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...
‘Itinerant Poet’ by Leonard Dabydeen The Society April 15, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments “The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” ~ Louis L’Amour You are not alone on this wind-rush march, Itinerant ink scribing...
‘War Is Natural’ and Other Poetry by David Paul Behrens The Society April 14, 2018 Poetry 10 Comments War Is Natural To rise above the plane of earth Where war continues since my birth, I find that war is natural, And in this world...
‘Heroes, Victims, and Poseidon’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society April 13, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Heroes, Victims, and Poseidon The metre of ancient Greek poetry succeeds in “achieving a length and complexity that are unusual in the...
‘Obituary’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society April 12, 2018 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments Obituary Late summer, when the bumblebees begin to die, You’ll see them clinging to the petals of a flower For dear life—or at least it seems...
‘Bubbles’ by Ann Christine Tabaka The Society April 11, 2018 Beauty, Children's, Poetry 11 Comments Glistening orbs Dance on air Drifting skyward Without a care Iridescent spheres Shimmering bright Reflecting prisms In the...
‘Canto 1’ by James Sale (with Video) The Society April 10, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Terza Rima, Video 71 Comments Canto 1 is the provisional name for a sequence of 33 Cantos that James Sale is attempting to write in the style - and using the terza rima - of...
‘The Concert’ by Lynn Michael Martin The Society April 9, 2018 Beauty, Music, Performing Arts, Poetry 6 Comments A sonnet of longing and of a glimpse of hope. July 17, 2016. We looked imploring to the starless sky; we worlds and worlds of darkness, seeking...
10 Greatest Shakespeare Sonnets: An Immortal Series The Society April 8, 2018 Beauty, Best Poems, Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry, Shakespeare 9 Comments By David B. Gosselin William Shakespeare (baptized April 26, 1564 - died April 23, 1616) is arguably the greatest writer in any language. His...
‘Battle’ by Florence Adams Clark The Society April 7, 2018 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments Pigeon Cove, MA 1948 Above, the sky, remote and pure, Below, the earth, steadfast and sure. Between the two, the surging sea, Fighting both for...
‘Crime of Youth’ by David Watt The Society April 6, 2018 Humor, Poetry, Short Stories 10 Comments I knew her when I could be called a youth And life had not uncovered certain truths Apparent to detectives, super-sleuths; Such as...
‘The Children’s Crusade’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society April 5, 2018 Culture, Poetry, Terrorism 6 Comments (All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) The Children's Crusade Amendment II of the US Constitution: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the...
‘Soldier’s Son’ by Robert Piazza The Society April 5, 2018 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments Leatherneck, you’re still my childhood hero With tales of firing flack at Jap Zeroes— After training camp in San Diego, You rode the railway...
‘Socialism Kills’ by David Welch The Society April 4, 2018 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 23 Comments Young people go marching, the boys and the girls, They’re thinking like once we did, they’ll change the world. They claim government...
‘A Rounded Stone’ by Benjamin Daniel Lukey The Society April 3, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Short Stories 5 Comments He pressed a rounded stone into my hand. He said, "Take care of this," and turned away To tend to things we needed for our...
‘I Know Why the Red Rose Weeps’ by David Bellemare Gosselin (with Audio) The Society April 2, 2018 Beauty, Poetry, Readings 11 Comments I know why the red rose weeps Why she hides her tears in dew As the summer breezes sweep From those seas of peaceful blue, And then...
