‘Candidatus Non Compos Mentis’ by Rob Crisell The Society March 11, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments Candidatus Non Compos Mentis Joe lacks the humility To see the futility Of running for office While fighting senility. With growing...
‘Unbridled Change’ and Other Poetry by John Marmaro The Society March 11, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Unbridled Change O tempora! O mores!... Fuit ista quondam in hac re publica virtus... ---Cicero, First Catiline Oration These days of...
‘The Author’ and Other Poetry by Rod Walford The Society March 10, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments The Author He portrays a lonely figure In his cottage by the sea With his pencil and his paper and his dog. Gone his youthful verve and...
‘A Soliloquy on Modern Poetry’ and Other Poetry by Richard Lackman The Society March 9, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments A Soliloquy on Modern Poetry I write this, a soliloquy Regarding modern poetry. I don’t appreciate the terse Disheveled nature of...
A Poem on Sam Gilliland: ‘The Last Bard of Scotland’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society March 8, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 109 Comments Waters of Irvine and Annock, flow with my tears, West to the Firth of Clyde and Arran: Soon, soon, Ayr will be mute and barren. Flow,...
‘Daylight Savings’ by T.M. Moore The Society March 7, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments "Save daylight!" spoke the powers-that-be, and everyone supined, except for Arizona, see, which steadfastly declined. Hawaii, too, and...
‘Snowdrops’ by Martin Rizley The Society March 7, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments Now breaking through the crust of snow, pale messengers appear To herald with celestial glow the springtime of the year; With gentle...
SCP Poetry Symposium 2020—“A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme” The Society March 6, 2020 From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Symposium 1 Comment NOTE: This event has been canceled due to the CCP virus (COVID-19) pandemic. A new online SCP Symposium has been planned. The details of...
‘Threadbare—a Haiku’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society March 6, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 7 Comments My Coat---a Haiku God pays no heed to disguises He can see through--- I've worn myself out. The Old Poet's Tree I'm bent with...
What Happened to Narrative Poetry?—An Opinion Piece by James A. Tweedie The Society March 5, 2020 Culture, Epic, Essays, Poetry, Short Stories 26 Comments This isn’t so much an essay as it is an opinion piece where I shoot off a few words in praise of narrative poetry or, in other words, poetry that...
A Bernie Sanders Poem: ‘B.S., 2020’ by Joe Tessitore The Society March 4, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 16 Comments Who is this finger-waving man--- this millionaire, this communist? Let’s think about him while we can, this grandpa with the Marxist...
‘Orchards Let Light In’ and Other Poetry by Don Kubicki The Society March 4, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 3 Comments Orchards Let Light In “Oh to be like ‘The Man who Planted Trees’” There is a grove that in the meadow grows Where stately...
Essay: ‘Moralistic Authenticity’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society March 3, 2020 Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry 43 Comments A not infrequent problem that a poetry editor must face is a contributor’s intransigence. Sometimes this resistance is on metrical issues...
Psalms for the High Country, by Peter Bridges The Society March 2, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments Psalm CIV: Benedic, Anima Mea O praise the Lord, my soul. The aspens sigh As high above Mount Axtell in blue sky The hawk cries out God’s...
‘Wake-Up Call’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society March 1, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments Wake-Up Call "Shoulda," "coulda," "woulda" and "whatever" Are telltales that evince velleity In speakers who most probably will...
On a Bereavement: Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society February 29, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments On a Bereavement I Mourning Sickness Can anybody say how long it lasts, This numbness that deceives while it relieves The harrowed brain? My...
A Sonnet on Death, by Charlie Bauer The Society February 28, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments 20 January 2020 My father died, just yesterday, and mom About a year ago; I’m filled with grief For things that were not, might have...
Two Poems on the Coronavirus by Evan Mantyk and Damian Robin The Society February 27, 2020 Covid-19, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Villanelle 7 Comments From Some Nightmarish Vial a villanelle by Evan Mantyk Did it emerge from some nightmarish vial? Is it a weapon meant for killing...
‘Kneeling’ by Sean Galli The Society February 27, 2020 Culture, Poetry 6 Comments On TV, I saw them kneeling __Before their golden cow; Mere worshippers of a flimsy feeling __Desecrating a vow. They’ve never knelt in...
‘On Hearing of Hosni Mubarak’s Death, 25 February 2020’ by Kevin Blankinship The Society February 26, 2020 Culture, Poetry 2 Comments The days we choked on rage and fed on tears, that lit my guts with deep and purple flame— but when they go, I wish they still were...
