Month: June 2020

Viral Hair Care After four months untrimmed, my coiffure was ovoid, Well in tune with Aquarian couture. I was starting ...

  1. Poetry or prose? No one knows. 2. Shan’t waffle, 'tis awful. 3. Shan’t coddle, 'tis twaddle. 4. I ...

  See the St Louis The St Louis sailed from Hamburg in May, 1939. The 938 passengers were refused entry ...

  Back to Normal An Appeal to Pastors I hear it in my conversations and in webinars and on the ...

  Honest to God? after Ecclesiastes 5 Watch carefully your step when you draw near to God. Fools play at ...

  Secret Sorrows in memory of Mr. Sushant Singh Rajput, an Indian actor and youth icon who passed away on ...

  The seasons came and passed again Since last I heard your voice; Many are the ways I'd change If ...

  I’ll Have My Say… by Susan Jarvis Bryant Don’t spit your ire upon my name. Don’t tell me that ...

  Averted, staring past my busy day, I watched my feeding station for the birds, Was startled by a darkness ...

  In triumph the Archangel stands atop __The medieval fortress church and isle __That bear his name—the legendary spot __Where ...

  Samson’s Revenge a translation of Judges 15:16 With but an ass’s jawbone Asses I have made of them, The ...

It Matters Not On Sunday, June 21st, three men were stabbed to death while sitting in Forbury Park in Reading, ...

  Olympus Olympus, thou majestic crag, whose bright And jagged spire, aloft the dazzling air Only the winds and snows ...

Poet's Note: The Apology of Socrates is Plato’s account of Socrates’ defense of himself in a court of law. The ...

  The Boncompagni Dragon The Boncompagni Dragon, by Bartolomeo Passerotti (1529-92). Pen with brown ink, over black chalk. Tobey Collection ...

. Juneteenth---the Day After by Joe Tessitore Witness the collapse And see the dust clouds rise. Hear the sound of ...

Twisted Reckoning If pain can produce beauty, and if beauty causes pain, then how can I be reconciled to more ...

  Johann Sebastian Bach Truly loved music, yet Managed to wed twice And father a gang. The kids took their ...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZUryvFffTQ   Some Sunny Day A tribute to Dame Vera Lynn who died today, June 18, 2020 (aged 103). ...

Translator's Note: John Gower (c.1330–1408) wrote his Traitié de Matrimoine in French (with Latin notes throughout) to reach the widest ...

  A Reminder to Our Young People To say life has no hardship's to deceive, But trials and tribulations help ...

All of the below poems were read on May 31, 2020 at The Society of Classical Poets Symposium, which was ...

  “Laudamus te” from J.S. Bach’s B-minor Mass This aria so beautifully sung, Its obbligato part ethereal; Such coloratura from ...

Two Tattoos   Tattoo One: On the Corporate and Politic Bodies Across my town, the shops and offices are short. ...

  On Antifa, Coming to the Country A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the ...

  Consider black’s effect; when it’s combined With other colors just a little trace Creates a shade but more will ...

The Society of Classical Poets, a New York-based 501(c)(3) non-profit with Members across the nation and around the world, wishes ...

  The Society of Classical Poets website receives millions of views every year. Visitors read engaging, beautiful, topical verse that ...

  Destined for the Mount Rushmore of Radio Triumphal times are on the way, America’s Anchor Man. We Dittoheads will ...

  Georges Danton's Ghost Counsels the Protestors “Yes, America is burning. But that’s how forests grow.” –Maura Healey, Massachusetts Attorney ...

  Repeal All the world and all the universe are still, ____All that moves, moves but as God wills; ____All ...

If I Owned a Macy's by Nancy Weber If I owned a Macy’s or other such stores… I'd tear down ...

  My father wore his sorrow like a hundred millstone weight. I seldom saw him angry and I never saw ...

May 4, 2020 Response is Draconian, As if Napoleon’s Back on the emperor’s throne. Except now with “wanna-bes” Ruining economies, ...

  The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and ...

I recently discarded some unnecessary texts, and among them were two past editions (the 17th and the 20th) of Len ...

A Riot Limerick by Joe Tessitore The Most Evil has cast the first brick And his antics make decent folk ...

  Astride the Golden Horn, where Occident __And Orient collide, the silhouettes __of minarets co-mingle with the scent __of spice ...

  “London BLM riot: Cenotaph vandalised on the 76th anniversary of the D-Day Landing” –UK News headline, June 6, 2020 ...

  The captain stood amidst his crew, and wiped the bar for someone new. To make them laugh he'd tell ...