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‘The Terrorist Attacks in Sri Lanka, Easter, 2019’ by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
April 21, 2019
Culture, Poetry, Terrorism
16 Comments
  O, curse Zahran Hashim and, yes, Abu Mohammad too, for evil at the Shangri-la and Batticalao, just two, of all those vicious men, who hit Sri Lanka's calm. O, Lord, the people cry aloud; they long...

A Poem for Easter Sunday: ‘Tosspot Tulip’ by James A. Tweedie

The Society
April 21, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
7 Comments
  Tosspot tulip, withered, bowed and bent; __Severed stem embedded in a vase. __Natal bed a now-forsaken place. __Glory passed; its bloom and beauty spent. Birthed, bedecked, betrothed, by bulb and...

Poetry for Good Friday 2019

The Society
April 19, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
12 Comments
A special holiday post featuring "My Cross" by Joe Tessitore of New York, New York; "Pietá" by Tonya McQuade of Los Gatos, California; "The Pietá" by Michael Charles Maibach of Alexandria, Virginia.

‘Pleasuring Dreams’ by P. T. O’Talryn

The Society
April 18, 2019
Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
They fell into a numbing sleep Perchance to darkly dream. The kettle for their tea was boiling; The plants were rich and green. They stoned themselves on television And marriage habits bad; Their...

Three Poems on the Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

The Society
April 16, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
33 Comments
The Cathedral, Burning by T. M. Moore Flames wreck the walls and ceilings that had stood for centuries, scorch ancient timbers, raze to ash that sanctuary made for praise, and cruelly crumble sacred...

A Poem on Euthanasia, by Ron L. Hodges

The Society
April 16, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
13 Comments
  The Life That Is Not Life “I’m getting ready for my trip now.” —Aurelia Brouwers (who chose to be euthanized at age 29 in the Netherlands) You said it was the humane thing to do __For those...

SCP Poetry and Culture Symposium 2019

The Society
April 15, 2019
Culture, From the Society, Poetry, Symposium
2 Comments
The Society of Classical Poets is holding its first Poetry and Culture Symposium at the Princeton Club in Manhattan, on Monday, June 17, 4 to 8 p.m. Register here. The Symposium will feature prominent poets...

‘In Favour of Form’ by M. P. Lauretta

The Society
April 15, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
  Today poetic form is ostracised. It’s stifled and suppressed, deemed obsolete; classed as archaic, stuffy and effete, a vestige of the past to be chastised. Make no mistake, the ‘advice’...

An Immigration Poem: ‘Of Geese and Migration’ by James A. Tweedie

The Society
April 12, 2019
Culture, Humor, Poetry
7 Comments
  The Canada Geese used to migrate each year. They’d summer up there and spend winter down here. Their nests were in Canada, home of their birth. From there they would fly to the ends of the...

A Poem for Former Greenpeace Activist Patrick Moore, by Bruce Dale Wise

The Society
April 11, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, The Environment
5 Comments
District E for former Greenpeace Activist Patrick Moore by Eric Awesud Ble It always was at night when people simply disappeared. Names were removed from registers; such memories were seared. The...

‘Domitian’s Dark Dinners’ by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
April 9, 2019
Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry
3 Comments
  The Graeco-Roman historian Lucius Dio Cassius, in his Roman History, describes “dark dinners” that were given by the emperor Domitian to specially chosen guests.   Domitian’s dinners...

‘Pachelbel’s Love Song’ by Michael Maibach

The Society
April 7, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry
3 Comments
When we listen To his sweet song, Did he then know It'd live this long? A song that gives To every age, A timeless sense Of history's page. Reminding you, Reminding me, Love songs can last Eternity. From...

‘The Melancholy Snowman’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Zappe

The Society
April 6, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Rondeau
23 Comments
The Melancholy Snowman Though stony-eyed, I watched the finches glide. The chimney smoke, the builder slide, At night, I gave the constellations words, The House, the Builder, and the Birds. My silver...

