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  • ‘The Inclusivity Policy of a British School’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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    Humor, Poetry
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    Culture, Poetry, Villanelle
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    Poetry, Satire, Sestina
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‘Rare Dreams’ and Other Poetry by Dean Robbins

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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

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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

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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 Alec Ream

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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 unobtrusive...

‘Confucius Institutes’ by Damian Robin

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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

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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 Alec Ream

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 Alec Ream

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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...

‘Wow! (a View from inside the ISIS State)’ by Damian Robin

The Society
June 5, 2015
Culture, Poetry
Wow! The wind is blowin’, the rain is rainin’ slant across the windowpane – and in the yard whole oceans storm across the grass and make...

‘How Long the Night’ Translation and More by Michael R. Burch

The Society
June 2, 2015
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
6 Comments
  How Long the Night Anonymous Old English Lyric, circa early 13th century AD Loose translation by Michael R. Burch It is pleasant,...

‘Climbing the World’s Peak’ by Yuxing Xia

The Society
May 30, 2015
Beauty, Poetry
2 Comments
Submerged in blinding red and blue at dawn, I climb the barren fields to find between the gentle tides of crying clouds, where spawn the highest...
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