‘On the Death of a Child’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society December 4, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments . On the Death of a Child To lose a child is tragic, yet those winks to tenderness, to bonding, still exist as memories, creating lasting links twixt...
‘Melancholy Hues (of Autumn)’: an Ode by Paul A. Freeman The Society November 19, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . Melancholy Hues (of Autumn) ---an ode The third of four trimesters of the yearsees summer flag. The mercury recedesand chilly grey replaces skies...
Armistice Day Poem: ‘A Recruiter Tells It as It Isn’t’ by Paul A. Freeman The Society November 11, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Rondeau 15 Comments . A Recruiter Tells It as It Isn’t Your World War One recruitment agent prays he finds you well. Your King and Country says we need you for a...
Nov. 5 Guy Fawkes Day Poem, by Paul A. Freeman The Society November 5, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments . Guy Fawkes Night Makeover November 5th! To Guy Fawkes let’s be kind--- no burning him in effigy this year. His hanged-and-drawn-and-quartered...
‘Sudan, 2005—On the Death of Dr. John Garang’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society October 15, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Sudan, 2005 ---on the death of Dr. John Garang, Liberation Fighter and Sudanese Vice President Garang is dead! An accident, they say--- his...
‘Westward, with Columbus’: A Poem for Columbus Day by Paul A. Freeman The Society October 14, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Westward, with Columbus The North Atlantic Ocean was awashwith monsters and leviathans, or sowe fearfully supposed, and thought it toshby sailing...
‘Autumn Reversed’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society October 1, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . Autumn Reversed Once snowflakes have recrystalized,__they rise from where they fell;in Earth’s alternate universe__it’s early winter’s...
‘August, at Your Pleasure’ and Other Poetry by Paul A. Freeman The Society September 17, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . August, at Your Pleasure The year, by August, late in middle age,gives knowing winks to autumn as the goldof summer sun and wheat fields turn the...
‘Ode to the Zeer’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society August 30, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Ode to the Zeer Across the Sahel states, the humble zeer, A pear-shaped or full-bellied earthen pot Strains muddy water, turns it cool and...
‘Endurance’: A Poem on Shackleton’s Rediscovered Ship, by Paul A. Freeman The Society July 23, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 27 Comments . Endurance Endurance! A three-masted barquentine has lain a century beneath the ice. In frigid-climed Antarctica she’s been athwart the ocean...
‘Houses Made of Stone’: A Poem on Great Zimbabwe by Paul A. Freeman The Society July 9, 2024 Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Houses Made of Stone Masvingo, southern Africa’s the place; a backwater, land tired and over-farmed, where army ants cut underbrush and...
‘On the 80th Anniversary of D-Day’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society June 6, 2024 Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . On the 80th Anniversary of D-Day Humanity once more is under threat,when eighty years ago a Western frontwas opened up at Normandy to...
A Poem for the 30th Anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, by Paul A. Freeman The Society May 17, 2024 Culture, Poetry 27 Comments . Rwanda, April 1994 Inside Nyamata Church the pews are piledwith clothes, the blood that drenched them dull and dry.What demon turned sane men and...
A Poem on China’s Belt and Road Initiative, by Paul A. Freeman The Society April 24, 2024 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 16 Comments . When the Dragon Spreads Its Wings Millennia, the Dragon stayed at home, Consumed its own, kept dissidence at bay, Until it felt a gnawing urge to...
‘Goodbye, Sweetie’: A Poem on Sugar by Paul A. Freeman The Society April 12, 2024 Humor, Poetry 20 Comments . Goodbye, Sweetie Oh, devil-angel, Sugar! Your time’s done! You rot my teeth, yet melt upon my tongue. I’m forced to hide my black smile from...
A Limerick on New Hot Cross Buns with Tick (Check Mark), by Paul A. Freeman The Society March 23, 2024 Culture, Limerick, Poetry 15 Comments . Limerick Perhaps it’s a marketing trick, or else Iceland’s taking the mick; __for what kind of fun __is an Easter Day bun when the cross has...
‘To the Passenger Pigeon’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society March 18, 2024 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . To the Passenger Pigeon As once, upon the Great Plains, thundering herds of buffalo, innumerable, held sway, a genocide befell these dull-plumed...
‘I Am with You’: A Funeral Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society March 3, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . I Am with You You are with me, this day, and I’m with you; in spirit and in memory we meet to celebrate and joyfully to rue my span, which in the...
‘Paradise Island’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society February 7, 2024 Culture, Poetry 33 Comments . Paradise Island Some years ago, from cliff top and from shore,a flock of birds that never touched the skylooked out upon an ocean ship that borea...
‘On Turning the Page of a New Year—2023-2024’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society December 31, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . On Turning the Page of a New Year---2023-2024 The hour-glass is almost void of sand,a rounding of the sun described in grainsthat drain away. Now...