‘The Water of Life’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

The Society
April 5, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
  The Water of Life To die Of thirst Is nigh The worst And saddest way A life may end, Since quickened clay Cannot transcend Its fundamental need For fluid that's designed To irrigate and...

Poem in Your Pocket Day 2019 Poems (Rhyming!)

The Society
April 4, 2019
Culture, Education, From the Society, Poetry
25 Comments
April 18, 2019 is Poem in Your Pocket Day, part of National Poetry Month. On this day, people are encouraged to carry a poem in their pockets and share it with others. This day is primarily used by teachers...

‘Saint Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio’ by Alan Sugar

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April 3, 2019
Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
  It seemed a wolf had terrorized the town. Well, isn’t that what wolves are wont to do? The people said, “Say, put that wild thing down.” “Or else, instead, give it a talking to.” A...

A Pro-life Poem: ‘In the Garden’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

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April 1, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
10 Comments
In the Garden In Paradise there is a place where ruby-colored roses grace the trellises of precious pearl - so splendidly their buds unfurl! She and her Child oft’ wander here among the flowers they...

‘Curve’ and Other Poetry by T.M. Moore

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March 31, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
Curve It’s just a simple curve, gouged by a string to make a tidy border in between the walkway and the yard. On one side, green grass glistens, wearing morning dew like bling. And on the other side,...

Three Poems from Divine Comedies, by James Sale

The Society
March 29, 2019
Culture, Dante, Poetry
41 Comments
The following are excerpted from James Sale's upcoming book Divine Comedies.   Exit from Hell I did well in life. But everything is real in Hell –Dante, Canto 29 The exit from Hell is always...

‘The Current State of Brexit’ by Damian Robin

The Society
March 28, 2019
Culture, Humor, Poetry
28 Comments
  When May became P. M., she had a doggéd view - Her Parliament majority would fly us through: All Brexit documents on leaving the E. U., All Acts of Parliament, all formal how-d’ya-do, All...

‘The Pregnant Woman’ and Other Poetry by Beverly Stock

The Society
March 28, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
2 Comments
  The Pregnant Woman The Pregnant Woman nests a baby seed Who's ever pressing on her very core While her body adapts to baby's needs She's feeling aches she's never known before. A linea alba...

‘Freakish Tattooing’ by Joseph S. Salemi

The Society
March 27, 2019
Culture, Humor, Poetry
20 Comments
  —from A Gallery of Ethopaths The world is filled with brainless brats Who all insist on having tats. These morons with their inked-up bods Walk about like savage gods Displaying, to the...
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‘Annunciation’ by J.C. Scharl

The Society
March 25, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
  Beyond the brimming ages Gabriel waits, his foremost message burning on his breath. Through time men slide, creeping through the gates of birth and out again the doors of death. He sees kings...

‘Zaleucus the Epizephyrian to His Sword’ by Daniel Galef

The Society
March 23, 2019
Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
(by the ancient lawgiver who threw himself on his blade to satisfy a legal technicality) 625 b.c.e. Yours is a hard but hardy justice: When __The Poets weighed their verses on the scale, Proud Homer saw...

A Poem for Tommy Robinson: ‘The Lad of Luton’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie

The Society
March 22, 2019
Culture, Poetry
15 Comments
  Though all the world should grovel and bend To the minions of deepest hell, Our days of glory shall not end Where brave men fought and brave men fell! We’ll take a stand to save our land And...

‘The Black Children’ and Other Poetry by J.D. Graham

The Society
March 21, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
1 Comment
. The Black Children In China, until rather recently, each pair of parents was allowed one kid, according to the “one-child policy.” Some parents had another, which they hid. Unregistered, these kids are...

‘Blue’s Didgeridoo’ by David Watt

The Society
March 20, 2019
Culture, Humor, Poetry
14 Comments
  From the stations they sent out a call To their jillaroo friends - one and all; For an overnight camp, while the sky bore the stamp Of a cloudless day darkened from view. So they came in farm...

