‘Exodus 12’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society March 27, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . “And when I see the blood, I will pass over you.” ---Exodus 12:13 As you have commanded, the blood to The lintel and the doorposts of my...
‘Kismet’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society March 11, 2021 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 15 Comments . . Kismet If I'd been younger, or you not so old, Or we'd met at a different time and place, Would there have been within your heart a space For...
‘Fool’s Wisdom’ and Other Sonnets by Theresa Rodriguez The Society February 12, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 27 Comments . Fool’s Wisdom “I am fearfully and wonderfully made” ---Psalm 139:14 I am amazed at what some fools believe Who say I am a fool to have...
The Singing Lines of Theresa Rodriguez: A Review of Sonnets The Society January 12, 2021 Essays, Poetry, Reviews 13 Comments by Andrew Benson Brown Theresa Rodriguez, Sonnets. 2nd edition. Shanti Arts, 193 Hillside Road, Brunswick, ME, 04011, 2020. 75 pp. $12.95. In his...
‘In This Post-Christian Era I Believe’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society December 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 28 Comments In This Post Christian Era “For he nil falsen no wight, dar I seye, That wol his herte al hoolly on him leye.” ---Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Love...
‘The Ballad of Babi Yar’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society November 5, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 16 Comments Over 100,00 people were killed at Babi Yar between September 29, 1941 and November 6, 1943. Oh, come and gather round to hear This story...
‘Maxwell Schollenberger’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society October 31, 2020 Culture, Poetry 19 Comments Twelve-year old Maxwell Schollenberger was found dead in a home in Annville, Pennsylvania, in May 2020, where he had been starved, imprisoned...
‘Sonnet Sonnet’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society October 5, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments To write of love, or speak of other things Like life or death, or such philosophy As might stir up an eager mind, which brings It to a...
‘Oh, When I Think Back’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society August 8, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments Oh, When I Think Back Oh, when I think back to those halcyon days, When I believed the possibility That truest love would manifest to...
‘The Trial of Saint Joan of Arc (d. 30 May 1431)’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society July 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments You had to act, because you heard the voices Within your head. Saint Michael came to you, Saints Catherine and Margaret. But what...
‘Twisted Reckoning’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society June 20, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments Twisted Reckoning If pain can produce beauty, and if beauty causes pain, then how can I be reconciled to more loss than I gain? If love is...
‘Oh, What Is Prayer?’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society May 21, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments Oh, What Is Prayer? Oh, what is prayer? Is it a mystery, that bridges earth and heaven in a cry, that reaches to the infinite? A sigh, A...
‘What If My Time’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society April 15, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments What If My Time What if my time is limited? if all That I have left is perhaps months, not years, All laden with the worries and the...
‘Planned Barrenhood’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society March 15, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 8 Comments Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood Moloch: ancient Canaanite god of child sacrifice Is there one in your...
‘Shaman of the Waves’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society January 8, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 58 Comments I am the raging tempest tossed upon the fretful sea; you are the calm and quiet gale that steadies me. And yet I am the raging...
Review: Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society November 26, 2019 Essays, Poetry, Reviews 7 Comments by James Sale Sonnets, 2nd edition. Shanti Arts, 2020 Jesus and Eros, Bardsinger Books, 2014 Theresa Rodriguez is a relatively new and exciting...
‘Quasimodo’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society November 12, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments “Look not on the face, young girl, look at the heart.” —Quasimodo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame A vile, lumbering mass, so hideous, Rejected...
‘Writer’s Block’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society September 29, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments Writer's Block I feel like I am plodding through cement; My mind is full of cotton batting. Dull, And dense, and empty-headed, thinking...
Bryant Park Poetry Reading: Two Poems by Theresa Rodriguez (Video) The Society September 4, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Video 9 Comments ...
‘Sebastian’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society August 8, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 28 Comments An ode to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Sebastian: from Greek “venerable” I touch the pages of your music. Then My thoughts transport to...
Rediscovering the Sonnet: An Interview with Poet Theresa Rodriguez by Carol Smallwood The Society July 10, 2019 Essays, Interviews, Poetry, Poetry Forms 7 Comments This interview was conducted by Carol Smallwood with poet Theresa Rodriguez following the release of the first edition of Sonnets by...
‘New Day’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society May 20, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 30 Comments New Day Welcome to a new day. I must go Ahead with life as it presents to me I have to forge ahead steadfast and show What moving on and...
