A Poem Written for Rush Limbaugh, by Mark F. Stone The Society June 12, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments Destined for the Mount Rushmore of Radio Triumphal times are on the way, America’s Anchor Man. We Dittoheads will toast the day when...
‘How a Bill Can Succeed on The Hill’ by Mark F. Stone The Society December 26, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments It is rare that a bill can succeed on The Hill based on only the skill of a hobbyist. If you suffer the lack of a plan of attack, what...
‘Make Christmas a Verb’ by Mark F. Stone The Society December 20, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Poetry 14 Comments For many, the gifts are the be-all and end-all: the big screen, the tablet, the Barbie and Ken doll. For me, gifts I get are like ice in...
‘Why Pterodactyls Make Great Pets’ by Mark F. Stone The Society October 12, 2019 Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry 36 Comments Choosing a pet can be vexing and yet it’s important to vet all the choices you’ve got. If you’re in search of a pet who will...
‘In Fall I Set a Stone’ and Other Poetry by Gershon Ben-Avraham The Society December 19, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments In Fall I Set a Stone In fall I set a stone upon a stone, As autumn rain dripped tears upon the grave That marks the spot where lie my lover's...
‘How Eden Weeps’ by Mark Sheeky The Society February 7, 2017 Poetry, The Environment 4 Comments How Eden weeps to see, the ache of every tortured tree. How Eden doth recoil, at bitter cancer of the soil. Man was placed as king of...
Stone Roberts: An Eye for Light and Detail The Society November 28, 2012 Art NEW YORK—As a fine arts painter, Stone Roberts had all the right conditions growing up, including severe myopia as a child. This may seem ironic,...
Winners Announced: A Line of Shakespeare Poetry Contest The Society July 1, 2019 Beauty, Culture, From the Society, Humor, News of Note, Poetry, Poetry Contests 2 Comments Judges: Michael Curtis, Amy Foreman, Reid McGrath, Adam Sedia A few words from Judge Michael Curtis: In apology: If you, fair writer, did not...
The Rebirth of Poetry Is Here: First SCP Symposium Held The Society June 28, 2019 Essays, From the Society, News of Note, Poetry, Symposium 21 Comments The Society of Classical Poets successfully holds its first symposium in New York City (Press Release) NEW YORK—A growing movement is...
‘The American Revolution: An Epic Poem,’ Chapter II, by Andrew Benson Brown The Society July 4, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments The American Revolution: An Epic Poem Chapter I by Andrew Benson Brown Chapter II: Thomas Jefferson in Hell On July Fourth of Eighteen...
‘On Antifa, Coming to the Country’ and Other George Floyd Riots Related Poetry The Society June 14, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments On Antifa, Coming to the Country A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep...
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...
‘The Day Louis Armstrong Died’ by Martin Hill Ortiz The Society June 10, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments My father wore his sorrow like a hundred millstone weight. I seldom saw him angry and I never saw him hate. And though he dressed for...
An Analysis of ‘The Gods of the Copybook Headings’ by Rudyard Kipling The Society June 9, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Poetry 9 Comments The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper...
Philip Larkin: A Very English Bleakness (An Essay) The Society May 26, 2020 Essays, Poetry 19 Comments by David Whippman In 1984, Philip Larkin was asked to become the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom. This position is, in principle, the most...
William Butler Yeats and the Occult: An Essay by Adam Sedia The Society May 19, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Poetry 27 Comments Clarity and Obscurity Part III Read Part I: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Read Part II: "Concrete" Poetry and the Fall of...
Ten Great Spenserian or Scottish Sonnets The Society May 15, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Love Poems, Poetry 19 Comments Edmund Spenser by Margaret Coats Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) wrote 121 sonnets of rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee, including 87 in his love...
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...
Poems on Life During CCP Virus (COVID-19) Lockdown The Society April 25, 2020 Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry 32 Comments The Back-to-Work Protesters Limerick by Mark F. Stone Our minders with power and pensions can rob our hopes, while the Fourth Estate...
Poetry from the 2020 Coronavirus Quarantine The Society April 17, 2020 Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry 44 Comments Mayor Rules Chocolatier "Essential Business" by Mark F. Stone Our craving for chocolate is serious. Deny us and we will be...
Translation of Pushkin on Cholera Quarantine and Poetry on the CCP Virus The Society April 9, 2020 Coronavirus, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Translation 16 Comments Time Is the Measure of Every Pleasure a coronavirus limerick by Mark F. Stone The State took a stand that we practice techniques to...