‘It Was Only a Winter’s Tale’: A Christmastime Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society December 9, 2023 Culture, Love Poems, Music, Poetry 20 Comments . It Was Only a Winter’s Tale based on David Essex's classic 1982 Christmas song The nights are ever short and growing cold; the front door lies...
‘Returning Soldiers’: An Armistice Day Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society November 10, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Returning Soldiers With hedgerows, fields and trees the soldiers of a forward trench have rested with unease, reduced beyond a carcase...
SCP Poet Paul A. Freeman Wins Queen’s English Society Poetry Competition The Society October 16, 2023 Chaucer, Poetry 23 Comments . Congratulations to Society of Classical Poets Member Paul A. Freeman who won the Queen's English Society Poetry Competition. His winning poem was...
‘Earthquake in Morocco’: Poem Written by a Poet in Morocco, Paul A. Freeman The Society September 11, 2023 Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Earthquake in Morocco---8 September, 2023 My flight to Casablanca landed late, and through an ill-chanced vagary of Fate I found myself---soon...
‘My Favourite Photo of Mum’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society August 15, 2023 Beauty, Ekphrastic, Poetry 19 Comments . My Favourite Photo of Mum I’ve just found my favourite photo of Mum, standing in the snow of a new century in the back garden; her sweater’s...
‘Medieval Scam Letter’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society August 1, 2023 Humor, Poetry 24 Comments . Medieval Scam Letter Felicitations from the Holy Land, Where I, as sole survivor of a band Of mercenary soldiers stashed away Much booty; and...
‘On Silicon Avenue’ and Other Poetry by Paul A. Freeman The Society July 18, 2023 Poetry, Satire 14 Comments . On Silicon Avenue The lawns on Silicon Avenue were mowed on Wednesdays. All the hedges, too, were cut. On Thursdays cars were polished till they...
A Fourth of July Limerick by Paul A. Freeman The Society July 4, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Limerick, Poetry 8 Comments . Fourth of July Limerick Top left, there’s an oblong that’s blue; add in fifty stars, white in hue. To offset the stars are parallel bars, six...
‘Fifth Glyph’: A Poem on the Letter E, by Paul A. Freeman The Society June 14, 2023 Culture, Humor, Poetry 26 Comments . Fifth Glyph This glyph, in British talk, occurs most oft--- most common, too, writ down within our books. Twixt ‘a’ and ‘z’ it’s fifth,...
A Poem on the 2023 War in Sudan, by Paul A. Freeman The Society May 31, 2023 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . When Two Elephants Fight---Sudan, 2023 The regular army and the Rapid Support Force (RSF) are at war with each other in Khartoum, the capital of...
A Poem on Cathedrals by Paul A. Freeman The Society May 23, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 62 Comments . Behind the Cathedral Master masons made these bastions their own by blending crafts, attaining structural awe; from Notre Dame, to Salisbury and...
‘Ode to the Turnip’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society May 9, 2023 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 31 Comments . Ode to the Turnip Oh, turnip! You’re a vegetable maligned, suggestive of a drunk’s empurpled nose. Baked, or boiled, or steamed, on you I’ve...
A Poem on Uyghurs Forced to Create Propaganda in China, by Paul A. Freeman The Society February 20, 2023 Human Rights in China, Poetry 20 Comments . In a School of Transformation I fix a mildly-optimistic smile upon my face, which until lately bore a tortured hue whilst in a pool of bile and...
Baby ‘Miracle’ Born in Turkey-Syria Earthquake Rubble: Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society February 9, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Sonnet to a Miracle upon reading the recent news story here. They’ve named her Miracle, that new born child found in the earthquake’s rubble,...
A Poem On the Banning of the Word ‘Field’ by the University of Southern California, by Paul A. Freeman The Society January 12, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 22 Comments . On the Banning of the Word 'Field' by the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work See the related news story here. In Southern...
‘Queen of Jubilees’ by Paul A. Freeman The Society January 10, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . Queen of Jubilees A Queen there was, revered, of global fame--- Elizabeth the Second was her name. For three-score-years-and-ten she ruled the...
‘It’s Halloween’ by Paul A. Freeman The Society October 31, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Rondeau 16 Comments . It’s Halloween It’s Halloween, and musty tombs expel Damnation’s brides and grooms; ghoulish creatures rule the night, a ghastly resurrected...
‘The Empirical Strikes Back’ by Paul A. Freeman (For UK Readers Only) The Society October 28, 2022 Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . The Empirical Strikes Back Let’s emulate Liberia with measurements superior; once more we’ll weigh our cereal in ounce and pound imperial. And...
A Toothbrush Poem: ‘Ill-used’ by Paul A. Freeman The Society September 28, 2022 Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . Ill-used I’ve been ill-used, no other word will do; pristinely packaged, sanitised and new a month ago I stood upon display till someone paid to...
‘Ozymandias Begins’ by Paul A. Freeman The Society September 4, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Ozymandias Begins I met the monarch of our ancient land, who said, ‘Your skill at sculpting is renowned. The hammer and the chisel in your...