‘Villanelle of the Wicked Queen’ by David Whippman

The Society
March 19, 2019
Culture, Poetry, Villanelle
9 Comments
  I am a captive of the wicked queen. My mind’s a blank; the temptress took my soul. I know too well  what this desire must mean. And oh! The evil beauty I have seen. Though loving her must...

Poetry Lesson Plan: British Romantic Period (including Lecture Notes)

The Society
March 18, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Education, Poetry
6 Comments
Note: Teaching classical poetry rather than other forms of poetry or modern literature makes a difference. Inherent in classical poetry is a respect for tradition, for order, for discipline, and for the...

Two Translations from German by Charles Eager

The Society
March 17, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation
3 Comments
Anonymous (12th Century), 'Du bist mein' ('You are mine') I am yours and you, mine are; Of this ought you be 'ware. You are a part of, prisoner in, my heart; The little key is gone afar. You must...

‘The Architect’ by Annabelle Fuller

The Society
March 16, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
  He thinks in lines And vexing vertices. His shining mind always inclines To maths and magnitude, minute degrees Of formulae, and the impossibilities He has deciphered with those...

‘The Dragonslayer’ by Jeff Nicholson

The Society
March 15, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
  Ere gloaming wanes, acceding sable night, As writhen mists conceal a pallid moon, From bastion vigil, thou descry a sight; To rumours, foul and fey, thine ears attune. Beyond the eaves of...

A Poem on New York’s Abortion Law, by Amy Foreman

The Society
March 12, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
46 Comments
Room 402:  Gehenna Comes to New York (On Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Jan. 22,2019 repeal of New York’s Public Health Law § 4164)   Note:   “Room 402” does not refer to any specific event...

Two Videos on the Reading of Poetry Out Loud

The Society
March 11, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Readings, Video
5 Comments
The Bad The first video of Hannah Silva instructs us on the abyss that poetry reading has found itself in today. The irrationality and baseness of slam poetry has given way to experimental poetry that doesn't...

‘Three Thousands Years’ by Phillip Whidden

The Society
March 9, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
1 Comment
  Three Thousand Years before Apple and Three Thousand Years after the iPad I carry in my knapsack poems by The ancient Greeks, the eldest ones, the best, The best of elders. They are still as...

‘Providence and Poetic Tradition’ by Charles Eager

The Society
March 8, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
10 Comments
apropos of 'The Threads' by E. Mantyk I fell into a radiant sleep; Thereon into dream and seeing: A paradise seemed me to keep; In its walls, the seeds of being. Thus thrown into this strange-sweet...

‘Though Beauty Also’ by Alexander King Ream

The Society
March 7, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
8 Comments
  Though beauty also beckons there, Mt. Shasta’s peak projects severe, So from her panoramic view, Is cast a pall on me and you And everyone approaching here, Courage take but caution,...

‘The Fate of Fine Art’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley

The Society
March 6, 2019
Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry
13 Comments
The Fate of Fine Art Too late to turn the clock back on fine art, Egregious oxymoron that it may Be called today, but where to find the start Of this, the slow beginnings of decay? For once we found...

Translation of ‘Farewell to the Royal Gardens at Aranjuez’ by Gálvez

The Society
March 5, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation
7 Comments
Translation by Martin Hill Ortiz  Farewell to the Royal Gardens at Aranjuez by María Rosa Gálvez de Cabrera of Spain (1768-1806) Aranjuez: forest, rich with flowers, Through which the tangled Tajo...

‘Mother of Falun Gong’ and Other Poetry by Gleb Zavlanov

The Society
March 4, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry
4 Comments
Mother of Falun Gong They said my mother would be back tomorrow, They said her smile would still shine proudly here, Her hand brush off the dreadful, bitter sorrow That manifests itself within a tear, But...
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