Society of Classical Poets logo
  • About Us
  • Join
  • Donate
  • Poetry
    Random
    • 'Regrets and Repercussions' by Peter Hartley

      The Society
      September 13, 2021
      Beauty, Culture, Poetry
      27 Comments
    Recent
    • ‘To an Eager Lover’ and Other Poetry by Adrian Fillon

      The Society
      January 28, 2023
    • poem/philosophy/descartes

      ‘Practical Philosophy’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

      The Society
      January 27, 2023
      17
    • ‘Life on the Farm’ and Other Poetry by Aleta Kiefer

      The Society
      January 27, 2023
      2
    • poem/sarangi/Republic Day of India/Indian flag

      A Poem for India’s Republic Day: ‘The Land of Dreams’ by Satyananda Sarangi

      The Society
      January 26, 2023
      8
    • poem/stars/music

      ‘Look Up and See the Music’ by James A. Tweedie

      The Society
      January 26, 2023
      10
    • ‘The Poetaster’s Plight’ by Kenneth L. Horne

      The Society
      January 26, 2023
      16
  • Submit
  • Contests
    Random
    • The Society of Classical Poets 2020 Poetry Competition

      The Society
      September 1, 2019
      High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests
      9 Comments
    Recent
    • 2022 FIFA World Cup Poetry Challenge

      The Society
      December 9, 2022
      21
    • Prose-That’s-Really-a-Sonnet Poetry Challenge

      The Society
      November 22, 2022
      47
    • Metrical Clerihew Poetry Challenge

      The Society
      October 9, 2022
      72
    • Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge: Fireplaces

      The Society
      September 23, 2022
      19
    • The 2022 Society of Classical Poets International Poetry Competition

      The Society
      September 1, 2022
      8
    • poetry/contest/inspiration

      The 2022 SCP International High School Poetry Competition

      The Society
      September 1, 2022
  • Journal
  • Essays
    Random
    • Review: Wolfe and Other Poems by Donald Mace Williams, Wundor Editions, 2017

      The Society
      September 2, 2017
      Essays, Poetry, Reviews
      3 Comments
    Recent
    • poetry/essay/Salemi/transgressive

      Transgression, Fake and Genuine: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

      The Society
      January 23, 2023
      32
    • ‘I Met a Shepherdess’ by Guido Cavalcanti, Translated by Joseph S. Salemi

      The Society
      January 8, 2023
      20
    • ‘Calendar Poems’: An Essay by Margaret Coats

      The Society
      January 1, 2023
      37
    • Henny and Sal: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

      The Society
      November 14, 2022
      12
    • An Essay on John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, by Joseph S. Salemi

      The Society
      October 20, 2022
      24
    • ‘Obedience’ by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Translated by Joseph S. Salemi (with a Long Note)

      The Society
      September 13, 2022
      16
  • Members
  • Poetry Contests
  • Donate
  • About Us
  • Submit
  • ‘To an Eager Lover’ and Other Poetry by Adrian Fillon

    The Society
    January 28, 2023
    Love Poems, Poetry
  • poem/philosophy/descartes

    ‘Practical Philosophy’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

    The Society
    January 27, 2023
    Beauty, Poetry
    17 Comments
  • ‘Life on the Farm’ and Other Poetry by Aleta Kiefer

    The Society
    January 27, 2023
    Beauty, Culture, Poetry
    2 Comments
  • poem/sarangi/Republic Day of India/Indian flag

    A Poem for India’s Republic Day: ‘The Land of Dreams’ by Satyananda Sarangi

    The Society
    January 26, 2023
    Beauty, Culture, Poetry
    8 Comments
  • poem/stars/music

    ‘Look Up and See the Music’ by James A. Tweedie

    The Society
    January 26, 2023
    Beauty, Music, Poetry
    10 Comments
  • ‘The Poetaster’s Plight’ by Kenneth L. Horne

    The Society
    January 26, 2023
    Culture, Humor, Poetry
    16 Comments
  • poetry poem bird

    ‘The Stonechat Listens At The Asylum Window’ by Charles Southerland

    The Society
    January 25, 2023
    Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
    14 Comments
  • poem/music/Burns/auld lang syne

    A Classical Guitar Rendition of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ for Burns Night, by Jeff Eardley

    The Society
    January 25, 2023
    Culture, Music, Poetry
    17 Comments
  • poetry/robert burns/burns night

