Poetry by José de Espronceda, Translated by Adam Sedia The Society January 6, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 5 Comments . Sonnet by José de Espronceda (1808-1842) | translated from Spanish by Adam Sedia Fresh, lush, pure, and perfumed luxuriantly, The blooming garden’s flair and ornament, Coxcomb perched on the stem's...
An Excerpt of Jack DesBois’s Western Star for Epiphany: January 6, 2022 The Society January 6, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Song Lyrics 4 Comments . https://youtu.be/dYyxThEY71o . An Excerpt from The Western Star for Epiphany, January 6, 2022 The road stretched out forever in the morning, giving Balthazar plenty of time and space for thought. The...
A Poem on the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Hill Protest, by Bruce Dale Wise The Society January 5, 2022 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Annuary Stichs Jamesian intricacies swarmed about the voter-counts; a massive fraud had taken place beyond the lovely mounts. Nobody had expected Apate and Dolos to ubiquitously fake vote-counts in the...
‘Forever Faun’ by Emory D. Jones The Society January 4, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . Forever Faun In mottled shade of forest stood a faunSo still he seemed to be no living thing;The sun beamed down, already he was gone—His presence was a fleeting sign of Spring.Once in the distant past,...
‘Unprofitable Servant’ by Margaret Coats The Society January 3, 2022 Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . Unprofitable Servant Bergoglio clarifies his views on the Latin Mass A treasure was mine, but it’s too long ago For me to recover what now I despise. Fearful and sickened and sadly too slow I was to...
‘Meditations on Ecclesiastes’ by Cynthia Erlandson The Society January 3, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Meditations on Ecclesiastes . Inquiry “What profit has a man for all his labor…?” ---Ecclesiastes 1: 3 None knows what all his work accomplishes; What one begins, another finishes A different way. Or,...
‘The Dark Knight’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 2, 2022 Culture, Humor, Poetry 35 Comments . The Dark Knight I’ve always held the Queen in high esteem, Her ever-classy, never brassy aura Shines noble splendour on the regal scene And blesses folk who openly adore 'er. Today the corgi-hugging...
Two Poems for Christmastide by Sally Cook The Society January 1, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Last Christmas I’d rushed there through the afternoon In someone else’s borrowed car Where you, distressed I’d come too soon, Were giving samples in a jar. The last I ever spoke with you Was in that...
“Lud’s Church” or “The Green Chapel” by Jeff Eardley The Society January 1, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . “Lud's Church" or “The Green Chapel” after Sir Gawain and the Green Knight I travel to this place each New Year’s Day, To where the fluting curlew builds his nest. Upon these stegosaurus hills I...
‘For Auld Lang Syne’ and Other New Year Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society January 1, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . For Auld Lang Syne Each New Year’s Day is like a colander Through which we strain and drain away the days Of auld lang syne, throw out the calendar, And set the count-down-midnight-sky ablaze. Take down...
A Holiday Poem Reflecting on Slave Labor in Communist China The Society December 31, 2021 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings, Video 17 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4HH4MeT9Mo . Read the complete poem here: https://classicalpoets.org/2013/12/12/two-psalms/#/ CREDITS Poetry: Evan Mantyk (b. 1982) Audio/Visual Work: Society of Classical...
’20/20 Vision’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 31, 2021 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 16 Comments . 20/20 Vision You’re lurking in the shadows with a wink. I see your flute of crystal, hear you pop Your cork as spirits soar and keen arms link To strains of Auld Lang Syne as clock hands...
‘On the Birth of the Grand Millenium: 1 January 2000’ by Jeff Kemper The Society December 31, 2021 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . On the Birth of the Grand Millenium 1 January 2000 A panoply of adolescent eyes Looks out into the frosty air they breathe Into the puffs of mist their mouths devise At wild humanity whose shoutings...
‘Auld Lang Syne’ by Robert Burns: Poem Reading for New Year’s Day by S.A. Todd The Society December 30, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video 8 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okGcYTF8pHk . CREDITS Poetry: Robert Burns (1759-1796) Audio/Visual Work: Society of Classical Poets Voice-Over: S.A. Todd Photos/Footage: (1) "Drei Mönche bei der...
‘The Dodo of Mauritius’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society December 29, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 39 Comments . The Dodo of Mauritius This island nation scarcely can be proud Of avifauna lacking common sense, Surviving only in the perfect tense, Their right to life, existence disavowed. With beaks immense, these...
‘Poppy’ and Other Poetry by A.S. Chuba The Society 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 The Society 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...
‘To Saint John the Evangelist’ by Eustache Deschamps, Translated by Margaret Coats The Society December 27, 2021 Beauty, Chant Royal, Culture, Poetry, Translation 14 Comments . To Saint John the Evangelist by Eustache Deschamps (c. 1346–1406) | translated from French by Margaret Coats Young, perfect, just, in all you had to do, Fresh virile flower of virginity, O man of marvels,...
‘Anyone But You’ and Other Poetry by Anna J. Arredondo The Society December 26, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Limerick, Love Poems, Poetry 7 Comments . Anyone But You The phone may ring; The call will bring __Anyone but you. The mail will come; It will be from __Anyone but you. A text may buzz; I’m sure it was __Anyone but you. Oh, this is dire; I...
‘A Sentimental Villanelle’ and Other Christmas Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 25, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima, Villanelle 28 Comments . A Sentimental Villanelle This year I’m wrapped in Christmases of old--- The tinseled tree and glee of hearts on high. My mood is laced with myrrh and graced with gold. The air is spiced with mulling wine...
