‘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...
‘Hero for Hire’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society September 6, 2017 Culture, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments Hero for Hire About myself I feel so good I grabbed my club, I donned my hood I found a hater to beat Then on the other side of town I knocked...
‘Urban Butterfly’ and Other Poetry and Music by Adam Sedia The Society September 5, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment Urban Butterfly What business have you here, In acrid air, to strain Through jagged glass and steel On a cracked asphalt plain. Faint, shady...
‘The Sea’ and Other Poetry by David Bellemare Gosselin The Society September 4, 2017 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments The Sea My sleeping spirit wakes As the town’s vespers Climb the stairless sky And the sea whispers. The rushing waves crash On the...
‘Cicada and Mantis’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges The Society September 3, 2017 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Short Stories 2 Comments Cicada and Mantis You are known to us by your choral song, The clicks and buzzes of an insect throng. Hidden in darkness, a collective...
Review: Wolfe and Other Poems by Donald Mace Williams, Wundor Editions, 2017 The Society September 2, 2017 Essays, Poetry, Reviews 3 Comments By James Sale Donald Mace Williams Wolfe and Other Poems is an extraordinarily good collection of poems, clearly written by a veteran writer....
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...