    A Sonnet for Burns Night, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

    The Society
    January 24, 2023
    Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
    35 Comments
  • poem/Essmann/Gods existence/problem of good

    A Poem on the Existence of God: ‘The Problem of Good’ by Jeffrey Essmann

    The Society
    January 24, 2023
    Beauty, Culture, Poetry
    8 Comments
  • On Alma Tadema’s Coign of Vantage and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers

    The Society
    January 24, 2023
    Art, Beauty, Ekphrastic, Humor, Poetry
    5 Comments
  • poetry/essay/Salemi/transgressive

    Transgression, Fake and Genuine: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

    The Society
    January 23, 2023
    Essays, Poetry
    32 Comments

‘Life on the Farm’ and Other Poetry by Aleta Kiefer

The Society
January 27, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
2 Comments
. Life on the Farm Daddy’s gone. Is he sleeping? For only the shell remains. I hear the cries of cicadas. I listen to their pain. Momma, why are...
poem/sarangi/Republic Day of India/Indian flag

A Poem for India’s Republic Day: ‘The Land of Dreams’ by Satyananda Sarangi

The Society
January 26, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. The Land of Dreams written on the eve of India's Republic Day of India which is celebrated on Jan. 26 every year Some distance far away, the...
poem/stars/music

‘Look Up and See the Music’ by James A. Tweedie

The Society
January 26, 2023
Beauty, Music, Poetry
10 Comments
. Look Up and See the Music Psalm 19:1 In winter, when the atmosphere is still And cold, and when the nighttime sky is clear, The stars and planets,...

‘The Poetaster’s Plight’ by Kenneth L. Horne

The Society
January 26, 2023
Culture, Humor, Poetry
16 Comments
. The Poetaster’s Plight Some think the poet’s work is ease: "Sit back and write it’s such a breeze;" But those that know will surely say They...
poetry poem bird

‘The Stonechat Listens At The Asylum Window’ by Charles Southerland

The Society
January 25, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
14 Comments
. The Stonechat Listens at the Asylum Window I fear I might mistranslate what you said And lose the very essence of your words. May I record you as...
poem/music/Burns/auld lang syne

A Classical Guitar Rendition of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ for Burns Night, by Jeff Eardley

The Society
January 25, 2023
Culture, Music, Poetry
17 Comments
. Burns Night is when Scotland's most important bard, Robert Burns (1759-1796), is celebrated, usually with the recitation of Burns' poems, the...
poetry/robert burns/burns night

A Sonnet for Burns Night, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
January 24, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
35 Comments
. Note: Burns Night is when Scotland’s most important bard, Robert Burns (1759-1796), is celebrated, usually with the recitation of Burns’...
poem/Essmann/Gods existence/problem of good

A Poem on the Existence of God: ‘The Problem of Good’ by Jeffrey Essmann

The Society
January 24, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. The Problem of Good a Petrarchan sonnet If there’s (the armchair philosopher maintains) A God (most likely writing in his blog), Then why’s the...

On Alma Tadema’s Coign of Vantage and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers

The Society
January 24, 2023
Art, Beauty, Ekphrastic, Humor, Poetry
5 Comments
. . On Alma Tadema’s Coign of Vantage Flora peeks over the marble parapet, a dizzying perch above the azure Aegean. The Roman fleet is...
poetry/essay/Salemi/transgressive

Transgression, Fake and Genuine: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
January 23, 2023
Essays, Poetry
32 Comments
. Transgression, Fake and Genuine       by Joseph S. Salemi When Henry Harland and Aubrey Beardsley brought forth their groundbreaking periodical...
poem/woodruff/wef/davos 2023

A Poem on the World Economic Forum’s Davos 2023, by Julian D. Woodruff

The Society
January 23, 2023
Culture, Music, Poetry
20 Comments
. WEF, Davos, ‘23—A Modern Reply after “Endless Pleasure, Endless Love”* Endless hooey, endless snow, We’re exposed to here below. Ever on...

‘On a Terrible Orchestral-chorale Concert’ by Peter Venable

The Society
January 23, 2023
Humor, Poetry
3 Comments
. On a Terrible Orchestral-chorale Concert Trapped here with vain musicians---what a fate! An echo chamber that I can't escape. Conductors lead,...
poem/life/death/river

‘Ever Flowing’ by Dusty Grein

The Society
January 22, 2023
Beauty, Poetry
19 Comments
. Ever Flowing Upon the rushing river’s bank I stand, deep water, ever flowing as it goes. The turbulence of my life it reflects as if my mortal...

