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‘Enigma’: A Poem by Steve Cooper

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June 19, 2025
Love Poems, Poetry, Shape Poems
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. . . Steve Cooper is a retired professional career counselor. He lives near Salem, Oregon. He has one traditionally published picture book on Amazon, Don’t Eat Your Seed Corn, and several of his pieces...
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A Poem on Japanese Suiseki Stones, by Margaret Coats

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July 13, 2023
Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Shape Poems
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. Suiseki Rainfall has stopped; it’s the best time for hunting a stone. Drizzle still dampens debris; Trees put forth roots unobtrusively; mosses have grown; Animals leaving their burrows run free— Sodden...
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‘Peach Blossom Dreaming’ by Margaret Coats

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March 1, 2023
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. Peach Blossom Dreaming Peach blossoms furnish inwrought dreaming room Intangible to fingertips corrupt; __Substantially beyond each tapered petal’s plume Flow fragrances to subtly interrupt The wintry...

‘Music of the Contours’ by Phillip Whidden

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February 19, 2022
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. Music of the Contours part of "A Double Unfinished Symphony" sonnet sequence The way that curls sway lovelier than straight, ..And curving strands of gold set pearls in grace, ....That nuns' bow necks to...

‘Hagi at My Study Window’ and Other Late Summer Poems, by Margaret Coats

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August 8, 2021
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. Hagi at My Study Window hagi or bush clover, a symbol of poetry, blooms as summer turns to autumn. Paper shapes the future’s surface, Paperweights the present state. Inkstones hold a scholar’s...

‘Cherry Blossom Viewing’ by Margaret Coats

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April 6, 2021
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. Cherry Blossom Viewing Like someone else, in unaccustomed dress, I choose that silken smoothness graze my skin __As fragile branches effloresce, Revealing vernal consciousness within Of transient white or...

‘The House Remembers’ by Amy Foreman

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February 23, 2020
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                                      Amy Foreman...

Essay: On George Herbert’s ‘Easter Wings’

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March 25, 2018
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by Jane Blanchard George Herbert was born into a well-to-do and well-doing family of Montgomery, Wales, in 1593. When he was three years old, his father died, leaving a wife and ten children. Herbert...
  1. David Quinn on The Society of Classical Poets 2025 Haiku CompetitionAugust 5, 2025

    The first breath of spring A leaf can still fall away Not only in fall

  2. Cheryl Corey on ‘Silent Movies’: A Poem by Cheryl CoreyAugust 4, 2025

    I'm off topic here, but I'd like to give a shout out to SCP poets who received "Laureates' Choice" in…

  3. Cheryl Corey on ‘Silent Movies’: A Poem by Cheryl CoreyAugust 4, 2025

    I'm glad you enjoyed it, Cynthia.

  4. Cynthia L Erlandson on ‘Silent Movies’: A Poem by Cheryl CoreyAugust 4, 2025

    This is beautifully composed, with the repetitions perhaps representing our inability to stop certain thoughts from continuing to recur --…

  5. Cheryl Corey on ‘Silent Movies’: A Poem by Cheryl CoreyAugust 4, 2025

    Thanks, Brian. Certain memories have been popping into my head lately, as if beyond my control, and then I began…

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