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‘A Horse’s Tale: King Arthur’s Great Steed’: A Poem by Davis Saunders

The Society
August 6, 2025
Children's, Humor, Poetry
2 Comments
. A Horse’s Tale: King Arthur’s Great Steed The horse known for bearing the greatest of kings— Proud Thor was considered the worthiest horse; Such that if all horses had voices to sing, They’d sing all...

‘Supreme Showdown’: A Poem by Warren Bonham

The Society
August 6, 2025
Poetry, Satire
5 Comments
. Supreme Showdown “Justice Jackson skips over that part because analyzing the governing statute involves boring legalese.” —Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the June 27, 2025, majority opinion in...
poem/buchheit/poetry reading

Poetry Readings by Susan Norvill, Cynthia Erlandson, Twila Brase, and Corey Elizabeth Jackson

The Society
August 5, 2025
Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings, Symposium, Video
1 Comment
. Readings of original poems by the poets from the Society of Classical Poets online Poetry Symposium on June 28,...

‘Life on This Boat’: A Poem by Frank Rable

The Society
August 5, 2025
Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. Life on This Boat Here in this lifeboat we hopelessly wait, No one rows now, we are all but deadweight, Minding our manners, and now the first mate, Starting to smell like the raw fish we ate. What can we do...

‘Silent Movies’: A Poem by Cheryl Corey

The Society
August 4, 2025
Culture, Performing Arts, Triolet
17 Comments
. Silent Movies As silent movies play inside your head, Their scattered shadows, faint and far away, You try to understand what's being said, As silent movies play inside your head— Remembrance of a life...

‘Legion’: A Poem by M.D. Skeen

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August 4, 2025
Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
. Legion Hello there friend, our name is Legion We are those same 6000 demons Who long ago in Gerasenes Became a man’s mental disease. We took a normal happy child And turned him feral, naked, wild, Drove...
poem/pain/love poems

‘The Power’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook

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August 3, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
5 Comments
. The Power I’ve noticed more and more of late My power to infuriate Is stronger than it’s ever been. I exercise it even when I try to be both dull and sweet And humble, willing, incomplete. Infuriation...

‘Absalom, Absalom’: A Poem by Brian Yapko

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August 3, 2025
Culture, Poetry
29 Comments
. Absalom, Absalom "Then David sent out one third of the people… And the king said to the people, 'I also will surely go out with you myself.' But the people answered, 'You shall not go out! … You are...

‘Dear Blabby’s Advice for the Clueless’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson

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August 2, 2025
Humor, Poetry
14 Comments
. Dear Blabby’s Advice for the Clueless _I want to write a column _Like Abigail Van Buren To give out my elite advice _It’s something that I’m good in. _I plan to title it, _“Dear Blabby,” if you...

‘The Gaza War’ and Related Poems by James A. Tweedie

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August 2, 2025
Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
. The Gaza War The Gaza war goes on and on With death and ruin in its wake. A war hard fought but never won; Like sifting water from a lake. And yet a war that must be fought, War born from war from war from...

‘The Bristlecone Pine’ and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers

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August 1, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Pantoum, Poetry
12 Comments
. The Bristlecone Pine For centuries, the stalwart pine has stood __in this unwonted spot. Its shallow roots and resinous hard wood __shield it from drought and rot. __Thin soil, high winds, cold air: it...
poem/gosse/humor

‘The Troubadour Remembers’: A Poem by Morrison Handley-Schachler

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August 1, 2025
Humor, Music, Poetry
16 Comments
. The Troubadour Remembers A troubadour wayfaring town to town, Hamlet to homestead, dale to grassy down, While he his vagabond mandora strummed, Now with the bass, now with the treble hummed, Until the...

‘Conjugation: Tense with Mood’: A Poem by C.B. Anderson

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July 31, 2025
Humor, Poetry
14 Comments
. Conjugation: Tense with Mood ---a verbal disagreement between the indicative and the subjunctive If I were all that I could be, Perhaps I’d spend eternity Cavorting in a field of lilies With thoroughbred...

