‘Abandonment’ by Alessio Zanelli The Society July 22, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments Soaked in silence, sunbeams through the shutters, dust floating softly. Stuffy, flecks of mold and rust sticking here and there, a...
‘Unspoken’ by Stephen Hagerman The Society July 21, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 64 Comments As fiddle lilts its rhymed refrain it harkens an angelic past. If only we could now regain that sweet voice that was ne'er...
A Tribute to Gao Rongrong (Victim of Chinese Communism) by Connie Phillips The Society July 20, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 34 Comments She Walked in Beauty a tribute to Gao Rongrong* after Lord Byron’s “She Walks in Beauty” She walked in Beauty, pure as light— Like sun...
A Sonnet on Cleve Backster and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society July 19, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 17 Comments Sonnet IV. Cleve Backster whose work on plant perception gained wide exposure in the 1973 publication The Secret Life of Plants. While people...
‘Taxi from Mohonk’ by James Sale The Society July 18, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments The taxi driver took us down From great Mohonk, New Paltz and such; And every mile we got to touch We felt the pull of New York...
‘Self-Help and Recovery’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society July 17, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 82 Comments —from A Gallery of Ethopaths The bookshops that we used to see Were citadels of literacy. Classics of grace and wit and style Greeted your...
‘Natura Naturans’ and Other Poetry by Terry Norton The Society July 16, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments Natura Naturans “Off with their heads,” the Red Queen said. But she was mostly talk. A true decapitator is The little sharp-shin hawk. I...
Two Poems on Dogs by Peter Hartley The Society July 15, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments The Thoughts of a Dog What really does go on inside the mind Of the domestic dog? To simply say They think of very little else all day But...
‘Good Captains’ and Other Poetry by Philip Keefe The Society July 14, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments Good Captains From daring to despair runs common man. A vane to changing winds is his own mind. One hour he may so boldly think, “I...
Three Sonnets in an Antiquated Style by James A. Tweedie (with Audio) The Society July 13, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Readings 11 Comments Her Love for Him My true love laughs, and angel choirs sing; The mountains echo back his tuneful mirth While Nature dances, heav’n in step...
‘These Twins’ and Other Poetry by Leo Zoutewelle The Society July 12, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments These Twins These twins came forth in one amniotic sac. They sensed the danger they had come upon And both held hands to keep that danger...
‘The Loan’ and Other Poetry by Benjamin Daniel Lukey (with Audio) The Society July 11, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Villanelle 7 Comments A reading of the below poems by the poet: The Loan a villanelle This life we hold so dear is but a loan. For good or ill, its...
Rhyming Riddle Contest 2019 The Society July 10, 2019 Humor, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Riddles 271 Comments Winners of the contest can be found here. From the riddle posed by King Solomon to the Philistines to the philosophy of riddles put forth by...
Rediscovering the Sonnet: An Interview with Poet Theresa Rodriguez by Carol Smallwood The Society July 10, 2019 Essays, Interviews, Poetry, Poetry Forms 7 Comments This interview was conducted by Carol Smallwood with poet Theresa Rodriguez following the release of the first edition of Sonnets by...
‘One Love’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society July 9, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments One Love In all the world there’s but one Love, just one. A single substance—like the billow lit From overhead by flashes from the sun And...
‘The Man Who Never Cries’ by David B. Gosselin (with Audio) The Society July 8, 2019 Beauty, Poetry, Readings 21 Comments The man who never cries is like the ship That never sailed, or left the sleepy shores, Who’s never felt the waves of...
A Riddle by Brian Douthit The Society July 7, 2019 Children's, Poetry, Riddles 9 Comments Stalks of brown and amber and gold, mighty when young, wither when old. Bleached by the sun and watered daily, Length may distinguish if lord or...
‘Reprobate’s Prayer Sestina’ by Mike Bryant The Society July 6, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Forms, Sestina 14 Comments I lift my eyes and pray to God above, deliver me, dear Lord, from Satan's Hell. I come to You with heart brimful of Love, content to...
‘Turkey Sausage’ by Donald Carlson The Society July 5, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments The sausage on my plate is rubbery and inoffensive A clever likeness made of turkey meat Not your tastiest breakfast fare yet not...
Two Poems for the Fourth of July The Society July 4, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments May Old Glory Always Wave by Roy E. Peterson May Old Glory always wave Above the tumult and the fray. Honor heroes who were brave Until the...
