‘Camino D’Oro’ (A Villanelle) by Robert Walton The Society June 11, 2016 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 2 Comments Our paths vanish; our footsteps fade From forest glades, from wave-damp sands From sunlight’s dazzle and twilight’s shade. Babes...
‘This Will Not Make the News Today’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society June 9, 2016 Poetry 1 Comment This Will Not Make the News Today "My mother told me to take nothing stronger than aspirin." —Bruce Dale Wise By Dr. Weslie Ubeca O, we have...
‘On Turning Eighty’ by Robert King The Society June 8, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments Though I’m eighty and have survived I’m the oldest man that never lived My life flew by too fast for that Each mountain climbed now...
‘2016 Primaries’ and Other Poetry by John W. Steele The Society June 7, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment 2016 Primaries This season, Mr. Trump’s a raging wildfire, a storm ignited by reality TV, fodder for anyone who likes good satire. He’s...
‘The Lady and the Unicorn’ by Dylan Schrader The Society June 5, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Gaunt fades the twilight, nearly gone, a weary world wearing thin Since last the unremembered sun smiled upon the land below, And sluggish sinks...
On the 27th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre: Three Poets Speak The Society June 4, 2016 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 6 Comments Post your Tiananmen Square poems in the comments section below. Tiananmen By James Fenton, Hong Kong, 15 June 1989 Tianamen Is broad...
‘Don’t Feed the Trolls’ by Alan Jankowski The Society June 3, 2016 Culture, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments To some the world revolves around them, And nothing else can matter. They’ll do anything to reach that end, Including endless idle...
‘Go Forth, Graduates!’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges The Society June 1, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments Go Forth, Graduates! To all you graduates, fare well! This world is yours today. Don’t follow the masses who sell Their minds or don...
‘What If’ by Pamela Corbett The Society May 31, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments What if the tall tales we’re told as children, are in fact true?Lost stories about elves, hobbits, and knights of great virtue-Waging battles of...
A Biographical Remark in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis The Society May 29, 2016 Essays, Poetry, Shakespeare 5 Comments By Douglas Thornton "And lo I lie between the sun and thee" (Venus and Adonis; line 194) To see the poet in the act of composition, to hear his...
Imitating Three Shakespeare Sonnets, by James Sale The Society May 27, 2016 Beauty, Poetry, Shakespeare, Translation 3 Comments Original Shakespeare followed by imitation. Sonnet 49 Against that time, if ever that time come, When I shall see thee frown on my...
‘If I Could Be’ by Hayden Bergman The Society May 25, 2016 Humor, Poetry If anything I could choose to be, certainly the pig I would choose; with an oink and a roll in the mud, of me, no man would...
‘Zhang Dejiang’s Hong Kong Visit, May 2016’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society May 23, 2016 Human Rights in China, Poetry 2 Comments Zhang Dejiang's Hong Kong Visit, May 2016 By Li "Web Crease" Du "But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao You ain't going to make...
Poems on Child Abuse by Damian Robin The Society May 21, 2016 Poetry 4 Comments Grooming Kids get pressed down tight in rooms — closed rooms with bare soft furnishing — fresh flowers tunnelled, forced to...
Can the Writing of Poetry Be Taught? The Society May 16, 2016 Education, Essays, Poetry 14 Comments By James Sale In our egalitarian and democratic societies we very much hope and want all good things to be available to all people if they have a...
‘The Frail Security of Mediocrity’ by Buffy Worsham The Society May 14, 2016 Beauty, Poetry I thought that maybe you’re no longer free To think separately from Time’s favored paths Choosing its well-worn roads to unmarked...
‘A Chinese Epic, Chapter I’ by Evan Mantyk The Society May 12, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Epic, Human Rights in China, Poetry 5 Comments Chapter I: Arrival in Beijing Inspired by real events Sing to me, Muse, who flies through Heaven’s realms, Sing of that night when...
‘The Mirror True’ and Other Poetry by Sheri-Ann O’Shea The Society May 10, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment The Mirror True When all at once I seem to see you there I find I never knew you from the first When all that I once thought you seems...
Poetry Review: ‘Heroes and Wonders’ by Ben Zwycky, 2015 The Society May 8, 2016 Essays, Poetry 5 Comments By James Sale Poetry is a delicate balance of language that is prone to either too much yin or too much yang; or put another way, as the poet...
‘Spring’ and Other Poetry by Corey Browning The Society May 7, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments Spring O hallow tulip, flower of the spring, I cannot wait until the sun may bring, From out the earth your amethystine grace, Your...
