‘A Shot in the Dark’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 2, 2021 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry 35 Comments . A Shot in the Dark "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help. " ---Ronald...
On Australia Announcing Fifth Covid Shot: Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 8, 2023 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry, Satire 77 Comments . Today Australia has announced that it will roll out a fifth dose of the Covid shot later this month. . Fat Cats and Lab Rats The fat cats began...
‘Snapshot’ by David Paul Behrens The Society October 10, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments The wind and balmy breeze Blow softly through the trees. All the darkness of the night, Disappears in morning light. The shadows on the...
‘The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado’ and Other Poetry by Betsy M. Hughes The Society December 20, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment Current Events 2012 I. The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado A silhouette is forming in the door. From reel to real, the armor comes...
‘Supernova’: A Poem on Ben Shimoni and Other Poetry by Margaret Coats The Society May 10, 2025 Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . Supernova With no notice, the rockets destroyed festive peace,And a volley of bullets brought death and dismay.Ben ran straight to his car, telling...
‘The Settlers’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society January 29, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . The Settlers —to my forefathers, and all the intrepid men and womenwho settled the Oklahoma panhandle. Across these barren hills, the cold winds...
‘Mexican Sestina’ and Other Poetry by Geoffrey Smagacz The Society January 26, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Sestina 8 Comments . Mexican Sestina Perhaps I left because I got too bored, and no one could put sense in my thick head, or talk me out of trekking to the beach by...
‘The Lemon Tree’: A Poem by Satyananda Sarangi The Society January 14, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments . The Lemon Tree We leave the house, the nurtured lawn is gone; The garden still resembles lifeless works Of abstract art; at times banana...
Six Great Dramatic Monologues by Robert Browning The Society December 12, 2024 Essays, Poetry 16 Comments . Six Great Dramatic Monologues by Robert Browning by Brian Yapko The dramatic monologue is a unique type of poem: the poet enters the mind of a...
‘Paperbark Maples’: A Poem by Daniel Kemper The Society August 14, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . Paperbark Maples The leaves grow bright with dew; the trunks grow dark. A contrapuntal autumn morning stirs. The smoothest trees are wrapped with...
‘If You Want to Get Someone’s Attention’ and Other Poems by Daniel Kemper The Society July 29, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments . . If You Want to Get Someone’s Attention If you want to get someone's attention, then whisperor commit a mistake that continues the momentfor a...
‘Washington Departs from Mount Vernon’: from the Mock Epic Poem by Andrew Benson Brown The Society July 28, 2024 Epic, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments . Washington Departs from Mount Vernon from Legends of Liberty, Volume 3 “Wouldn’t you rather stay?” Watching her doveOf sixteen summers,...
‘Gunfight at the Oatcake Corral’: A Poem by Jeff Eardley The Society July 12, 2024 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Gunfight at the Oatcake Corral There’s an old English town known as Fargo, In the dark, rugged hills of the west. Where they say, there was many...
A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part III: Something in the Rafters, by Daniel Kemper The Society June 17, 2024 Essays, Poetry 23 Comments . A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part III: Something in the Rafters by Daniel Kemper I wander into the incandescent glow of the poetry center and...
‘Selling Short’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson The Society June 1, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 14 Comments . Selling Short The winter wind’s a shot across your brow, An addend to the sense of deficit You wrestle with inside the here and now. You’re...
‘King George III Declares War’ from Vol. 2 of Andrew Benson Brown’s Mock Epic Poem The Society May 19, 2024 Epic, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . King George III Declares War from Legends of Liberty, Volume 2 Note: The British have won a pyrrhic victory at Bunker Hill. King George, who has...
‘Shades of Vesuvius’: A Poem by Stephen M. Dickey The Society March 24, 2024 Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Shades of Vesuvius Seldom does one see horror in a tranche De vie like that in Herculaneum And Pompeii, when a sudden avalanche Of heat and ash...
10 Poems on Builders & Buildings The Society February 20, 2024 Best Poems, Essays, Poetry 6 Comments 10 Poems on Builders & Buildings by Michael Curtis . Temples and architects, builders and buildings are like poets and poems, each creates...
The Monster Geryon: Canto XVII of Dante’s Inferno, Translated by Stephen Binns The Society February 10, 2024 Dante, Poetry, Translation 6 Comments . The Monster Geryon: Canto XVII of Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns “Behold the stinger tail upon that...
10 Great Poems for Teaching in High School Classrooms The Society December 20, 2023 Best Poems, Education, Poetry 21 Comments . 10 Great Poems for Teaching in High School Classrooms by James Sale . 1. Language with a Twist . I Saw a Peacock… I saw a Peacock with a fiery...
Andrew Benson Brown Reads ‘Odysseus Strings His Bow’ from Homer’s Odyssey, Solot Translation The Society December 11, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Homer, Poetry, Readings 9 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTgWaNsnpE . . The Odyssey, 21.388-22.125, translated with an eye on Homer's instinctively cinematic style. by...
