‘Heritage as Hope’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society May 23, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 30 Comments Heritage as Hope I saw the cricket scene in evening light, In Windsor light with calm men moving through The evening air and dressed in cricket...
Three Poems by Mikhail Yu. Lermontov, Translated by Don Mager The Society May 22, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 8 Comments All poems translated from Russian. The Rock A gold cloud rested the whole night Upon the breast of a huge rock; And cheerfully at dawn it...
‘Joy Comes’ and Other Poetry by Rachel Holbrook The Society May 21, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Terrorism 9 Comments Joy Comes Softly silent; kindly kept, ___the haunted hours crept. Moonlit minutes—marked and mute, ___the lonely doubt takes root. The...
‘Bridge of Memories’ and Other Poetry by Dusty Grein The Society May 20, 2018 Beauty, Pantoum, Poetry 16 Comments Bridge of Memories a symmetrelle in mixed syllabic meter A bridge built of memories spans the gap between future and past. Although life may...
‘Prince Harry to Meghan Markle on Their 20th Wedding Anniversary’ by Joe Tessitore The Society May 19, 2018 Culture, Poetry 8 Comments I remember our marriage the horses, the carriage the millions we spent on your gown we threw out the book the foundations we shook as...
‘The Archaeological Gardens at Giardini-Naxos’ and Other Poetry by William Ruleman The Society May 19, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments The Archaeological Gardens at Giardini-Naxos 7 March 2018 The stones are overgrown with clover now, Drowned by daisies, fresh cape sorrel...
‘Out on a Limb’ by David Watt The Society May 18, 2018 Humor, Poetry, Short Stories 17 Comments In an old timber town lived a man of renown; With a chainsaw he couldn’t be beat, And as quick as you’d say “What’s for dinner...
‘Pika’ by André Le Mont Wilson The Society May 17, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, The Environment 9 Comments The pika climbs the snowless slopes in hope of finding cooler climes. A tailless kin to hares, he shelters under stones to cope with rising temps...
‘Tulip Tree in Bloom, January’ and Other Poetry by Tim J. Myers The Society May 16, 2018 Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 38 Comments Tulip Tree in Bloom, January Every working day I pass a tulip tree on yellow grass and strain to see, when it appears, petals out this...
‘The Fairies Danced’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society May 15, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments The Fairies Danced The fairies danced and shone like diamonds on __The lake below. My pole across my knees; __My creel on my lap; the sun...
‘The Devil’s Details’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges The Society May 14, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 12 Comments The Devil’s Details There’s a devil in the details, Those traits we like to sort; There’s a devil in the details, The minutiae we...
A Poem for Mother’s Day ‘Lullaby’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society May 13, 2018 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 29 Comments Lullaby When you sang to your baby boy did other hearts not fill with joy those few who just happened to hear? for even on their darkest...
A Poem for Mother’s Day: ‘Birth Pangs’ by Rohini Sunderam The Society May 12, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments The painful birth of motherhood So few have really understood Is but a shadow that foretells The pain our parents knew so well Of...
Essay: A Defense of Poetry The Society May 11, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 7 Comments ''A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around...
‘Complications’ by James B. Nicola The Society May 10, 2018 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments I used to be politer, but more boring, my friends say. They could take me anywhere. My conversation wasn’t overbearing. My actions seemed as if...
Shortest Poem Poetry Contest The Society May 9, 2018 Poetry, Poetry Contests, Popular Poetry Archives 192 Comments Update: Winners announced: https://classicalpoets.org/shortest-poem-contest-winners-announced/\ Scroll down and read the comments section to...
‘Am-air-ica’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society May 9, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment 17 Comments (All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Am-air-ica by Eber L. Aucsidew Die Welt proclaimed the biggest drop in CO2 was in America, in the first...
‘The Warrior’s Song at Dusk’ by Ramón Rodriguez, LC The Society May 8, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments At last, some time to catch my breath – a rest, a respite in the fight – How many times I parried death! Bask now in this...
‘A Snowy Day in Spring’ by Yuan Xi The Society May 7, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 8 Comments From the White Cloud Poetry Society. Translation by Jennifer Zeng, rendition in formal verse by Damian Robin With all the trees in shrouds...
‘The Composition Teacher Addresses His Class’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society May 6, 2018 Culture, Education, Poetry 13 Comments When naming things, you have to use a noun; A verb shows action or a state of being. An adjective describes—that is, marks down The...
