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‘Equinox Blues’ and Other Poetry by Julian Woodruff

The Society
March 20, 2025
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
. Equinox Blues Welcome to spring! The last snow may be past,_and bright blue frames the parting clouds.The sun rides longer in the sky, at last,_than lost to night’s slow–ebbing shrouds. The weather’s...

‘Simple Simon Responds to Sayings of Captain Obvious’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

The Society
March 17, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
16 Comments
. Simple Simon Responds to Sayings of Captain Obvious English literature tends to be wordy. Many tricks are exceedingly dirty. On a bright sunny day the whole sky appears bluish. All the teachers that pray in...

‘Mussolini’s Minions’: A Poem by Mary Jane Myers

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March 14, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
15 Comments
. Mussolini's Minions ---Segesta, 2012 Entranced, we wander round the temple site.The hot Sicilian sun beats down. I’m frayed,now seek the parking lot's uncertain shade.My brother John’s nearby, though not...

‘Gossiping Hinges’ and Other Poems by LaVern Spencer McCarthy

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March 7, 2025
Beauty, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry, Villanelle
7 Comments
. Gossiping Hinges Some think we hinges only squeak __because we seek __an oily drop __to make us stop, but hinges gossip day and night, __our message, quite __distinctive. We, __with raucous glee, say 'hi' to...

‘Give Praise for These Days of Old Age’: A Poem by Jeff Eardley

The Society
March 4, 2025
Humor, Poetry
24 Comments
. Give Praise for These Days of Old Age You’re up in the morning, you moan and you groan, You’re feeling the grinding of bone against bone. When your knees have embarked on a life of their own, _Then give...

‘Howl at the River’ and Other Word-Play Poems by James A. Tweedie

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February 21, 2025
Humor, Poetry
4 Comments
. Howl at the River Howl at the river, cry me a moon; Blow up on a drum, and beat a balloon; Smirk like a sailor, drink like a prig’ Eat like a football, drop-kick a pig. Jimmy crack rainbow, over the...

‘Capacity’ and Other Poetry by Morrison Handley-Schachler

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February 17, 2025
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
16 Comments
. Capacity “This is too big and inexcusably Extravagant, so next time I insist We buy a smaller glass. This one will be Always half-empty,” said the realist. “You say this from experience,”...

‘How Did You Woo Me? ’ and Other Valentine’s Day Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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February 14, 2025
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
23 Comments
. How Did You Woo Me? Let Me Count the Way You didn’t sweep in on a snowy steedClad in armor buffed until it glittered---A shining knight of bright and mighty deedClutching ribboned gifts on which you’d...

‘Lines for Your Valentines’: A Valentine’s Day Poem by Roy E. Peterson

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February 14, 2025
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
16 Comments
. Lines for Your Valentines Without you here, my life is like A broken pencil, simply pointless. And if you tell me to take a hike, My legs won’t move, you’ve made them jointless. When I got up today I...

‘Moments Matter’: A Poem by Gigi Ryan

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February 12, 2025
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
23 Comments
. Moments Matter When my daughter was just three __I took her to the zoo. She laughed and smiled and had a blast __And I myself did, too. My friends said, “Why did you do that? __She will not recall The day...

‘Concerning Snow’: A Conversation in Verse by T.M. Moore

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February 5, 2025
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
18 Comments
. Concerning Snow ---a conversation between Beauty and Necessity “Well, there you go again.” “What's that?” “Come now, don't act so innocent. You see that plow out there, defacing what it took all...

‘Classic Case History’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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February 5, 2025
Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Terza Rima
11 Comments
. Classic Case History Though I was blind, it wasn’t hard to see That blindness was a gift at least as good As any other. People seeing me As someone less insightful than he should Have been were blurry...

‘Sonnet 1’ by Saki

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February 3, 2025
Culture, Humor, Poetry
7 Comments
. . Sonnet 1 I felt like trying something new today, And so I put my pen upon a page To mimic Shakespeare's famous olden way— A style which, I hear, was all the rage. So here I am committing fourteen...

‘The Great Rub-off’: A Poem by Martin Elster and Joan Axelrod-Contrada

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January 26, 2025
Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
8 Comments
. The Great Rub-off Norm and Zip, in mismatched chairs, __were sipping tea and talking, when Desi, their loyal hound, said, “Listen, __you’re shedding like me!” (How shocking!) Norm spat out his...

On ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and Other Poems by Anna J. Arredondo

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January 7, 2025
Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry
21 Comments
. Watch Out! Now, “The Three Little Pigs” is a tale More for cautioning than for amusing: Learn its lessons and you may prevail; Heed them not, and you may end up losing. For we, none of us, live in a...

