‘Meritocracy’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society October 15, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 16 Comments Meritocracy When the Left tries to cow us and trammel our prowess ____We resort to a stiff upper lip, Well aware that their winning will spell...
‘To Elizabeth’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society October 14, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments Sonnet VI from Sonnets for Elizabeth Consider how the bards of old had sung Before their numbers vanished with the years, And how their harps...
‘The Mausoleum, Dumfries’ and Other Poetry by Sam Gilliland The Society October 13, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 8 Comments The Mausoleum, Dumfries His crypt sealed by stones made by mother earth, A soft voice: This is where Robert Burns lies, Yon granite gaol is...
‘Within My Garden’s Soul’ by David Hollywood The Society October 12, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments Within my gardens soul abounds, A spirit stirring neath the ground, Aroused by secret depths that found, Concealed, inspired, a place...
‘Boast of the Poplar’ and Other Poetry by Neal Dachstadter The Society October 11, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments Boast of the Poplar My common green I turn to gold, As Summer’s steaming, burning hold is broke, unseemly in July, At the close to...
‘On the Sale of a 1,000-Year-Old Craquelure Chinese Dish for £10 million’ by Phillip Whidden The Society October 10, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 1 Comment ~ Dedicated to Falun Gong practitioners facing persecution in China Brutality meets decency and then What happens? Hardness softens, or...
‘On Formal Slavery (to a Nation of Free Verse)’ by Kristin Garth The Society October 9, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments On Formal Slavery (to a Nation of Free Verse) For there are those that call us slaves. How poor and simple we must be to cling to ties that...
‘Columbus Statues Defaced (A Haiku)’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society October 8, 2017 Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 2 Comments Columbus Statues Defaced A haiku High-jacked history An Autumn of mutiny We are lost at sea A Step Beyond A step beyond The...
‘Flagellation I: Cervantes at Lepanto’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society October 7, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terrorism 17 Comments What is my body that was never mine, That, fevered, it should waste below the deck? I rise, instead, to face the ocean’s brine, The...
‘Basics’ and Other Poetry by R. Nikolas Macioci The Society October 6, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Basics Tonight I paint flowers on my tablet. I wanted to write about deeper things like God and love and time and death which brings me...
‘Body and Mind Recluse’ by Leonard Dabydeen The Society October 5, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments "A man’s as old as he’s feeling …" ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge “If the body frees the mind in its quest For youthful dreams to be...
‘Productivity’ and Other Poetry by Rita Dubman The Society October 4, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments Productivity Lately a feeling's been making me twitch, The Creator in me has too long sat bewitched. Too idle He sits, and He longs to...
‘One Person Every Minute’ by James A. Tweedie The Society October 3, 2017 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 2 Comments Joe Stalin led his country for just short of thirty years— Three decades filled with purges, hunger, suffering and tears. “To make an...
‘L’ame du Mahatama*’ by Sultana Raza The Society October 2, 2017 Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Decades later, his voice still heard: Sustainable, organic, and home-grown. We're reaping what he'd wisely sown: Ahimsa*, respect, main...
‘On the Murder of Two Women Outside the Gare Saint Charles in Marseilles, France’ by James A. Tweedie The Society October 1, 2017 Poetry, Terrorism 1 Comment Blasphemy A Reflection On the Murder of Two Women Outside the Gare Saint Charles in Marseilles, France, This Morning, October 1, 2017 “Allahu...
Beatrice: Muse for One, Model for All (Essay) The Society October 1, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 3 Comments by Jane Blanchard Beatrice, Dante Alighieri’s second guide in La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), makes her literary debut in an earlier...
‘The Teacher to His Students’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society September 30, 2017 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 17 Comments The Teacher to His Students The ghost… the ghost of Hamlet’s father, came To walk the castle walls one moonless night. This father, once the...
‘Morning Ecstasy’ by Sandeep Kumar Mishra The Society September 29, 2017 Poetry 2 Comments Reluctant night is slowly retreating The earth in gray, dim shades still hovering, Dawn strides out leisurely to wake each farm Her sleepy liquid...
‘The Luna Moth, the Poet, and Philosopher’ by Phillip Whidden The Society September 28, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments “Carlotta Capuccino , ‘Plato’s Ion and the Ethics of Praise,’ takes the . . . view that poetry deploys ‘groundless praise’ and...
‘Life Science’ by N. Ram The Society September 27, 2017 Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments Scientists of the world were meeting Stars among them they were feting Challenges new they were seeking Of wine and wisdom, they were...
‘The Incarnation Sonnets’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society September 26, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Incarnation I: Ego Mater Pulchrae Dilectionis I blossom forth delights on fruitful vine; My grapes are opulent and fair, Productive of a...
