear neighbor, do you love your cat? (I'm sure you must, they're such...
Lord Byron’s Darkest Secrets and Greatest Poetry The Society October 19, 2019 Beauty, Best Poems, Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments This piece is sponsored by KidSecured by Evan Mantyk and Kathy Brellan Lord Byron was born George Gordon Byron in London on January 22, 1788 and...
‘Daguerreotype’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society October 18, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 28 Comments Daguerreotype An old once-treasured memory engraved On glass to keep the dying past alive. A fractal blink of time preserved and saved So...
‘The Three Graces in the Trinket Shop’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society October 17, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments Aglaia, Euphrosyne, Thalia I find them there, no longer young, Though neatly dressed and well preserved: Three sisters in the trinket...
‘Doublespeak Denial’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 16, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Rondeau, Villanelle 20 Comments Doublespeak Denial Rondeau Redoublé “Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.” —John Irving If I...
Essay: Richard Wilbur, C.S. Lewis, and the Imaginative Power of Poetry The Society October 15, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 7 Comments by T.M. Moore Our Image-hungry Age Increasingly, our postmodern generation prefers its communications to be in as few words and as many...
‘Harvest Sonnet’ and Other Poetry by Landon Porter The Society October 14, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments Harvest Sonnet If, in June, clouds crack and seeping, Leak their cache upon beast and field, Surety no longer keeping, This payment, late,...
‘Fleas’ after Kilmer, ‘The Toad Not Taken’ after Frost, by Rob Crisell The Society October 13, 2019 Poetry 10 Comments Fleas with apologies to Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A creature horrid as a flea. A flea who makes a little nest Inside the...