Three for Christmas Day: Poetry and Music by James A. Tweedie The Society December 25, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Song Lyrics 12 Comments . Introduction Each year I compose or arrange music in celebration of Christmas. This year I have created three arrangements of familiar Christmas music, each introduced by a poem. The organ piece is based on...
‘A Wretch Like Me’: a Christmas poem by Joe Tessitore, set to music by Jack DesBois The Society December 25, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Video 10 Comments . https://youtu.be/fx3NidSVFKk . A Wretch Like Me by Joe Tessitore To miss the mark, to lose my way,To choose the dark, on Christmas Day.No star I see, no Virgin Birth,No joy for me, no peace on earth. But...
‘A Christmas Carol,’ after Charles Dickens, by Talbot Hook The Society December 24, 2021 Beauty, Children's, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . . Dramatis Personae: Ebenezer Scrooge: An infamous miser Bob Cratchit: Scrooge’s assistant Mrs. Cratchit: Bob’s wife Tiny Tim: Disabled child of the Cratchits Jacob Marley: Scrooge’s old partner Mr....
‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ by Brian Yapko The Society December 24, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . It's a Wonderful Life The forecast promised luscious, gleaming snow; Instead the sky pours bitter, freezing rain. The lights are strung but half of them won’t glow.Our tree sags like the one in Charlie...
‘The North Pole’s on Lockdown’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 23, 2021 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 31 Comments . The North Pole's on Lockdown ‘Tis the night before Christmas; it pains me to say--- The North Pole’s on lockdown before the big day. The elves have been furloughed and fester in bed. The toy...
‘The Tunnel to Australia’ by Jeff Eardley The Society December 23, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Song Lyrics 21 Comments . The Tunnel to Australia It’s raining every day in Merrie England. It’s falling from the sky most every day. But I’ve just heard about a place that’s burning, In a country that’s so very far...
‘The People That Walked in Darkness’ by Paul Erlandson The Society December 22, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . The People That Walked in Darkness The Christmas lights are out tonight, __Early and fierce and brave. The lawns of all suburbia, __A parti-colored nave. Their swollen ranks caused me to think __How changed...
‘Hedge Theory’ by David Watt The Society December 22, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments . Hedge Theory The hedge plants are trimmed by a gardener with shears As they have been, like clockwork, for twenty-five years. Yet they push out new shoots in continuing hope Of extending their reach through...
‘This Present Madness’ by Cynthia Erlandson The Society December 21, 2021 Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . This Present Madness “To sleep! Perchance to dream; aye, there’s the rub…..” ---Shakespeare, Hamlet I The daily nightmare hovers; and each night We pray to stay unconscious---not to dream (Perchance...
‘Twelve Chaucerian Limericks’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society December 20, 2021 Chaucer, Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 19 Comments . Twelve Chaucerian Limericks for Paul Freeman Some pilgrims went riding to Kent, And here’s how the journey was spent: As they traipsed through the dale They each told a tale Of sacred or worldly...
‘Critical Race Theory’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society December 20, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . Critical Race Theory It’s quite amusing when some first Defend it with persistence, Then---feigning that they’ve not reversed--- Deny its whole existence. . . Federal Government Logic The National...
‘Habeas Corpus’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society December 19, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Habeas Corpus Of those whose job it is to get results It might be asked: to what infernal purpose? Extortion, threats, felonious assaults, And foul deceptions only scratch the surface Of crimes they’re...
Two Poems by Bécquer, Translated by Cheryl Corey The Society December 18, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Translation 10 Comments . The Harp by Gustavo Bécquer | from Spanish by Cheryl Corey Obscured by corner shadows, gathering dust, perhaps forgotten over time—there stands the silent harp. So many hidden notes entombed on muted...
Poems on the Three Fates: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, by Cheryl Corey The Society December 18, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Three Sisters Clotho When mother sat me down, I feared the worst. Her words, however, offered praise instead. “Your gentle hands are motherly,” she said. “That’s why I’ve chosen you to be the...
‘Fool’s Gold’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 16, 2021 Culture, Poetry 42 Comments . Fool’s Gold The gutsy suffragettes gained girls the vote--- One bold soul trampled by a monarch’s horse Grabbed patriarchy by the gloating throat. Her ghost changed every voiceless woman’s...
‘A Spider in My Room’ and Other Poetry by Radhika Bianchi The Society December 16, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments . A Spider in My Room In the corner, there's a spider Between the ceiling and the wall. Its legs are long, its body small, Seeing it there my eyes grow wider, Fearing it to be the kind Of spider I’ve been...
A Poem for Astronaut Michael Collins and Other Poetry by Lawrence Fray The Society December 15, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . Tidal Lock for Michael Collins died (Oct. 31, 1930 - April 28, 2021):, Apollo 11 Command Module Astronaut who saw the dark side of the moon Has one brave man's small step dethroned the moon And brought the...
‘Lightning Could Strike’ by Michael Charles Maibach The Society December 14, 2021 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 8 Comments . Lightning Could Strike Just when hope Is out the door, Has flown the coop, Has said “No more.” Just when "up" You have now "given," Just when life Seems so now riven. In she walks Her smile so...
A Poem for Emily Dickinson, and Other Sonnets by Tamara Beryl Latham The Society December 13, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . Tamara to Emily for Emily Dickinson We viewed the lighted houses well below, whose roads ran serpentine through mounding snow, zoomed in on walls that formed each hollowed room, then juxtaposed the gaiety...
‘Advent Twist’ by James A. Tweedie The Society December 12, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Advent Twist "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple . . . But who may abide the day of his coming? and who...