“John Adams in Heaven,” from Legends of Liberty by Andrew Benson Brown

The Society
January 22, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry
17 Comments
. John Adams in Heaven John and Abigail Adams are being guided through heaven by John Milton. He takes them to a villa in the Elysian Fields, where...

‘Iambic Barktameter’ by Mark F. Stone

The Society
January 21, 2023
Culture, Humor, Poetry
30 Comments
. A Note on Iambic Barktameter I have an Australian Shepard named Sunny who loves poetry. I didn’t believe it at first, but she proved it to me....

‘Bats at Sunset’ and Other Poetry by Maxim D. Shrayer

The Society
January 21, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
17 Comments
. Bats at Sunset The monster is rotund, vile, enormous, three-muzzled, and barking ---Vasily Trediakovsky, after Virgil The woods are lovely, dark,...
poetry/adventure/legacy the saga begins

Launch Event for Michael Pietrack’s Legacy: You Are Invited

The Society
January 20, 2023
Children's, Poetry
7 Comments
. SCP Members and readers are invited by poet Michael Pietrack to his Virtual Launch Party on Saturday, January 21 at 12 Noon EST.  The...

‘The Calendar’ and Other Poetry by Jez Punter

The Society
January 20, 2023
Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. The Calendar You are the festive dregs of January,you liven February with Valentine’s.You are the March that gives spring sanctuary,you are the...

‘Moments from Dante’s Inferno’ by Paul Buchheit

The Society
January 20, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry
14 Comments
. Moments from Dante’s Inferno Prepared to travel, if the gods allowed, I saw the woods were dreary, dark as death. I chose to heed a blessing...
poem/dickens/ghost

‘Banish the Thought’ by Susan J. Cappellari

The Society
January 19, 2023
Beauty, Poetry, Triolet
6 Comments
. Banish the Thought Who are you? Not me, I know You creep and crimp my edges fray, An apparition of Dickens’ play--- Who are you? Not me, I...

‘Swimming with Dreams and Memory’ and Other Poetry by Pippa Kay

The Society
January 19, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau
21 Comments
. Swimming with Dreams and Memory My childhood dreams and memories remain through adulthood and old age. My doll speaks. My toy car surfs that tidal...
poem/spaceship explosion/UK failure

Poem on the Failed British Space Launch, by Jeff Eardley

The Society
January 18, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Science
16 Comments
. “Newquay, we have a problem” January 9, 2023 We’ve gathered in thousands to witness the blast-off, We’re sipping Champagne with our eyes...

‘Greta’s Smorgasbord of Hate’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

The Society
January 18, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
59 Comments
. Greta's Smorgasbord of Hate I love the pretty trees, the trees love me! They make me dance and sing, they make me shout And sulk and give loud...

‘Gloucester in July’ by Patricia Rogers Crozier

The Society
January 18, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. Gloucester in July A thousand silent saints and angels Hewn from vertex, plane, and angle Raised by blow of mason’s hammer Raised from stone to...
poetry/Christian/beatitude

‘Beatitude’ by Gregory Ross

The Society
January 17, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau
4 Comments
. Beatitude Be glad and smile, for they revile, The Truth they mock and put on trial, The Beauty they do not possess, The Good, they curse, and will...

‘El Pescado’ and Other Poetry by Monika Cooper

The Society
January 17, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
. El Pescado They gloat: the age of Pisces, it is over. They chant to call Aquarius’ forces in. In the deep labyrinths we sought the sign, The...
poem/annunciation/Christmas

‘The Christmas Story’ and Other Poetry by Lauren V. Leon

The Society
January 16, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
7 Comments
. The Christmas Story An angel of the Lord, Came forth with joyful news, Of Him Who is adored, Messiah of the Jews. The angel hailed the one, A...

‘The Wind’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley

The Society
January 16, 2023
Beauty, Poetry
12 Comments
. The Wind Listen, listen! Do you hear it?  It is on the march tonight--- The incessant winter wind that blows throughout the wood and glade. Like a...