‘Bollical Dogs’ in Response to T.S. Eliot’s ‘Jellicle Cats’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko

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January 5, 2025
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
26 Comments
. Bollical Dogs I have a complaint! T.S. Eliot hogs All the fun with his stories of Jellicle Cats! So let me (inspired by zoo catalogs) Write of beasts ripe for versificational chats. But shall I vaunt...

‘A Freshman Pep Talk’: A Poem by Julian Woodruff

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January 4, 2025
Humor, Music, Poetry
10 Comments
. A Freshman Pep Talk ---upon reading “Composers to Listen to While Studying,”by Andrew Benson Brown, in The Epoch Times, Nov. 2, 2024 You’re ready? Get down to it, cram the night through.What a...

‘Oh, the Days’: A Poem on Motherhood, by Gigi Ryan

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January 1, 2025
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
16 Comments
. Oh, the Days Oh, the days of poop and vomit! My best dress had drool upon it While I walked my teething child Up and down the hall for miles. Oh, the days of poop and vomit! When the baby chose to not...

‘Help! I Can’t Stop Speaking in Iambic!’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson

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December 28, 2024
Humor, Poetry
33 Comments
. Help! I Can’t Stop Speaking in Iambic! Help! I can’t stop speaking in iambic Pentameter! No matter what I say, Somehow it keeps on coming out that way. It’s not the first time. Could it be a...

‘Christmas in Florida’: A Poem by Brian Yapko

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December 25, 2024
Culture, Humor, Poetry
22 Comments
. Christmas in Florida I watched him pass! St. Nick himself---Kris Kringle,Who hails from Buffalo, not the North Pole.He waved; I heard bells on his golf-cart jingleAs he sang karaoke rock and roll. That’s...

‘The Drift of Dark Days’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

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December 12, 2024
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
25 Comments
. The Drift of Dark Days November is a time for us to grieve About the dying of the warmth and light, About the passing of our joie de vivre, As we await the bitter arctic bite. Near-perfect vees of fleeing...

‘Fake Sales’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick

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December 6, 2024
Culture, Humor, Poetry
24 Comments
. Fake Sales “Fifty Percent Off”The store signs all say,But I have to scoff---There is simply no wayThat the clothes I picked outFrom the “sale” in that store,Were---on this there’s no doubt---Ever...

‘Celestial Potatoes’: A Thanksgiving Poem by Mary Jane Myers

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November 28, 2024
Humor, Poetry
18 Comments
. Celestial Potatoes Thanksgiving morning, poised I stand: near cutting board, honed knife in hand. My self-taught method must suffice: ten pounds of tubers, peel and dice, pot-boil, purée with whipping...

High School Reunion Poems by Russel Winick

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November 22, 2024
Humor, Limerick, Poetry
20 Comments
. Montana High School Reunion The big fella who grew up in Butte, Claimed his high school sweetheart was so cute, __Going back would be grand __A reunion was planned So he went out and bought costly boots. He...

Armistice Day Poem: ‘A Recruiter Tells It as It Isn’t’ by Paul A. Freeman

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November 11, 2024
Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Rondeau
15 Comments
. A Recruiter Tells It as It Isn’t Your World War One recruitment agent prays he finds you well. Your King and Country says we need you for a dalliance in France. In gay Paris, you’ll get to chat and...

Nov. 5 Guy Fawkes Day Poem, by Paul A. Freeman

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November 5, 2024
Culture, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
. Guy Fawkes Night Makeover November 5th! To Guy Fawkes let’s be kind--- no burning him in effigy this year. His hanged-and-drawn-and-quartered doom I find excessive; let’s reverse his fate most drear! His...

Six Riddles for Autumn 2024, by Evan Mantyk

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November 4, 2024
Humor, Poetry, Riddles
14 Comments
. I. I travel thanks to water, But do not float or sail. More quickly than an otter And have a smoke-like tail. What am I? . II>. II. When at the beach, I soak up sun, Look down on waves (that’s...

‘The Walk’: A Poem by Martin Elster

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October 19, 2024
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
6 Comments
. The Walk Whether you call it a walk or a run, some animals tread on the water for fun, to flee, chase their food, or show off for their mate. Grebes, doing a dazzling dance for their date, slap their lobed...

‘Their Principal Principle’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson

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October 13, 2024
Culture, Humor, Poetry
15 Comments
. Their Principal Principle With their hideous lies and a gleam in their eyes They disable each new generation, For the best route to power in districts gone sour Is attacking the heart of the...

