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The Society of Classical Poets was founded in New York in July, 2012.

‘Territorializing’: A Poem by Mark Stellinga

The Society
May 4, 2025
Children's, Humor, Poetry
10 Comments
. Territorializing Slithering slowly, so very precise, A methodic invader (and catcher of mice), She stealthily slips toward the enemy there, So unsuspecting, at rest by the chair. Without a diversion to aid...

‘Bear Spray’ and Other Poetry by Paul Burgess

The Society
May 4, 2025
Children's, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. Bear Spray My little brother took a dare To pepper spray a mama bear. It seems the spray was much too mild, So I've become an only child. Except for near the polar ice, The bears you'll see are mostly...

‘The New Headmasters’: A Poem on British Boarding Schools, by Lucius Falkland

The Society
May 3, 2025
Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
. The New Headmasters As I sat, that afternoon, upon his kneeWhile he read a “witty” book and I faux-laughedI’m afraid, aged eight, I didn’t really seeWhat was happening: I now feel rather daft.But...

‘Pollinator’: A Poem by T.M. Moore

The Society
May 3, 2025
Beauty, Poetry
19 Comments
. Pollinator When swift spring breezes suddenly excitethe conifers out back, they really comealive in dips and bows and surges rightbefore my eyes. I watch to see if froma few of them, or even one, a cloudwill...

‘The Ego Lingers Longer Than the Mind’ and Other Poetry by Rob Fried

The Society
May 2, 2025
Culture, Poetry, Triolet
5 Comments
. The Ego Lingers Longer Than The Mind The ego lingers longer than the mind, It dares to whisper yearnings of its own: To manifest a will more keen than kind, A shady glow that will not be outshone. We think...

‘Headspace’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick

The Society
May 2, 2025
Culture, Poetry
21 Comments
. Headspace It’s easy to detect folks’ disrespect, And hope your feats will make them feel quite small. But better still would be if the effect, Was not to give them any thought at all. . . The Senior...

‘Back to the Greenwood’: A Poem by Patricia Rogers Crozier

The Society
May 1, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
. Back to the Greenwood The spring has come to England once again But I am far away and cannot see The blackthorn blossoms blowing in the wind, And blackbirds in the heavens, flying free. The sun, grown...

SCP Journal XIII Published

The Society
April 30, 2025
From the Society, Poetry
5 Comments
. The Society of Classical Poets Journal XIII has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the SCP website between February 1, 2024 and January 31, 2025. ...

A Poem on the Kashmir Terrorist Attack, by Satyananda Sarangi

The Society
April 30, 2025
Culture, Poetry
21 Comments
. There’s Nothing to Regain ---on the terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam town, in Kashmir, India Their hapless screams over that vale Had failed to cross celestial planes; But found their way beneath...

‘Premonition’: A Poem by Adam Sedia

The Society
April 30, 2025
Culture, Poetry
21 Comments
. Premonition The sun shines down in undimmed majestyAcross the heavens’ undiminished breadthOn life unsapped, unweighted levityOf loves and laughs untinged with sight of death--- Except for mine. An unseen...

‘Zips and Zooms’: A Hummingbird Poem by Gigi Ryan

The Society
April 29, 2025
Beauty, Poetry
11 Comments
. Zips and Zooms The hummingbird both zips and zooms To search for nectar in the blooms Of flowers that unfold in spring. The hummingbird has peewee wings And yet she moves with lightning speed. Her eggs...

‘How I Spent My Spring Vacation’: Poetry and Photography by James A. Tweedie

The Society
April 29, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
19 Comments
. How I Spent My Spring Vacation: Poetry and Photography by James A. Tweedie . It Begins 45 Days Surrounded by the circle of the sea I cruise Atlantic waters, eastward bound, As knot by knot each longitude...

‘Heritage’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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April 28, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
. Heritage I’ve never asked for anything The living soil does not provide. I don’t want cash; I don’t want bling; I only want to stand beside The footprints of departed fathers, Now looking down through...

‘An Ode to Silay’: A Poem by Yoshikaze Kawakami

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April 28, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
. An Ode to Silay Cathedral bells now toll, And horses march the streets, The crowd has filled the hall, We hear the priest now preach. A lady makes a curtsy To the Lord respectfully. The marble pillars...

