‘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 4 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...
‘Re-Formation’ by Amy Foreman The Society August 6, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 24 Comments The Lord: "Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand." (Jeremiah 18:6) Swiftly He kicks the wheel, rotating...
‘God-Farm’ by Sathya Narayana The Society August 5, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments A little baffling it's, a bit insane and funny too, this whole God-farm affair. You sow invisible seeds in ghostly plain and wait for hallowed...
‘The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World And What Became of One of Them’ by James A. Tweedie The Society August 4, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments ...
‘Crossing the Swamp by Jon MacNaughton’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society August 3, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment 10 Comments (All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Crossing the Swamp by Jon MacNaughton by Caud Sewer Bile "If freedom of speech is taken away...we may be led,...
‘In the Poetry Writing Workshop’ and Other Poetry by William Ruleman The Society August 2, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments In the Poetry Writing Workshop “Milton conceived the Paradise Lost as a whole before he executed it in portions. We have his own authority also...
‘Computer Worship’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society August 1, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 32 Comments —from A Gallery of Ethopaths* The computer is a simple tool— It cannot change an arrant fool Into a brilliant, thoughtful scholar, Although...
‘Candle’ by C.M. Rivers The Society July 31, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments Slender pillar burning bright, remarkably distinguished. I wish that you could stay the night but you must be extinguished. Your wick...
‘Sonnet on the Death of Teeth’ and Other Poetry by Damian Robin The Society July 30, 2018 Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments Sonnet on the Death of Teeth I’m amused by a brush with Death In the depths of my bathroom mirror. His grimaces shrink into grinning, His...
‘The Federal and the Doric’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream The Society July 29, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . . The Federal and the Doric The Federal and the Doric Combined a stern austere; They frowned upon the quad; They spread a healthy...
‘A Pink Cinquain’ by Carol Smallwood The Society July 28, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Pink has become a favored cultural color, more subtle, less primitive than red: black mixed with pink is considered seductive, innocent...
‘Aldeyjarfoss’ and Other Poetry by Greg Tuleja The Society July 27, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Aldeyjarfoss If, in some grim sensory exercise In a laboratory, behind a screen Where staunch technicians memorialize Their findings, everything...
Two Translations of the Poetry of Ryhor Krushyna The Society July 26, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 3 Comments Translations from Belarusian by the poet's son Ihar Kazak. The Explosion May mayhem never strike our good Earth; The fertile one...
‘In the Deep of the Night’ by Daniel Leach The Society July 25, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments In the deep of the night do my restless thoughts roam ____To the moon-flooded fields of the sky, And they search for a pure and ethereal...
‘Kant’ by Connor Rosemond The Society July 24, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments Out of the crooked timber laid by man, No straight foundation may ever be built. While Reason clinkers on across the span, The tunes of...
