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

John Neihardt’s Epic Western Poetry (Part 2): A Video by Andrew Benson Brown

The Society
April 9, 2025
Classical Poets Live, Epic, Poetry
8 Comments
. https://youtu.be/bC_JL8Ap8ow . . 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...

‘The Tale of the Moon’s Reign’: An Elegy by Yoshikaze Kawakami

The Society
April 9, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Song Lyrics
6 Comments
. The Tale of the Moon’s Reign ---an elegy Above the skies where reigns the moon _So bright in hours of gloom Lived those whose hearts no longer feel _Nor suffer and yearn to heal. We mortals hailed this...

‘Dirty Dishes’ and other Poetry by Gigi Ryan

The Society
April 8, 2025
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
16 Comments
. Dirty Dishes The dust is often out of handAnd should I write my name uponThe coffee table and night standIt will be seen when morning dawns. But dishes, oh the dishes mustBe kept up or the sink will beFoul...

‘Porphyro and Madeline: The Epilogue By Byron’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
April 8, 2025
Culture, Poetry
28 Comments
. Porphyro and Madeline: The Epilogue By Byron "Let us away, my love, with happy speed; There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see..." —John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes” _A long, hard gallop brought them...

‘The Four Seasons’: A Poem by Daniel Howard

The Society
April 7, 2025
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
13 Comments
. The Four Seasons . Spring I Amidst the cloudless sky and crimson dawn Comes bursting forth the bluebird’s orange breast, Whose shadow dances o’er the dewy lawn On having found last February’s...

‘My Meltdown Over the Meltdown’: A Poem by Mark F. Stone

The Society
April 6, 2025
Poetry, Satire
16 Comments
. My Meltdown Over the Meltdown I’ve worked since the summer when I was thirteen. Selling pink lemonade gave me plenty of green. I want to retire, but it won’t be today. I call my investments “my...

‘Apologia’: An Essay in Verse, by T.M. Moore

The Society
April 6, 2025
Education, Essays, Poetry
6 Comments
. Apologia "Bring…the books…" ---2 Timothy 4.13 John Calvin, writing on this verse, extolled the benefits that come from reading old and trusted writers. He agreed with Paul that there is wisdom to be...

‘Sit in Silence’: A Poem by Bennett Chatigny

The Society
April 5, 2025
Culture, Pantoum, Poetry
2 Comments
. Sit in Silence ---a pantoum It's pure stupidity to sit in silence. It's only idiotic to be idle. Unconscientious deeds should be derided. Decisive daily action's very vital. It's only idiotic to be...

‘Divine Complaint’: A Poem by Eustache Deschamps, Translated by Margaret Coats

The Society
April 5, 2025
Poetry, Translation
32 Comments
. Divine Complaint Chant royal by Eustache Deschamps (1346-1406), translated and adapted by Margaret Coats In all the world there is one creature lone Who serves me not, nor fears me, nor obeys. Fire, water,...

Poetry Challenge: Anachro-Poem

The Society
April 4, 2025
Culture, Poetry, Poetry Challenge
42 Comments
. Challenge: Take a well-known figure from history or literature and insert him or her into a modern-day situation. Choose any form. Choose any mood. I hope you enjoy my example below. I hope you have as much...

‘A Ceiling Fan’s Life (Is Like a Man’s)’ and Other Poetry by Shamik Banerjee

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April 4, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
12 Comments
. A Ceiling Fan's Life (Is Like a Man's) On wintry days, it rarely spins Except when mopped floors need to dry. Its mission, once December's in, Is just to idly hang on high And watch us squabble, cackle,...

‘The Wedding Dress’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick

The Society
April 3, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
14 Comments
. The Wedding Dress The dress, first cleaned and vacuum-packed, _Was safely stored back then, Remaining perfectly intact _And never seen again. . . The Prestigious Publication’s Poetry The words seem...

‘Spring’s Unfolding View’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
April 3, 2025
Beauty, Poetry
8 Comments
. Spring’s Unfolding View ---after Dylan Thomas’ “The force that through the green fuse drives flower” The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives me new,that blasts the roots of...