‘Yarran and Myaree’ by David Watt The Society February 26, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 10 Comments In a time long ago, where the high myrtles grow, Lived a tribe of the Bellenden Range. While below, on the plain, in their tropic...
‘Ash Wednesday’ by James A. Tweedie The Society February 25, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Icy, biting breezes cut like knives; Sea-spray wave crests crash upon the shore; Silent, unseen clam and crab life writhes, Buried neath...
‘Through an Open Graveyard’ by Satyananda Sarangi The Society February 25, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terrorism 10 Comments Through barren fields, beside the ruins of man, The sunlight hardens stains of blood and gore; Macabre deeds that years ago began, Their...
‘Festive Clothes (or On being among Poets)’ by Alejandro Páez The Society February 24, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments I have been bid into the House of Song To merry-make at Inspiration’s fest Alas! I fear my raiment would but wrong The stately host...
‘The House Remembers’ by Amy Foreman The Society February 23, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Shape Poems 26 Comments ...
‘Love’s Wisdom’ by Roland Holst (1888-1976), translated by Leo Zoutewelle The Society February 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation translated by Leo Zoutewelle To you my word will be reproached as lie, Maliciously: “who left you so maligned, In vain are all the days in which...
A Poem on the Coronavirus Coverup: ‘The 50¢ Army’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society February 21, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 12 Comments The 50¢ Army by Lu "Reed ABCs" Wei The Chinese Communist regime, has recently dispatched some 1600 online trolls to stifle and to...
‘Natural-Born’ and Other Poetry by T.M. Moore The Society February 21, 2020 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments Natural-Born Jeremiah 17.19 I am a liar, natural-born. I find it more convenient to equivocate or stretch the truth, than to accept the...
‘A Truly Perfect Love’ and Other Poetry by Lee Goldberg The Society February 20, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments A Truly Perfect Love My fingertips caress your hair and I no longer have a care about what happens in this mortal plane. I lay you down...
‘Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, Christmas Editition’ by Studio C The Society February 19, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Readings, The Raven, Video 1 Comment ...
‘Description of the Fountain of the Thorn at the Royal Site of Aranjuez’ by María Rosa Gálvez de Cabrera (1768-1806) The Society February 19, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 4 Comments Aranjuez (ar-ON-wess) has been one of the estates of the royal family of Spain. It is near Madrid and the Tajo (TAW-hoe) River flows through it....
‘Five Rivers to Cross’ and Other Poetry by Dusty Grein The Society February 18, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments Five Rivers to Cross I sat down by the river Styx to wait upon Phlegyas, ferryman of old, among the uninterred who congregate and those...
‘Grieving for Columbia: A Patriot´s Lament’ by Martin Rizley The Society February 17, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 15 Comments By lamplight through the long night hours, he kept his vigil by her side, His love still fresh, though wilting flowers adorned the room on...
‘Poland’ and Other Poetry by John Colson The Society February 16, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry Poland Brave nation, strong and proud you stand, a Boulder in the stream One nation, people hand in hand, who’ll rob you of your...
‘Three Things’ (‘Tres Cosas’) by Baltasar del Alcázar The Society February 15, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Translation 9 Comments translations by Alan Steinle Translator's Note: This poem (“Tres cosas”) was originally written in Spanish by Baltasar del Alcázar (1525-1606)....
‘To Whom It May Concern’ and Other Poetry by Geoffrey Smagacz The Society February 15, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments To Whom It May Concern Who writes letters anymore, and in verse? I don't care whether you like it or not. I suppose I could have phoned...
Poems for St. Valentine’s Day 2020 The Society February 13, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 7 Comments O, Where Is Love? by James A. Tweedie O, where is love? You’ll find it in the pain _That binds a mother to her newborn child; _In...
‘On Pride’ by Elwin Wirkala The Society February 13, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments I thought and thought of pride and pride began to grow and over-ride my common sense until I thought the thought itself was what I...
Line, Stanza & Form: An Introduction to Poetry The Society February 12, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry, Poetry Forms 3 Comments by Michael Curtis | excerpted from Occasional Poetry Tradition grows from wisdom, from the accumulated experience of millennia; in poetic...
‘A Farmer’s Son’ by Sathya Narayana The Society February 11, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rubaiyat 9 Comments a rubaiyat Step gently O' my boy, this 's your first day... light-footed sweet and slow... on sinking clay. A farmer's school, this paddy...
