‘Crying Fowl’: A Thanksgiving Day Poem by C.B. Anderson The Society November 26, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 25 Comments The turkey that we blithely ate Had little cause to celebrate The final Thursday in November. It's customary to dismember A hapless...
A Poem on ‘Black Lives Matter’ and Others by C.B. Anderson The Society November 3, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Ekphrastic, Poetry 18 Comments Context Is Everything When you attempt to cut some string A hammer doesn’t do a thing— Jackknives matter. When life has gotten back...
Four Poems on Writing, by C.B. Anderson The Society October 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 21 Comments Vocations Always there are things we should be doing; Others, though, are better left unfinished. Also, there are ends well worth...
‘Postponement’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society September 29, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments Postponement I disappoint some folks of whom I’m fond, But I, in turn, am irritated by The nebulous assurance that beyond This life, in...
Three Poems on Drinking, by C.B. Anderson The Society August 30, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments The Angels’ Share Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God’s...
Three Poems Dealing with Garden Pests, by C.B. Anderson The Society July 26, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments The Gardener at War Throughout our lives we hustle and we slave __To turn our gardens into magic places __Where beauty at its pinnacle...
Three Poems on Summer, by C.B. Anderson The Society July 1, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments Summer Concerts The katydids and stridulant cicadas Regale us with their aestival sonatas. At night, surrounded by the song of...
Four Poems on Pain and Distress by C.B. Anderson The Society May 30, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 26 Comments Domain of Pain A piercing migraine or a throbbing toothache, A splinter underneath a fingernail, An upset stomach caused by too much...
Three Poems on Spring by C.B. Anderson The Society May 1, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments The Onus of Vernal Duty Surrounding fields and woods unfreeze, The air once more is filled with light, As springtime’s blanket...
‘Don’t Get Caught’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society April 1, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 26 Comments Don’t Get Caught The catfish and the trout hum different tunes, But both agree they love hot afternoons When no one wants to fish, when...
‘Wake-Up Call’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society March 1, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments Wake-Up Call "Shoulda," "coulda," "woulda" and "whatever" Are telltales that evince velleity In speakers who most probably will...
‘Bring On the Leeches’ and Other Humorous Poems by C.B. Anderson The Society February 2, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments Bring On the Leeches A condition called aspergillosis, And a touch of marasmus as well, Was the surgeon’s succinct diagnosis. All my innards...
‘The Winter of Our Contentment’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society December 13, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 23 Comments The Winter of Our Contentment Without the winter there would be no spring, No snowdrops, crocus, scilla, daffodils, Or any other bulbs...
A Poem for Thanksgiving Day: ‘Gathered Together’ by C.B. Anderson The Society November 28, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments From cradle to the grave, From womb to musty tomb, The sanity I crave Is in a dining room With family gathered there: Thanksgiving,...
‘The Journey Home’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society November 10, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments The Journey Home Enwrapped in flesh we come to earth, Created in our Maker's image, Where from the moment of our birth We're parties to a...
‘A Man for Two Seasons’ by T.M. Moore and a Response by C.B. Anderson The Society September 22, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 11 Comments A Man for Two Seasons by T.M. Moore I’m in a constant state of readiness for fall. For me, the perfect climate goes from winter straight to...
‘Investment Strategies’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society August 28, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments Investment Strategies At work we studied many charts and graphs With due attention to the bottom line, But had we dwelt upon our epitaphs We...
‘Beyond Scientism’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society August 14, 2019 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments Beyond Scientism Old wives’ tales, humble kin of ancient lore, Like road signs carved in stone are durable. Traditionists are deemed...
A Straight Shooter: Interview with C.B. Anderson The Society July 31, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Interviews, News of Note, Poetry 2 Comments Roots in the Sky, Boots on the Ground: Metaphysical Poems C.B. Anderson, Kelsay Books, 107 pages paperback, ISBN-10: 1949229688 2019, $17.00 by...
‘One Love’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society July 9, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments One Love In all the world there’s but one Love, just one. A single substance—like the billow lit From overhead by flashes from the sun And...
‘Disappointment’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society June 23, 2019 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...
‘Delimitation’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society May 25, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments Delimitation To rhyme with proper meter in the cause Of classic forms is nothing anyone Should derogate, but old poetic laws Were fashioned to...
‘Epigrams on the Decay within Academia’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society May 1, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 21 Comments Epigrams on the Decay within Academia Liberal Artifice "Progressives," through advanced miseducation, Have shaken our fair land to its...
‘The Water of Life’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society 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...
Three Poems Before Sleeping, by C.B. Anderson The Society January 23, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments The Catholic Work Ethic I'll do as much as I am able __Before the sun has set. I doubt that I will run the table __Because I haven't...
‘The Chinese Bill of Rights’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society December 18, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 27 Comments The Chinese Bill of Rights In China, laws regarding human rights May keep a simple man awake at nights, Suspecting that a Mand'rin guten...
‘Trope’ by C.B. Anderson The Society November 21, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments Attentive to the dawning light, a poem has much in common with a plant: the crown delivers photosynthate through the phloem to earthbound...
‘United They Fall’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society October 15, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 34 Comments United They Fall Exhausted armies cling to noble trees along the margin of a meadow mown two weeks ago. It's fifty-five degrees, and summer's...
‘Three Loves in One’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society September 9, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Three Loves in One We've gathered Love, but only insofar As we have reaped a crop from seeds we've sown. Those hours we cherished our beloved...
‘Garden Waltz’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society July 3, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments Garden Waltz a terza rima sonnet in dactylic pentameter with a truncated foot at the end of each line Radishes sway to the rhythm of sunlight and...
‘Obituary’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society April 12, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments Obituary Late summer, when the bumblebees begin to die, You’ll see them clinging to the petals of a flower For dear life—or at least it seems...
‘Living with Omnibenevolence’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society February 25, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments Living with Omnibenevolence Each one of us is furnished with an expiration date, And no one living has the power to elude his fate. There...
‘Stone Walls Sometimes a Prison Make’ by C.B. Anderson The Society January 24, 2018 Beauty, Human Rights in China, Poetry 5 Comments Stone Walls Sometimes a Prison Make What might have happened once in Carolina To folks whose only wish was for some peace Is commonplace...
‘Meritocracy’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society October 15, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, News of Note, Poetry 16 Comments Meritocracy When the Left tries to cow us and trammel our prowess ____We resort to a stiff upper lip, Well aware that their winning will spell...
‘Verification’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society April 19, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Verification What further evidence will now be needed to assure Us that behind the strictly physical there’s something more, And that the...
Poet Bio: C.B. Anderson The Society February 28, 2017 C.B. Anderson grew up in eastern Pennsylvania, attended Wesleyan University for two-and-a-half years beginning in 1967, and eventually earned a...
‘Education: To Be Continued…’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society February 17, 2017 Culture, For Educators, News of Note, Poetry 3 Comments Education: To Be Continued ... There is no lack of opportunity For education in this spendthrift age, And boys who wish to earn a decent...
‘Water Music’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society January 4, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terrorism 4 Comments Water Music Just as white as a blanket of new-fallen snow Is the noise of a waterfall cresting a brim And ebulliently thrashing the basin...
‘Armageddon’ and Other Poetry on Recent Riots The Society July 8, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 4 Comments Armageddon a tennos on the current socio-political situation by C.B. Anderson Some of my former friends are now definitively...
Poetry Readings from 2020 SCP Symposium – ‘A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme’ (Session I) The Society June 17, 2020 From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Symposium, Video All of the below poems were read on May 31, 2020 at The Society of Classical Poets Symposium, which was held online due to the pandemic. Below are...
