Leicester Square Concert —A true story. Note: Leicester is pronounced “Lester” I traveled to an intel brief _Convened in...

  By the Waters of Babylon All faces are foreign here, all streets unknown, and even the sun seems like...

  How Septuagenarian’s Cope Past seventy. Age does prevail. _The day is growing dim. I’ve managed through life’s calms and...

  The Antipope Gives Military Advice Aircraft should always be vehicles of peace, never of war! No one should fear...

  Replication and Cessation Your parents had four children, grand-kids eight. But as for great-grandchildren, they’ll have none. How could...

  Upon Meeting a Crane ---at the Wilmington VA Medical Center I met a crane; the crane met me beside...

  https://youtu.be/G9FpJcfCcGw     Back or Bottom? “Your back or bottom?” Dowdy grabbed the switch, a riding whip, from off...

  Remains No-one saw them tumble empty down the fathoms, somersaulting gently on their way, at random caught and wafted...

  Re-shifting in Reverse Alas, I fear the world has fallen prey To well-conceived and ill-intended evil; An armageddon; shattered...

  The Face At night, surreptitiously, it emerges out of the TV screen, or when the light bulb's put to...

  The Teahouse Garden A place where you can leave your cares behind And have a restful, meditative mind; A...

  Snow Foe I’m rather certain snow falls for a reason, Like adding charm to wintertime’s cold season. But after...

  Fireship ---August 7, 1588. The English Channel. Since William’s conquest England has not faced Such danger of defeat---so dire...

  Morning Glory The mornings are a challenge for the old man. Get up. Get dressed. Get the dogs out....

  Tinian Tucked into the corner of the sea, Birthed in fire, volcanic history, A stepping stone across the ocean...

  Prayer (5:00 a.m.) Some stubborn pain (the world… the past…) Is peeking through the cracks, and all I want...

  Damon and Pythias The two spoke number lore with every breath, Disciples of Pythagoras and friends, But one was...

  The Throne at Knossos Kings, nations, empires, tongues have passed, Through fourscore centuries, but you last, _Carved from immortal...

    The Bridge by Victor Hugo (1802-1885) translated from French by Joy Nevin Axelson Shadows before me. An abyss...

    A Wedding Song (Away the Winter) In May shall be her wedding day, When hawthorn blooms do scent...

  The Sun The sun’s so conscientious She gives us every dawn--- Her rays across the treetops And then across...

  The Room Exhaled Before I Did The patient sat before me on the table Clearly hoping that I would...

  My California A tangled maze of gushing streams My sunny California cries. Her sky is veiled in morbid memes...

  In the Vault of Default I store my memories in empty bottles, Which rest on horizontal 2x4s That gird...

  Mother’s Loom ---after Li Bai's poem "Midnight Song of Wu" The moon above the palace, Reigns bright within the...

Beneath an Iron Hand Though they spent years beneath an iron hand, the quiet people still knew how to sing...

  The Ladies on the Floor Above ---for the pianist NW and her daughters, and AGM, aged just one "And...

  The Sons of Issachar “The Sons of Issachar understood the times in which they lived, and knew which way...

  Will the Sentence Get the Death Sentence? ---a triolet I write a line, then I decide: will it survive,...

  Mass Destruction Give me a reason to trust in words spoken--- Tricksters have twisted the truth till it’s dead....

  Cycle of Song O Schubert! Praise with Song your blessed Birth; With youthful Skill, no mortal Feats surpass, You...

. The Contest Today in China peaceful Falun Gong practitioners are imprisoned, tortured, and killed by the communist regime simply...

  It Must Be Spring Again The air is clear and crisp today _While walking through my garden. A morning...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Cg5bC-KwM   The Society of Classical Poets is proud to announce a new partnership with Freedom 250, a nationwide initiative...

  At the Wine Bar Embrace the riverlike and endless flow, the rush of energy, the burgundy of Cabernet, Petite...

  Limerick Poetry Challenge Write a limerick (learn how to write one here) about a famous poet or about writing...

  Sough I learned a new word, “sough,” today. _I think it’s quite poetic. Although it’s quirky in a way...

  Blood Miracle Red marrow makes most of the cells of our blood, _A half-trillion plus every day. Though we're...

  Extracted from a recent article in Intellectual Takeout by Jeff Minick: Every day a new poem from the Society...

  The Last of Winter I stand here at the window glass, The scene before me clear and wide, To...