‘On Bill Mahrt’s Retirement as Choirmaster of the St. Ann Choir’: A Poem by Julian Woodruff The Society January 23, 2025 Acrostic, Beauty, Music, Poetry 18 Comments . On Bill Mahrt’s Retirement as Choirmaster of the St. Ann Choir (June, 2024) W e all should thank our God for William Mahrt, I nto whose hands He...
‘I Will Awaken the Dawn’: A Poem by Rachel Meyer The Society January 22, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments . I Will Awaken the Dawn The birds have yet to echo Their songs across the trees, The sun has yet to whistle Its foggy rays in streams, The dark...
‘True Love’: A Poem by Roger Crane The Society January 22, 2025 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 12 Comments . True Love On a hill far away, a true love waits, In a place of weathered, broken gates. And though the gates are falling down, One place on the...
‘Another Crossroads’: A Poem by Peter Venable The Society January 21, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Another Crossroads I have a rendezvous with destiny.It’s at the crossroads of Straight Street and Main.With cardboard sign, that man rules his...
‘To Her Ghost: a Sequence from Orpheus Looks Back’: Poetry by David J. Rothman The Society January 21, 2025 Love Poems, Poetry 4 Comments . To Her Ghost: a Sequence from Orpheus Looks Back ---in memoriam Emily Desire Gaynor Rothman, 1964-2020 . 1. Breaking Open A sonnet tells the...
‘The Magic Trick’ and Other Poetry by Shamik Banerjee The Society January 20, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . The Magic Trick Another dove spawns from the wizard's hat. A youngster, goggle-eyed, forgets to clap, enchanted by the spell. With every flap this...
‘Cloth of Destiny’: An MLK Day Poem by Kevin Farnham The Society January 20, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . Cloth of Destiny From his jail cell, he preached civility— despite the agony centuries had brought. Proud Rosa occupied a seat; though...
An Inaugural Poem: ‘Anticipating President Trump’s Golden Age’ by Mark F. Stone The Society January 19, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Anticipating President Trump’s Golden Age Unburdened from that which has recently been. An era of progress about to begin. Mending the messes...
A Poem for the 2025 U.S. Presidential Inauguration: ‘Free People’ by Daniel Rancio The Society January 19, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Free People In some sense, free people have no needOf poets to give their speech a better voice.But freedom wanes without great art and heedOf powers...
‘Stones for My Parents’ and Other Poetry on Grieving by Brian Yapko The Society January 19, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 25 Comments . Stones for My Parents I didn’t want to come. How sad it sounded To kneel beneath a hazy sun surrounded By strangers’ graves---grim watchmen for...
‘Whoever Am I?’: Poetry by Prudentius, Translated from Latin by Margaret Coats The Society January 19, 2025 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 26 Comments . Whoever Am I? Preface to His Poetry .by Prudentius (c. 4th century AD)translated by Margaret Coats If I see clear, through fifty yearsI’ve lived....
‘The Hectic Life’ and Other Poetry by Thor Kangas The Society January 18, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . The Hectic Life _Sometimes we get discouraged _With life and all its fuss, Its raucous moments speeding by _Like children on a bus. _It’s all...
‘Death Is But a Passing’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society January 18, 2025 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 13 Comments . Death Is But a Passing A death is but a passing from one world into another, A change of state, a change of place, a starting to discover, A test...
‘Pearls or Swine?’: A Rondeau Redoublé and a Villanelle by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 17, 2025 Beauty, Poetry, Rondeau Redoublé, Satire, Villanelle 22 Comments . Pearls or Swine? Pray show me how to tell a pearl from swine. I have a thirst for sanity to slake. I seek a clue---a firm not fluid sign To steer...
‘Best of the Windy City’: A Poem on Chicago and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society January 17, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Best of the Windy City Nation’s hub and culture center, O’Hare Airport, millions enter. Stunning architecture sites, The awesomeness of Frank...
‘Elusive Illusive Art’ and Other Poetry by Mike Ruskovich The Society January 16, 2025 Art, Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 1 Comment . Elusive Illusive Art Where are the pure, illusive works of artthat bubble upward from the deep unknown?Where in this world are worlds Art sets...
Song Version of ‘The Day the Poetry Died’ by Steve Shaffer The Society January 16, 2025 Culture, Music, Poetry 23 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF6v6ES3FMU . This is song was originally a poem published by the Society of Classical Poets in March,...
Four Newsy Limericks by James A. Tweedie The Society January 15, 2025 Limerick, Poetry, Satire 10 Comments . Four Newsy Limericks . A pedophile, if you should see one, Must not be reported. The reason? __It could be your fate __That you’d be charged...
‘A Pleased Jaques’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise The Society January 15, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . A Pleased Jaques ---after a soliloquy in Shakespeare's As You Like It At first there is the infant, grinning widebecause he has escaped his nurse's...
