‘A Faithful Friend’s Advice’ and Other Poetry by Christian Muller The Society May 7, 2025 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 2 Comments . A Faithful Friend's Advice The girl you have is just the one for you— my head could not conceive a better match. She is your sun, your earth, the very glue that rightly holds your tattered life...
‘Riverside Breeze’: A Poem by Daniel Howard The Society May 7, 2025 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 11 Comments . Riverside Breeze ___How beautiful you look __Browsing the flowers one by one _While lying down along the babbling brook; ___And there, beneath the sun, __Whose melting kisses mark your skin, _The faintest of...
SCP Survey of Poets The Society May 6, 2025 From the Society, Poetry . This survey is open to Society Member and non-Members alike. Designed by Roy E. Peterson and Evan Mantyk of the Society of Classical Poets to gain insights into views and tastes in the emerging movement to...
‘Big Pharma Ads Are Everywhere’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 6, 2025 Poetry, Satire 20 Comments . Big Pharma Ads Are Everywhere Big Pharma ads are everywhere __Suffusing my TV. They fail to give me confidence __that they are right for me. They start with all the maladies __their medicine is for. Then...
‘Alive, Alive-o’: A Poem by Jeff Eardley The Society May 5, 2025 Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments Alive, Alive-o In Dublin’s fair city,Where the girls are so pretty,There lived an old woman,Who was well known to me;Where she sighed with amazement,At her new knee replacement,Singing, “Cartilege and...
‘Territorializing’: A Poem by Mark Stellinga The Society May 4, 2025 Children's, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . Territorializing Slithering slowly, so very precise, A methodic invader (and catcher of mice), She stealthily slips toward the enemy there, So unsuspecting, at rest by the chair. Without a diversion to aid...
‘Bear Spray’ and Other Poetry by Paul Burgess The Society May 4, 2025 Children's, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Bear Spray My little brother took a dare To pepper spray a mama bear. It seems the spray was much too mild, So I've become an only child. Except for near the polar ice, The bears you'll see are mostly...
‘The New Headmasters’: A Poem on British Boarding Schools, by Lucius Falkland The Society May 3, 2025 Culture, Poetry 2 Comments . The New Headmasters As I sat, that afternoon, upon his kneeWhile he read a “witty” book and I faux-laughedI’m afraid, aged eight, I didn’t really seeWhat was happening: I now feel rather daft.But...
‘Pollinator’: A Poem by T.M. Moore The Society May 3, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . Pollinator When swift spring breezes suddenly excitethe conifers out back, they really comealive in dips and bows and surges rightbefore my eyes. I watch to see if froma few of them, or even one, a cloudwill...
‘The Ego Lingers Longer Than the Mind’ and Other Poetry by Rob Fried The Society May 2, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Triolet 5 Comments . The Ego Lingers Longer Than The Mind The ego lingers longer than the mind, It dares to whisper yearnings of its own: To manifest a will more keen than kind, A shady glow that will not be outshone. We think...
