‘Alotta Lip About my Hip’ and Other Hip Replacement Poetry by Jeff Kemper The Society June 10, 2025 Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments . Alotta Lip About my Hip Alotta lip about my hip On paper, phone, computer-drive. The new one at my femur’s tip Has generated verbal jive Beyond...
‘On a Raging Storm’ and Other Poetry by Jeff Kemper The Society May 26, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . On a Raging Storm Storms raged in the eastern U.S. in Spring of 2019. Is it a freak of summer or the norm? A gale, a blast, a squall is roaring...
‘The Unknown God’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society March 23, 2025 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . The Unknown God ---Paul’s Address at the Areopagus (Acts 17:22-31) My dear Athenians, this I surveilled While passing by: you’re quite...
‘Magna Lex’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society January 13, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Magna Lex ---to the choirmaster, a Psalm (19) of David. . I The heavens herald God’s resplendency; The skies above display his artistry. By day...
‘Where Babylonic Rivers Flowed’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society October 28, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Where Babylonic Rivers Flowed after Psalm 137, a lament at the destruction of Jerusalem Where Babylonic rivers flowed We settled down to weep and...
‘Three Death Musings’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society October 14, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . Three Death Musings . 1 One day the conqueror worm will conquer me And therewith render life the Joker's joke. Ensuing laughter will then posit...
Poetry Paraphrased from Suicide Notes, by Jeff Kemper The Society January 23, 2024 Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . The Plight of a Troubled Young Soul Parts I and II are paraphrases of actual notes. . I. Not Today I know I’m ill; I am not well. In truth, I...
Poems Based on Kamala Harris Speeches, by Jeff Kemper The Society November 15, 2023 Poetry, Satire 31 Comments . Assorted Sonic Salads (i.e., Kamalisms) being the first installment of a repository of wisdom from the Vice President of the United States of...
‘Autumn in Pennsylvania in 2023’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society October 13, 2023 Poetry, Satire 12 Comments . Autumn in Pennsylvania in 2023 In response to Susan Jarvis Bryant’s poem on "Autumn in Texas" If Autumn is a bummer down in Texas, Up north it...
‘A Draft of Death’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society September 23, 2023 Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . A Draft of Death Did Flavius not inform us How a fart fetched fates enormous? After Flavius Josephus’s account of a Jewish Passover (ca 50 AD),...
Songs for a Granddaughter: Poems by Jeff Kemper The Society September 9, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Nine: A Song for a Granddaughter for a girl, M___, raised in my household, though not a blood relative 1 She is the girl who cheers my...
‘Death Musings’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society July 31, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments . Death Musings . 1 On New Year's Day my body fell as dead Before a frightened child who hid her face From terror's flaunt. Death-taunts delivered...
Poems on the Agony of Teenage Girls, by Jeff Kemper The Society January 12, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Be Gone an angry teenage daughter to her absconded mother What irritant incited you to leave And not come back while I was left to grieve? Was it...
‘Habakkuk’s Prayer’ and ‘The Patriot’s Prayer’ by Jeff Kemper The Society June 3, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Habakkuk’s Prayer after Habakkuk 3:2, 16-19; excerpts of the prophet’s prayer as he awaited certain destruction of his nation, Judah, by the...
‘On the Birth of the Grand Millenium: 1 January 2000’ by Jeff Kemper The Society December 31, 2021 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . On the Birth of the Grand Millenium 1 January 2000 A panoply of adolescent eyes Looks out into the frosty air they breathe Into the puffs of mist...
On Joe Rogan’s Interview of Demi Lovato, by Jeff Kemper The Society November 23, 2021 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . Making Asses A meditation on pop star Demi Lovato’s expounding on her newfound sexuality in an interview on "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast...
‘Vitamin DC: In Praise of Dark Chocolate’ by Jeff Kemper The Society November 3, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 29 Comments . When I crave from my enclave something to eat (Not apples or peas or muffins or meat) I steady my stare at my pantry’s archive And spot a great...
An Appeal to Activist Athletes at the Olympic Games, by Jeff Kemper The Society July 23, 2021 Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . A Little Respect an appeal to activist athletes at the Olympic games You have the right to speak of truth or trash __In houses, restaurants, and...