‘Adiutor Laborantium’ and ‘Noli Pater’ by Colum Cille, Translated by T.M. Moore The Society July 3, 2019 Acrostic, Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 8 Comments Translator's Note: "Adiutor Laborantium" is an Irish poem attributed to Colum Cille (521-597), founder of the monastic community on Iona. It is an...
‘The Four O’Clocks of July’ by Alan Sugar The Society July 2, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Side by side, like toy soldiers under the sky, these seedlings all stand in a row. And on this day of independence, the Fourth of...
Winners Announced: A Line of Shakespeare Poetry Contest The Society July 1, 2019 Beauty, Culture, From the Society, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Shakespeare 2 Comments Judges: Michael Curtis, Amy Foreman, Reid McGrath, Adam Sedia A few words from Judge Michael Curtis: In apology: If you, fair writer, did not...
‘Golf / Flog’ by Raymond Gallucci The Society June 30, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments It comes as no surprise that “golf” When backward spelled is “flog.” For it’s a sport so hard to solve Leaves many in a...
‘Dead Poet’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society June 29, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Dead Poet Of what I was, not much remains, but that which does, indeed still strains to craft and pen a poem sweet, as I did when my heart did...
The Rebirth of Poetry Is Here: First SCP Symposium Held The Society June 28, 2019 Essays, From the Society, Poetry, Symposium 21 Comments The Society of Classical Poets successfully holds its first symposium in New York City (Press Release) NEW YORK—A growing movement is...
‘Kingfishers and Kites’ and Other Poetry by Denise Sobilo The Society June 27, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments Kingfishers and Kites Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves—goes itself; myself it...
A Poem on the Green New Deal and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 26, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment 18 Comments Doomsday… or Not? The Green New Deal is out there, and Bernie says it’s true— there’s only twelve more years left for the likes of me and...
‘G-Mafia’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society June 25, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 14 Comments G-Mafia "Let us now praise freedom's twilight..." —Osip Mandelstam by Esca Webuilder We live without the feeling of the country under...
‘Foggy Morning Fantasy’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society June 24, 2019 Poetry 10 Comments Foggy Morning Fantasy If heaven, as they say, is in the clouds Then it appears my home and neighborhood Were raptured in the night. If so, I...
‘Disappointment’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society June 23, 2019 Alexandroid, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments Disappointment The waiting's not the hardest part: Much worse is when you finally know That what you craved with all your heart ____Will not...
‘Staving off Omega’ by Dylan Price The Society June 22, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments The ambit is the noblest cause, A last vestige of Apollo's love, A pursuit freed from any flaws, As peace aloft borne by a dove. In...
‘The Populace Invisible’ by Lannie David Brockstein The Society June 22, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry The human body is perpetually pregnant with Trillions of microorganisms that hath colonized Its intestinal lair, and like the gravid...
‘Leaf in Fall’ and Other Poetry by David Francis The Society June 21, 2019 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 3 Comments Leaf in Fall I feel hard without my love at my side; she is the part of me that lacks the soft buoyancy that rounds and bears me...
Two Poems on Hong Kong Protests, June 2019 The Society June 20, 2019 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 6 Comments The Hong Kong Protest Hymn by Lu "Reed ABCs" Wei The Christian hymn "Sing Hallelujah to the Lord" emerged as anthem of the Hong Kong protests....
Two Ballads on Abortion The Society June 20, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 2 Comments Planned Parenthood's a Euphemism upon reading March for Life's annual report by Roy E. Peterson Planned Parenthood’s a euphemism __Covering...
‘In The Know’ by David Watt The Society June 19, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments It’s easy to look without seeing The beauty of life all around; When moments arisen to being Deserve to stir feelings profound. To all of...
‘Message in a Bottle’ and Other Poetry by Tony L. Damigo The Society June 18, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments Message in a Bottle A ballad written on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019 While birds above the beachhead soared __and winds began to...
‘I Spent My Youth with Byron and the Bard’ and Other Poetry by Caleb Winebrenner The Society June 17, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 4 Comments I Spent My Youth with Byron and the Bard I spent my youth with Byron and the Bard, With Tennyson, the Brownings, and dear Keats— And...
‘Ballroom Dancing’: A Sonnet Cycle by James A. Tweedie The Society June 16, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments Note: Formal Ballroom Dance competition involves five specific dance forms. This sonnet cycle attempts to introduce and describe them. I have also...
