Deconstructing Communism

  Ab Initio Mundi* *ever since the beginning of the world At first the darkness reigned o’er all that was,...

  When the wokest of folk virtually convoke In a year of elections and riots and fear, Uncle Joe from...

  A Ditty What happened to the human race? It vanished, friend, without a trace. And what, pray tell, of...

  dedicated to all those braving injustice in Hong Kong with nobility of spirit Muffled voices, anguished cries, Trampled freedom,...

  Due to a recent government edict, approximately 5 million Australians must wear masks whenever they leave the house. We...

All poems by Bruce Dale Wise The Prisoners in Manacles by Lu “Reed ABCs” Wei The prisoners in manacles in...

  Tomoko When the Enola Gay dropped ‘Little Boy’, Tomoko---just a little girl herself--- Was robbed of any hope of...

  A Proposal---July 28, 2020 Upon this date in 1794, The French Revolution concluded in gore, As Robespierre’s head hit...

"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish...

  No Epitaph The lies lie heavy on his chest, Striped red, striped white, now tattered vest And soon to...

  With Sorrow Do I Leave It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning...

on the 21st anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party's launching the persecution of the peaceful practice of Falun Gong on...

  I Make My Way by Joe Tessitore These times, indeed, have tried my soul. With lightening speed, I’ve lost...

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  Armageddon a tennos on the current socio-political situation by C.B. Anderson Some of my former friends are now definitively...

  Caiaphas To the Bishop of Lafayette in Indiana in defense of Father Rothrock High Priest of Israel’s nameless God...

Fallen Leaves You can't stop leaves from falling in the autumn of their lives, And you can't stop bees returning...

  All Gone Listening to William Billings' "Chester" I cannot help but weep to sing these words, and by them,...

  Back to Normal An Appeal to Pastors I hear it in my conversations and in webinars and on the...

  I’ll Have My Say… by Susan Jarvis Bryant Don’t spit your ire upon my name. Don’t tell me that...

. Juneteenth---the Day After by Joe Tessitore Witness the collapse And see the dust clouds rise. Hear the sound of...

  A Reminder to Our Young People To say life has no hardship's to deceive, But trials and tribulations help...

  On Antifa, Coming to the Country A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the...

The Society of Classical Poets, a New York-based 501(c)(3) non-profit with Members across the nation and around the world, wishes...

  Georges Danton's Ghost Counsels the Protestors “Yes, America is burning. But that’s how forests grow.” –Maura Healey, Massachusetts Attorney...

If I Owned a Macy's by Nancy Weber If I owned a Macy’s or other such stores… I'd tear down...

  The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and...

A Riot Limerick by Joe Tessitore The Most Evil has cast the first brick And his antics make decent folk...

  The Director General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom by Sarban Bhattacharya His accent’s weird, his hair is pretty grey,...

  The room fills with a charming melody— A choir of violins in soaring flight With basses, cellos pulsing—one, two,...

  Fake Checks by Esca Webuilder As Twitterites do fact-checks, which are really only fake, confusing truths with their opinions...

Clarity and Obscurity Part III Read Part I: The Essences of Classicism and Modernism Compared Read Part II: "Concrete" Poetry...

  New York poet Joe Tessitore challenges poets to begin a poem with these words:   My country used to...

FIRST PLACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96xN0VV7JU The Virus and the Cure by Rob Crisell One hundred years of tyranny, One hundred years of...

  Dear Governor, by C.B. Anderson Reopen every workplace, pretty please; Your "cure" has proven worse than the disease. Your...

  Oxford "University"? Its preference now: diversity. The Homers, Ovids, Virgils--- Now peanuts for the squirrels! This "school" now gives...

  Donald J. Trump They laugh at him and sneer as if his lack Of faith in modernism’s unholy gods...

"Winner: Humanitarian Award" Mugabe’s universally adored. He made his people multi-millionaires--- Zim dollars are the answer to their prayers. Champion...

Earth Day 2020 Poet's Note: April 22 is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Earth Day is an annual celebration...

  Sonnet of the Silent Voice Unbounded power marks a tyrant’s choice: He chains the infants up to keep his...