‘Riots Everywhere’ by Jeff Kemper, After Hank Snow’s ‘I’ve Been Everywhere’ The Society July 11, 2021 Culture, Music, Poetry 28 Comments . The below poem is a memoir of the summer of 2020, to be sung to the tune of “I’ve Been Everywhere,” with apologies to Geoff Mack and Hank...
‘I, Judas’ by Jeff Kemper The Society May 17, 2021 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . My erstwhile master taught me well And I supposed I could adjust As did the comrades in our cell, But when he said he’d bite the dust I levied...
Three Poems after Ecclesiastes 9, by Jeff Kemper The Society May 2, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . One Fate Ecclesiastes 9:1-6 Shall I portend, and shall I explicate What eyes can see themselves, ere they go blind? The moral and sagacious of...
‘Lumbar-Fusion Post-Op Blues’ by Jeff Kemper The Society April 18, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 21 Comments . The Odyssey of a recovering patient of the Orthopedic and Spine Specialists (OSS) hospital in York, PA; January 2019. (My hospital experience...
‘The Mission of the Magi’ by Jeff Kemper The Society January 6, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments . after Matthew 2:1-12 From distant regions of the east they came, Wise Magi, searching for a royal son, Into Jerusalem with single aim: Determined,...
‘My Covid-19 Birthday Bash’ by Jeff Kemper The Society November 30, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments 2 November 2020 Two weeks and counting here I be In clutches of the CCP I don’t delight as I once did In birthday presents, cards, and...
‘Where Are the Leaves?’: A Late Autumn Rondeau by Jeff Kemper The Society November 25, 2020 Beauty, Poetry, Rondeau 22 Comments Where are the leaves that branches bore? They’re falling fast on forest floor, A cornucopia outspread, Of orange, yellow, brown, and...
Three Poems for My Wife, by Jeff Kemper The Society November 13, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 14 Comments On Marriage I married a girl named Sue And alas! She married me too! As Then, So Now When years ago and many ages...
‘Uncle Joe and the Virtual Convention’ by Jeff Kemper The Society August 17, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments When the wokest of folk virtually convoke In a year of elections and riots and fear, Uncle Joe from the basement the Nanny will...
‘Samson’s Revenge’ and Other Poetry by Jeff Kemper The Society June 24, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments Samson’s Revenge a translation of Judges 15:16 With but an ass’s jawbone Asses I have made of them, The myriads, the masses. I have...
A Poem on Moses on the Mount by Jeffrey Kemper The Society July 31, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments On Consecrated Ground Moses on the Mount; Exodus 3-4 Moshe, a Hebrew truant from His resident Egyptian land Committed crimes with this...
On the Resignation of Bari Weiss from The New York Times, and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Kemper The Society July 21, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments With Sorrow Do I Leave It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times. ---Bari Weiss, opinion...
‘Bereaved’ by Jeffrey Kemper The Society May 23, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments 17 March 2019 When bleeds the heart with heartache harsh and deep, And coiling loins are toiling, boiling hot, And tears descend across...
The Society of Classical Poets Journal XI Published The Society April 16, 2023 From the Society, Poetry 10 Comments . The Society of Classical Poets Journal XI has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the...
Society of Classical Poets Journal X Published The Society May 24, 2022 From the Society, Poetry 9 Comments . The Society of Classical Poets Journal X has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the SCP...
Society of Classical Poets Journal IX Published The Society June 27, 2021 From the Society, Poetry 3 Comments . The Society of Classical Poets Journal IX has been published. It features poetry selected from poetry published on the SCP website between February...
Friends of Falun Gong 2020 Poetry Contest Winners Announced The Society May 13, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Readings, Video 2 Comments FIRST PLACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96xN0VV7JU The Virus and the Cure by Rob Crisell One hundred years of tyranny, One hundred...
SCP Journal XIII Published The Society April 30, 2025 From the Society, Poetry 5 Comments . The Society of Classical Poets Journal XIII has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the...
Poems for Easter Sunday 2020 The Society April 12, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments Easter by Joe Tessitore Behind the stone of timeless wait He rose alone despite its weight and strode from darkness into...
Members The Society February 21, 2017 X Members of the Society (MSCP) 2025Aboona, Sohaib, MichiganAdrian, David J., MichiganAnderson, C.B., MassachusettsAshurst, Alan, GermanyBaker,...