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Monthly Archives June 30, 2018

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‘The Fall Revisited’ and Other Poetry by Caroline Bardwell

The Society
June 30, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau
9 Comments
The Fall Revisited The implications of the fall are endless in their reach; that lowly serpent had such gall, Eve's failure to beseech. Though what they chose when they did bite that infamous red...

‘The Little Red Hen, a Good-Night, Bedtime Story for Our Time’ by Uclis Weebeard

The Society
June 29, 2018
Culture, Humor, Poetry
14 Comments
Guess who is not invited to come to a dinner here? Rights are just for some people. Others have to disappear. There is no bias in denials of our services; we shall not break bread with those who do not...

‘A New Summer Morning’ by Sathya Narayana

The Society
June 29, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
13 Comments
It's first of sweaty, sweltering daybreaks of summer new. The fewer trailing steps of parting spring are still moist-fresh with drakes' claw prints and redolent green pollen specks. The waters in the...

‘Truth Against the Tide’ by Amy Foreman

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June 28, 2018
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
28 Comments
“Only fools are positive.”  “You sure about that?” “I’m positive.” ―The Three Stooges “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else...

‘The Breeze of Regret’ by Jennifer Hinders

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June 27, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
14 Comments
  While strolling around an illustrious lair, I was caught by a breeze of regret in the air, For gazing I was on old buildings of stone, All graced with such courage and dignity their own, With...
poetry/tweedie/equal

Rhyming Riddle Contest

The Society
June 27, 2018
Culture, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Riddles
177 Comments
Winners announced here. Scroll down and read the comments section to enjoy all of the submissions. What has no subject one can tell, Yet tries to make it ring a bell? What makes you scratch your head...
poem/gosse/humor

How to Write a Kyrielle

The Society
June 26, 2018
Education, Poetry, Poetry Forms
7 Comments
by Dusty Grein Like many of the old French refrain forms, the kyrielle originated in the 15th century with the traveling troubadours. It is a rhymed form, written in either 2 line couplets, or 4 line...

A Translation of André Chénier’s ‘Elegy XX’ by Douglas Thornton

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June 25, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, Translation
3 Comments
Born at Constantinople in 1762 of a French father and Greek mother, André Chénier grew up in pre-revolutionary France and studied at Paris. Well-read, and enamored with ancient Greece, he is considered one...

A Sonnet by Edward Hoke

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June 24, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
03.27.18 A smattering of rain above a hall That holds her earthy fragments, broken, spent, A woman who, in life, out-did them all, And e’en in death defies the elements. O, what would she make now of...

‘The Beast Once Foretold’ by Evan Mantyk

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June 23, 2018
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
19 Comments
Written upon reading the book How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World. The beast once foretold for the end of days Crouched in a Karl Marx statue erected Last month in Germany, where it displays A...

‘Little Girl’ and Other Poetry by Martin John King

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June 22, 2018
Poetry
15 Comments
Little Girl She's fishing in a rock pool just abandoned by the sea She's too engrossed within her world to notice you and me. She sprawls to draw a picture open book upon the sand Great masters never...

‘SonnetVision 27’ (Video) by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

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June 21, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Video
9 Comments
Note: Joseph Charles MacKenzie would like to offer a 25% discount on the first edition hardcover of Sonnets for Christ the King to his fellow poets and readers of the Society of Classical Poets, in gratitude...

Review: Three Poetry Books by Joseph S. Salemi

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June 20, 2018
Culture, Essays, Poetry, Reviews
33 Comments
by James Sale FORMAL COMPLAINTS by Joseph S. Salemi, Somer Rocks Press, 1997 MASQUERADE by Joseph S. Salemi, Somer Rocks Press, 2005 SKIRMISHES by Joseph S. Salemi, Pivot Press, 2010 I first encountered...

‘Confucius Institutes’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

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June 19, 2018
Culture, Humor, Poetry
9 Comments
(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Confucius Institutes "Three things cannot be hidden long: the sun, the moon and truth." —paraphrase of a Buddhist quote by Lu "Reed ABCs" Wei The Chinese...

Shortest Poem Contest Winners Announced

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June 18, 2018
Humor, Poetry, Poetry Contests
16 Comments
Congratulations to the following winners! Thank you to judges Joseph S. Salemi, James Sale, and Damian Robin.   First Place $100 Prize: Ben Foreman, Cascabel, Arizona Cheesemaking Find a...

Two Epigrams by Morgan Downs

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June 18, 2018
Epigrams and Proverbs, Poetry
2 Comments
To Make a Poet “A man can learn the art of poetry,” You say, “and many learn this art by me.” Poetry teacher, render something clear: Tell me, how do you teach a man to hear?   The...