‘Medusa’s Sisters’: A Poem by Julian Woodruff

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April 27, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
. Medusa's Sisters Medusa lost her head and found renown instead. Her living sisters roared, “And why are we ignored who so much fouler are and deadlier by far? “You’d think that she’d become the...

‘High Society’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

The Society
April 27, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
15 Comments
. High Society The Cornelius mansion on Park Avenue, New York City, Sunday, August 22, 1886 A derby hat; a fresh, white boutonniereOn my lapel. You just can’t have a newBeau Brummel jacket without something...

Book Review: Doorway: The English Cantos, Volume III by James Sale

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April 26, 2025
Dante, Epic, Poetry, Reviews
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. Book Reviewed: Doorway: The English Cantos, Volume III, by James Sale, 2025 by Cynthia Erlandson It’s been several years since I’ve read Dante’s Divine Comedy; yet as I read James Sale’s Doorway,...

A Poem on ‘Saint Elzéar Curing the Lepers’ by Margaret Coats

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April 26, 2025
Art, Ekphrastic, Poetry
23 Comments
. Healing by Heart Dear André, let me see your face And cry out with you to lament The rot of flesh and foul disgrace You suffer, ulcered hands unbent. Your body needs rebirth that’s meant To cure your soul...

‘Linden’: A Poem by Thor Kangas

The Society
April 25, 2025
Beauty, Poetry
20 Comments
. Linden She stands against the sunlit sky, _Her beauty plain to see. The birds sing sweet and pleasant songs _High in the linden tree. The weary travelers stop below _To rest their weary bones, And listen to...

‘Anachronistic Chaucer’ and Other Springtime Poetry by Paul A. Freeman

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April 25, 2025
Beauty, Chaucer, Humor, Poetry, Triolet
12 Comments
. Anachronistic Chaucer When April showers, forecast on TV,delayed our pilgrimage to Canterbury,an eating house, clept Hooters, we espiedbeside a leafy glade where we could bideour time in revelry and...

‘The Luigi Mangione Act’: A Poem by Warren Bonham

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April 24, 2025
Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. The Luigi Mangione Act We need to contemplate the true impact of The Luigi Mangione Act. Although we sympathize with those who penned this act, it won’t turn out as they intend. Our health care system...

John Neihardt’s Epic Western Poetry (Final Part): A Video by Andrew Benson Brown

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April 24, 2025
Classical Poets Live, Epic, Poetry
10 Comments
. https://youtu.be/9Qx03HgoXAQ . . Andrew Benson Brown‘s epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, chronicles the major events of the American Revolution. He writes history articles for American Essence...
poem/freeman/limericks

‘The Ballad of Shamus’ by Steve Cooper

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April 24, 2025
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
4 Comments
. The Ballad of Shamus Well, Shamus were a likely lad wid a good well-meanin’ ‘eart As strong as O’Malley’s ox, ‘dey say—but only ‘alf as smart. ‘Is ‘eart belonged to Nellie, aye ‘e wished...

A Poem on Shakespeare’s Possibly Missing Skull, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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April 23, 2025
Poetry, Shakespeare
20 Comments
. Bardic Bones Who dug the dust? Who didn’t spare the stones? Who churned the earth that festered with a curse? Who had the gall to judder bardic bones, To steal the skull from him who gilded verse? These...

‘Sonnet 18’: A Song Inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnet by Gunny Markefka

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April 23, 2025
Music, Poetry, Shakespeare
8 Comments
. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all...

Sonnets for Shakespeare’s Birthday, by Margaret Coats

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April 23, 2025
Poetry, Shakespeare
18 Comments
. The Comedy of Rosalind ---As You Like It I show more mirth than I am mistress of. This forest and my folly prompted change Of sex, and my disguise dissembles love. I’m altered by men’s hose and doublet...

Four Sonnets on Shen Yun Performing Arts, by Evan Mantyk

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April 22, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Performing Arts, Poetry
12 Comments
. On Shen Yun . I. The land of China. Deep in history That like a river flows with people and culture, Extending into misty mystery. But now this fascinating, gleaming treasure Is buried in the mud beneath the...