‘Beneath the Blooms’ and Other Poetry by Christian Muller

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July 31, 2025
Culture, Poetry
2 Comments
. Beneath the Blooms I search the hills for blooms to smell. The dew drops kiss my naked feet to wish me and my journey well but fade before the rising heat. Oh flowers, flowers everywhere I dance between the...

‘Most Conversations’: A Poem by Reid McGrath

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July 30, 2025
Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
. Most Conversations Near every grocery-line or petrol-pump, at every social-gathering or game, outside of every church or at the dump, the conversation’s usually the same. I’m hopefully only halfway...

‘Autumn’s Fairy Tale’: A Poem by Yoshikaze Kawakami 

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July 30, 2025
Beauty, Poetry
6 Comments
. Autumn’s Fairy Tale ーan ode to Yugen The golden eve allures As autumn’s sun illumes, Gleaming in rose subdued. Replacing clouds that consume, The yonder storm forlorn. Upon the fairy leaves, And flora...

‘The Point’ and Other Poetry by Martin Briggs

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July 29, 2025
Poetry, Satire
4 Comments
. The Point The Point, defined by geometry, substantiates a theory: position without magnitude. Lest the point be misconstrued consider how a politician, lacking substance, has position. . . Petition for...

‘The Dance’: A Poem by Vera Kochanowsky

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July 29, 2025
Beauty, Performing Arts, Poetry
7 Comments
. The Dance When Arsis and Thesis met on the dance floor, one bowed to the other, the other implored: “Let’s strike up the band now with haste and due speed. Why wait for the others? We’re all that we...

‘Pushback’: A Poem by David Greenwood

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July 28, 2025
Culture, Poetry
7 Comments
. Pushback The New Puritans run amok, remaking our society. Through countless forms of media, they assert their authority. Through threat and bluster they control those poor souls who’ll bend the knee, but...
poetry/essay/Salemi/transgressive

‘Whistling Woman’ and Other Poetry by Linda Arntzenius

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July 27, 2025
Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
. Whistling Woman "A whistling woman and a crowing hen will scare The Devil out of his den." ---English proverb ____I have whistled and I whistle still, ____gone my own way to my own sweet will. ____I’ve...

SCP Haiku Competition Featured on Radio New Zealand

The Society
July 26, 2025
Haiku and Senryu, Poetry, Poetry Contests
3 Comments
. Radio New Zealand's Culture 101 sat down with SCP Editor Evan Mantyk to talk about the SCP's Haiku Competition, the SCP, and the history of the haiku. Listen...

‘Of Cats and Cardinals’: A Cat Funeral Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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July 26, 2025
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
32 Comments
. Of Cats and Cardinals ---for George Lionel (2005 – 2025) You left us at the hour of the owlWhen shameless moons are far too loud and bold__For one so still and cold---One shrouded in a freshly laundered...

‘The Gospel of Wives’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick

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July 25, 2025
Culture, Poetry, Satire
19 Comments
. The Gospel of Wives Wives everywhere possess the firm belief Of all their many roles, the one that’s chief Is sparing husbands from the sheer mayhem That would befall their lives, if not for...
history allegory

‘History’s Rondel’ and Other Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson

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July 24, 2025
Culture, Poetry, Rondel
20 Comments
. History’s Rondel Human history’s plot repeats In variations, with refrain Each time we purpose to regain Eden, fooled by the deceits That conquered Eve. Then Flood defeats And drowns our pride---but,...

‘Aubade at Seven AM’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise

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July 24, 2025
Love Poems, Poetry
4 Comments
. Aubade at Seven AM The years have fled, and time so swiftly flees,since that brief hour when you and I first met;but how we loved I still remember yet;so purely did you live and love and please.You were a...

‘Five Dappled Things’: A Poem by Leland James

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July 23, 2025
Beauty, Blank Verse, Poetry
7 Comments
. Five Dappled Things A weave of twigs upon the ground; five eggs, cream white, flecked with gray. An ark dislodged —a callous jay or heartless wind— the nest set down. A slant of sun, an ark of twigs. a...

