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Monthly Archives April 30, 2019

Remembering John Whitworth (1945–April 22, 2019)

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April 30, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry
5 Comments
Read the poetry of the recently departed John Whitworth at Trinacria or The Poetry Archive. by Sally Cook Any ordinary poet composing a landscape piece might easily imagine a dull blue sky, one small white...

‘An Ode to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern’ by James A. Tweedie

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April 30, 2019
Culture, Humor, Performing Arts, Poetry
3 Comments
An Ode to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 50 Years Later A Poetic Summary of Tom Stoppard’s Award-Winning Play As Seen Through the Eyes of Its Two Leading Characters Says Rosencrantz to Guildenstern, “I...
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‘Venting’ and Other Poetry by T.M. Moore

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April 29, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
17 Comments
Venting Be angry, and do not sin. —Ephesians 4.26 We're told a large volcano roils and seethes beneath the soil of Yellowstone. The steam that rises all throughout the park, and wreathes its many...

‘On Time’s Memory’ and Other Poetry by Frederico Nick

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April 28, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
12 Comments
On Time’s Memory Time is a sieve of our own brand. A net Made not to catch but to let go: of gold, Of fish, of bread, or dust; a knotted mould Formed from ourselves, to let us so forget. Or else time is...

‘The Fall of the Fourth Estate’ and Other Poetry by Randal A. Burd, Jr.

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April 27, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau
4 Comments
The Fall of the Fourth Estate a rondeau The Media: the Fourth Estate* Performed disgracefully of late: Delivering the news askew, Allowing certain viewpoints through To fuel the discontent and...

Translation of Gottfried von Strassburg’s ‘Tristan’ Prologue

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April 26, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation
4 Comments
Translation by Matthew Wildermuth Note: In the time of its composition—the first decade of the 13th century—Tristan was already a timeless story of heroism and romance, yet in the hands of a great...

A ‘Birthday Apology’ to Shakespeare on his 455th, and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

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April 26, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Shakespeare
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  Birthday Apology William Shakespeare was born April 26, 1564 If all the world’s a stage, and all the men are women, myne eye be true, I gauge; her beard doth need a...

‘Towards the End of Chinese Communism’ and Other Poetry by Damian Robin

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April 25, 2019
Beauty, Human Rights in China, Poetry
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Towards the End of Chinese Communism Through Shanghai’s packed glissando peaks and Beijing’s glossy miles, As though to keep out counter breaths and polish glassy smiles, The dazing days of blinding...

‘The Keyhole’ by Lynn Michael Martin

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April 24, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
5 Comments
Here shut behind an oaken door I stay, left in a room paneled with times long gone, and learn to know the passing of the day, for day and I await the selfsame dawn. My window faces west, my door is...

Five Sonnets on World War I by Peter Hartley

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April 23, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
33 Comments
Gallipoli, 1915 There are none left on earth can ever tell At first hand of this mortal waste of war Hard-fought one hundred years ago and more, The stench of death, of corpses left to swell, Their...

‘Sonnet’ by Andrew McDiarmid

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April 22, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
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  I face the day with unexpected strength, to know we’ll meet when the sun has disappeared. Your hand in mine we’ll walk the forest’s length, with peace of mind and nothing to be feared. I...

‘The Terrorist Attacks in Sri Lanka, Easter, 2019’ by Bruce Dale Wise

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April 21, 2019
Culture, Poetry, Terrorism
16 Comments
  O, curse Zahran Hashim and, yes, Abu Mohammad too, for evil at the Shangri-la and Batticalao, just two, of all those vicious men, who hit Sri Lanka's calm. O, Lord, the people cry aloud; they long...

A Poem for Easter Sunday: ‘Tosspot Tulip’ by James A. Tweedie

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April 21, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
7 Comments
  Tosspot tulip, withered, bowed and bent; __Severed stem embedded in a vase. __Natal bed a now-forsaken place. __Glory passed; its bloom and beauty spent. Birthed, bedecked, betrothed, by bulb and...

‘A Spot in Time’ by Theresa Rodriguez

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April 20, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
2 Comments
  It is a moment or a spot in time, When time is quieted and put away; A simple thing becoming the sublime, Suspended and eternal in a day And all around me just dissolves to naught; I feel my...

Poetry for Good Friday 2019

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April 19, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
12 Comments
A special holiday post featuring "My Cross" by Joe Tessitore of New York, New York; "Pietá" by Tonya McQuade of Los Gatos, California; "The Pietá" by Michael Charles Maibach of Alexandria, Virginia.

‘Pleasuring Dreams’ by P. T. O’Talryn

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April 18, 2019
Culture, Poetry
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They fell into a numbing sleep Perchance to darkly dream. The kettle for their tea was boiling; The plants were rich and green. They stoned themselves on television And marriage habits bad; Their...

‘Luckily for the Lovelorn’ by E.V. Wyler

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April 17, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
18 Comments
  Luckily for the bereft grieving through darkness alone, dawn is abundantly deft at its medicinal tone. When a new morning appears, duty abruptly commands focusing thoughts on careers and...

Three Poems on the Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

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April 16, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
33 Comments
The Cathedral, Burning by T. M. Moore Flames wreck the walls and ceilings that had stood for centuries, scorch ancient timbers, raze to ash that sanctuary made for praise, and cruelly crumble sacred...

A Poem on Euthanasia, by Ron L. Hodges

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April 16, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
13 Comments
  The Life That Is Not Life “I’m getting ready for my trip now.” —Aurelia Brouwers (who chose to be euthanized at age 29 in the Netherlands) You said it was the humane thing to do __For those...