Book Review: Groans From Old Bones by William F.E. Morley (1920 – ) The Society September 25, 2017 Essays, Poetry, Reviews 4 Comments Click here to download the entire book as a pdf file. By Leonard Dabydeen In the fraternity of poetic minds we can luxuriate joyously on the...
‘Poetry on Organ Harvesting from Falun Gong Practitioners’ by Damian Robin The Society September 24, 2017 Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 41 Comments Read about forced organ harvesting in China here. Photograph This man is lost, dead, His organs taken. Dark; hard to look at: His drained...
‘Not Every Morning’ and Other Poetry by Anne Janai The Society September 23, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments Not Every Morning Not every morning is as this one, calm excitement for a future brought by change, so many years’ hard work to wrought...
‘Re-visiting Dante’ and Other Poetry by James Sale The Society September 22, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Dante, Poetry 5 Comments Re-visiting Dante “For Dante it was a strict rule not to rhyme the word ‘Christ’ with any other word except itself” – Clive...
Translation of a Sonnet by Joachim du Bellay The Society September 21, 2017 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 3 Comments Sonnet by Joachim du Bellay (1522-1560) / Translation by Morgan Downs If all our life is no more than a day In the Eternal;...
Wedding Vow in Poetry: ‘Walk With Me’ by Amy Foreman The Society September 20, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments Walk with me, though both of us May wonder where we go. Talk with me, explore, discuss The things we may not know. Sit with me, through anxious...
‘Beneath Brambles’ and Other Poetry by Karen Shepherd The Society September 19, 2017 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 6 Comments Beneath Brambles A villanelle Beneath the tangled brambles, look around. Vines creeping, smothering, create the dark. A trillium insists her...
‘Requiem for September’ and Other Poetry by Ann Christine Tabaka The Society September 18, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Requiem for September (or/ November Is Upon Us) Withering leaves Dying grasses Autumn is here Time Passes Gray skies Chilly days Brisk...
Interview with Samuel Gilliland: ‘The Finest Lyric Poet in Scotland’ The Society September 17, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Interviews, Poetry 7 Comments By Joseph Charles MacKenzie, for the Society of Classical Poets Born in 1939 Samuel Gilliland attended the ancient Dreghorn School in an old...
‘Cagney’s Last Curtain Call’ by Sam Gilliland The Society September 16, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 15 Comments Cagney's Last Curtain Call Words shape my lips, words that I shall borrow, Pre-dawn, the sun, yet to fully arise, Caresses land edged by...
‘Translation of Marcabru’s L’autrier Just’una Sebissa’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society September 15, 2017 Culture, Poetry, Translation 11 Comments Translation (1) By a hedge, the day before, I met a half-breed shepherdess Full of cheer and sense no less— A peasant woman’s child....
‘Grading Gumnuts’ by David Watt The Society September 14, 2017 Children's, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments One afternoon, ‘neath forest tall, where Sunlight dons disguise, I saw a sight few people see (unless they’re telling lies); For...
‘Youths For Prophets, Without Sin’ by David Hollywood The Society September 13, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments Youths for Prophets, Without Sin As youths for prophets steer a course, Towards our futures of remorse, We forge a dauntless faith...
‘American Incipits’ by Reid McGrath The Society September 12, 2017 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments AMERICAN INCIPITS Ishmael “You shall call his name Ishmael, because the LORD has listened to your affliction. He shall be a wild donkey of a...
‘A Lament for 9/11’ by Zachary Dilks The Society September 11, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terrorism 2 Comments 'Twas so much more on that morn before fall that we all came to mourn as it fell As the shadows that touched had borne, by its clutch, a...
‘To Terror’s Followers’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society September 10, 2017 Poetry, Terrorism 2 Comments Cloaked in rumors of religion, looming bloodthirst Brings upon world’s drowning morals bouts of horror, As the force of chaos calls you... Depths...
Hurricane Irma: ‘Trouble in Paradise’ by Lucy Cortese The Society September 8, 2017 Culture, Poetry 2 Comments We folks in Florida are quick to extol her amenity: The beach, the surf, the lifestyle announce unique identity. But, sometimes Mother...
‘The New Explorers’ and Other Poetry by Daniel W. Galef The Society September 8, 2017 Culture, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments The New Explorers See this figure? That’s the Spirit Sent up way back when to scout. She rolls around And samples rocks To see if any...
‘Super Bowl Podcast’ by John W. Steele The Society September 7, 2017 Culture, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments The best way to understand America is through the lens of football esoterica. If you have no clue where you belong, why not join the friendly...
