‘An Australian Kangaroo Visits the Second Impeachment Trial of President Trump’ by Jan Darling The Society March 23, 2021 Culture, Exposing Election Fraud, Humor, Poetry 16 Comments . A kangaroo visiting from Australia beholds the kangaroo court attempting to impeach President Trump for the second time and, taking the current...
‘Obit: English Pronouns’ by Jan Darling The Society February 19, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 31 Comments . Dear friends we gather here to say goodbye To words once used to speak both truth and lie. The HE and SHE and HIS and HERS and MINE By ZIE...
‘Grapes’ and More Phobia Limerick Riddles by Jan Darling The Society January 15, 2020 Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry, Riddles 9 Comments Grapes Peel me a grape But remove the seed I love the flesh But have no need Of hard encounters In the skin Juicy, fat, dry or thin. On...
Phobia Limerick Riddles, by Jan Darling The Society December 14, 2019 Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry, Riddles 45 Comments Each poem below describes a phobia. Guess what the person is scared of in each. For extra credit try to name the phobia’s official name....
A Fairy Tale in Poetry: ‘The Singing Bone,’ by Jan Darling The Society August 20, 2019 Children's, Classical Literature, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments This is a tale of sibling rivalry from the 1812 Brothers Grimm collection of Children’s and Household Tales. Similar stories exist in...
‘A Love Sonnet’ by Jan Darling The Society January 18, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments after the style of Petrarch The aching of your leave clings sadly, still And pangs of emptiness I lone endure But slowly I ascend towards love...
‘Sonnet for a Cosmetic Company’ and Other Poetry by Jan Darling The Society September 19, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 21 Comments Sonnet for a Cosmetic Company Ah Youth! To whom each maiden plights her troth To coax and woo each winsome charm to stay ‘Tis difficult to match...
‘Island City: Auckland’ and Other Poetry by Jan Darling The Society August 18, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments Island City: Auckland I’ve grown to love this place of sea and noise Where buildings have assumed a regal poise As high they stab on...
‘Rebirth’ by Jan Darling The Society July 18, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 26 Comments My Soul awoke and yawned and stretched and pushed And seemed desired to break its earthly bounds Too anxious, I almost its Spirit crushed As birth...
Society of Classical Poets Journal IX Published The Society June 27, 2021 From the Society, Poetry 2 Comments . The Society of Classical Poets Journal IX has been published. It features poetry selected from poetry published on the SCP website between February...
Poetry Readings from 2020 SCP Symposium – ‘A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme’ (Session II) The Society July 28, 2020 Children's, From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Symposium, Video 1 Comment 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...
Poetry on Riots, Aunt Jemima, and Common Sense The Society June 26, 2020 Coronavirus, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 22 Comments I’ll Have My Say… by Susan Jarvis Bryant Don’t spit your ire upon my name. Don’t tell me that my view’s insane--- to sink...
Online SCP Poetry Symposium 2020 – “A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme” The Society May 1, 2020 From the Society, Readings, Symposium 8 Comments Due to the unprecedented circumstances regarding the CCP virus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Symposium has been moved online. The details of the event...
Humorous Poetry for the CCP Virus (COVID-19) Quarantine The Society March 26, 2020 Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry 106 Comments Note: The Society of Classical Poets refers to the COVID-19 coronavirus as the CCP virus because the Chinese Communist Party’s coverup and...
How to Write a Limerick The Society February 8, 2017 For Educators, Limerick, Poetry, Poetry Forms 4 Comments Related How to Write a Sonnet How to Write a Haiku How to Write a Rondeau How to Write a Villanelle How to Write a Poem Like the Raven by Dusty...
The Society of Classical Poets Releases Journal VIII The Society June 12, 2020 From the Society, Poetry 5 Comments The Society of Classical Poets website receives millions of views every year. Visitors read engaging, beautiful, topical verse that...
Five Sonnets from the Forthcoming Work Commentary, by Michael Curtis The Society January 3, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments Cumæan Below, beyond the tiles now cave’d down, Up from the rubbled earth arose a sound Shrieking in a pitch strung to sting the ear, Some...
Journal VII Released The Society May 24, 2019 From the Society, News of Note, Poetry 3 Comments We are pleased to announce the publication of The Society of Classical Poets’ Journal VII. The new journal is larger and more impressive than any...
Essay: On Edgar Allan Poe’s Search for Supernal Beauty and His Five Greatest Poems The Society February 12, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, The Raven 4 Comments By David Bellemare Gosselin Today, seldom is Edgar Allan Poe's voice heard as it's drowned out by the popular notions of Poe as some sort of...
Members The Society February 21, 2017 X Members of the Society (MSCP) 2021 Achee, Lorraine, New Orleans Adams, Dale, Oklahoma Anderson, C.B., Massachusetts Aine Mae, Oregon Ashurst, Alan,...