‘Being Ducks’ by James Sale The Society March 12, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 32 Comments for Mark F. Stone and all his pets The duck has special properties: Like water off its back; If only we as humans could Perfect the...
SCP Poetry Symposium 2020—“A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme” The Society March 6, 2020 From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Symposium 1 Comment NOTE: This event has been canceled due to the CCP virus (COVID-19) pandemic. A new online SCP Symposium has been planned. The details of...
The Best Poems of 2019 The Society February 1, 2020 From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Contests 11 Comments The Best Poems of 2019: Winners of 8th Annual International SCP Poetry Competition Thank you to everyone who participated! It was an epic year with...
Review: The Secrets of Archery, by Alessio Zanelli, Greenwich Exchange, 2019 The Society December 21, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings 22 Comments by James Sale Alessio Zanelli is a fascinating poet, and probably a fascinating man as well. This is his sixth collection of poems and part of his...
Poems of Hibernia & Caledonia, by James A. Tweedie (with Audio) The Society August 1, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Readings 13 Comments Poet's Note: These five sonnets and song are the product of a four-week journey taken in June to Ireland and through west central Scotland and the...
‘Pablo Neruda on the Passing of Joseph Stalin’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society July 22, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments Pablo Neruda on the Passing of Joseph Stalin by Wibele Escudar We must be men. That is the law that Joseph Stalin left. Sincere intensity and...
“We are super, we are fine, We’re the Class of ’69!” by James A. Tweedie The Society May 24, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments Fifty years ago . . . (it seems Like only yesterday) . . . the dreams, The hopes, and the unspoken fear That marked and marred my Senior year . ....
‘Centauromachy’ by Nathaniel Todd McKee The Society May 4, 2019 Culture, Poetry, Short Stories 15 Comments This poem recounts the famous mythical battle, “Centauromachy.” It unfolds in the ancient home of the Lapiths in the region of Thessaly,...
Poetry for Good Friday 2019 The Society April 19, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments A special holiday post featuring "My Cross" by Joe Tessitore of New York, New York; "Pietá" by Tonya McQuade of Los Gatos, California; "The Pietá" by Michael Charles Maibach of Alexandria, Virginia.
A Poem on Euthanasia, by Ron L. Hodges The Society April 16, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 9 Comments The Life That Is Not Life “I’m getting ready for my trip now.” —Aurelia Brouwers (who chose to be euthanized at age 29 in the...
Who Killed Poetry? A Critique of Modernism and Post-Modernism (Part I) The Society March 3, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Essays, For Educators, Poetry 62 Comments by Edward C. "Ted" Hayes A Prefatory Poem (or a Gaggle of Goosefeathers) Some will judge this essai the exact thing it’s not...
‘Transhumanism’ and Other Poetry by Joe Spring The Society January 24, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Science 10 Comments Transhumanism Somewhere about there’s a slithering sound of man’s enmity, causing excitement and casting the seeds of calamity, claiming...
‘Moscow Zoo’ and Other Poetry by A.M. Juster The Society January 20, 2019 Poetry 13 Comments Moscow Zoo We saw the mass grave at the Moscow Zoo. A sullen man dug up a human skull Then held it high for journalists to view. Forensic...
7 Classic Christmas and Seasonal Poems, and More The Society December 15, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Holidays, Poetry A Visit from St. Nicholas, 1823 by Clement Clarke Moore 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was...
‘Desolation’ by James A. Tweedie The Society October 26, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments Blasted granite marks the trail Guttered through eternal rock. Windborne smoke and ashes veil Mountain peaks through which we walk. Upward blue...
The Eight Greatest Poems of William Wordsworth The Society October 6, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, The Environment 10 Comments by Charles Eager William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1770—the same year as gave us Beethoven, Hegel, and Hölderlin—and...
10 Favorite Shakespeare Sonnets The Society May 24, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Essays, For Educators, Poetry 15 Comments By James A. Tweedie Call me a snob but I am generally attracted to what is commonly referred to as “great art” or the “masterpieces.” Over...
Three Poems by Mikhail Yu. Lermontov, Translated by Don Mager The Society May 22, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 8 Comments All poems translated from Russian. The Rock A gold cloud rested the whole night Upon the breast of a huge rock; And cheerfully at dawn it...
Pastoral Poetry: Arcadia Through the Ages The Society April 29, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Essays, For Educators, Poetry 5 Comments by James Green “Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all...
