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Winners of 2022 SCP International High School Poetry Competition Announced

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February 1, 2023
High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests
2 Comments
. First Place ($200 Prize) Christiana Thomas, homeschooled 12th grade student in Oregon. "Worth Disguised" . Second Place Laurel Aronian, 10th grade student at St. Luke’s School in Connecticut. "The...

‘Worth Disguised’ by Christiana Thomas

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January 15, 2023
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. Worth Disguised The hammer lifts, the anvil rings, The room with screaming noises brings __A torture, here inflicted. The bellows pump, the fire smokes, A prodding chisel pries and pokes. __This trial seems...
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‘For the French Revolution’ by Claire He

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January 12, 2023
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. For the French Revolution Oh, this shall tell the tale of France’s past: the revolution brought in ‘eighty nine, when Frenchmen took a stand and rose, amassed, against the king from ocean to the...

‘The Fluctuations of Modernity and Antiquity’ by Laurel Aronian

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January 11, 2023
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. The Fluctuations of Modernity and Antiquity a pantoum __Something is ahead, A solemn note on open sky, __It rises from the dead, A whizzing plane of time gone by. A solemn note on open sky, Reminds me of...

Verse on Verse: Four Poems by James A. Tweedie

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October 6, 2022
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16 Comments
. Serious Poetry Serious poetry, somber and grim; Dashing, descriptive, with narrative flair. Formal and versified; Rhythmic and dignified; Romance and rhetoric; ribald and prim. Taking you places while curled...
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The 2022 SCP International High School Poetry Competition

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September 1, 2022
Education, High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests
. “Yet, do thy worst old Time; despite thy wrong, My love shall in my verse ever live young.” —William Shakespeare, Sonnet XIX First Prize: $200. Publication in the Society's website and The Society of...

‘Requiem for Eurydice’ by Mary Virginia Vietor

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August 29, 2022
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10 Comments
. Requiem for Eurydice The sunlight dims before my eyes, __My fingertips lose yours, And as my whispered farewell flies, __The last crescendo soars. Then one breath hovers, trembles, dies— __The audience all...

Winners of the 100 Days of Dante Poetry Contest

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April 18, 2022
Acrostic, Dante, Epic, From the Society, High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Terza Rima
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Judges Angela Alaimo O’Donnell James Sale . OVERALL WINNER . Papa’s Commedia by Nicholas Walz That was hellish—the hulking chopper plunging Through the top: the battered fuselage yawed, Dipped, and...

Winners of 2022 High School Poetry Competition Announced

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February 1, 2022
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. First Place ($200 Prize) Alex Rubstein, 12th grade, homeschooled, Canton Aargau, Switzerland "Civis Romanus Sum" . Second Place Ellie Strano, 9th grade student homeschooled in Lexington,...

‘Starbucks Villanelle’ by Matt Hsu

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January 31, 2022
High School Submissions, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle
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. Starbucks Villanelle Will someone call an order for Elaine? I have a bunch of stuff I need to do. The wait today is driving me insane. This one dude wants a pinch of sugar cane. I can’t believe he’s...

‘Civis Romanus Sum’ by Alex Rubstein

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January 14, 2022
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. Civis Romanus Sum (I am a Roman citizen) As Paul stood bound and for the whip outstretched, He said to the centurion beside, “‘Tis lawful here for you to flog a wretch, A Roman citizen and not yet...

‘The View from Space’ by Ellie Strano

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January 11, 2022
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. The View from Space My helmet gone, I float among the stars As weightless as my lungs deprived of air Asphyxiating slowly, I am far From all I love and anyone who cares. The stars are dead already: cold and...

‘Poppy’ and Other Poetry by A.S. Chuba

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December 27, 2021
Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Pantoum, Poetry
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. Poppy A vase of poppies on the table there, Twelve years have past, all white is now her hair. A shadow running up the path she sees, Her son has come! Her end to miseries. Twelve years have past all white...

‘Sonnet 1 (In Theory, Real)’ by Hannah Yee

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December 27, 2021
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. Sonnet 1 (In Theory, Real) Are dreams confined to stars or stars to dreams? Both full of mysteries and seldom clear, Restrained, yet free to dance in vivid streams Of consciousness, of life and fire and...