A Poem on How ‘Israel Is Real’ by Michael Vanyukov The Society November 24, 2023 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . To Whom It May Concern a common spelling error: “Isreal.” "Woe to those who say of the evil that it is good and of the good that it is evil;...
‘Plato’s Pumpkins’ and Other Halloween Poetry by Leland James The Society October 29, 2023 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . . Plato’s Pumpkins A patchwork quilt of pumpkins sown with gourds, odd fellows green and yellow ‘twixt-and-‘tween October’s orbs of...
The Battle of Bunker Hill in Epic Poetry, by Andrew Benson Brown The Society October 18, 2023 Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . Bunker Hill an excerpt from the forthcoming Legends of Liberty, Vol. 2 . The Eve of Battle The midnight moon. The month of June. A neck Of land. A...
‘The Devil Comes to Buckingham’ from Legends of Liberty: Volume 2, by Andrew Benson Brown The Society May 12, 2023 Epic, Poetry, Satire 14 Comments . The Devil Comes to Buckingham from Legends of Liberty: Volume 2 One day as Britons cheered their sovereign’s sight, The devil crawled into his...
‘Bats at Sunset’ and Other Poetry by Maxim D. Shrayer The Society January 21, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 22 Comments . Bats at Sunset The monster is rotund, vile, enormous, three-muzzled, and barking ---Vasily Trediakovsky, after Virgil The woods are lovely, dark,...
‘The Tech Addict’s Lament’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society October 5, 2022 Culture, Poetry 30 Comments . The Tech Addict’s Lament As I take one more hit of electronic cocaine, I snort a fresh shot of noise into my brain And feel the cacophony’s...
‘The Pigeon’ and Other Poetry by Norma Pain The Society July 6, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Raven 22 Comments . The Pigeon Once upon a workday morning, sleepy-eyed and loudly yawning, I was splattered without warning by a pigeon from the shore. At my half...
Society of Classical Poets Journal X Published The Society May 24, 2022 From the Society, Poetry 9 Comments . The Society of Classical Poets Journal X has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the SCP...
‘Apollo’s Lament’ by Brian Yapko The Society April 30, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 31 Comments . Apollo’s Lament He pounds his naked chest and looks for bones Suspecting that the bay tree is a sham. At last he falls upon his knees and...
‘Uluru / Ayers Rock’ and Other Australia Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society April 24, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 6 Comments . Photo of Uluru / Ayers Rock by the Poet Uluru / Ayers Rock The winter outback chill of mid-Julys Cuts to the bone as waning suns conspire To send...
The Merchant of Venice Student Edition—PDF and Complete Text The Society April 13, 2022 Education, Humor, Poetry, Shakespeare 12 Comments . The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Classical Poets Student Edition Adapted by Evan Mantyk to retain the meaning of each line within the...
‘Everlasting’: A Blank Verse Poem by C.B. Anderson The Society February 19, 2022 Blank Verse, Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments . Everlasting I must admit, when I arrived in Hell I was surprised. Not, as you might surmise, Because I never reckoned it was real— And surely...
‘A Christmas Carol,’ after Charles Dickens, by Talbot Hook The Society December 24, 2021 Beauty, Children's, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . . Dramatis Personae: Ebenezer Scrooge: An infamous miser Bob Cratchit: Scrooge’s assistant Mrs. Cratchit: Bob’s wife Tiny Tim: Disabled child...
Two Excerpts from Legends of Liberty, Chapter 5, by Andrew Benson Brown The Society September 29, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry 11 Comments . from Legends of Liberty Volume 1 . The Battle of Concord By that rude bridge men formed up double file,The company from Acton in the van.Their...
‘Riots Everywhere’ by Jeff Kemper, After Hank Snow’s ‘I’ve Been Everywhere’ The Society July 11, 2021 Culture, Music, Poetry 28 Comments . The below poem is a memoir of the summer of 2020, to be sung to the tune of “I’ve Been Everywhere,” with apologies to Geoff Mack and Hank...
‘Ode to Numbness’ by Thomas Benstead The Society May 11, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments . Piteous Fools! The time has comeWhen all men seek to be is numb.The toils of our daily lifeDo overwhelm us all with strifeWithin ourselves; we aim...
The Power of One: Monosyllables in Classical Poetry The Society February 18, 2021 Essays, Poetry, Poetry Forms 18 Comments by Adam Sedia The origin of poetry is inextricably tied to music. The earliest poems---the Homeric epics, the Chinese Book of Songs---were all...
‘The Homeward-Bound Armada, 1588’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society December 1, 2020 Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments X No tengo más que darte —Inscription on a Spanish sailor's gold ring, in the shape of a hand holding out a heart, found off the western coast of...
‘The American Revolution: An Epic Poem,’ Chapter III, by Andrew Benson Brown The Society November 3, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments The American Revolution: An Epic Poem Chapter I Chapter II by Andrew Benson Brown Chapter III: The New-World Mercury The historical...
