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Monthly Archives June 30, 2019

‘Golf / Flog’ by Raymond Gallucci

The Society
June 30, 2019
Culture, Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
  It comes as no surprise that “golf” When backward spelled is “flog.” For it’s a sport so hard to solve Leaves many in a fog. On surface it so simple seems – Just hit a little...

‘Dead Poet’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

The Society
June 29, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
Dead Poet Of what I was, not much remains, but that which does, indeed still strains to craft and pen a poem sweet, as I did when my heart did beat. I’m cold and stiff, yet still I yearn! (It seems as...

The Rebirth of Poetry Is Here: First SCP Symposium Held

The Society
June 28, 2019
Essays, From the Society, Poetry, Symposium
21 Comments
The Society of Classical Poets successfully holds its first symposium in New York City (Press Release)   NEW YORK—A growing movement is calling for the return of meter and rhyme in poetry in a bid...

‘Kingfishers and Kites’ and Other Poetry by Denise Sobilo

The Society
June 27, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
Kingfishers and Kites Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I...

A Poem on the Green New Deal and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
June 26, 2019
Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment
18 Comments
Doomsday… or Not? The Green New Deal is out there, and Bernie says it’s true— there’s only twelve more years left for the likes of me and you to curtail carbon footprints and cure the ailing...

‘G-Mafia’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
June 25, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
14 Comments
G-Mafia "Let us now praise freedom's twilight..." —Osip Mandelstam by Esca Webuilder We live without the feeling of the country under us. We cannot hear ourselves; nobody listens to our pulse. But...

‘Foggy Morning Fantasy’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie

The Society
June 24, 2019
Poetry
10 Comments
Foggy Morning Fantasy If heaven, as they say, is in the clouds Then it appears my home and neighborhood Were raptured in the night. If so, I should Expect to see streets paved with gold, and crowds Of...

‘Disappointment’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

The Society
June 23, 2019
Alexandroid, Beauty, Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
Disappointment The waiting's not the hardest part: Much worse is when you finally know That what you craved with all your heart ____Will not arrive. Infatuations come and go, Bad luck upsets your...

‘Staving off Omega’ by Dylan Price

The Society
June 22, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
  The ambit is the noblest cause, A last vestige of Apollo's love, A pursuit freed from any flaws, As peace aloft borne by a dove. In all we have is finitude, So best that we attempt To bask in...

‘The Populace Invisible’ by Lannie David Brockstein

The Society
June 22, 2019
Culture, Humor, Poetry
  The human body is perpetually pregnant with Trillions of microorganisms that hath colonized Its intestinal lair, and like the gravid woman's pith Heart eats not only for herself, but for her...

‘Leaf in Fall’ and Other Poetry by David Francis

The Society
June 21, 2019
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
3 Comments
  Leaf in Fall I feel hard without my love at my side; she is the part of me that lacks the soft buoyancy that rounds and bears me aloft into the spring sky mirrored in the tide… without her I...

Two Poems on Hong Kong Protests, June 2019

The Society
June 20, 2019
Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry
6 Comments
The Hong Kong Protest Hymn by Lu "Reed ABCs" Wei The Christian hymn "Sing Hallelujah to the Lord" emerged as anthem of the Hong Kong protests. It's not yet expurged. The hymn is heard almost nonstop at...

Two Ballads on Abortion

The Society
June 20, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
2 Comments
Planned Parenthood's a Euphemism upon reading March for Life's annual report by Roy E. Peterson Planned Parenthood’s a euphemism __Covering up the murder Of babies by abortion-ism— __We must...

‘In The Know’ by David Watt

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June 19, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
14 Comments
It’s easy to look without seeing The beauty of life all around; When moments arisen to being Deserve to stir feelings profound. To all of God’s work lies a reason, And all we ought do is agree That...

‘Message in a Bottle’ and Other Poetry by Tony L. Damigo

The Society
June 18, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
16 Comments
  Message in a Bottle A ballad written on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019 While birds above the beachhead soared __and winds began to blow, I took a bottle from the froth, __condemned to ocean's...

‘I Spent My Youth with Byron and the Bard’ and Other Poetry by Caleb Winebrenner

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June 17, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
4 Comments
  I Spent My Youth with Byron and the Bard I spent my youth with Byron and the Bard, With Tennyson, the Brownings, and dear Keats— And full of passions, eager, trying hard To imitate their lofty,...

‘Ballroom Dancing’: A Sonnet Cycle by James A. Tweedie

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June 16, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
7 Comments
Note: Formal Ballroom Dance competition involves five specific dance forms. This sonnet cycle attempts to introduce and describe them. I have also composed and attached audio recordings of a Waltz and Tango as...

‘Cicadas’ and Other Poetry by T.M. Moore

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June 15, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
Cicadas There is, I know, some benefit in this, this cycle of emerging, breeding, dying- so brief a time for knowing any bliss, or making friends, or new endeavors trying - only to bring forth offspring...