SCP Poetry and Culture Symposium 2019

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April 15, 2019
Culture, From the Society, Poetry, Symposium
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The Society of Classical Poets is holding its first Poetry and Culture Symposium at the Princeton Club in Manhattan, on Monday, June 17, 4 to 8 p.m. Register here. The Symposium will feature prominent poets...

‘In Favour of Form’ by M. P. Lauretta

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April 15, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
  Today poetic form is ostracised. It’s stifled and suppressed, deemed obsolete; classed as archaic, stuffy and effete, a vestige of the past to be chastised. Make no mistake, the ‘advice’...

‘A Deer Encounter’ by Connie Phillips

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April 14, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
8 Comments
’Twas just a fleeting moment when our journeys crossed, When you were walking roadside, munching on the moss, On Christmas, we were driving, dinner on our mind, To share with friends and fam’ly at that...

‘Where the Heart Goes’ and Other Poetry by Roy E. Peterson

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April 13, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
13 Comments
Where the Heart Goes Where the heart decides to go, The feet must go along. The heart is first to know A thing is right or wrong. The heart knows who to trust. The heart knows who to fight. The feet...

An Immigration Poem: ‘Of Geese and Migration’ by James A. Tweedie

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April 12, 2019
Culture, Humor, Poetry
7 Comments
  The Canada Geese used to migrate each year. They’d summer up there and spend winter down here. Their nests were in Canada, home of their birth. From there they would fly to the ends of the...

A Poem for Former Greenpeace Activist Patrick Moore, by Bruce Dale Wise

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April 11, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, The Environment
5 Comments
District E for former Greenpeace Activist Patrick Moore by Eric Awesud Ble It always was at night when people simply disappeared. Names were removed from registers; such memories were seared. The...

‘Wings’ and Other Poetry by C. David Hay

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April 10, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
10 Comments
Wings Oh, to catch the winds of flight And soar where eagles go, To leave the woes of troubled souls Behind me far below. I'd listen to the song of birds And sail in endless flight, Then chase the sun...

‘Domitian’s Dark Dinners’ by Joseph S. Salemi

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April 9, 2019
Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
3 Comments
  The Graeco-Roman historian Lucius Dio Cassius, in his Roman History, describes “dark dinners” that were given by the emperor Domitian to specially chosen guests.   Domitian’s dinners...

‘Pachelbel’s Love Song’ by Michael Maibach

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April 7, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
3 Comments
When we listen To his sweet song, Did he then know It'd live this long? A song that gives To every age, A timeless sense Of history's page. Reminding you, Reminding me, Love songs can last Eternity. From...

‘The Melancholy Snowman’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Zappe

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April 6, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Rondeau
23 Comments
The Melancholy Snowman Though stony-eyed, I watched the finches glide. The chimney smoke, the builder slide, At night, I gave the constellations words, The House, the Builder, and the Birds. My silver...

‘The Water of Life’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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April 5, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
  The Water of Life To die Of thirst Is nigh The worst And saddest way A life may end, Since quickened clay Cannot transcend Its fundamental need For fluid that's designed To irrigate and...

Poem in Your Pocket Day 2019 Poems (Rhyming!)

The Society
April 4, 2019
Culture, Education, From the Society, Poetry
25 Comments
April 18, 2019 is Poem in Your Pocket Day, part of National Poetry Month. On this day, people are encouraged to carry a poem in their pockets and share it with others. This day is primarily used by teachers...

‘Saint Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio’ by Alan Sugar

The Society
April 3, 2019
Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
  It seemed a wolf had terrorized the town. Well, isn’t that what wolves are wont to do? The people said, “Say, put that wild thing down.” “Or else, instead, give it a talking to.” A...

A Translation of ‘In the Evening’ by Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827)

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April 2, 2019
Beauty, Poetry, Translation
10 Comments
translation from Italian by Luigi Pagano Maybe because you are the image of eternal peace O evening, you are welcomed by me with open arms when the summer clouds and the gentlest breeze beguile me with...

A Pro-life Poem: ‘In the Garden’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

The Society
April 1, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
10 Comments
In the Garden In Paradise there is a place where ruby-colored roses grace the trellises of precious pearl - so splendidly their buds unfurl! She and her Child oft’ wander here among the flowers they...




  1. Joseph S. Salemi on A Poem on Gaslighting and Other Poetry by Brian YapkoMay 30, 2023

    The technique of gaslighting has become so common today that it is now standard procedure when left-liberals argue with anyone.…

  2. Mark Stellinga on A Poem on Gaslighting and Other Poetry by Brian YapkoMay 30, 2023

    Brian, even without knowing who some of the characters are, the point you brilliantly make in "Gaslighted" is both nostalgic…

  3. KH on ‘Translation of Marcabru’s L’autrier Just’una Sebissa’ by Joseph S. SalemiMay 30, 2023

    Thanks Joseph for your kind reply. In that case, how should I contact Evan Mantyk about this?

  4. Joseph S. Salemi on ‘Translation of Marcabru’s L’autrier Just’una Sebissa’ by Joseph S. SalemiMay 30, 2023

    I'm sorry, but I don't know. Mr. Mantyk chooses all illustrations for the SCP, so perhaps he could tell you.…

  5. Susan Jarvis Bryant on A Poem on Gaslighting and Other Poetry by Brian YapkoMay 30, 2023

    Brian, these two magnificent poems are a linguistic tonic for the weary soul worn down by today’s relentless barrage of…

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