‘The Plight of Animals’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society November 25, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 93 Comments The Plight of Animals The plight of animals, how must it be Ordained thus, either by a just God or A merciful? By nature meek and poor, They...
Sonnets on the Four Seasons and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society October 26, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments Spring In spring the crocuses broke out as bold As brass from refuge in their barren clay. They speared the air in colourful array And blazoned...
‘Of All God’s Living Creatures’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society September 19, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments Of All God’s Living Creatures Of all God’s living creatures only we With subtle artifice create our style Of dress and image, and with...
The Remote Islands of Scotland: Six Poems by Peter Hartley The Society August 27, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments I. The Evacuation of St Kilda The remote island community on St Kilda had existed for thousands of years in considerable hardship until, from the...
Two Poems on Dogs by Peter Hartley The Society July 15, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments The Thoughts of a Dog What really does go on inside the mind Of the domestic dog? To simply say They think of very little else all day But...
Six Clerihews by Peter Hartley The Society June 1, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Forms 36 Comments The clerihew is a kind of epigrammatic verse (normally) consisting of a pair of rhyming couplets. The first line will usually introduce the name of a...
Five Sonnets on World War I by Peter Hartley The Society April 23, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments Gallipoli, 1915 There are none left on earth can ever tell At first hand of this mortal waste of war Hard-fought one hundred years ago and...
‘The Fate of Fine Art’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society March 6, 2019 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments The Fate of Fine Art Too late to turn the clock back on fine art, Egregious oxymoron that it may Be called today, but where to find the...
‘Reinigeadal, Harris’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society February 6, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments Reinigeadal, Harris So many years ago it was, a child Tramped up from East Loch Tarbert’s rocky shore Across the peat hags underneath...
Sonnets on the Arts Today, by Peter Hartley The Society January 5, 2019 Art, Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 38 Comments Poetry Today If elevated thought had ever beenThe least criterion of excellenceIn poetry, why should it then be seenToday as...
Announcing the 2019 Poetry Competition Winners The Society February 1, 2019 For Educators, From the Society, News of Note, Poetry, Poetry Contests 13 Comments Thank you to everyone who participated! We have had more quality submissions this year than in any past year and it has been a privilege to read and...
Journal VII Released The Society May 24, 2019 From the Society, News of Note, 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...
