‘The Stairway’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society September 28, 2015 Beauty, Poetry Your spirit’s eyes, now opened, see The timeless steps of stone ahead... Old debts weigh down your weakened knee, Each step, a human...
‘Game Over’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges The Society September 25, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Game Over With my friend P. Modernity, We played a game of strategy. Sipping our hot cups of coffee, We spoke over a game of chess. Most of...
‘Ideology’ by Robert King The Society September 22, 2015 Humor, Poetry 1 Comment Ideology is a disease, Impervious to reason, An infection known to seize One in the election season. It has alas no known cure, This paralysis...
‘Rare Dreams’ and Other Poetry by Dean Robbins The Society September 19, 2015 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments Rare Dreams I'm looking through the window of a plane in which I've never been, nor ever will; staring beyond a wing that is not there into a...
‘Danger: Helping Is Forbidden’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society September 16, 2015 Beauty, Poetry Danger: Helping Is Forbidden By Aw "Curbside" Lee It's been a month since he's been seen— the Chinese advocate of civil rights— Li Heping....
‘Night and Moonlight’ and Other Poetry by Gregory Palmerino The Society September 13, 2015 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments Night and Moonlight What more can be said about the full moon that hasn’t already been said before? The queen of tides, now glaring at the...
‘Metamorphosis, Offering’ by Neal Dachstadter The Society September 10, 2015 Art, Beauty, Poetry A trail it stumbled on a door, A doubled one, upon a floor, Some fellow just as you and me, Approached the portal now we see, And...
‘Confucius Institutes’ by Damian Robin The Society September 7, 2015 Culture, Poetry Confucius Institutes, which advance the agenda of the Chinese Communist Party, are found at universities in the United States and around the...
‘The Backwards Romantic’ and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath The Society September 4, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments The Backwards Romantic “Most of those once common occasions for poetry seem embarrassingly old fashioned now that piped-in tunes and hand-held...
‘Arizona Midnight’ and Other Poetry by Neal Dachstadter The Society September 2, 2015 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments Arizona Midnight Strewn across the vault of ink, Runes and constellations link- ing platinum silver fiery space Unfathomed grace, untiring...
2016 Poetry Competition The Society August 31, 2015 Featured, From the Society 17 Comments Society of Classical Poets 2016 Competition Guidelines (Closed) (See details for Hudson Valley, New York Competition below*) -Submit three to...
‘Haiku of Righteous Thought’ and Other Poetry by Jason William Larsen The Society August 29, 2015 Beauty, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 1 Comment Haiku of Righteous Thought Inspired by Dafa Karma turned virtue Evil eliminated Virtue travels home Foe falls defeated Demon laughter...
‘Poetry Dies: Influential Artistic Method of Illuminating Human Truth Passed Yesterday’ by Ron L. Hodges The Society August 26, 2015 Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments Poetry, arguably the most powerful form of communication ever devised by mankind, has died. It was thousands of years old. Poetry died yesterday...
‘Meditating in the Night’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society August 23, 2015 Beauty, Poetry The moon, surrounded by gray lands with floating hills and cliffs of clouds, Spreads fields of light that fade away upon the drifting...
‘Octave’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society August 20, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Octave By Erisbawdle Cue There's always something going wrong the pessimistic person thinks. One moment one is going strong and then...
Two Shakespearean Sonnets by Evan Mantyk The Society August 17, 2015 Poetry 1 Comment A Chinese Man Contemplates Quitting the Communist Party To be a communist party member Or not to be, the question looms o’er me: Is it nobler to...
‘Why Did Lyric Poetry Die’ by Robert King The Society August 14, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Why did lyric poetry die? ‘Cause caterpillars cannot fly And no longer morph to butterflies Pegasus now has lost his wings To logic, not to...
‘Darkest Before Dawn’ by Jason Larsen The Society August 11, 2015 Beauty, Poetry The sorrows of many pulls upon heart strings To accomp'ny angelic voices that sing Voices so sweet but pain too intense to soothe Roads...
‘The Tears of the Gods’ and Other Poetry by Robert S. Hubbard The Society August 5, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment The Tears of the Gods An ancient fable tells of how the gods rose from the main Of azure deep of Ocean and all Being they surveyed How Sun he...
‘Phaethon’s Dare’ by Gregory Palmerino The Society August 2, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments I. Again the darkling moon is new this night, and cold deserted seas in lunar sleep lay fasting and far from the waxing light; as bright Apollo*...