‘Spring Snow’: A Poem by Adam Sedia

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April 2, 2025
Beauty, Poetry
12 Comments
. Spring Snow Tyrant Winter reaches Beyond its frozen tomb, Dares cast its icy mantle On bud and crocus-bloom. Long it reigned unchallenged In dark and cold and ice; Thwarted now, it hurls back Last volleys...
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‘Canyon’: A Poem by Brian Palmer

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April 2, 2025
Beauty, Poetry
9 Comments
. Canyon I’m traveling on a road down which I’m cast, a road that I am fitted for, no doubt, since I can see in arid skies white buffaloes, and humpbacks breaching from basaltic dirt. And too I can...

Two Poems on Happiness, by Roy E. Peterson

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April 1, 2025
Beauty, Children's, Poetry
17 Comments
. Happy Like Winnie the Pooh If I could be happy like Winnie the Pooh, Just thinking of good things in all that I do. I’d just want some honey—a big honey pot— I’d pay all my money, give all that...

A Poem for April Fools’ Day, 2025: ‘Spot the Fool!’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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April 1, 2025
Culture, Poetry, Rondeau, Satire
25 Comments
. Spot the Fool! ---for April Fools’ Day, 2025 . I.  Today’s the day to fox and fool. Today’s the day to flick some fuel On laughter with a cuckoo joke, A wicked lark, a wacko poke So sick Old Nick will...

2025 Friends of Falun Gong Poetry Competition

The Society
March 31, 2025
Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests
. The Contest Know nothing or next to nothing about Falun Gong? Perfect! This poetry competition is for you! The Friends of Falun Gong Poetry Competition was founded to give people an opportunity to learn...
poem/wise/culture

On the Release of JFK Assassination Files: ‘Worth the Wait?’ by James A. Tweedie

The Society
March 31, 2025
Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. Worth the Wait? At last! The long-awaited, much belated Recreated digital creations Of ten thousands JFK-related CIA et alia citations. Allegations of assassinations, Congos, Argentinas, (Panamas?) Delete...

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

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March 31, 2025
Culture, Poetry, Satire
23 Comments
. Ink A lot of people nowadays adorn The spotless skin they had when they were born. While many think it’s smart to gild a lily, Dissenters deem this practice downright silly. As beauty’s in the vision...

‘The Polish Martyrs’: A Poem by Michael Curtis

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March 30, 2025
Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
. The Polish Martyrs Forever faithful to his flock, Good Father Rapacz would not flee. Steadfast he heard the soldiers knock. Devout, the priest was made to bleed. “For God I’ll suffer every loss, For I...

‘The Restoration’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

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March 30, 2025
Beauty, Poetry, Rondeau
39 Comments
. The Restoration ---for SJB Words sometimes fail. How best explainThat life can seem eternal rain?That though friends care they cannot seeOr grasp this wilderness of pain? Is this in truth how life must...

‘Be Careful What Ya’ Wish For’: A Poem by Mark Stellinga

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March 29, 2025
Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
. Be Careful What Ya’ Wish For Well, all o’ ya’ knows when ol’ Paddy McFarland’s _been drinkin’ ‘e’ll spin up a tale Oooozin’ with bits what is ‘ard to believe— _fer dem who ain’t...

A Poem Written Upon Watching Public Cremations in Nepal, by James A. Tweedie

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March 29, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. Burning the Pieta Thoughts After Viewing Public Cremations at the Pashupatinath Temple Complex in Kathmandu, Nepal ---for Alok With tears wash fallen feet which once had stood To face a fated life with...

‘Dim & Blinding Lights’: A Poem by Dan Davis

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March 28, 2025
Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
. Dim & Blinding Lights The lights that shine from streets and cities block out all the stars at night. The dim lights of our partial science block out everything that's wise. These lights don't triumph by...

‘Blood Moon Eclipse (14 March 2025)’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman

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March 28, 2025
Culture, Poetry, Science
8 Comments
. Blood Moon Eclipse (14 March 2025) The Moon’s blood red this morning as it floats within Earth’s shadow, bathing it in light refracted round our atmosphere, which coats the lunar dust in rust—a...