‘Worth Disguised’ by Christiana Thomas

The Society
January 15, 2023
Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry
9 Comments
. Worth Disguised The hammer lifts, the anvil rings, The room with screaming noises brings __A torture, here inflicted. The bellows pump, the fire...

‘Cookies’ and Other Sweet Poetry by Norma Pain

The Society
January 15, 2023
Humor, Poetry
22 Comments
. Cookies I bought a bag of cookies for a snack, But they were way too sweet… I took them back. I tried each one to make sure this was true. I...
poem/Ouroboros/snake eating its own tail/civilization

‘Civilisations Forget the Taste of Their Own Tails’ by James Lucas

The Society
January 14, 2023
Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. Civilisations Forget the Taste of Their Own Tails To see a friend possessed By the time’s ideological incantations, To see a world soon...

‘Bingo Ladies’ by Mary Gardner

The Society
January 14, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
35 Comments
. Bingo Ladies Gray-haired gals meet twice a week, Have their luncheon with the clique At the Wendy’s in Coppell. After they have talked a...
poem/medical assistance in dying/MAID

Poems on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
January 13, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
27 Comments
. Out, out, brief candle! ---Macbeth I am black-dog blue and blinded by the glitzy gaze of stars. Lucent moons will never light __my skyless eye. I...
poem/imagination/eternity/death/still life

‘This Side of Eternity’ by Anna J. Arredondo

The Society
January 13, 2023
Beauty, Poetry
21 Comments
. This Side of Eternity I. Imagination, you’re a two-edged sword, The universe your oyster, opened wide; Conceiving all the boon life might...

‘For Sophie Pakaluk Barrows’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank

The Society
January 13, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
. For Sophie Pakaluk Barrows based on The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God by Michael Pakaluk in pie quebrado meter Before God made her soul...

A Poem On the Banning of the Word ‘Field’ by the University of Southern California, by Paul A. Freeman

The Society
January 12, 2023
Culture, Poetry, Satire
22 Comments
. On the Banning of the Word 'Field' by the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work See the related news story here. In Southern...
poem/French revolution/high school

‘For the French Revolution’ by Claire He

The Society
January 12, 2023
Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
5 Comments
. For the French Revolution Oh, this shall tell the tale of France’s past: the revolution brought in ‘eighty nine, when Frenchmen took a stand...

Poems on the Agony of Teenage Girls, by Jeff Kemper

The Society
January 12, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
. Be Gone an angry teenage daughter to her absconded mother What irritant incited you to leave And not come back while I was left to grieve? Was it...

‘The Fluctuations of Modernity and Antiquity’ by Laurel Aronian

The Society
January 11, 2023
Beauty, High School Submissions, Pantoum, Poetry
9 Comments
. The Fluctuations of Modernity and Antiquity a pantoum __Something is ahead, A solemn note on open sky, __It rises from the dead, A whizzing plane...

‘Putting Settings in Their Place’ and Other Frivolous Poems by James A. Tweedie

The Society
January 11, 2023
Humor, Poetry
19 Comments
. Putting Settings in Their Place For dilettantes the world’s bereft When table settings aren’t precise. For if the forks aren’t on the...
  1. 1
  2. 2
  3. 3
  4. 4
  5. 5
  6. 6
  7. 7




Trending Poems

  • A Poem for Isabel Vaughan-Spruce: ‘Her Silent Prayer’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant  29 comments
  • A Poem for January 6 Prisoners: ‘Letter from a DC Prison’ by Adam Wasem 34 comments
  • ‘Calendar Poems’: An Essay by Margaret Coats 37 comments
  • ‘Greta’s Smorgasbord of Hate’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko 59 comments
  • Poetry Catholic priest abortion A Poem for Defrocked Priest Frank Pavone: ‘Unholy Orders’ by Joshua C. Frank 67 comments
  • poem/medical assistance in dying/MAID Poems on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), by Susan Jarvis Bryant 27 comments
  • Two New Year’s Eve Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant 30 comments
  • poetry/robert burns/burns night A Sonnet for Burns Night, by Susan Jarvis Bryant 35 comments
  • ‘Mourning Louis XVI’ by Brian Yapko 25 comments
  • poetry/essay/Salemi/transgressive Transgression, Fake and Genuine: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi 32 comments
  • Poems Against Birth Control, from Joshua C. Frank 21 comments
  • Two Different Views on New Year’s Resolutions: Poems by David Whippman and Evan Mantyk 16 comments
  • ‘A Holy Picnic’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook 31 comments
  • poetry poem beauty culture death funeral ‘Elegy for an Unremarkable Man’ by Shaun C. Duncan 24 comments
  • ‘Bats at Sunset’ and Other Poetry by Maxim D. Shrayer 17 comments