‘Sonnet 100: Springs First Sweet Kiss’ by Ken Allan Dronsfield The Society May 5, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments Sing me a sonnet of spring's first sweet kiss. Let me gaze at splendid colors around. warm sun touching my cheeks; the cold remiss. those angelic...
‘The Bluebonnet Sonnet’ by Fr. Richard Libby The Society May 4, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments When spring arrives, the wildflow’rs start to grow In woods and fields, and by the country lanes. In reds and yellows, see the vernal...
‘Reflections’ by Justin Monelt The Society May 3, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments I am the shining star above-- The perfect ray of light. I am the wisest thought conceived, I am the earth's delight. I am God's greatest...
‘The Old Buzzard’ by Bruce Wren The Society May 2, 2018 Humor, Poetry, Short Stories 14 Comments On looking into the mirror one afternoon An old buzzard once came and he knocked on my heart, And politely he asked to come in for a while. He had...
‘The Birdman of Gdansk’ by Leo Yankevich The Society May 1, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments When cathedral bells toll through the morning and sunlight touches steeples with its glare, and arrows on the town hall clock stop...
‘The Curse of Charles the Bold’ by Morgan Downs The Society April 30, 2018 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Charles the Bold was the last independent Duke of Burgundy. Killed at the Battle of Nancy by the Swiss, his realm was partitioned in subsequent...
Pastoral Poetry: Arcadia Through the Ages The Society April 29, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry 6 Comments by James Green “Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all...
‘And Our Paths Through Flowers’ by David Whippman The Society April 28, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments In the painting, she has turned to look back At where her lover’s corpse lies in the ground. Her face is blurred; her dress, funereal...
‘Goose Sense’ and Other Poetry by Thomas Schmidt The Society April 27, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments Goose Sense A burden and a bore I must have been; As handy as another leg, I'd slouch The farm in borrowed overalls, and when My chores...
‘A Grief Observed’ by James A. Tweedie The Society April 26, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments In dactylic hexameter Turgid the sea as it billows and foams in the face of the tempest. Wind-lifted wave-crests explode into diamonds agleam in...
‘On the Killing of Falun Gong Mother and Child’ by Damian Robin The Society April 25, 2018 Human Rights in China, Poetry 13 Comments Ms. Wang Lixuan and her son, Meng Hao, were detained on Oct. 22, 2000. Mother and baby both died at the Tuanhe Forced Labor Dispatch Division in...
‘In My Dreams’ by Connie Phillips The Society April 24, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments In my dreams, I always see you smiling, Your bright eyes twinkling like a million stars. In my dreams, there is no sense to crying, Your gentle...
‘A Cello Knows’ and Other Poetry by Andrew Todd Ramirez The Society April 23, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments A Cello Knows Amidst the smoke and light and laughter Along the smiles and cheers thereafter A sound is bled, wrung free from strings It bounds...
Rhyming Poems for Poem in Your Pocket Day The Society April 22, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Education, From the Society, Poetry 5 Comments April 26 is Poem in Your Pocket Day, part of National Poetry Month. On this day, people are encouraged to carry a poem in their pockets and share it...
‘Sestina of Night’ by Karen Melander Magoon The Society April 21, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Poetry Forms, Sestina 4 Comments The lamp holds sway along the shadowed streets A penumbra encircles its sweet shine As night rests softly like a feathered cloak Upon a multitude...
‘Fear’ and Other Poetry by Amy Foreman The Society April 20, 2018 Culture, Poetry, Short Stories 31 Comments Fear A ballad I said to Fear, “Away from here!” And, softly, he withdrew. But, lost in thought, I plain forgot To bar the door anew. So...
A Casida by Sam Gilliland The Society April 19, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments From Lost Love & Other Lyrics A casida Sleep, the enemy of inspiration, An unlikely ally that hangs around, With dawn’s rebirth, cause for...
‘The Night’ by Sathya Narayana The Society April 18, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 26 Comments Wee hours, when crickets tune their eerie cords and hoot the yawning owls at twinkling stars; the night-maid roves seesaw, like a drunken...
‘How Can We Know?’ and Other Poetry by Caroline Bardwell The Society April 17, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 19 Comments How Can We Know? A villanelle How can we know where we go when we die; Pondering signs, looking up at the sky, Wondering if Someone's hearing...
‘Lament for Hymns, We Cease to Die’ by David Hollywood The Society April 16, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments Part 1 Between a teardrop and the heart, We sense our feelings weakened, mourn, For sadness as the tones impart A sound perceived and now...
