‘Ode to Immortality’ by William Krusch The Society September 16, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments Ye boundless vaults of heaven without an end, __Thy silvery fields of azure stars unfold Above the earth, and verdurous spruces bend __Toward the...
‘I Taught a Lesson to My Toes’ by David Watt The Society September 15, 2018 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 25 Comments I Taught a Lesson to My Toes I taught a lesson to my toes, They’d overstepped the mark, Escaping time and time again From nylon prisons...
‘Cape Disappointment’ by James A. Tweedie The Society September 14, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Rondeau 14 Comments a rondeau Cape Disappointment, battered and distressed, Besieged, beset, by brute-force waves hard-pressed As broad and deep Columbia...
‘Left to Write’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society September 13, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 24 Comments Left to Write It isn't difficult to find __the works the masters left behind, and others too have written verse, __some for the better, some for...
‘A Wedding Sonnet’ by Evan Mantyk The Society September 12, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry . Written: March 27, 2022 A Wedding Sonnet To those true cultivators of Zhen Shen Ren,* There is no common form we cannot take: The vows of love...
‘Two Poems on U.K. Immigration’ by Damian Robin The Society September 11, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Terrorism 10 Comments My Wife Is Clad in Cloth From Head to Foot My wife is clad in cloth from head to foot. How deep her eyes, how vast and sane her eyes. As we...
‘Titanic’s Survivors’ by Mike Ruskovich The Society September 10, 2018 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments Things shifted for them suddenly From seeing their folks in the morn To mourning their folks in the sea. Mike Ruskovich...
‘Three Loves in One’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society September 9, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Three Loves in One We've gathered Love, but only insofar As we have reaped a crop from seeds we've sown. Those hours we cherished our beloved...
‘New Super Moon’ by Shari Jo LeKane-Yentumi The Society September 8, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments a Petrarchan sonnet Highlighting midnight across darkened skies flies the Supermoon hidden in all of its glory; though sightless and somber, a...
‘A Life Well Lived’ and Other Poetry by Caroline Bardwell The Society September 7, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Rondeau 4 Comments A Life Well Lived a rondeau A life well-lived begins and ends surrounded by the love of friends. The air breathed in and out each lung are...
‘Open Heart Surgery’ by Steven Shaffer The Society September 6, 2018 Culture, Poetry 3 Comments The best day of your life; a child is born! Start out happy, but get ready to mourn. You'll try to keep them from all of life's...
Three Riddles by Manfred Dietrich The Society September 5, 2018 Humor, Poetry, Riddles 4 Comments Riddle XXXVII From small beginnings I grow great, just keep up the heat and wait, help me become the thing I am, give me all the heat you...
‘Letter to Lorca’ by Sam Gilliland The Society September 4, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments Nobody came today to ask me questions, nor has anyone asked me for anything this afternoon. I have not seen a single graveyard flower In all...
‘Venezuelan Woes’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society September 3, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 6 Comments (All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Venezuelan Woes by Lud Wes Caribee As Socialist experiment Venezuela sinks into far greater depths, a...
‘The Injured, Desolate Jericho’ by E.V. Wyler The Society September 2, 2018 Culture, Poetry 14 Comments This villanelle is a tribute to the Rust Belt, and all the communities devastated when corporations close their American plants in pursuit of cheaper...
The Society of Classical Poets 2019 Poetry Competition The Society September 1, 2018 Education, From the Society, High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests 3 Comments “Let glorious acts more glorious acts inspire, And catch from breast to breast the noble fire!" —The Iliad, Homer, Book V, Pope...
‘Musical Comedy or Doggerel for Dilettantes’ by James A. Tweedie The Society August 31, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Music, Performing Arts, Poetry 15 Comments Musical Comedy or Doggerel for Dilettantes The Sonata Like a Classical sonata, our day opens with a theme, Whether thrown from bed by thunder...
‘Canto 3’ by James Sale The Society August 30, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Short Stories 19 Comments Canto 3 is the third canto in the sequence of the English Cantos, the first two of which are available to read on the SCP website. James Sale is...
‘A Quick Catullus’ by Robert Klein Engler The Society August 29, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments Please bring the wine cuz I'm flat broke, I couldn't even buy a can of Coke. But once you smell my heart's sweet rose, you'll only wish...
‘Orpheus’ by William Ruleman The Society August 28, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments in tribute to James Sale and in memory of Joe M. Ruggier (1956-2018), who first published this poem in The Eclectic Muse (December 2017) Those...