‘History’s Tide’ by Clara Huang

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October 18, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, High School Submissions, Poetry
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. after the Epoch Times series' How the Specter of Communism Is Ruling the World History’s tide brought us forth to this day, A dark, sullen mist hanging low on display, The Communist Specter’s tail...

2022 High School Poetry Competition

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September 1, 2021
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“Select, all ye who write, a subject fit, A subject not too mighty for your wit! Before you lay your shoulders to the wheel, Weigh well their strength, and all their weakness feel!” —Horace (65-8...

‘Grain’ and Other Poetry by Stephen Ramsek

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March 23, 2021
Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
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. Grain If the future were a famine And tomorrow were a blight, Would we close our eyes today in Light of Future’s tragic sight? If the future were a famine And eternity, disease, Would we leave our fields...

‘Anchises’ by Anna-Marie Ahn

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January 31, 2021
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16 Comments
. Beneath the starry firmament so dark There lies tonight an old, forgotten tree Whose bark is peeling, wretched, cold and stark And has not heard since auld youth’s melody. The crooked, blackened branches...

‘Coats’ by Stephen Ramsek

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January 22, 2021
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4 Comments
. A coat of luminescent snow Descended on my patch of grass, And for a moment all its glow Inflamed my eyes like burnished brass. And in a moment it had gone, But not withdrawn; it nimbly turned Into a...

‘Night’ by John Freeborn

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January 13, 2021
Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry
23 Comments
. Spacious spans the starlit sky; Silver shines its light; Vast the veil, Pearly-pale, Drawn o’er the dusky night; Silently the star-strewn brooks Through flow’ry meadows flow; Glitt’ring gleams On...

‘Washington’s Grief’ by Alex Rubstein

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January 12, 2021
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. Behold the father of this infant land, Conductor of our daunting foe’s defeat, Now warmly laureled for his noble stand Through which our liberty was made complete. Yet Washington the praise did humbly...

‘Humility’ and Other Poetry and Translation by Alexandra Guo

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January 11, 2021
Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Humor, Poetry, Translation
12 Comments
. Humility Lo, I have seen the Muses plain. What need Have I to go on living?—’Twas in Rome: I touched the flesh (it was a holy deed) That Michelangelo shaped out of stone. O what a great and glorious...

‘Perfectionist Inclined’ and Other Poetry by Lynn Kong

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November 7, 2020
Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry, Shakespeare
8 Comments
  Perfectionist Inclined Maligned by self-encasing brine, defined By certainty's demise, self-image lies Within a shrine. Perfectionist inclined, I crouch transfixed in infinite surmise: Confined by...

2021 High School Poetry Competition

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September 1, 2020
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  "Poetry ... is a more philosophical and a higher thing than history: for poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular." —Aristotle (384-322 BC), Poetics First Prize: $100....

Winners of 2020 High School Poetry Competition Announced

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February 1, 2020
High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests
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Thank you to every one who participated! The quality of the high school poems submitted this year was stunning.    First Place ($100 Prize): Luke Hahn, twelfth grade, homeschooled in Waupun,...

‘Victus’ and Other Poetry by Luke Hahn

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January 26, 2020
Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
15 Comments
Victus a response to William Ernest Henley’s poem “Invictus,” from which the first two lines of the final stanza are taken. Dry chatter of dry souls dies out, Beleaguered by the eastern wind, When...

‘A Letter to Sir Grammar’ and Other Poetry by Dania El-Ghattis

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January 26, 2020
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8 Comments
  A Letter to Sir Grammar Dear Sir Grammar: With all kindness and courtesy, may I request, A new package of words, freshly made, For, truly, it seems I have used them all up, And my writing has...

‘At Twilight’ by Erin Jeon

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January 7, 2020
Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry
7 Comments
  The sun sinks deep into the hill Behind the town that perches still. An amber fog prowls through the street Of cobbled stone and stonewashed chill. Dark navy night skies come compete With...

‘Moth, Angel of the Night’ and Other Poetry by Michael Zhao

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January 7, 2020
Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
8 Comments
  Moth, Angel of the Night Emerging from a rich cocoon, you shed off your old husk– with legs outstretched and wings unfurled, you head out in the dusk. O harbinger of sunsets-- O twilight...

‘Three Hundred Spartans’ by Sancia Milton

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December 30, 2019
Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
12 Comments
  Three Hundred Spartans In twilight’s ash three hundred stars await As blue-black thunder roars with battle drums, Three hundred voices murmuring of fate, As odds and armour stack in fearful...