Poetry Celebrating President Trump’s 73rd Birthday

The Society
June 14, 2019
Culture, Humor, Poetry
22 Comments
The Limerick I’d Love to Write by Joe Tessitore There once was a President Trump And many thought he was a chump. ____But none was more shrewd ____Than this big-city dude, Now back over his wall...

‘Quicksilver’ by Charles Bauer

The Society
June 13, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
  A song’s composer’s music might reveal A question or idea in such a way That black notes penned on paper weigh what’s real; But if unheard his work subsides to gray. That gray divides...

‘Birthday Greeting to a Doomed Child’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley

The Society
June 12, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
9 Comments
  Birthday Greeting to a Doomed Child a song of lament decrying New York´s “birthday abortion” law, approved January 22, 2019 So, welcome to this world, little one, little one! Your first and...

‘To Conservatives’ by Carl Hildebrand

The Society
June 11, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
3 Comments
  To fight a fight on ground of your own choosing, To force the foe to battle at your pleasure Is feasible so long as you’re not losing— And so you have, so long as you remember. The Right...

‘The Conch Shell’ by Sally Sandler

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June 10, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
  Its coarse name belies this silken treasure, with iridescent dome and spiral apse. Imagination slips in with pleasure, to contemplate an opus like blown glass. Perhaps a queen lived here (no...

Three ‘Imaginary Sonnets’ by Daniel Galef

The Society
June 9, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry
5 Comments
These poems are part of Daniel Galef’s series Imaginary Sonnets. Each sonnet is a verse soliloquy from the perspective of a different historical figure.      Gillette to Frenhofer (spoken by...

‘An English Spring’ by Nathaniel Todd McKee

The Society
June 8, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
3 Comments
  May 2018 How pleasant to recall the light of spring, Which with effulgence breaks the woodland morn, As we through beech-clad glade walk marveling At overlay of Bluebells gayly born. We then trace...

‘I Am One, Then’ and Other Poetry by James Sale

The Society
June 7, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
4 Comments
I Am One, Then "In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of Hell" - Isaiah 38.10 I am one, then, who's been to hell: __Cut down in my old prime; One day solid, sound as a bell, __The next day quite...

A Ballad for College-bound Students, by Ron L. Hodges

The Society
June 6, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Short Stories
2 Comments
Icarus’ Fall at College   Prologue Dear reader, surely, you must think, __“What could be taught to us That we haven’t already learned __Of mythic Icarus? “His plunge is clearly a...

‘Newlyweds’ by John Kastamo

The Society
June 5, 2019
Beauty, Poetry
1 Comment
  We are a young ocean. We, __with merry veins once meek and coy, shall fill the belly of this sea. And at our bounds of God’s decree __pleasant lines will drink in joy. As our waters swim and...

‘Forgetting the Tiananmen Square Massacre for 30 Years’ and Other Poetry by Damian Robin

The Society
June 4, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
41 Comments
  Forgetting the Tiananmen Square Massacre for 30 Years Robbed of life and liberty in open air, Young citizens ran out of breath inside the Square. Hot bullets opened skin to pump bright flesh holes...

‘Minotaur’ by Alan Sugar

The Society
June 3, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
2 Comments
  Half man, half monster—I am in a maze. They banished me because of others’ sins. Among these walls, I’m doomed to spend my days. No happy ending. No one ever wins. It was the king,...

‘The Lament of the Editors’ by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
June 2, 2019
Culture, Humor, Poetry, Sapphic Verse
14 Comments
a satirical piece in Sapphic stanzas   Every day they come in a flood: unwanted Big manila envelopes stuffed with verses. Mostly garbage—that’s what we sift and filter Looking for talent. Like...

Six Clerihews by Peter Hartley

The Society
June 1, 2019
Clerihew, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Forms
39 Comments
The clerihew is a kind of epigrammatic verse (normally) consisting of a pair of rhyming couplets. The first line will usually introduce the name of a famous person. The following three lines will describe some...
  1. jd on ‘On Twenty Years of YouTube’: A Poem by Paul A. FreemanJune 6, 2025

    I am grateful for its presence. Somehow, I'm able to find many excellent movies generously provided for free not to…

  2. jd on ‘Family Values’: Four Poems by Susan Jarvis BryantJune 6, 2025

    Ditto to all said above including the choice of graphic. Expertly penned as always, Susan. Thank you.

  3. Margaret Brinton on ‘Family Values’: Four Poems by Susan Jarvis BryantJune 6, 2025

    And the editor's art selection is a perfect fit for this work, Susan.

  4. Mark Stellinga on ‘Family Values’: Four Poems by Susan Jarvis BryantJune 6, 2025

    Joe said it perfectly for me, young lady (thank God), and I'm ready to admit that you're getting pretty darn…

  5. Roy Eugene Peterson on ‘On Twenty Years of YouTube’: A Poem by Paul A. FreemanJune 6, 2025

    Interesting history well told. I access it only for oldies music. Often when I type in a title in the…

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