2018 Poetry Competition Announced The Society September 1, 2017 Poetry Contests 46 Comments Submit three to five poems, each of which does not exceed 50 lines. Email as a word file or in the email body...
‘The Birch Wood by The Crag’ by Alessio Zanelli The Society August 31, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments The bark came off the trunks before the leaves had dropped— the freeze sped up, the shade enlarged, the birdsong stopped. No forest...
Hurricane Harvey: Late August, 2017 The Society August 29, 2017 Culture, Poetry 4 Comments by E. Ducabe Wisler "Pray for Texas." —Ubs Reece Idwal The tropical cyclone named Harvey plastered Houston's plat, ten trillion gallons of...
‘Britannia’ by Jane Blanchard The Society August 29, 2017 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments As times turned hard and harder yet, The Queen grew apprehensive— Relentless tides of change had made One luxury expensive. Reluctantly, she...
‘Despair’ by James A. Tweedie The Society August 28, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Poet's Note: "Back when I was eighteen years old, things were sort of grim with the Vietnam War and my draft status up in the air. I had...
‘Flushing with Anger in a Rest Room’ by Frank De Canio The Society August 27, 2017 Humor, Poetry 2 Comments I may as well be hired as his maid, the way I’m made to clean his toilet seat. Still worse, the only way I’m getting paid is that by cleaning...
‘Poetry before Writing’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society August 26, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Poetry before Writing “Greece down through the fifth century has aptly been described as a ‘song culture’.” ~ Michael Schmidt in The First...
‘Let Us Raise Statues to the Prince of Peace’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society August 25, 2017 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments Let us raise statues to the Prince of Peace: __Cain’s monuments are powerless to bind __Our hearts in summer’s sheaf, or to...
Essay: ‘Poetry and the Muses Part 4’ by James Sale The Society August 24, 2017 Beauty, Essays, Poetry 19 Comments Poetry, as we have discussed in earlier parts of this article series, depends upon the Muses and accessing the deeper self or soul within each...
Excerpts from ‘Bones of Earth’ and Other Poetry by Michael Curtis The Society August 23, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Riddles 2 Comments Proem In rhyming, timing is everything. Rhymes in wrong places make awkward spaces. A rhyme in rhyming knows more than prose. Rhymes are the...
‘A Communist Specter Haunts the West’ by Adam Jon Miller The Society August 22, 2017 Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Villanelle 1 Comment A Villanelle “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” —George Orwell From the first green...
Ode to the Confederate Dead The Society August 20, 2017 Culture, Poetry 23 Comments by Cause Bewilder for Joshua Philipp Grave statue after statue falls with strict impunity. Memorials and monuments yield to community. The wind...
‘Higher Purpose’ and Other Poetry by David Watt The Society August 20, 2017 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments Higher Purpose Is there any higher purpose As they walk with faces down? Are they sure of destination As they shuffle through the town; With...
‘Passing of the Seasons’ and Other Poetry by Wandi Zhu The Society August 19, 2017 Beauty, High School Submissions, Poetry 7 Comments Passing of the Seasons When snow has melted, chill has gone, and winter turns to spring, The tender buds grow on the branches where the robins...
‘Nesting Season’ and Other Poetry by Michael Angel Martín The Society August 18, 2017 Beauty, Humor, Poetry Nesting Season Little sleep. The night heat did not relent. You startle me up as day breaks over the tent to show me the sea-turtle tracks you...
‘He viewed the world with perfect form’ by Alec Ream The Society August 17, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments . He viewed the world with perfect form But upside down, not as the norm He lifted those who’d been down - trod And doing so, he followed...
Classical Book Review: The Icelandic Sagas: Tales of Kings and Heroes (Folio) Joshua Philipp August 16, 2017 Essays, Poetry, Reviews By Joshua Philipp Abbie Farwell Brown described the far north in his 1902 book, "In The Days of Giants," as "the land of the midnight sun, where...
‘Concession’ by Charles Joseph Albert The Society August 15, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments I used to find it hard to lose at chess. I'd watch in disbelief the check and mate, think through the game and curse to find too...
‘George and the Dragon’ and Other Poetry by Sue Vincent The Society August 14, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 6 Comments George and the Dragon In the Yorkshire dialect “Nah, sithee,” said Granny, “Just set thee dahn ‘ere, An’ I’ll tell thee a tale old...
‘The Journal’ and Other Poetry by Amy Foreman The Society August 13, 2017 Beauty, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Short Stories 12 Comments The Journal It sat upon his bedside table, closed, And waiting to keep record of each day: The silent pages still and unexposed, A diary to come,...