A Look at T.S. Eliot Looking at Edgar Allan Poe The Society May 5, 2016 Education, Essays, Poetry, The Raven 29 Comments By Wilbur Dee Case | Edited by Kent Van May Now I can see why T.S. Eliot disliked Edgar Allan Poe's verse; Eliot was trying to write a different...
‘The Ballad of the Man Who Was Never Mated’ by Don M. Ferry The Society May 3, 2016 Humor, Poetry 2 Comments 1. The Man There’s a little village up north, yet untouched by modern strains, Where plain folk in stilted...
‘In the Lotus Pose’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society May 1, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments In the Lotus Pose By Uwe Carl Diebes At first, he was uncomfortable in the lotus pose, but as he sat down carefully, his upper spine...
Why Is Modern Art So Bad? (Video by Robert Florczak) The Society April 29, 2016 Art, Essays, Video 11 Comments See full Epoch Times article on Robert...
‘Unripe’ and Other Poetry by Nicholas Froumis The Society April 27, 2016 Culture, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments Unripe Deceived are we by the state of the skin, when overly reliant on our eyes. Of greater concern is what lies within, under the surface we...
On the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death The Society April 26, 2016 Culture, Poetry, Shakespeare 2 Comments William Shakespeare is believed to have died on April 23, 1616. Post your commemorative poems in the comments section or email to...
‘A Riverside Sonnet’ and Other Poetry by Gregory J. Liebau The Society April 25, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments A Riverside Sonnet Under a tree and upon roots I sit, Drinking a forlorn draught of love’s sweet rhyme. Leaves fall and birds fly to distract...
Happy National Poetry Month from the U.K. The Society April 23, 2016 Essays, Poetry 1 Comment By Damian Robin Quick, pick a good book of poems and let your soul soar. Or clip in your ear buds and listen to words by the score. Or rack up...
‘Tahoe Plane’ and Other Poetry by Neal Dachstadter The Society April 21, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments Tahoe Plane On the above photo by M. Kirson Far above the lake I soared, Above the dock, above the shore, Above the rock, above the pine, Mid...
2016 Journal Published The Society April 18, 2016 Education, From the Society, High School Submissions 11 Comments The Society of Classical Poets is pleased to announce the release of its 2016 Journal! Click here to purchase a copy. It is also available on...
‘Dear George’ and Other Poetry by Jane Blanchard The Society April 17, 2016 Humor, Poetry 4 Comments Dear George, If only you were living at this hour, Day, week, month, year. These times are newly strange— Hilarious, but not. You had prime...
Translations of André Chénier’s Poetry, by Douglas Thornton The Society April 15, 2016 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 1 Comment Born at Constantinople in 1762 of a French father and Greek mother, André Chénier grew up in pre-revolutionary France and studied at Paris....
‘Mother and Child’ by Anne Whitehouse The Society April 13, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments A gray mid-March day: the bare branches lean across the blank sky. All colors moved indoors where my daughter and I play with her toys laid...
‘Storyteller’ and Other Poetry by Michael Harmon The Society April 11, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Storyteller We sit around the fire. The storyteller drones, until his words expire in silence like the stones. Primeval darkness frames the...
National Poetry Month Couplet Competition ***Winners Announced The Society April 10, 2016 From the Society, Poetry Contests 138 Comments Winners Conformists of a feather flock together. Michael R. Burch, Nashville, Tennessee The u of solitude allays the...
‘The Clockwork Butterfly’ and Other Poetry by Keith Robson The Society April 7, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments The Clockwork Butterfly When I was a child, and my dreams were of gold I always believed everything I was told, My faith was implicit, my...
How to Write a Poem Like Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Raven’ The Society April 5, 2016 Beauty, Education, Essays, Poetry Forms, The Raven 9 Comments By Dusty Grein and Evan Mantyk “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the English language’s most popular and influential poems since...
‘A Psalm of Life: What the Young Woman Said to Her Husband’ by Gina Moriarty The Society April 3, 2016 Humor, Poetry After Phoebe Cary, after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Tell me not, in scolding...
‘The Rock Climbers’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society April 1, 2016 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments The Rock Climbers By Cal Wes Ubideer I saw them climbing up the gray-white, rocky mountain hills, like any mountain goats, where over all the...
‘Far From Home, First Dream in Months’ by Andrew Szilvasy The Society March 30, 2016 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments August 13, 2012 I dreamt last night of singing with Li Po. (Or is he now sleeping, dreaming of me?) How much we drank… The world all...
