‘A Farmer’s Son’ by Sathya Narayana The Society February 11, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments a rubaiyat Step gently O' my boy, this 's your first day... light-footed sweet and slow... on sinking clay. A farmer's school, this paddy...
‘Let Flow’ by Sathya Narayana The Society September 16, 2019 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 4 Comments a villanelle Ye let it flow, the bitter brine, let flow! How long you hold it back, those snowy streams! Don't stop their course, until they touch...
‘Paper Flowers’ by Sathya Narayana The Society May 10, 2019 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 27 Comments With lifeless smiles she's sitting tight in the vase. With painted flowers, leaves and twigs she's like a dressed deadman on funeral day....
‘Cosmic Dance’ by Sathya Narayana The Society November 26, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments When born, they said he came into the light! He realised soon it's another kind of gloom, where innocence had lost to odious blight and...
‘God-Farm’ by Sathya Narayana The Society August 5, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments A little baffling it's, a bit insane and funny too, this whole God-farm affair. You sow invisible seeds in ghostly plain and wait for hallowed...
‘A New Summer Morning’ by Sathya Narayana The Society June 29, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments It's first of sweaty, sweltering daybreaks of summer new. The fewer trailing steps of parting spring are still moist-fresh with drakes' claw...
‘The Night’ by Sathya Narayana The Society April 18, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 26 Comments Wee hours, when crickets tune their eerie cords and hoot the yawning owls at twinkling stars; the night-maid roves seesaw, like a drunken...
‘An Ode to the Indian Soldiers’ and Other Poetry by Sathya Narayana The Society December 18, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondel 3 Comments An Ode to the Indian Soldiers ottava rima Be choking chill or burning heat; be rain or sleet; thou're there O soldier brave to save thy...
‘Monsoon Dance’ and Other Poetry by Sathya Narayana The Society May 2, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry Monsoon Dance In Quintets Go back, O' spry peacock, go back into thy dense coppice! The sylvan clock did spell a sly lie! Monsoon is far…...
‘My Mirror Grinned’ (Rondeau) and Other Poetry by Sathya Narayana The Society September 27, 2016 Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Rondeau 6 Comments My Mirror Grinned (Rondeau) My mirror grinned at my first grey. With rearing youth, it’s my first fray. Disturbed, with care I plucked that...
Rhyming Poems for Poem in Your Pocket Day The Society April 22, 2018 Beauty, Culture, For Educators, From the Society, Poetry 4 Comments April 26 is Poem in Your Pocket Day, part of National Poetry Month. On this day, people are encouraged to carry a poem in their pockets and share it...
How to Write a Rubaiyat (with Examples) The Society November 2, 2016 For Educators, Poetry, Poetry Forms 14 Comments By Sathya Narayana The rubaiyat (pronounced “roo-bái-yát”) is a Persian form of several quatrains. Its name is derived from the Arabic...
Journal VII Released The Society May 24, 2019 From the Society, Poetry 3 Comments We are pleased to announce the publication of The Society of Classical Poets’ Journal VII. The new journal is larger and more impressive than any...
Society of Classical Poets Journal Vol. 6 Released The Society April 1, 2018 From the Society, Poetry 13 Comments The Society of Classical Poets is reviving poetry with rhyme and meter and the response has been widespread and tremendous. Since the...
2017 Journal Released The Society April 1, 2017 From the Society, Poetry 5 Comments Divided into easy to engage and topical categories such as Beauty, Humor, Anti-Communism, and The Environment, the 2017 Journal features selected...
