‘Dialogue on a First Grade Science Textbook’: A Poem by Evan Mantyk The Society March 23, 2023 Culture, Education, Poetry, Science 10 Comments . Dialogue on a First Grade Science Textbook Many spiritual traditions throughout history have perceived all things, animate and inanimate, as...
‘The Emerald Queen’: A Poem by Evan Mantyk The Society February 21, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . The Emerald Queen A Legend from the Future . Part I. Have you heard the old tale of the Emerald Queen? ‘Twas a long time ago when folks would...
Two Different Views on New Year’s Resolutions: Poems by David Whippman and Evan Mantyk The Society December 31, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 16 Comments . New Year’s Resolution a villanelle by David Whippman And what have you resolved for the new year? I guarantee your vows will be in vain. Oh, I...
‘In a Soviet Gulag’ and Other Humorous Poems by Evan Mantyk The Society December 13, 2022 Humor, Poetry, Satire 16 Comments . In a Soviet Gulag from an oft repeated joke There was a break in the relentless cold And then the guard stepped out for quite a while. Such changes...
‘The Return of Trump’ by Evan Mantyk The Society November 15, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 31 Comments . The Return of Trump No matter how you try to stop Don Trump He always will come back. He’ll lie in wait then jump In tiger-like attack. You put...
A Poem on the Movie Eternal Spring, by Evan Mantyk The Society October 24, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Villanelle 15 Comments . His Pen a villanelle written upon watching the movie Eternal Spring His pen flies back and forth, a righteous flurry That recreates the scenes of...
‘An Anti-Evolution Song’ by Evan Mantyk The Society August 15, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Satire, Science 31 Comments . An Anti-Evolution Song Evolution Is False. God Is True. inspired by the writings of Zhang Tianliang How probable is it, however you spin it, __That...
‘A Happy 80th Birthday Wish’ by Evan Mantyk The Society August 1, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings 20 Comments . . A Happy 80th Birthday Wish for the Poet's Father I wish for you the golden years Odysseus had Retired from life’s long strife, a sort of...
‘On Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Fields’ by Evan Mantyk The Society June 27, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Science 21 Comments . On Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Fields Are we just rats within a maze? Perhaps. But then perhaps there’s more to rats than what We know. Take for...
‘Road Trip’: A Villanelle by Evan Mantyk The Society February 12, 2022 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 26 Comments . Road Trip I ride the countryside for you my friend. The white and yellow lines can’t separate The dots I will connect at this trip’s end. With...
‘The Heroes of Beijing’: A Sonnet for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, by Evan Mantyk The Society January 21, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 6 Comments . The Heroes of Beijing on the Jan. 21 movie premiere of Unsilenced, just days before the Beijing Winter Olympics As great as it may be to send those...
‘A Song of Thanksgiving’ by Evan Mantyk The Society November 25, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . A Song of Thanksgiving The pilgrims long ago faced strong __Attacks on their beliefs, And found a land they could command __Where faith would find...
Four Sonnets on Traditional Dance, by Evan Mantyk The Society November 18, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . I. The Blacksmith God Forges Scenes on Achilles’ Shield after Homer’s Iliad Book 18 The hammer strikes! And glowing sparks fly out As Earth...
‘SAT Tips’: A Poem for Students by Evan Mantyk The Society September 30, 2021 Culture, Education, Poetry 16 Comments . SAT Tips Leave nothing blank, your chances are __As good as one in four; So when the end is not too far __Fill in! to raise your score. Jot notes...
‘Birds in Flight’: A Pair of Poems by David Whippman and Evan Mantyk The Society July 12, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 34 Comments . Birds in Flight by David Whippman “Free as a bird,” that's what we always say, "It's time to spread my wings and fly away, I have to find...
A Poem for Derek Chauvin, by Evan Mantyk The Society May 10, 2021 Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . An Angel Speaks to the Imprisoned Derek Chauvin “Although it has been difficult,__I know you’ll make it through.Of course you never were at...
Sonnets on Themistocles, Sen. McCarthy, and Wenyi Wang, by Evan Mantyk The Society April 25, 2021 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 28 Comments . Themistocles Athens, Greece, 483 B.C. “Barbarians loom upon the coast—dark clouds. Athenians see them, but don’t think they’d pour Their...
‘The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Must Fall’ by Evan Mantyk The Society January 28, 2021 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 21 Comments . A Word of Advice to Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell, John Roberts, and Many Others . __The CCP must fall. __The CCP must fall. Behind them all, Like...
‘Prince Hamlet Speaks About Election Fraud’ by Evan Mantyk The Society December 14, 2020 Culture, Poetry, Shakespeare 33 Comments . . Prince Hamlet Speaks About Election Fraud Prince Hamlet speaks about election fraud:"O villainy! Ho! Let the door be locked.Treachery! Seek it...
