‘Coastal Shingle’ and Other Poetry by Len Krisak The Society May 27, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry Coastal Shingle There, totem-stacked in paratactic charm, The words cascade: Hay.Shavings.Piglets.Straw. I had not sought a sign from Salt Marsh...
‘Zhen-Shan-Ren’ by Evan Mantyk The Society May 24, 2014 Culture, Poetry Zhen-Shan-Ren: “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance,” the three main principles of Falun Dafa Zhen-Shan-Ren, Zhen-Shan-Ren… Hear the Truth...
‘Ashamed I Will No Longer Be’ and Other Poetry by Firestone Feinberg The Society May 21, 2014 Beauty, Humor, Poetry Ashamed I will no longer be... Ashamed I will no longer be To write an older poetry -- I have the right to reach for rhyme And make the most of...
A Health Insurance Limerick by Troy Camplin The Society May 19, 2014 Humor, Limerick, Poetry 1 Comment The cost of insurance was such Its price I could sadly not touch -- So I gave all of that To a young bureaucrat And now it costs three times as...
‘Ascending the Phoenix Terrace in Jinling’ by Li Bai, ‘Yellow Crane Tower’ by Cui Hao The Society May 17, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Education, Poetry, Translation 2 Comments Updated January 10, 2020 Ascending the Phoenix Terrace in Jinling by Li Bai (701-762) Here phoenix roamed four hundred years ago, A sign of...
‘The Battleground’ and Other Poetry by Ken Kenigsberg The Society May 15, 2014 Humor, Poetry The Battleground The slashing blades strike fierce and deep The newly stricken fall down in heaps. In vain: the foe storms back enraged, The...
‘Cynthia Moon’ and Other Poetry by Clinton Van Inman The Society May 12, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Cynthia Moon Go drag your white skull before blind seas That tumble dazed to your mono-eyed magic Go string the treadmill tides around...
‘Waiting, Sadly’ and Other Poetry by James Sale The Society May 9, 2014 Culture 2 Comments Waiting, Sadly For Keats I'm waiting, sadly, for a guest to come: What hour defeats me and how I don't know. But come he will, like some...
‘Two Strangers Passing on the Street’ by Richard Lackman The Society May 6, 2014 Humor, Poetry 1 Comment The two were different as could be as anyone could surely see One was tall and thick and white, the other black and thin and slight To look at...
‘The Fallen Vestige’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society May 3, 2014 Beauty, Culture 4 Comments The Fallen Vestige The fallen vestige of her foliate time: Browned leaves beneath; coarse needles of old pine Once green and pungent; when her...
‘Vespers’ by Kemar Cummings The Society April 30, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment Vespers Lonely broods the moonlit gloom High above the river's flume, Hiding in its dark vault Stars nebulous clouds exalt. The winds are...
On China Today The Society April 27, 2014 Poetry 1 Comment Click: a Pic of Xi Jinping By Lu "Reed Cabs" Wei He rolls along, like as a giant panda bear, the present tyrant of Red China—Xi...
‘Earth’s Canvas’ by Mark Sautter The Society April 24, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments Oh what is the hue? The right shade of blue To color the new morning sky And the green for the trees But, what color’s the breeze? How does...
‘The Gospel According to Hoffman-Laroche’ by Mike Alexander The Society April 22, 2014 Humor, Poetry 3 Comments Tell me why the patient is still crying. What pharmaceuticals? pain pills? barbiturates? What pretties has the doctor been supplying? Finish the...
‘Retreating Snow’ and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath The Society April 20, 2014 Beauty, Humor, Poetry Retreating Snow Like an old man dragging his long white hair out of the lawn, back toward the forest’s shade, the snow retreats, cornered, and...
‘Ode to Alexander’ and Other Poetry by Michael Rovner The Society April 18, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry Ode to Alexander They say he cried, the great king, when He marched upon his journey's end. To live but once, and yet to know There's...
‘The Searchers of Beauty’ by Brice U. Lawseed The Society April 16, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments "Beauty comes from life well lived." —Wilbur Dee Case They are all looking for a loveliness refined, a beautiful design or feeling of...
First New Tang Poets Reading Held The Society April 14, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments Held on April 14, 2014, at Da Tang, in New York, participants read Tang Dynasty poetry, contemporary poetry previously written by attendees, and...
‘This Autumn Evening’ and Other Poetry by Jessica Hoard The Society April 12, 2014 Culture, Humor, Poetry This Autumn Evening These words of Bashō I cannot claim as my own, but they appear again and again in poems I try to write this...
‘In Prison Cells: Rondeau for the Falun Gong’ by Bronwen Hudson The Society April 9, 2014 Poetry, Rondeau 1 Comment In prison cells our aching calls go nowhere but around the walls, and bruising hands repress our cries, replacing truth with frigid lies. We...