An Analysis of Norman MacCaig’s ‘Summer Farm’ The Society August 27, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 3 Comments Paradox as Explanatory Paradigm in Norman MacCaig’s ‘Summer Farm’ by Phillip Whidden Summer Farm Straws like tame lightnings lie...
‘A Question of Faith’ by Charles Bauer The Society August 26, 2018 Culture, Poetry, The Environment 8 Comments A Question of Faith The crowd cheered on their betters’ masquerade, Emotions seethed as memes were hatched and grew; Elijah watched as...
‘Writing’s Free’ by Martin King The Society August 25, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments I like to write, and writing's free; Liberates mind of memory. I take a chance to be creative; For daily stress, a palliative. Not...
‘I See a Friend’ and Other Poetry by Joseph Quintanilla The Society August 24, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 9 Comments I See a Friend I see a friend, pull up a stool to talk to this old stupid fool. Both he and I at an impasse and left upset like sharpened...
‘How Would We Like Our Existence To Be?’ by Alessio Zanelli The Society August 23, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments Meaningful. Active and interesting. Strong. ___Simply not counting the days, as if stray, ______dreary, unworthy, but making them count, serve, be...
‘A Clean Patch of Land’ by Carter Davis Johnson The Society August 22, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments They stood on the porch, Eyes over the land. The young and old man, Making their plans. The old man spoke out Between his long...
‘To the Class of 2018’ and Other Poetry by Benjamin Daniel Lukey The Society August 21, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings 11 Comments Exodos, Prologos to the Class of 2018 In times uncertain, ask your truest friends For counsel, and take all they say to...
‘Eros’ by Hanniel Lim The Society August 20, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 25 Comments The silent seeds in wild wastes germinate; The gardened apple trees dripping in bloom. Creation calls and hears, each for its mate; The ice thawed...
‘The Ghost of Phil Ochs’ by David Paul Behrens and ‘A Response’ by Evan Mantyk The Society August 19, 2018 Culture, Poetry 15 Comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0BeEHXjXIM The Ghost of Phil Ochs by David Paul Behrens When you see homeless people on the...
‘Island City: Auckland’ and Other Poetry by Jan Darling The Society August 18, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments Island City: Auckland I’ve grown to love this place of sea and noise Where buildings have assumed a regal poise As high they stab on...
‘Ode to Cole’s “The Titan’s Goblet”’ and Other Poetry by William Krusch The Society August 16, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments Ode to Cole’s “The Titan’s Goblet” O Grand Enigma! Tower of Life! Thy lofty scene ___Is but the glimpse of that eternal...
‘Past the Silence of Barbed Walls’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society August 15, 2018 Beauty, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 11 Comments This poem is dedicated in memoriam to Ms. Wang Lixuan. Because she was raising awareness about the repression of peaceful Falun Dafa practitioners in...
Sonnet ‘07.03.18’ by Edward Hoke The Society August 14, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 58 Comments The constancy of change is to be wished; To find a partner and to settle down, To build a life, where new routines exist, To memorize her...
Ten Best Riddles of 2018: Contest Winners Announced The Society August 13, 2018 Humor, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Riddles 8 Comments Thank you to everyone who participated and made this a great year for rhyming riddles! —Evan Mantyk, Judge First Place ($100): Monty Phillips,...
‘Pentadactyl’ and Other Poetry by Joe Spring The Society August 12, 2018 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments Pentadactyl 5-foot dactylic poem with a truncated fifth foot on the odd-numbered lines. With apologies to Pterodactyls. Dactyls are...
‘The Ballad of the Poor Troubadour’ and Other Poetry by Chris Tessitore The Society August 11, 2018 Beauty, Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments The Ballad of the Poor Troubadour I’m past my prime __and I’m out of time— I never made a dime from a rhyme. There ain’t much...
The Rise of Conservative Art and Poetry The Society August 10, 2018 Art, Culture, Essays, Poetry 20 Comments An earlier version of this piece was published in The Epoch Times By Evan Mantyk When Jon McNaughton released his new painting, “Crossing the...
‘Journey to a Smile’ by David Watt The Society August 9, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments ‘Leonardo the Great’ was a painter sublime, Never rushing to brush while to-do-lists claimed time; As commissions part-done, lay...
‘They Come For One, They Come For All’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society August 7, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 30 Comments On the recent and coordinated banning of Alex Jones' media outlet Infowars.com by Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Apple by Seer Ablicadew They...
‘Art’ by Phillip Whidden The Society August 7, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments Why photograph a fact when you can catch A nightmare, be a Jackson Pollock or A Dalí at his Druid weirdest? Snatch A depth of fanged...