Stop the Steal: A Play on the 2020 Election (Excerpt) by Evan Mantyk The Society December 6, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 20 Comments . Act I Scene I NARRATOR Imagine now the scene: the angry engine, Its beeping brain, its smooth and metal muscles That barely seem to strain beneath...
20 Riddles by Evan Mantyk The Society October 23, 2020 Children's, Culture, Poetry, Riddles 44 Comments Post your answers in the comments section below. I. A place that never is in its own place And where it is is where it’s made to be; Not that...
A Sonnet on President Donald J. Trump, by Evan Mantyk The Society April 30, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 18 Comments Donald J. Trump They laugh at him and sneer as if his lack Of faith in modernism’s unholy gods Can justify each Philistine attack And...
Two Poems on the Coronavirus by Evan Mantyk and Damian Robin The Society February 27, 2020 Covid-19, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Villanelle 6 Comments From Some Nightmarish Vial a villanelle by Evan Mantyk Did it emerge from some nightmarish vial? Is it a weapon meant for killing...
A Poem on Violinist Fiona Zheng and Other Poetry, by Evan Mantyk The Society October 1, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Music, Poetry, Shakespeare 12 Comments . Sonnet VI. Fiona Zheng Violinist Fiona Zheng and her father spent part of their lives fleeing communist authorities in China after her mother and...
A Sonnet on Cleve Backster and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society July 19, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 17 Comments Sonnet IV. Cleve Backster whose work on plant perception gained wide exposure in the 1973 publication The Secret Life of Plants. While people...
Selected Poems from ‘Journey to the East’ by Evan Mantyk The Society May 13, 2019 Beauty, Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Short Stories 10 Comments A Journey to the East by Evan Mantyk is a historical and poetical fairytale adventure styled after Journey to the West, by Ming Dynasty writer Wu...
‘Sonnet II: Liu Xitong’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society January 19, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . Sonnet II: Liu Xitong Liu Xitong (pronounced Leo She-tong) recently spoke on Capitol Hill about the persecution he faced in communist China for...
‘The Threads’ by Evan Mantyk The Society December 3, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments on the state of poetry today I see the threads have all aligned __In a patchwork tapestry That seemed at first all but resigned __To the death of...
‘A Wedding Sonnet’ by Evan Mantyk The Society September 12, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments . Written: March 27, 2022 A Wedding Sonnet To those true cultivators of Zhen Shen Ren,* There is no common form we cannot take: The vows of love...
‘The Ghost of Phil Ochs’ by David Paul Behrens and ‘A Response’ by Evan Mantyk The Society August 19, 2018 Culture, Poetry 15 Comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0BeEHXjXIM The Ghost of Phil Ochs by David Paul Behrens When you see homeless people on the...
‘The Beast Once Foretold’ by Evan Mantyk The Society June 23, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 19 Comments Written upon reading the book How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World. The beast once foretold for the end of days Crouched in a Karl Marx...
‘Sonnet I: Liu Haixiao’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society March 14, 2018 Alexandroid, Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 24 Comments Sonnet I: Liu Haixiao Mr. Liu Haixiao (pronounced Leo High-shaow) is serving a 16-year prison sentence in Jilin Province, China, where he was...
‘On President Trump’s First Year in Office’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society January 19, 2018 Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry, Riddles 16 Comments On President Trump’s First Year in Office An earlier version of this poem was published with an explication in The Epoch Times. In Donald...
‘A Shen Yun Holiday Sonnet’ by Evan Mantyk The Society December 10, 2017 Beauty, Children's, Performing Arts, Poetry 9 Comments When Santa’s sleigh took to the sky, He saw a wonder by him fly: A Chinese Fairy dance on clouds And point to where there gathered...
‘The Teacher to His Students’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society September 30, 2017 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 17 Comments The Teacher to His Students The ghost… the ghost of Hamlet’s father, came To walk the castle walls one moonless night. This father, once the...
‘The Tea Garden: A Crown of Sonnets’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society August 6, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments On Visiting the Tea Garden in Middletown, New York I. A harried daddy with two kids in tow, Maneuvering through city streets and cars, I look...
‘Visiting the Ruins of Tintagel Castle’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society April 16, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments . Visiting the Ruins of Tintagel Castle I wander through a forest deep __in Cornish countryside And think I see some elves asleep __And giants run...
Evan Mantyk, President of the Society The Society January 23, 2017 . Evan Mantyk is President of the Society of Classical Poets, as well as chief editor of the Society's Journal and the Society's website. He...
‘A Hero’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society August 21, 2016 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 18 Comments A Hero These are the weathered shoes worn by the Jew, So cracked from all the miles walked since he fled. These are the slave’s strong...
‘A Chinese Epic, Chapter II’ by Evan Mantyk The Society July 18, 2016 Epic, Human Rights in China, Poetry 1 Comment Chapter II: Visions and Dreams (For Chapter I click here.) THE band and locals, totaling fourteen, Retired to rest before the looming day. Some...
