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‘Much Too Small’ by Joseph Quintanilla

The Society
November 19, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
6 Comments
Much too small for a plow, __but I dig anyhow __till there’s sweat on my brow __from the weeds that I fight. I know others may yawn __at that part of my lawn __that I spend my time on, __but it brings...

Poetry Found: ‘The Battery Horse’ by E.R. Henry

The Society
November 16, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Found Poem, Poetry
32 Comments
Presented by Monty Phillips Given that the recent days have been rightfully occupied by the remembering of the humans who never made it home from World War 1, I thought I might highlight a less represented...

‘The Garden of Life’ and Other Poetry by Satyananda Sarangi

The Society
November 15, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
34 Comments
The Garden of Life In wee, assuring spans of sunlit day, The sun awakened, rides his carriage fast To paint with crimson every corner passed, To cheer the silent buds of torrid May. My garden here in...

“When Clouds Roll In” by Michael Maibach

The Society
November 13, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
2 Comments
  On sunny days We’re filled with “me.” “I’m on my own And feeling free!” We have our job, And casual friends. The world feels strong Like it won’t end. Then clouds roll in, And...

‘To Cast Aside the Worldly Fishing Net and Join the Glorious Race’ by Joe Spring

The Society
November 12, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
4 Comments
inspired by the Book of Hebrews To carry close a fishing net of gold or sea-green thread, __a-woven by some skillful hands, with ruby borders bound, a massive net, with onyx weights, and glass-blown floats,...

‘At Dusk’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Leach

The Society
November 10, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
10 Comments
At Dusk At dusk, when high above the darkening trees, __The swallows in the deep blue dip and soar, As if in flying higher, still to squeeze __The last delicious moments that before ____The light into the...

‘Heritage’ by C. David Hay

The Society
November 7, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, The Environment
10 Comments
  Behold the cloud-graced monoliths That stretch against the sky Into the boundless sanctity Where wind swift eagles fly. Primal valleys bloom to life As tumbling waters sing, Resurrected from...

‘Write On! The Masters From the Shadows Cried’ by Ted Hayes

The Society
November 6, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
17 Comments
  "Write on!" the Masters from the shadows cried. "By your thin air we breathe, nor ever died; Your modest dress, our glorious raiment shares And witness to our sun, your candle bears. "Ignored,...

‘The Age of Poetry’ and Other Poetry by Michael Skau

The Society
November 4, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
9 Comments
  The Age of Poetry They say that poetry’s a young man’s game, indulged while still limber, lithe, and healthy enough to dance all night with energy. Without concern for funding and fickle...

Review: In the Measuring, Carol Smallwood, Shanti Arts 2018

The Society
November 3, 2018
Beauty, Essays, Poetry, Reviews
12 Comments
by James Sale Carol Smallwood In the Measuring is a substantial new collection of 77 poems by Carol Smallwood. Carol is well-known to readers of The Society of Classical Poets, as her poems regularly...

‘Sonnet XXX’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

The Society
November 2, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
24 Comments
  In Officio Exsequarium Come, let us bid the last of our farewells To one who sleeps on the retiring ship; November’s breath respires the mournful knells; “Lord, give him rest” is murmured...

Two Autumn Poems

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November 1, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Translation
9 Comments
Autumn Wind by Yuan Xi, translated by Jennifer Zeng and Damian Robin From far off, Autumn wind runs at us in a rush! Across a thousand miles, displacing clouds with sky, (And crowding through the dark,...

‘John of the Mountains’ and Other Poetry by Tonya McQuade

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October 30, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
24 Comments
John of the Mountains To him we owe a mammoth debt, our grateful thanks and praise, For the lasting conservation trails with foresight he did blaze. A “voice calling in the wilderness,” like John the...

‘Morning Dew’ by David Paul Behrens

The Society
October 29, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
14 Comments
This universe of ours will end As we then return to the source. No more wounds to tend or to mend, As the source will chart a new course. When all the sands of time run out And existence must start...

‘The Ballerina’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

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October 28, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
33 Comments
The Ballerina Just before the break of day she woke from dreams of grand jeté and knelt beside her bed to pray. Like a feather, then she rose and slipped into her warm-up clothes to dance in silence...

‘Desolation’ by James A. Tweedie

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October 26, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
16 Comments
Blasted granite marks the trail Guttered through eternal rock. Windborne smoke and ashes veil Mountain peaks through which we walk. Upward blue sky’s endlessness; Downward glimpse of lakes...

Rediscovering Homer’s ‘Odyssey’

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October 24, 2018
Beauty, Classical Literature, Culture, Epic, Essays, For Educators, Poetry
27 Comments
by Evan Mantyk Where is Homer? The epic poems of the famous Greek bard were the cornerstone of education for young Socrates, Alexander the Great, Roman emperors, William Shakespeare, and every serious...

‘Birthday Greetings’ and Other Poetry by David Hollywood

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October 22, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
20 Comments
Birthday Greetings As themes show signs of nature's stay, And time’s propitious dates hold sway, The evidence augurs your bloom, From sculptured years that now have hewn A shapened belle upon a...

Two Sonnets by Andrew Barker

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October 21, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
33 Comments
Sonnet 201. The Force that Through the Green Fuse Pulls the Poem. Written in the Dylan Thomas Museum, Swansea. July 2017 Oh to be the Poet! Love the words And see them wound around the teeth and tongue, To...

‘Lullaby’ by Kim Cherub

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October 20, 2018
Beauty, Children's, Culture, Poetry
64 Comments
Cherubic laugh; sly, impish grin; Angelic face; wild chimp within. It does not matter; sleep awhile As soft mirth tickles forth a smile. Gray moths will hum a lullaby Of feathery wings, then you and...