‘My Soul Is at Home in the Depths of the Ocean’ and Other Poetry by Corey Elizabeth Jackson The Society January 15, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . My Soul Is at Home in the Depths of the Ocean My soul is at home in the depths of the ocean; My soul is at home in the cosmos above, Always...
A Rondeau on the Fish Behind the California Water Shortage, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 14, 2025 Poetry, Rondeau, Satire 28 Comments . O Delta Smelt O Delta Smelt of silver scale, O threatened gem of fin and tail, In brackish waters made just so By crimson hands as ill winds...
‘The Lemon Tree’: A Poem by Satyananda Sarangi The Society January 14, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments . The Lemon Tree We leave the house, the nurtured lawn is gone; The garden still resembles lifeless works Of abstract art; at times banana...
‘Out in the Open’: A Poem by Steven Frattali The Society January 14, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments . Out in the Open The slanting rain comes on and on! The cold drops blear and blur the sun When they hang in my eyelashes. My heavy stomp in the mud...
‘Payday’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society January 13, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Satire 14 Comments . Payday Before the crash, the market looked so strong. I doled out cash and credit, buying in While others sold. But, sadly, I was wrong About this,...
‘Magna Lex’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society January 13, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Magna Lex ---to the choirmaster, a Psalm (19) of David. . I The heavens herald God’s resplendency; The skies above display his artistry. By day...
‘Let There Be Light’ and Other Poetry by Cheryl Corey The Society January 12, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Let There Be Light From beyond, there came the Word—a cosmic “Om”That pierced the void with one colossal bang of sound,Releasing undulating...
‘Unnoticed and Unknown’ and Other Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society January 12, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima 13 Comments . Unnoticed and Unknown Unnoticed and unknown, she passes through The homeless strewn along the downtown street. Unnoticed and unknown by people...
‘Emergent Occasions’: A Poem by Maura H. Harrison The Society January 11, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . Emergent Occasions “And even angels, whose home is heaven, and who are winged too, yet had a ladder to go to heaven by steps.” —John Donne,...
‘Three Cascading Endings on Fallen Civilizations’ and Other Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson The Society January 11, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . Three Cascading Endings on Fallen Civilizations I. Everywhere, the sands are endless. Look: A joke is made of all my glory. On Stone once sculpted...
‘Winter Night’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society January 10, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments . Winter Night A full moon fills the sky with lustrous light And gives the vault of heaven in the night A golden sheen that gilds the cloudy...
‘My Inner Attorney’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society January 10, 2025 Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . My Inner Attorney "Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father...
Two Idylls of Bion of Smyrna, Translated from Greek by Joseph S. Salemi The Society January 9, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Translation 20 Comments . Two Idylls by Bion of Smyrnatranslated by Joseph S. Salemi . Idyll V Great Cypris stood before me in a dreamy hazeHolding by her fair hand the hand...
‘None for All’ and Other Poetry by Peter Lillios The Society January 9, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings 15 Comments . . None for All Backbones wilt and waistlines grow; Brightness dims as diodes glow. It’s history’s course, a simple fact, Declared with...
‘Healing Hands’: A Poem for the National Health Service, by Drilon Bajrami The Society January 8, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 22 Comments . Healing Hands ---in appreciation of the care provided (free of charge) by the NHS, the National Health Service of the UK, while I was...
‘Happy’: A Poem by Joseph Stuart The Society January 8, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments . Happy ---for B.K. A ground to play, a set to swing, A slide to slide, a bell to ring: She walks the way of there and then. “Hap-py,” she says;...
On ‘The Three Little Pigs’ and Other Poems by Anna J. Arredondo The Society January 7, 2025 Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry 21 Comments . Watch Out! Now, “The Three Little Pigs” is a tale More for cautioning than for amusing: Learn its lessons and you may prevail; Heed them not,...
‘A Hero in My Head’: A Villanelle by Phillip Whidden The Society January 7, 2025 Poetry, Satire, Villanelle 31 Comments . A Hero in My Head Though never even in the war he loomed A hero there. At least in my blond head, Our father braved it out where Jap planes...
‘The Adoration of the Peacock’: A Poem for Epiphany by Rachel A. Lott The Society January 6, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 13 Comments . The Adoration of the Peacock ---on The Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi The world is a-gawk at a gaudy surprise, for...
A Poem and Video in Honor of Inauguration Day: ‘The Reincarnations of Donald J. Trump’ The Society January 6, 2025 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Readings, Video 27 Comments . https://youtu.be/LRxp0nZS2hM . video by Andrew Benson Brownpoem by Evan Mantyk . The Reincarnations of Donald J. Trump . I. 218 B.C. Above the...
‘Bollical Dogs’ in Response to T.S. Eliot’s ‘Jellicle Cats’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society January 5, 2025 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 26 Comments . Bollical Dogs I have a complaint! T.S. Eliot hogs All the fun with his stories of Jellicle Cats! So let me (inspired by zoo catalogs) Write of...