‘A Spot in Time’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society April 20, 2019 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 2 Comments It is a moment or a spot in time, When time is quieted and put away; A simple thing becoming the sublime, Suspended and eternal in a...
‘Form Sonnet’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society June 16, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments Form Sonnet Turn the page and write again today Make something come out of an eager mind Make something in a new and different way In something...
‘A Sonnet for the Sonnet-Maker’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society May 11, 2017 Culture, Poetry 7 Comments A Sonnet for the Sonnet-Maker You know the beats and rhythms, the iamb Which pulses like a crippled-legged walk; You, with the force of...
‘Goodbye, Sweet Fetal Child’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society March 18, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Popular Poetry Archives 12 Comments Goodbye, sweet fetal child— for you shall die, Because a mother’s love is also dead: The hallowed place of nurture where you lie Shall soon...
‘The Fallen Vestige’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society May 3, 2014 Beauty, Culture 4 Comments The Fallen Vestige The fallen vestige of her foliate time: Browned leaves beneath; coarse needles of old pine Once green and pungent; when her...
Book Review: What Was and Is—Formal Poetry and Free Verse by Theresa Werba The Society May 13, 2024 Poetry, Reviews 5 Comments . Book Reviewed: What Was and Is---Formal Poetry and Free Verse, by Theresa Werba, Bardsinger Books, April 2024 by James A. Tweedie With What Was...
Poet Bio: Theresa Werba The Society September 2, 2019 Theresa Werba (formerly Rodriguez) is the author of six books, including three books of poetry: Jesus and Eros: Sonnets, Poems and Songs...
Book Review: Poems with a Wink and a Smile by James A. Tweedie The Society June 22, 2023 Essays, Poetry, Reviews 14 Comments . Reviewed Book: Laughing Matters: Poems with a Wink and a Smile by James A. Tweedie, Duncrest Press, 2023 by Theresa Werba This collection of...
Society of Classical Poets Journal IX Published The Society June 27, 2021 From the Society, Poetry 3 Comments . The Society of Classical Poets Journal IX has been published. It features poetry selected from poetry published on the SCP website between February...
A Review of James A. Tweedie’s Mostly Sonnets: Formal Poetry in an Informal World The Society March 3, 2021 Beauty, Essays, Poetry, Reviews 13 Comments Reviewed Book: Mostly Sonnets: Formal Poetry in an Informal World by James A. Tweedie, Dunecrest Press, July 2019 by Theresa Rodriguez As a fellow...
The Best Poems of 2020 The Society February 1, 2021 Best Poems, From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Contests 28 Comments The Best Poems of 2020: Winners of the 9th Annual International SCP Poetry Competition JudgesJoseph S. SalemiJames SaleEvan Mantyk Past First Place...
Poetry Readings from 2020 SCP Symposium – ‘A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme’ (Session I) The Society June 17, 2020 From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Symposium, Video All of the below poems were read on May 31, 2020 at The Society of Classical Poets Symposium, which was held online due to the pandemic. Below are...
The Society of Classical Poets Releases Journal VIII The Society June 12, 2020 From the Society, Poetry 6 Comments The Society of Classical Poets website receives millions of views every year. Visitors read engaging, beautiful, topical verse that...
Ten Great Spenserian or Scottish Sonnets The Society May 15, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Love Poems, Poetry 19 Comments Edmund Spenser by Margaret Coats Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) wrote 121 sonnets of rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee, including 87 in his love...
Online SCP Poetry Symposium 2020 – “A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme” The Society May 1, 2020 From the Society, Readings, Symposium 8 Comments Due to the unprecedented circumstances regarding the CCP virus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Symposium has been moved online. The details of the event...
SCP Poetry Symposium 2020—“A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme” The Society March 6, 2020 From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Symposium 1 Comment NOTE: This event has been canceled due to the CCP virus (COVID-19) pandemic. A new online SCP Symposium has been planned. The details of...
The Best Poems of 2019 The Society February 1, 2020 Best Poems, From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Contests 11 Comments The Best Poems of 2019: Winners of 8th Annual International SCP Poetry Competition Thank you to everyone who participated! It was an epic year with...
The Rebirth of Poetry Is Here: First SCP Symposium Held The Society June 28, 2019 Essays, From the Society, Poetry, Symposium 21 Comments The Society of Classical Poets successfully holds its first symposium in New York City (Press Release) NEW YORK—A growing movement is...