‘Rain’ by James Preston Pack

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December 3, 2019
Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
9 Comments
  Rain, lapping at the windows fast, falls cold and ceaseless, painting lines of marble on the silvered glass while clouds cast dark and thunder whines; but these walls will not let it pass and...

The Society of Classical Poets 2020 Poetry Competition

The Society
September 1, 2019
High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests
9 Comments
Winners of the competition can be found here. "But with the true poet every thing is terse, touching, or brilliant. He gives the choicest thoughts in the choicest language. He illustrates them by...

2020 High School Poetry Competition

The Society
September 1, 2019
From the Society, High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests
5 Comments
  Note: Winners of this contest can be found here. We have begun a new high school poetry contest here. "But with the true poet every thing is terse, touching, or brilliant. He gives the choicest...

‘In Memory of Romeo and Juliet’ by Victor Tyne

The Society
January 17, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Education, High School Submissions, Poetry
7 Comments
  These twain ephem’ral lives were fraught with woes When they, a boy and girl in morn of life, Defied their due inheritance as foes And chased a star-crossed love as man and wife. Belovéd by...

The Society of Classical Poets 2019 Poetry Competition

The Society
September 1, 2018
Education, From the Society, High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests
3 Comments
  “Let glorious acts more glorious acts inspire, And catch from breast to breast the noble fire!" —The Iliad, Homer, Book V, Pope translation First Prize: $1,000   Submission...

‘The Things I Have Not Done’ by Anthony Wang

The Society
June 5, 2018
Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
14 Comments
I have not been to Medford, nor Milan; I have not seen a war, nor won the peace; I’ve risen to six thousand cloudy dawns that – not once – promised sun, and storms to cease. I have not stood to spurn...

‘Limerick’ by Annie Acho Tartoni

The Society
February 18, 2018
High School Submissions, Humor, Limerick, Poetry
6 Comments
There once was a girl named Shelly. who bought a pet fish by the deli. But to her surprise, with fear in her eyes, she saw the fish dead on its belly.   Annie Acho Tartoni is a student Mercy...

‘The Breaking Season’ by Annabelle Fuller

The Society
January 21, 2018
Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry
9 Comments
  Lips, soft as velvet, primrose pink, Are rent the blue of bruising ink. They rive and crackle in the cold, Retract in tissue paper folds; Corroded strips as flayed as zinc Teased grey and gaunt,...

‘Passing of the Seasons’ and Other Poetry by Wandi Zhu

The Society
August 19, 2017
Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry
7 Comments
Passing of the Seasons When snow has melted, chill has gone, and winter turns to spring, The tender buds grow on the branches where the robins sing. The earth once brown is green again, blessed by the April...

‘The Faerie Glade’ By Wandi Zhu

The Society
June 21, 2017
Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry
4 Comments
  In a secluded forest glade, Where sunlight shines and shadows fade, The faeries come to dance and play Upon a bright warm summer’s day. Light are their footsteps, quick their feet On...
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  1. Joseph S. Salemi on A Poem on Gaslighting and Other Poetry by Brian YapkoMay 30, 2023

    The technique of gaslighting has become so common today that it is now standard procedure when left-liberals argue with anyone.…

  2. Mark Stellinga on A Poem on Gaslighting and Other Poetry by Brian YapkoMay 30, 2023

    Brian, even without knowing who some of the characters are, the point you brilliantly make in "Gaslighted" is both nostalgic…

  3. KH on ‘Translation of Marcabru’s L’autrier Just’una Sebissa’ by Joseph S. SalemiMay 30, 2023

    Thanks Joseph for your kind reply. In that case, how should I contact Evan Mantyk about this?

  4. Joseph S. Salemi on ‘Translation of Marcabru’s L’autrier Just’una Sebissa’ by Joseph S. SalemiMay 30, 2023

    I'm sorry, but I don't know. Mr. Mantyk chooses all illustrations for the SCP, so perhaps he could tell you.…

  5. Susan Jarvis Bryant on A Poem on Gaslighting and Other Poetry by Brian YapkoMay 30, 2023

    Brian, these two magnificent poems are a linguistic tonic for the weary soul worn down by today’s relentless barrage of…

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