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. The poem "May Memorial" by Cynthia Erlandson read by the poet herself at the Society of Classical Poets online ...

. Thy Servant Elizabeth _“Well-done, unswerving servant,” _All the church bells rang _On all the roads of England, _While all ...

. Readings of original poems by the poets from the Society of Classical Poets online Poetry Symposium on June 28, ...

. History’s Rondel Human history’s plot repeats In variations, with refrain Each time we purpose to regain Eden, fooled by ...

. What Is a Man? “Ask now, and see, whether a man is ever in labor with child?” ---Jeremiah 30: ...

. Forsythia Fading ---after Robert Frost and A.E. Housman Green leaves push yellow blooms away. Bold colors leave, their lives ...

. Strange Blindness: A Play in Two Acts . Prologue Joseph and Jesus knew that perfect timing---and not plain, unforeshadowed ...

. Autumn Twilight Full moon. Crickets singing. Scarlet sky.Long past summer solstice; now the sunDescends before the short day’s work ...

. Three Cascading Endings on Fallen Civilizations I. Everywhere, the sands are endless. Look: A joke is made of all ...

. Help! I Can’t Stop Speaking in Iambic! Help! I can’t stop speaking in iambic Pentameter! No matter what I ...

. For the Sake of Ten Thousand: A Supplication from New Sodom And Abraham came near and said, ‘Would You ...

. Fall Back: Central Standard Time Already it is dark: the falling arc Of each advancing year, when the eager ...

. Senior Village The ambulances come and go. Last night it was the man across The hall, whom I’d begun ...

. Nehemiah Questions Robert Frost About Walls “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” ---Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” “Jerusalem ...

. But Who Am I? “But Moses said to God, ‘Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and ...

. Dandelions “...all the days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow....” ---Ecclesiastes 6: 12 . ____As ...

. March 21st, Saints Cranmer and Bach Archbishop Thomas Cranmer,  burned at the stake March 21, 1556 . Johann Sebastian ...

. . February 14, 2024 A heart of burning love, an ashen cross Converge today: the marriage of two kinds ...

. . Nocturnal Litany I “From all malevolence the night employs….” ---James Agee, “Epithalamium” . From all malevolence the night ...

. . “Even now, in sordid particulars, the eternal design may appear.” ---T.S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral . Among ...

. . Reversing Babel . I. Babel “Now the whole earth had one language and one speech.” ---Genesis 11:1 . ...

. . “The moon hung low in the sky like a yellow skull.” ---Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray ...

. . Late Bloomers My last red rose-of-sharon __Is slowly curling closed, Each giant shell-shaped petal __Beginning to turn in, ...

. August. The rose-of-sharon blossoms float like stars Within my reach: I’m lying on the grass Observing sunset fade and ...

. SCP Poet Cynthia Erlandson of Michigan has won the 2023 Maria W. Faust Sonnet Competition.  Her sonnet, "Fire and ...

. Job’s Rant Job 3: 3-10 . May darkness and death’s shadow claim the day When I was sent to ...

. Worse Than Widowed They’ve made us widows while we’re still alive. I’m not allowed to see my wife, although ...

. Ruben “We have words that speak of the ongoing presence of such privations: orphan, widow, widower. And perhaps the ...

. “Where Ever-present Joy Knows Naught of Time” ---Dante, Paradiso, Canto X, D.L. Sayers translation a rondeau redouble Where ever-present ...

. 1960s Soap Operas “Soap operas,” they called them. Housewives watched Them while they sewed or cooked or ironed clothes. ...

. Byrd in Flight The surplice-vested, five-part choir, Like sparrows on a five-tiered wire, Gives flight to canticles of Byrd. ...

. “Upon These Boughs that Shake Against the Cold” ---Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 Her script was always lovely and unique, And ...

. Easter Monday Luke 24: 13 – 35 With hearts eclipsed by Friday’s three-day night And eyes still blinded to ...

. Meditations on Ecclesiastes . Inquiry “What profit has a man for all his labor…?” ---Ecclesiastes 1: 3 None knows ...

. This Present Madness “To sleep! Perchance to dream; aye, there’s the rub…..” ---Shakespeare, Hamlet I The daily nightmare hovers; ...

. Listening to Bach While the World Falls Apart for Adrianna, Paul, and Beth I Sight isn’t needed---the continuous cracking ...

. The Twilight’s Last Gleaming? The waning moon is framed by crippled branches; One long white stripe of cloud-chalk intersects ...

. This poem is inspired by a column in The Epoch Times written by John Falce, entitled “The Experience of ...

. Set forth your true and lively word, O Lord, Amidst this false and deadly earthen tongue With which we ...

. I’ve had a nightmare! Let that just man go! You’re right that he’s done nothing wrong. They’re wrong To ...