‘The Great Rub-off’: A Poem by Martin Elster and Joan Axelrod-Contrada
. The Great Rub-off Norm and Zip, in mismatched chairs, __were sipping tea and talking, when Desi, their loyal hound, ...
. The Great Rub-off Norm and Zip, in mismatched chairs, __were sipping tea and talking, when Desi, their loyal hound, ...
. The Walk Whether you call it a walk or a run, some animals tread on the water for fun, ...
. Leave Above the land, suspended, green and grand and splendid, we furnish food for trees, whisper with the breeze ...
. The Snare Drummer’s Plight The highlight of the evening is Bolero. The snare drummer begins the famous beat, the ...
Helen Keller (1880-1968) Your eyesight and hearing were gone, yet you felt just as blithe as a fawn ___when you ...
The Cymbal Player As bows and fingers quiver strings, as lungs and lips whip up the air, as notes soar ...
One Summer Day An allusion to Beethoven While walking through the woods one summer day, he glanced along a ...
Waiting for Dawn atop Butterfly Mountain A dilapidated lepidopteran dying atop The Mountain of Butterflies holds out her wings ...
. How to Write Haiku What Makes a Good Haiku? by Margaret Coats The required 5-7-5 syllable form alone does ...
. The Society of Classical Poets Journal X has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those ...
Winner and Runners-up of the Society of Classical Poets 2021 Haiku Competition Judged by Margaret Coats (see her remarks below) ...
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The Society of Classical Poets is reviving poetry with rhyme and meter and the response has been widespread and ...
A thrilling but grim narrative, to be sure, with terse lines beating out, remorselessly, a general destruction. It seizes our…
A very distinctive scheme for rhyme and meter here--nice to see a change from familiar regularity. Your 1st 3 stanzas…
Great reading of your poems. I really enjoyed the first one, the second is quite clever with connecting Dactyls with…
A very curt epigraph (just a date - 09.10.25) suggests that this poem was prompted by an actual vision the…
Kip, Jung himself pointed out that the surnames of the leaders of three major strands of psychological study had a…
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