‘Skies of a Child’ by Jerri Hardesty The Society April 6, 2014 Beauty, Poetry, Science 6 Comments I love to gaze into the midnight sky To search the night for planets and bright stars, Caress, with pointing finger, blazing Mars, And blow a kiss...
‘To Falun Gong’ by Michael Curtis The Society April 3, 2014 Poetry A little hurt, a little grime, a little dirt, a little crime on Falun Gong. A little smell, a little sale, a little cell, a little...
‘Morning Song’ by Mandy Moe Pwint Tu The Society March 31, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments O sweet be this soft morning’s song As golden mist on earth descends And skylarks trill an hour long While gently this wild river bends: The...
‘Who Needs a Chinese Tractor?’ by Reid McGrath The Society March 28, 2014 Poetry 2 Comments Because he gave up life in town To graze the old undulant farm They called him a provincial clown Who did not get all up in arms. They said,...
‘Of a Swiss Fortress – Ruined’ by Camilla Marx The Society March 25, 2014 Culture, Poetry 1 Comment I dreamed again last night, of waters, raging, That break in waves across the Thunersee, Where mountains coldly climb, fir-clad and...
‘Splendor’ by Kathy Figueroa The Society March 19, 2014 Beauty, Poetry A grand council of trees Stood majestic, serene Heavy laden with snow Beautiful and pristine And I felt reverence For such a peaceful scene And...
‘Truth in Fairy Tales’ by Susan Martin The Society March 16, 2014 Culture, Poetry 2 Comments If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want them to be very brilliant, tell them even more fairy tales. -Albert...
2014 Journal Released The Society March 14, 2014 From the Society 7 Comments We are proud to announce the publication of The Society of Classical Poets' 2014 Journal! The best poetry of the last year has culminated in...
‘Daybreak’ and Other Poetry by Dawn Munro The Society March 13, 2014 Beauty, Poetry Daybreak As day begins in honey’d light, I watch a flock of geese take flight. They fly formation heading south o’er field and...
‘Where Does the Sky Begin or End?’ and Other Poetry by Sierra July The Society March 10, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment Where Does the Sky Begin or End? Where does the sky begin or end? The sea above, the stars attend? Burn bright, a galaxy anew Not in the sky we...
‘Waiting for Dawn atop Butterfly Mountain’ and Other Poetry by Martin Elster The Society March 7, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Waiting for Dawn atop Butterfly Mountain A dilapidated lepidopteran dying atop The Mountain of Butterflies holds out her wings to the...
‘Autumn’s Kiss’ by Aaron Berkowitz The Society March 4, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment The wisp of wind that makes the leaves go dance and play above the browning grass, cannot but stir awake my eyes and ears from trance to sound and...
‘A Message in the Halloween Decorations’ and Other Poetry by Damian Robin The Society February 26, 2014 Poetry 1 Comment A Message in the Halloween Decorations (Based on a True Story) Compressed and clandestine, the Chinese script small, The paper...
‘Unbroken’ and Other Poetry by Andrew Gelinas The Society February 23, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Unbroken If I should break myself today Unchanged from every burden bare Determined unafraid to say That I shall find the strength to...
‘The Philadelphia Pepper Pot Legend’ and Other Poetry by S.M. Westerlie The Society February 20, 2014 Culture, Poetry The Philadelphia Pepper Pot Legend This day in 1777, American soldiers, at Valley Forge, camped. By hunger and winter's breath,...
‘Death by Animated Sponge’ by Janice Canerdy The Society February 17, 2014 Humor, Poetry "More SpongeBob, Mimi"--this I hear a dozen times a day. How much more can I stand to see? No more of this, I pray! I turn the TV off and...
Announcing 2014 Poetry Competition Winners The Society February 15, 2014 From the Society 1 Comment First Place: Bruce Dale Wise (Prize: $500) Second Place: Damian Robin Third Place: Reid McGrath Honorable Mention: Betsy M....
‘Made (by Imprisoned Falun Gong) in China’ and Other Poetry by Khalid Mukhtar The Society February 14, 2014 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment Made (by Imprisoned Falun Gong) in China It's mass production everywhere I look, From toys of plastic hope to airplane parts, And...
‘The Better Life’ by Tyler Horn The Society February 11, 2014 Beauty, Poetry What’s out to kill us makes us more alive. Let’s go escape with me forget our fear, So run with me my brother lets survive. We just have to...
The Sculptor to His Apprentice: A Five-Sonnet Cycle by Michael Curtis The Society February 8, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Instruction The tales of Ovid are a theme that suits The Prince, but will not do for your repute. Avoid lust. Clients of the better...