‘Voyage Among the Ancients’: A Poem by Mary Jane Myers

The Society
April 22, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle
17 Comments
. Voyage Among the Ancients "Tread softly, for here you stand On miracle ground…" ---Lawrence Durrell, "On Ithaca Standing" ( 1937) The Juno anchors, docks. We disembark. Each landfall’s an Odyssean...

Two Lyrics of Philodemus of Gadara, Translated by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
April 21, 2025
Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry, Translation
10 Comments
. Two Lyrics by Philodemus of Gadara translated from Greek by Joseph S. Salemi . V.124 Summertime has not yet cast off her buds Nor has the grape bunch turned to purple for you, The one near bursting with its...

‘Innovative Thinking’: A Poem by Janice Canerdy

The Society
April 21, 2025
Humor, Poetry
11 Comments
. Innovative Thinking My long-time love gave me a special gift, a photo of himself when he was young. He even autographed it: “Love you! Dave.” From then, upon my wall this treasure hung where I could...

‘Stone’s Point of View’: An Easter Poem by Gigi Ryan

The Society
April 20, 2025
Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
. Stone’s Point of View They brought Him to the tomb and rolled me into The right position to seal in the dead, And there was nothing I could do to undo The suffocating sense of loss and dread. The bloody...

‘Easter Couplets’: A Poem by James A. Tweedie

The Society
April 20, 2025
Children's, Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
. Easter Couplets Easter’s more than just about eggs and bunnies;More than what you may have read in the funnies. Short and sweet, (although I can’t guarantee it),This is what it’s all about, as I see...

‘Who Are You and Who Am I’: An Easter Poem by Maria Panayi

The Society
April 20, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle
14 Comments
. Who Are You and Who Am I ---a villanelle Who are you and who am I That you fill my life with light And for me you chose to die. I have fallen from on high, I am foolish, you are wise, Who are you and who am...

‘Emmaus’: An Easter Poem by Jeffrey Essmann

The Society
April 20, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. Emmaus We barely saw he’d joined us as we made Our way along the road, so sad, afraid, So utterly confused by what had come To pass, so unsure as to what was rumor And what was true. And we were near...

An Easter Poem: ‘In the Garden of the King’ by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
April 19, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
14 Comments
. In the Garden of the King In the garden of the King I sit beside a crystal spring. The Tree of Life shines up above Fed by God’s eternal love. The Rose of Sharon is in bloom Freely giving sweet...

‘Holy Saturday’: A Poem by Margaret Coats

The Society
April 19, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
35 Comments
. Holy Saturday "Call the Sabbath a delight." —Isaiah 58:13 His weary, soulless body needed rest, Not only pierced and physically exhausted, But racked with mental pain, the scourging test Of misbelieving...

Two Poems for Good Friday, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
April 18, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
25 Comments
. Crucified  She pondered horrors of the modern age. He thumbed through piles of dusty history tomes. She craved the timeless wisdom of a sage. He chewed on clues and mused like Sherlock Holmes. He...

‘Unless . . .’: A Poem for Good Friday by James A. Tweedie

The Society
April 18, 2025
Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
. Unless . . . As un-sun darkness swallows up the day, And quake shake rends an empty Holy Place, God’s grief-strewn Via Dolorosa way Leads to a cross and Jesus’ death-stained face. For here at Calvary...

‘Good Friday Rain’: A Poem by Martin Rizley

The Society
April 18, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
. Good Friday Rain I wake and hear the rain cascade. Its cleansing drops roll down my pane; They soak the garden, bathe the glade, Refresh the grass, and swell the grain. Stretched out in bed, from stress...

‘Lament for Clairac’ by Théophile de Viau, Translated by A.Z. Foreman

The Society
April 17, 2025
Culture, Poetry, Readings, Translation
5 Comments
. . Lament for Clairac by Théophile de Viau (1590-1626) translated from French by A.Z. Foreman Sun-hallowed walls where I once loved Phillis, Sweet places where my soul knew charm and wonder, Today,...
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