Essay: ‘The Poet as Maker’ by James Sale The Society July 31, 2015 Essays 17 Comments When you are 62 years old things may begin to be clearer; you begin realise to the full extent what territory you are in and demarcating; and I now...
‘The Flea (A Retort)’ by Paul Brown The Society July 29, 2015 Humor, Poetry Do forgive me strange little man If I’d rather remove your hands Than risk a trip to the clinic For laying with one so unhygienic Who must...
‘Dharmachakra’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society July 27, 2015 Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Dharmachakra By Sri Wele Cebuda Around the Dharma Wheel spins, around and round it goes. It never pauses nor begins, it simply travels,...
‘Heritage, not Hate’ and Other Poetry by James Huss The Society July 25, 2015 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments Heritage, not Hate Today I watched a group of people wait To see an emblem steeped in hate removed From its unmerited, yet hallowed place...
‘An Occurrence at Chattanooga, Tennessee’ by Slade W. U. Bierce The Society July 22, 2015 Poetry 2 Comments While we expect for our marines to go into harm's way, and so they do so, and without a hesitation's stay; when they're attacked at home and killed...
‘Toward the Dawn of Truth’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society July 20, 2015 Poetry 4 Comments Dedicated to all Falun Gong practitioners who have been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party since the peaceful practice, also known as Falun...
‘To a Brother in Paris’ and Other Poetry by Neal Dachstadter The Society July 17, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments To a Brother in Paris Like Sun in the woods, or a cold Summer rain, Would trouble make goods, and loss create gain. Then bound to a Lady, and...
‘The Ghost in the Crow’s Nest’ by Enri Vilmos The Society July 14, 2015 Culture, Poetry 1 Comment The captain on this night would have no rest A storm rages and moves in from the West And the heathen banshees screech and wail As the...
‘Some Talk of God: A Dialogue’ by Damian Robin The Society July 11, 2015 Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Back I am an atheist. I don’t believe in God ! Argue this with me or leave ! There is no evidence that ‘it’ exists though faith sects...
Crown of Sonnets on ‘Louis XV’ by Corey Browning The Society July 8, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Upon seeing "Louis XV of France as a Child" painted by Hyacinthe Rigaud at the Metropolitan Museum of Art O 'tis the beauty of the art...
‘Step by Step’ by Yungchen Xiaolian The Society July 5, 2015 Beauty, Poetry Originally written in Chinese and appearing on Minghui.org. Straight, dignified and unpolluted by the polluted world; They are...
‘Bound Verse’ by Alan Nordstrom The Society July 2, 2015 Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Bound verse, ironically, is quite unbound, For writing it you have nothing to say, Since sense comes after you have sought a sound As line by line...
‘The Voices of Shen Yun’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society June 29, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Performing Arts, Poetry 1 Comment Your steps, unequal, hasten, departing from the race Where dust’s all that’s awarded, where just the fit survive, Pursuing trifles, anguished,...
A Tanka and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society June 26, 2015 Beauty, Humor, Music, Poetry 2 Comments Tanka By Ue "Bird Claws" Ee In dim morning light, attracting mates, warning males, dawn's choir's singing— liquid-silver...
‘Is It ISIS or ISIL?’ by Robert King The Society June 23, 2015 Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Is it ISIS or ISIL? I think it is the latter It really doesn’t matter True, ISIS rhymes with crisis Let’s not lose our heads about this But...
‘Creativity Requires a Cave (an Apology for Form and Rhyme)’ and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath The Society June 20, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Creativity Requires a Cave (an Apology for Form and Rhyme) IMAGINE Gretzky “trapped” behind the crease; or Pelé, deking, swarmed before the...
‘The Plague Doctor’ by Corey J. Browning The Society June 17, 2015 Culture, Poetry Marseille, France In the year 1720, the last great occurrence of bubonic plague struck the port city of Marseille, France, killing half of its...
‘A Winterberry Sonnet’ by John Grey The Society June 14, 2015 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments Winterberry disrupts the frozen curse. My vision's charmed by tiny blobs of red Between fine-toothed leaves, above a thick bed Of snow that baits...
‘The Inward Light’ and Other Poetry by Ann Keith The Society June 11, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments The Inward Light Be proof against the eye and ear And every sense that stultifies The inward light, supreme, austere, The keenly sharp, the...
‘The Cherry Blooms in Central Park’ and Other Poetry by Peter Agnos The Society June 8, 2015 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment The Cherry Blooms in Central Park In Central Park the cherries now Are hung with blooms along the slough, And stand around the reservoir, Pink...