Society of Classical Poets High School Artwork Gallery—Spring 2025

The Society
March 27, 2025
Art, High School Submissions, Poetry
11 Comments
. In line with its mission to preserve humankind’s artistic traditions, the Society of Classical Poets is featuring the best of artwork submitted recently by high school students. This artwork uses a...

‘What the Wind May Do’ and Other Poetry by Julian Woodruff

The Society
March 27, 2025
Culture, Poetry
19 Comments
. What the Wind May Do The wind’s come out to exercise today. It tests itself: how long can it exhale? With steady breath it makes the trees obey: they bend while waiting for the rush to fail. It tires of...

‘Bohème’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook

The Society
March 26, 2025
Beauty, Performing Arts, Poetry
9 Comments
. Bohème Opera in a bare and frigid room As winter winds were sweeping, like a broom, Raised an enthusiasm, understood As contrast to the landscape. Every plume Of horizontal snow blew toward the...

‘The Lilliputians Confront Elon Musk’ and Other Poetry by Warren Bonham

The Society
March 25, 2025
Poetry, Satire
22 Comments
. The Lilliputians Confront Elon Musk One giant has thoughts that are new and transcendent,It’s clearly a sign that he’s too independent.He claims that he’s bringing electrificationof cars, and...

John Neihardt’s Epic ‘Cycle of the West’: A Video by Andrew Benson Brown

The Society
March 25, 2025
Classical Poets Live, Epic, Essays, Poetry
19 Comments
. https://youtu.be/lUU-G7-7nKE . . 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...

‘Learning Curves’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
March 24, 2025
Culture, Poetry, Satire, Science
70 Comments
. Learning Curves In classrooms smeared with monkey poop__Where questions meet deceit,She heard she came from soupy gloop---__A slab of soulless meat.Her teachers preached from thrones of bones---__They...

‘Boomerang’ and Other Poetry by James Bontrager

The Society
March 24, 2025
Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
. Boomerang In the chronicles of hist’ry There we see a vast array Of malicious, scheming tricksters Who themselves became the prey, Thus, confirming what the Psalmist In his wisdom once had said Of the...

‘The Unknown God’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper

The Society
March 23, 2025
Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
. The Unknown God ---Paul’s Address at the Areopagus (Acts 17:22-31) My dear Athenians, this I surveilled While passing by: you’re quite religious men! I scanned what you are worshiping, and then I stopped...

‘Ode to The New York Times’ by Brian Yapko

The Society
March 23, 2025
Poetry, Satire
43 Comments
. Ode to The New York Times O, soulless source of leftist propaganda Known still throughout the world as “The Gray Lady”--- You promulgate destructive memoranda From sources Soros-like---depraved and...

Disaster Sonnets by Margaret Coats

The Society
March 22, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
37 Comments
. How Many Homes? ---January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires Twelve thousand lost, from stricken memories more Schools, churches, meeting places, shops and homes Of residents and others moved away, Bereaved of...

‘Winter Song’ and Other Poetry by Diego Calle

The Society
March 21, 2025
Beauty, Poetry, Triolet
6 Comments
. Winter Song Hymen, Venus, Graces three, _save me lest I wither like some sap-sucked blasted tree; Hymen, Venus, Graces three, come and set my soul-song free: _come, come here, come hither. Hymen, Venus,...

‘Another Old Myth’ and Other Poetry by Peter Venable

The Society
March 21, 2025
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
4 Comments
. Another Old Myth The Ancient One warned Noah's doom was near. Since men possessed with greed kept spilling blood, That cataclysmic rain would soon appear. So Noah built an ark before the flood. No matter now...

‘Vernal Equinox’ and Other Poems by Benjamin Cannicott Shavitz

The Society
March 20, 2025
Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry
8 Comments
. Vernal Equinox Germans call this season “frühling.” Spaniards name it “primavera.” Welshmen say the term is “gwanwyn.” Shetland trawlers go with “voar,” so Let’s resolve this with a...

‘Equinox Blues’ and Other Poetry by Julian Woodruff

The Society
March 20, 2025
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
. Equinox Blues Welcome to spring! The last snow may be past,_and bright blue frames the parting clouds.The sun rides longer in the sky, at last,_than lost to night’s slow–ebbing shrouds. The weather’s...
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