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Winners of the 100 Days of Dante Poetry Contest

The Society
April 18, 2022
Acrostic, Epic, From the Society, High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Terza Rima
7 Comments
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

The Society
February 1, 2022
From the Society, High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests
1 Comment
. 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

The Society
January 31, 2022
High School Submissions, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle
9 Comments
. 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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8 Comments
. 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
Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry
12 Comments
. 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
7 Comments
. 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
Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
10 Comments
. 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
5 Comments
. 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
From the Society, High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests
2 Comments
“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
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25 Comments
. 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
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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
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. 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
From the Society, High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests
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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
2 Comments
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
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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

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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

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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

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January 17, 2019
Beauty, Culture, For Educators, 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

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September 1, 2018
For Educators, 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

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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

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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

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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...

‘Spring is Coming’ and Other Poetry by Uvin Ko

The Society
March 24, 2017
Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry, Terrorism
5 Comments
  Spring is Coming From naked trees, droplets of dew, Drips like tears onto my upturned face. Everything is bleak, nothing new. No creation feels like outer space. Hear ye, hear ye, everyone...

Poetry Based on Holocaust Testimonies

The Society
February 26, 2017
Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
2 Comments
A Million Thoughts Based on the Holocaust testimony of Bertha Haberfeld By Surina Patel A million thoughts are rushing through my brain, The looming gas chamber ahead of me, The sounds I hear and the...

‘Lotus’ by Catherine Huang

The Society
January 18, 2017
Beauty, High School Submissions, Human Rights in China
4 Comments
Rising above the silt and murky mud, Clean and pure is the small pink bud, Supported by a supple stem of jade, Adorned with gleaming dew drops, crystal made. Elegant yet sweet this gentle...

‘Mulan’ by Stephanie Fang

The Society
December 16, 2016
Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry
1 Comment
  Sighs fill the room as Mulan weaves the loom She doesn’t want Father to meet his doom. The Khan needs an army to face the Huns; Father can barely walk let alone run. There’s none to take his...

‘The Voyage’ by Steven Song

The Society
December 5, 2016
High School Submissions, Human Rights in China, Poetry
  Dedicated to Falun Gong practitioners who have faced seventeen years of persecution in China. As tempests are blowing, angry waves clash; The foaming sea roars, whilst lightning doth flash. Eternal...

‘Treatment of Hong Kong’ by Aditya Basu-Dutta

The Society
November 23, 2016
High School Submissions, Human Rights in China, Poetry
1 Comment
Dogs are expected to sit Dogs are expected to stay They receive kicks If they make the boat sway Hong Kong is the dog But, of course, there is no Hong Kong When it comes to the law In China there’s...

‘The Poet’s Purpose’ and Other Poetry by Gleb Zavlanov

The Society
August 31, 2016
Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry
11 Comments
  The Poet’s Purpose A poet praises all of nature’s treasures, He seeks to find the pathway to her core, To laud the rarest beauty in spring’s pleasures And marvel at the waves that kiss the...
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