‘Paradox of Tolerance’: A Poem by Warren Bonham

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July 23, 2025
Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. Paradox of Tolerance "f tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable." ---Gaetano Mosca...
poem/james/beauty

‘Spoiled-Rotten Cat Instructs Visitors’ and Other Limericks by Janice Canerdy

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July 22, 2025
Humor, Limerick, Poetry
7 Comments
. Spoiled-Rotten Cat Instructs Visitors Don’t you dare try to sit in my spot! I’ll decide if you pet me or not. _I’m the star here you’ll see. _They all cater to me. They just like you; they LOVE me a...

‘The Old Man and the Mouse’: A Sicilian Folktale in Verse, by Joseph S. Salemi

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July 22, 2025
Children's, Poetry
27 Comments
. The Old Man and the Mouse: A Sicilian Folktale An old man poured a glass of milk, and left it on the table. A small mouse came and drank it up, as much as he was able. The man returned, and when he saw the...

‘Let Me Hold the Door’: A Poem by Frank Rable

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July 21, 2025
Culture, Poetry
12 Comments
. Let Me Hold the Door I hold the door for you, and then you scoff. “He only wants to push old gender roles,” You think. Because you know you're strong enough, To get a door or dig some garden holes. But...

A Poem for the 100th Anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial, by Warren Bonham

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July 21, 2025
Culture, Poetry
28 Comments
. Hairless Apes On the 100th Anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial . In nineteen hundred twenty-five, as Darwinists began to thrive, they wisely chose to hang their hopes upon a teacher named John...

‘The Inclusivity Policy of a British School’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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July 20, 2025
Poetry, Satire
37 Comments
. The Inclusivity Policy of a British School ---on a 12-year-old student in Britain being barred from making a speech about being British on Culture Celebration Day Celebrate your race with jubilation. Flaunt...

‘Don’t Call Me Shirley’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

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July 20, 2025
Humor, Poetry
24 Comments
. Don't Call Me Shirley A Comic Homage Robert Hayes as reluctant pilot Ted Striker: “Surely you can’t be serious!” Leslie Nielsen as Dr. Rumack: “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.” (From...

‘On the Epstein Files Debacle’: A Poem by Drilon Bajrami

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July 19, 2025
Culture, Poetry, Villanelle
6 Comments
. On the Epstein Files Debacle ---a villanelle Where are those awful Epstein files? It doesn’t matter left or right! Who are those sordid pedophiles? We need a cleanup on this aisle, From desk to void,...

‘One Dumb Mistake’: A Sestina by M.D. Skeen

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July 19, 2025
Poetry, Satire, Sestina
8 Comments
. One Dumb Mistake When young I made a dumb mistake And was arrested by the cops. I found myself alone in court. Needless to say, my case was lost. And I was sentenced by the judge For murder: ten to twenty...

‘Not All Angels Play the Harp’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
July 18, 2025
Culture, Poetry
12 Comments
. Not All Angels Play the Harp Not all angels play the harp, _Or sing in heaven’s choir. Some of them are warriors _Who fly on wings of fire. Daniel saw before his eyes _A mighty angel standing. Gabriel the...

‘Living Dead’: A Poem by James A. Tweedie

The Society
July 18, 2025
Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
. Living Dead The riffled rush of water mingles withThe wind among the Ponderosa pinesAs damp chill of late summer mountain rainSoaks through my shirt and clings and binds it toMy skin as if I were a mummy...

‘Martha’: A Poem by Scharlie Meeuws

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July 17, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
. Martha “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” ---Martha, Luke 10 In Jericho, the house was washed in white, Where roses climbed around each...

‘The Harvest’: A Poem by Peter Venable

The Society
July 16, 2025
Beauty, Poetry
5 Comments
. The Harvest As drops of water drop and drip and drop, Each dripping drop soon fills the deepest crack. But when there is a freeze, they split the rock And once it’s cleft, no hands can pull it back. So...

‘Unspoken Moments’: A Poem by Michael Pendragon

The Society
July 16, 2025
Beauty, Poetry
9 Comments
. Unspoken Moments A sunpatch nap the first warm day of Spring, A curled up kitten sleeping in your lap, A country walk down lanes where robins sing, The surge of joy in every thunderclap And burst of rain...
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