‘Autumn Fades’ and Other Poetry on Death by Joshua C. Frank The Society August 30, 2024 Alliterative, Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 20 Comments . Autumn Fades The orange leaves decay to crinkling gray, And sunsets sink and fade the clouds to black. “You’ll see them all in Heaven,” so they say. The decades start to dwindle, day by day. Time...
‘Colors’ by Kukai, Translated by Joshua C. Frank The Society July 18, 2024 Alliterative, Beauty, Poetry, Translation 24 Comments . Colors by Kukai (空海) (774-835) translated by Joshua C. Frank Colors, fragrant like the flowers, Fade to ash in final hours, Extinguished, gone, returning never. No earthborn life can last...
‘Gawain’s Prayer in the Wilderness’: An Alliterative Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society January 31, 2024 Alliterative, Beauty, Education, Poetry 22 Comments . Gawain’s Prayer in the Wilderness …the wildrenesse of Wyrale; wonde ther bot lyte That auther God other gome with gode hert louied. (…the wilderness of Wirral; few wandered there Who loved with good...
A Video Excerpt of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Reading, by Andrew Benson Brown The Society December 27, 2023 Alliterative, Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings 16 Comments . https://youtu.be/MZLhwCyQLcs . Read the complete translated text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight here. . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Free PDF The Society November 6, 2021 Alliterative, Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry 7 Comments Following the introduction below is a translated version of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in PDF made free for download for teachers, students, and interested readers by the Society of Classical Poets. It...
An Arthurian Interlude in Alliterative Verse, by Rahul Gupta The Society April 4, 2020 Alliterative, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments Rahul Gupta holds a PhD for a thesis on mediaeval Germanic and modern mediaevalist metre and poetics from the University of York. His poetry and translations have appeared hitherto in Agenda,...
‘Dunblane Cathedral’: A Poem on the 20th Anniversary of a Massacre, by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society March 26, 2016 Alliterative, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Dunblane Cathedral On the massacre of sixteen children and their teacher at the Dunblane Primary School near Stirling, Scotland, March 13, 1996 LOVE’s light lost the bleak night breathes a black breeze of...
‘Lepanto’: Poem by G.K. Chesterton The Society August 19, 2012 Alliterative, Beauty, Culture, Poetry . Lepanto Editor's Note: Don John of Austria, or Don Juan de Austria, (1547-1578) was half-brother to King Philip II of Spain and a Spanish military commander who achieved victory over the Turks in the...