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Search Results for: "Sathya Narayana"

‘A Farmer’s Son’ by Sathya Narayana

The Society
February 11, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rubaiyat
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

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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

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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

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September 27, 2016
Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Rondeau, Rubaiyat
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...
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Rhyming Poems for Poem in Your Pocket Day

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April 22, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Education, From the Society, Poetry
5 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)

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November 2, 2016
Education, Poetry, Poetry Forms, Rubaiyat
15 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

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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...
  1. Susan Jarvis Bryant on A Poem on the July 4th Texas Flash Floods, by Susan Jarvis BryantJuly 9, 2025

    Thank you all so very much for reading and commenting on this tough poem at this sad and shocking time…

  2. Susan Jarvis Bryant on ‘Independence Day, 2025’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis BryantJuly 9, 2025

    D.R. Rainbolt, thank you very much for your beautiful comment. I am over the moon you enjoyed the poem and…

  3. Susan Jarvis Bryant on ‘Independence Day, 2025’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis BryantJuly 9, 2025

    Joe, I have thoroughly enjoyed discovering the wonders of American history, and the little snippet you provide blazes with the…

  4. Susan Jarvis Bryant on ‘Independence Day, 2025’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis BryantJuly 9, 2025

    Adam, I am thrilled you approve. I set out to capture the true spirit of America - the home I've…

  5. Bruce Phenix on ‘The Playland’: A Poem by Shamik BanerjeeJuly 9, 2025

    Thank you for this fresh and lovely poem, Shamik. I just want to say how much I agree with all…

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