‘Meadows of Corn’ and Other Poetry by Satyananda Sarangi The Society August 12, 2017 Art, Beauty, Poetry 44 Comments Meadows of Corn It seems but bland to every passing eye, These regal meadows dressed in ripened corn; They dance and few can such effects...
‘The Plaint of Aunegild’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society August 11, 2017 Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Argument The following poem is a dramatic monologue in four sections, based on a brief passage in a barbarian legal text. In the sixth-century law...
Rhyming Riddle Contest Winners Announced The Society August 10, 2017 Culture, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Riddles 1 Comment Thank you to everyone who participated! Judges Dusty Grein, Michael Curtis, and Damian Robin have selected the below winners for the first Rhyming...
‘To Solitude’ and Other Poetry by Morgan Downs The Society August 9, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments To Solitude Come, Solitude, my first and truest friend! Long hours of careless converse burden me, And I have need of hospitality Such as...
‘What Heights Within My Mind Descend’ by David Hollywood The Society August 8, 2017 Poetry 6 Comments What heights within my mind descend? To fall on peaks where faith shall end, As summits fail to comprehend, That lands beneath cannot...
‘Windmill Song’ and Other Poetry by Don Shook The Society August 7, 2017 Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Short Stories 8 Comments Windmill Song Alone it shudders on a hill, Defiant in the wind. A strong south gale could topple it, A hard rain do it in. Too many...
‘The Tea Garden: A Crown of Sonnets’ and Other Poetry by Evan Mantyk The Society August 6, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments On Visiting the Tea Garden in Middletown, New York I. A harried daddy with two kids in tow, Maneuvering through city streets and cars, I look...
How to Write an Alexandroid The Society August 5, 2017 Alexandroid, Education, Poetry, Poetry Forms 14 Comments By C.B. Anderson Anyone writing formal poetry today has to be grateful for the arsenal of fixed forms—most of them bequeathed to us from masters...
‘Gazing above Daily Cares’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society August 4, 2017 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 10 Comments A Villanelle To breathe the beaming silence of the sky I long, when dawn’s chill wakes my eyes, and see The oft-unseen yet boundless peace on...
‘Untitled’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society August 3, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Untitled All older statues want to come alive, Those Greek and Roman ones, and Christian, too. Their skeletons and veins and muscles...
Three Poems on the Brainwashing of America by Joe Tessitore The Society August 2, 2017 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments I. My brain just came back from the laundry they tell me it's perfectly clean and it's thinking the way it's supposed to though I'm not really...
‘A Lifetime’ and Other Poetry by Ann Christine Tabaka The Society July 31, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments A Lifetime Day drifts into evening Evening into night All around me darkness With only stars for light Dawn awakes the morning The morning...
‘Again’ by Jane Blanchard The Society July 30, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Upon the release of the Society’s How to Write Classical Poetry When feeling some compulsion to compose, One wonders which of many...
“Though You Behold Me Silent in This Room…” By Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society July 29, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Popular Poetry Archives 81 Comments For Elizabeth On the Poet’s Eleventh Wedding Anniversary Though you behold me silent in this room, Know that I walk in fields of...
‘The Devil’s New Mission’ and Other Poetry by Troy Camplin The Society July 28, 2017 Culture, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments The Devil's New Mission The Devil went to every single school Across America to find a Faust— But no one wanted knowledge. Each dim...
Essay: Leo Yankevich: un Coup d’œil (A Glance) The Society July 27, 2017 Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Reviews 48 Comments This essay was written in 2007 and has remained unpublished until now. by Ludiew E. Sarceb Few of the contemporary poets with whom I am...
A Translation of Catullus’s ‘Ad Sirmium Insulam’ by Douglas Thornton The Society July 25, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 7 Comments The important events in the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus (84-54 B.C.) are recounted through the poems he has left. The particular poem below was...
‘Inside the Dragon’s Teeth, Maui, Hawaii’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges The Society July 24, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Inside the Dragon’s Teeth Maui, Hawaii From inside, you get a new perspective ___Of the tourist spot known as Dragon’s Teeth. The people...
‘After the Peloponnesian Wars: a Microcosm’ and Other Poetry by James B. Nicola The Society July 23, 2017 Poetry, Villanelle 1 Comment After the Peloponnesian Wars: a Microcosm A Villanelle At last I grasp what I could never get: As long as man has heart, hope can...
Essay: ‘Poetry and the Muses Part 3’ by James Sale The Society July 22, 2017 Beauty, Essays, Poetry 18 Comments It has long been observed that whilst the ego is useful in making daily and ordinary decisions in our life, it is less effective when it comes to...