‘Solid Ground’ and Other Poetry by Clinton Van Inman

The Society
October 18, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
27 Comments
Solid Ground Our greatest philosopher David Hume, Whose logical doubts leave naught to assume, Used skeptical arguments he had found To leave nothing on solid ground Until a Kant came walking along And...

Review: Selected Poems from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, Translated by Helen Palma

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October 17, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Reviews
10 Comments
by Joseph Charles MacKenzie Read the Selected Poems from Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal online. Purchase the book here. Two arts are beautifully displayed in Helen Palma’s Selected Poems from...

‘The Two-way Wye’ by Mike Ruskovich

The Society
October 16, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
5 Comments
  I woke this day beside the two-way Wye, at peace with wars too often waged inside between the push of how, the pull of why. The river, calm against the ebbing tide, displayed an ease I had not...

‘United They Fall’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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October 15, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
34 Comments
United They Fall Exhausted armies cling to noble trees along the margin of a meadow mown two weeks ago.  It's fifty-five degrees, and summer's long campaign is at an end, the bugles stilled, except...

‘The Mellow Season’ by Carole Mertz

The Society
October 14, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
45 Comments
Ah, now comes the mellow season, Marks its time with jackdaws caws. Autumn with its rusty reason Offers forth its season’s laws. Now no more the pretty laces, Florals found along the way. Brackish...

‘The Swallows of La Cienega’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie (with Audio)

The Society
October 12, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, Readings
92 Comments
  For Elizabeth La Cienega slept on a muted afternoon At old Las Golodrinas, when I spied a nest Of swallows beneath the age-worn latias, hewn By a hand that is gone with the days that were...

‘Squandered Wealth’ by David Whippman

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October 9, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
13 Comments
In his bedsitter years, he was alone And all his dreams were haunted by some girl More wonderful than any precious stone Who’d bring fulfilment to his empty world. The loneliness pressed on him, dense...

The Eight Greatest Poems of William Wordsworth

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October 6, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, The Environment
12 Comments
by Charles Eager William Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in 1770—the same year as gave us Beethoven, Hegel, and Hölderlin—and died at the age of eighty, rich in the knowledge of his...

Two Translations from German by David Gosselin

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October 5, 2018
Beauty, Poetry, Translation
7 Comments
Death Is the Cooling Night by Heinrich Heine Death is the cooling night, Life is the sultry day, But now darkness settles And I long for respite. Outside my window looms a tree; In it sings the...

‘Gulag’ by Sam Gilliland

The Society
October 4, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
7 Comments
For John McCain, Ernest C. Brace, & Alexander Solzhenitsyn I season my pen with the sonnet's blood, And do not reason with a moonless sky, Thus, in durance, we hearken to the wry Whisper of words from...

‘To My Wife, Suzi Venus’ by Tod Benjamin

The Society
October 2, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
6 Comments
a Petrarchan sonnet Life’s hills have been trampled since first we met, That mad, magic moment long years ago, When your smile lit fires in the candle’s glow And trapped me forever in Venus’...

‘The Autumn Daylight Sky’ by Joe Spring

The Society
September 30, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
10 Comments
  Pure of any mortal mote ___and boundless (but for sight): The deep dry sky of Autumn ___inscribes the shadows bright. (For what could dusty leaves conceal ___from such an endless eye? What...

‘‘Cause You’d Be Here’ by Gleb Zavlanov

The Society
September 29, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
11 Comments
  The butterfly, the sea anemone, And snowflake, though possessive of the true Design of grace and perfect symmetry, Seem crude and ugly when compared to you. The stars that line the deep, black...

‘The Coworker’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann

The Society
September 28, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
The Coworker A “need-to-know” it’s called in Personnel and I’m just high enough to need to know she’s going through that quiet hell of watching someone’s life she loves recede. A bit more...

‘A Folded Note Beneath the Door’ by Shannon Rose Cummings

The Society
September 25, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
5 Comments
Painted, woody there it stands, this door behind which kingdom fans. Bright with order, calm with ease, a wooden plank with hidden seas. A plight to pick which path is best, the fallen stairs or the...

Review: Two Poetry Books by James B. Nicola

The Society
September 24, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry, Reviews
3 Comments
by James Sale Wind in the Cave, Finishing Line Press, 2017 Out of Nothing, Shanti Arts Publishing, 2018 Recently in a poetry review of another poet on these pages I commented that the poet had included 33...

‘The Country Club’ and Other Poetry by Alexander King Ream

The Society
September 22, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
9 Comments
The Country Club To think about a country club Begun for whisky in a tub, Distilled from fields of golden corn In a town where I was born, For folks to gather, have a blast In golden days, in time long...

‘Check-Mate by a Pawn’ and Other Poetry by Amy Foreman

The Society
September 20, 2018
Beauty, Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry
29 Comments
Check-Mate by a Pawn for my sons We parry, thrust: This game of wits, Where each pawn must Deflect your hits. My mounted knight Skips overhead, First back, then right; Your knight is dead. But...

‘Sonnet for a Cosmetic Company’ and Other Poetry by Jan Darling

The Society
September 19, 2018
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
21 Comments
Sonnet for a Cosmetic Company Ah Youth! To whom each maiden plights her troth To coax and woo each winsome charm to stay ‘Tis difficult to match your coat to cloth So ill designed and irksome in its...

Three Sonnets by J. Simon Harris

The Society
September 18, 2018
Beauty, Poetry
19 Comments
I. I’ve awed at the Atlantic’s bluest depths, and peered at the Pacific’s deepest blues; the warm blue summer waters of Key West, and cold blue winter on the Charles, too. I’ve watched the moon...
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