‘Hookerville School’: A Poem on the One-Room Schoolhouse by Phil S. Rogers The Society May 11, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Hookerville School Built just before the Civil War, employed till twenty-nine, This one-room school that stands today withstood the test of...
‘Rolling the Roads—The Days Before Snow Plows’: A Poem by Phil S. Rogers The Society April 20, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Rolling the Roads The Days Before Snow Plows . A major storm throughout the night __Of heavy, wet, spring snow. Nor'easter off the coast of...
‘Old New England Logging Camps’: A Poem by Phil S. Rogers The Society April 7, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Old New England Logging Camps My father-in-law oft told me tales __Recalling logging camp— Tough men who cut gigantic trees __In winters cold and...
Portrait of ‘Ivan, The Barber, 1882-1963’: A Poem by Phil S. Rogers The Society March 14, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . His Stories Were His Legacy Ivan, The Barber, 1882-1963 . Covered in a heavy blanket, __he sat and watched the rain; it had been more than thirty...
A Poem with a Glossary: ‘The Kakistocracy’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society January 21, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . The Kakistocracy Does the news give you malneirophrenia, __but you've not been to sleep? Do you galumph all day around the house, __your mind in...
‘Deep in the Heat of Texas’: A Poem by Phil S. Rogers The Society August 15, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rhupunt 13 Comments . Deep in the Heat of Texas a rhupunt One hundred one, a scorching sun that I should shun. I shed no tear. Sun blazing down, the grass is brown, I...
‘A Poet’s Plight’: A Poem by Phil S. Rogers The Society July 9, 2023 Poetry, Satire 23 Comments . A Poet's Plight I’ll think of a theme for my next little verse, intriguing and witty, though still must be terse. Not road kill, dead flowers,...
‘Xanadu Revisited’: A Poem on D.C. Corruption, by Phil S. Rogers The Society June 9, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 4 Comments . Xanadu Revisited after "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Coleridge __In Washington aristocrats __ordain corruption happily: __here the Potomac River...
Two Winter Poems by Phil S. Rogers The Society January 2, 2023 Culture, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments . The Winter Cold I so despise the winter cold; I admit it makes me utter all kinds of truly nasty words, disposition in the gutter. The snow, the...
‘A Half Century Ago’ and Other Poetry by Phil S. Rogers The Society November 1, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rhupunt 5 Comments . A Half Century Ago Oh there once was a time in our nation so fair, When the pledge to our flag was in schools everywhere, When young children...
‘The Three Democrats of the 2020 Election’ by Phil S. Rogers, after Macbeth The Society October 29, 2022 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry, Satire, Shakespeare 18 Comments . The Three Democrats of the 2020 Election after Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1 Scene: Thunder illuminates a 2020 calendar page in...
A Poem on Drug Abuse: ‘An American Tragedy’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society September 13, 2022 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . An American Tragedy In his mind the purple walrus __mutated to a bat, its unstable form evolving __till it became a cat. "Old cat," said he, "you...
‘The First Spring Rain’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society May 6, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . The First Spring Rain a rhupunt The first spring rain ends winter's pain; new growth again, the earth revived. Soft melting snow will quickly...
‘Uncle Sam’s Tomb’ by Phil S. Rogers, after Coleridge’s ‘The Knight’s Tomb’ The Society April 2, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . Uncle Sam's Tomb after Samuel Coleridge's "The Knight's Tomb" (see below) Where will the grave of that great figurehead be, That leader of free men...
‘A White Knight’ and Other Poetry by Phil S. Rogers The Society March 12, 2022 Beauty, Poetry, Triolet 3 Comments . A White Knight a triolet With fires of hope and spirit bright, who will stand up for what is just thence set our country all alight with fires of...
‘A Winter Snow’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society February 6, 2022 Beauty, Poetry, Rhupunt 3 Comments . A Winter Snow a rhupunt The white snow falls in swirling walls that so enthralls as in my youth. The wind is slight; flakes from great height a...
‘Allgibberish’ and Other Poetry by Phil S. Rogers The Society September 2, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments . Allgibberish (I Saw a Man Who Wasn't There) after “Antigonish” (“I Met a Man Who Wasn't There”) by William Hughes Mearns Yesterday in great...
‘The Return of Chaos’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society August 16, 2021 Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . The gods of ancient Greece return to cast their blight upon our nation. Throughout the eons come and gone, now social strife is their...
‘The Empty Bed’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society May 28, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . He wakes up with the morning’s light, __stares at the empty bed. A ritual for fourteen years __since tears have all been shed. The empty coffee...
‘Shadows of Regret’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society March 12, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments . I watched as the convening mist rose twisting through the trees; It changed gray shapes and silhouettes, and shattered inner ease. I closed my...
‘The Toss’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society December 6, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . One night a lean and wizened soul scuffed down the old mill road, while moonlight cast upon the knoll a mounted figure showed. The Horseman sat...
‘An Old Friend’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society July 17, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments An old friend called on me today, past indiscretions to relive. Long decades passed since we had spoke; he hoped ill feelings I'd...
‘The Captain’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society June 6, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments The captain stood amidst his crew, and wiped the bar for someone new. To make them laugh he'd tell a joke and light himself another...
‘The Graveyard of My Mind’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society March 20, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments I pour myself four fingers, or maybe it is five, sit in a broken rocker and slowly close my eyes. I muse on my survival for nigh on eighty...
Ekphrastic Poetry Challenge: Roadrunner in a Sprinkler During Texas Drought The Society September 16, 2023 Ekphrastic, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests 33 Comments . Phil S. Rogers captured these photos of a roadrunner seeking relief in his sprinkler during drought-like conditions in Texas. Phil's ekphrastic...
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 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...
Poetry Challenge: A ‘Raven’-like Poem on the Death of Edgar Allan Poe The Society June 24, 2021 Culture, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests, The Raven 28 Comments . Edgar Allan Poe was known for strange and mysterious tales, in poetry and prose. Perhaps fittingly, the circumstances surrounding his premature...
William Butler Yeats and the Occult: An Essay by Adam Sedia The Society May 19, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Poetry 29 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...