Resources

       Online Teacher’s Poetry Guide

       How to Write with Meter

       Poems of the Year

       Best Love Poems of 2021

       Best Haiku of 2022

 

Poetry Challenges

       Rhyme Two Random Words

       Classic Movie-Inspired Poem

       Bedtime Prayer

       ‘Tyranny of Fear and Lies…’

       What Rhymes with Orange? 

       Turn Famous Poem into Limerick 

       A Raven-Like Poem on Poe’s Death

       Split Nursery Rhyme       

       Poetry Quotes Challenge

       Sonnet in Iambic Monometer

Daily Poetry

Receive daily posts directly to your email inbox. The SCP website acts as an online daily Journal.

Join 1,604 other subscribers

Categories

  • Acrostic
  • Alexandroid
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Best Poems
  • Blank Verse
  • Chant Royal
  • Children's
  • Clerihew
  • Covid-19
  • Culture
  • Deconstructing Communism
  • Ekphrastic
  • Epic
  • Epigrams and Proverbs
  • Essays
  • Featured
  • For Educators
  • Found Poem
  • From the Society
  • Haiku and Senryu
  • High School Submissions
  • Human Rights in China
  • Humor
  • Interviews
  • Limerick
  • Love Poems
  • Music
  • Pantoum
  • Performing Arts
  • Poetry
  • Poetry Contests
  • Poetry Forms
  • Popular Poetry Archives
  • Readings
  • Reviews
  • Riddles
  • Rondeau
  • Rondeau Redoublé
  • Rondel
  • Sapphic Verse
  • Satire
  • Science
  • Sestina
  • Shakespeare
  • Shape Poems
  • Short Stories
  • Song Lyrics
  • Symposium
  • Terrorism
  • Terza Rima
  • The Environment
  • The Raven
  • Translation
  • Triolet
  • Video
  • Villanelle

Trending Poetry

  • A Poem for Isabel Vaughan-Spruce: ‘Her Silent Prayer’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant  29 comments
  • A Poem for January 6 Prisoners: ‘Letter from a DC Prison’ by Adam Wasem 34 comments
  • ‘Calendar Poems’: An Essay by Margaret Coats 37 comments
  • ‘Greta’s Smorgasbord of Hate’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko 59 comments
  • Poetry Catholic priest abortion A Poem for Defrocked Priest Frank Pavone: ‘Unholy Orders’ by Joshua C. Frank 67 comments
  • poem/medical assistance in dying/MAID Poems on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), by Susan Jarvis Bryant 27 comments
  • Two New Year’s Eve Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant 30 comments
  • poetry/robert burns/burns night A Sonnet for Burns Night, by Susan Jarvis Bryant 35 comments
  • ‘Mourning Louis XVI’ by Brian Yapko 25 comments
  • poetry/essay/Salemi/transgressive Transgression, Fake and Genuine: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi 32 comments
  • Poems Against Birth Control, from Joshua C. Frank 21 comments
  • Two Different Views on New Year’s Resolutions: Poems by David Whippman and Evan Mant... 16 comments
  • ‘A Holy Picnic’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook 31 comments
  • poetry poem beauty culture death funeral ‘Elegy for an Unremarkable Man’ by Shaun C. Duncan 24 comments
  • ‘Bats at Sunset’ and Other Poetry by Maxim D. Shrayer 17 comments

Resources

          1. How to Write a Sonnet

          2. How to Write a Haiku

          3. How to Write a Limerick

          4. Best Poems of 2019

          5. Best Haiku of 2020

          6. Poetry Lesson Plan

          7. Poetry Contests

 

 

  • Poetry Resources
  • Poetry Readings
  • High School Poetry
  • Translation
  • Poetry Contests
  • Poetry Forms
  • From the Society
  • Poetry Archive
  • For Educators
  • Humor
  • Reviews
  • About Us
  • The Raven
  • Riddles
  • Journal
  • Members
  • Terms of Use
  • The Society of Classical Poets © 2022