‘Consequences of Following Advice’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson

The Society
October 7, 2024
Culture, Humor, Poetry
17 Comments
. Consequences of Following Advice Advice can come in snappy lines __That have a fun refrain: “Let a smile be your umbrella,” __Though that won’t block cold rain. They tell us that “To err is...

‘Not the Same Thing Anymore’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick

The Society
October 6, 2024
Culture, Humor, Poetry
17 Comments
. Not the Same Thing Anymore Of most who go to school these days __It sadly must be stated, No longer can they be appraised __As being educated. . . Kids’ Most Common Mistake The most common...

‘Autumn Reversed’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman

The Society
October 1, 2024
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
18 Comments
. Autumn Reversed Once snowflakes have recrystalized,__they rise from where they fell;in Earth’s alternate universe__it’s early winter’s knell. The frost unfreezes, rain unfalls,__leaves littering the...
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‘What Mother Goose Neglected to Mention’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson

The Society
September 29, 2024
Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry
20 Comments
. What Mother Goose Neglected to Mention . A Soup Spoon Reflects upon His Past So the dish ran away with the spoon, we were told, __And he treated her well, bless his soul, But he realized, when he was...

‘Cutie Pie Cat’ and Another Sonnet by Phillip Whidden

The Society
September 26, 2024
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
6 Comments
. Cutie Pie Cat The pink-nosed face of Prospero my cat, Pink nose and white fur face, is what he rubs Against me, purring.  He does not know that I love him since he’s cute.  My finger scrubs His whiskers...

‘The British Museum’ and Other Poetry by Guy Graybill

The Society
September 25, 2024
Humor, Poetry, Satire
7 Comments
. The British Museum The best sources repeat it, unending, For the scholars in every lyceum: Many art works, of nations unlending, Can be found in the British Museum. There are statues and weapons and...

‘Devotions’: A Poem by Adam Wasem

The Society
September 20, 2024
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
4 Comments
. Devotions Night after night, for nigh a year, When bedtime came, we’d watch our child Be overcome by his emotions: From glee, to rage, to childish fear, And us both stumped: What drove him so wild __And...

Two Anapestic Poems on Summer’s Heat, by C.B. Anderson

The Society
September 15, 2024
Humor, Poetry
18 Comments
. Light Wave Heatwave When the temperature rises, a worker despises __The withering glare of the sun. When the sweat’s so profuse that our skin is a sluice, __Even golf and croquet ain’t no fun. A jug of...
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‘Supply and Demand’ and Other Poetry by Benjamin Cannicott Shavitz

The Society
September 6, 2024
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
3 Comments
. Supply and Demand Infinite happiness isn’t available. Something so precious just isn’t that scalable. Boundless dismay, though, is much more attainable. Being uncoveted, pain is quite gainable. . . Off...

‘Garden Party’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson

The Society
September 1, 2024
Beauty, Humor, Poetry
15 Comments
. Garden Party The sparrows near the feeder flit and preen While predators politely quit the scene. A mockingbird is chirping up a storm, And soft drinks on the cart are getting warm. The worms beneath the...

‘The Mannequins Are Melting’ and Other Hot Poetry by Martin Rizley

The Society
August 20, 2024
Culture, Humor, Poetry
10 Comments
. The Mannequins Are Melting The mannequins are melting as we speak Now that the summer heat wave's at its peak. __While passing by the clothing store __This afternoon at half past four, I saw the havoc waves...
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  1. Paul Freeman on ‘Artificial Intelligence Versus Real Intelligence’: A Poem by Bruce Dale WiseAugust 7, 2025

    Unfortunately all the AI guardrails mooted a couple of years ago have been forgotten in the rush for monetary gain…

  2. Shubham Thakur on The Society of Classical Poets 2025 Haiku CompetitionAugust 7, 2025

    In autumn, he came - The flower prince, spring's son, and with stars, filled my sky. --- O Rose, bloom…

  3. Cynthia on The Society of Classical Poets 2025 Haiku CompetitionAugust 7, 2025

    Look at the stars Dots of unconnected paint Splattered in the sky I perpetrate The sunrise over the dew Resting…

  4. E. R. Davis on The Society of Classical Poets 2025 Haiku CompetitionAugust 7, 2025

    tree branches tremble a great quake of blackbirds strike dark wings clap thunder lovely the flower on the branch yet…

  5. Warren Bonham on ‘Supreme Showdown’: A Poem by Warren BonhamAugust 7, 2025

    I don't read many Supreme Court opinions, but I'm not aware of any recent examples where a Justice was skewered…

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