‘Father’s Day, 2018’ by Amy Foreman

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June 17, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
72 Comments
  I may have borne them each, but it was you, Whose shoulders carried weight I never knew, You set the bar so high, so straight, so true, The surest, strongest Dad?  Well, that was you. I may...

‘Form Sonnet’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez

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June 16, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
Form Sonnet Turn the page and write again today Make something come out of an eager mind Make something in a new and different way In something both of earthy and refined For when I strive it seems that...

‘Olivia and Dorothy Shakespear: A Dialogue of Mother and Daughter’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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June 15, 2018
Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
See notes below for background and allusions. Olivia: Daughter, shall we sit and grieve together, And tie our two bêtes noires up with a tether? You had Ezra Pound and I had Yeats: Two poets now...

Video: A Reading of Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

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June 14, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Readings, Shakespeare, Video
A short film by Gleb Zavlanov. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxnDmkKqaF4&feature=youtu.be Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds...

Three Whimsical Poems by James A. Tweedie

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June 13, 2018
Culture, Humor, Poetry
16 Comments
  Everlasting Chesterton The author, G.K. Chesterton: A playful epigramist, A master of the terse bon mot, And witty dithyrambist. He loathed pomposity and claimed (And I believe quite...

‘I Love This Life’ and Other Poetry by Janice Canerdy

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June 12, 2018
Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Rondeau
19 Comments
  I Love This Life a rondeau I love this life in spite of all the trying times and every wall I must tear down to find success, although sometimes my happiness is thwarted, slowing to a...

‘Curtain Up!’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

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June 11, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
18 Comments
Curtain Up! Sunset and the robins sing, nightingales reply song that summer evenings bring, weeping willows sigh from lawns and from thickets a chorus of crickets ____serenades but remains out of...

‘As Promised’ by Linda Imbler

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June 10, 2018
Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
  The sky boiled, As the earth ruffled, Clouds blew past, And the soil buckled. The dead came forth, And stood in wait, Believers noticed, Heavens Gate. As they watched, It opened...
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‘Hard To Believe’ and Other Poetry by Damian Robin

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June 9, 2018
Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry
9 Comments
These three sonnets come from the newly released poetry book Organ Harvest, by Damian Robin, which exposes the murder of prisoners of conscience, particularly peaceful Falun Gong practitioners, for their...

Essay: ‘Frog-Marched Into the Prison of Poetry’

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June 8, 2018
Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry
10 Comments
by Con Chapman Nyla Matuk and I have a few things in common; we are both poets (or in my case, claim to be), and we both know what sumptuary laws are, she having written a book of poems using that term as...
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‘Canto 2’ by James Sale

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June 7, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima
39 Comments
Canto 2 is part of a sequence of 33 Cantos called The English Cantos that James Sale is attempting to write in the style – and using the terza rima – of Dante. His aim is to create a contemporary epic of...

‘Wild Strawberry’ and Other Poetry by John Grey

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June 6, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
4 Comments
Wild Strawberry On summer strolls, I often find. Wild strawberry flowering in the wood, White leaf, gold bud, my cheerless mood Is ruffled clear, as fragrant wind Blows equally through flower, through...

‘The Things I Have Not Done’ by Anthony Wang

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June 5, 2018
Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
14 Comments
I have not been to Medford, nor Milan; I have not seen a war, nor won the peace; I’ve risen to six thousand cloudy dawns that – not once – promised sun, and storms to cease. I have not stood to spurn...

‘Poems Unwritten’ by Daniel Leach

The Society
June 4, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
8 Comments
Sometimes, when the light and the mists of the day _Settle holy and soft on the edge of the night, When the sights and the sounds of the world melt away, _And the vision that lives in the soul takes...

‘Philosopher’ by Leo Yankevich

The Society
June 3, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
for Czesław Miłosz For a moment as brief and long as eternity he sees what the blind man sees in the blink of an eye: a sun that never sets, forms wrought from gold, purity before it falls or is restored...

‘The Cat in the Red MAGA Hat’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
June 2, 2018
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
17 Comments
(All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) The Cat in the Red MAGA Hat by Carb Deliseuwe Eugenior Joseph took girlfriend and mom on Mother's Day to Cheesecake Factory, Miami, for a piece of cake. Though he was...

‘My Garden’ and Other Sonnets by Adam Sedia

The Society
June 1, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
My Garden Lush, fresh-pruned verdure shades the cobbled path, It bursts with rich-hued blossoms strewn about Whence sweet aromas waft, blend, and enswathe, And droops with luscious, nectar-swollen...




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  4. Roy Eugene Peterson on ‘Fugal Harmonies’ and Other Poetry on Music by Mary Jane MyersDecember 11, 2023

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  5. Margaret Coats on ‘To My Daughter’: A Poem by Adam SediaDecember 10, 2023

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