How to Write a Sonnet The Society December 2, 2015 Education, Essays, From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Forms 19 Comments Updated January 9, 2020 A Quick Sonnet Guide. A traditional sonnet should have... 14 lines. X Rhyming. The most common is the...
‘The Return of Fine Art’ by Hoffmann Zhu The Society November 30, 2015 Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry This poem was inspired by Shen Yun Performing Arts. Bleak and somber is the flavor du jour; Modernism pervades all spheres of...
‘Ode on a Children’s Cemetery Plot’ by Ron L. Hodges The Society November 27, 2015 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment Ode on a Children’s Cemetery Plot 1. Behind the soul-gorged cemetery ground, We discovered a plot of yet more dead, A trim, verdant patch...
‘Beneath the Mask’ and Other Poetry by Rick Blum The Society November 24, 2015 Humor, Poetry Beneath the Mask Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. -Oscar Wilde A mask is...
‘When A Child Dies, The Whole World Cries’ by Alan Jankowski The Society November 21, 2015 Poetry Two young brothers are left at home, All by their lonesome selves, The older one notices a new toy, Sitting high up on a shelf. He climbs up...
‘American Monody’ by Gregory Palmerino The Society November 18, 2015 Poetry Secure the yoke and bind the crown. Steady the mouth and tongue for sound. The morning breaks. Our sight is found. The bell is hung. Let’s...
‘When You Have Reached the Bottom’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society November 15, 2015 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment When You Have Reached the Bottom By R. Lee Ubicwedas When you have hit rock bottom, you have nothing left to lose. You gain experience and...
‘The Apprentice of the Dead’ and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath The Society November 12, 2015 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment The Apprentice of the Dead He painted the lines of the country road. He painted the leaves: saffron and gold. He painted the canopy, round the...
‘The Sacred Walls of Ancient Angkor Wat’ by Daniel Magdalen The Society November 9, 2015 Beauty, Poetry The warmth of daylight’s veil is cherishingly cast Upon the sacred walls of ancient Angkor Wat, Whose temple towers show grand myths...
Book Review: ‘Poetry Is’ by Jose Garcia Villa The Society November 6, 2015 Essays, Reviews 2 Comments Review By James Sale This weekend two different things coincided. First, I finished reading ‘Poetry Is: Jose Garcia Villa’s Philosophy of...
‘Harvest Rye’ by Scáth Beorh The Society November 3, 2015 Beauty, Poetry The wind was high that horrid day. The wind blew long and high, and I heard three strange women hum-humming as they came through the harvest...
‘Political Banter’ and Other Poetry by Alan Jankowski The Society November 1, 2015 Humor, Poetry 1 Comment Political Banter Once again it’s that time of year, When political banter seems the rage. When otherwise normal people, Try to come off...
‘The God Morpheus vs. The Little Baby Kuppy’ and Other Poetry by James Sale The Society October 30, 2015 Beauty, Humor, Poetry The God Morpheus vs. The Little Baby Kuppy You'd think in such a fight - no contest To be sure - immortal gods happen not To happen, but have...
‘To Hell with the Hoi Polloi’ and Other Poetry by Craig Kurtz The Society October 28, 2015 Humor, Poetry To Hell with the Hoi Polloi A droll from the Man of Mode To hell with the hoi polloi, I say, democracy is démodé; aristocrats, by troth, know...
Two White Stag Poems by Two Poets The Society October 25, 2015 Beauty, Culture, Poetry The White Stag By Bard Eucewelis I saw it long ago; so long ago it seems as if it was a dream, a white stag in the wood. Reality is ever fading...
‘The Golden Mean’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society October 22, 2015 Beauty, Poetry The Golden Mean By Aedile Cwerbus Right living's hard, the ever-urgent prow pursuing storms or pressing up against life's dangers, tricky shoals...
‘A Sonnet’s Beauty’ and Other Poetry by Alex McKeown The Society October 20, 2015 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 1 Comment A Sonnet's Beauty A sonnet’s beauty’s mostly in the planning, Not in the writing, reading, even saying. The builder knows it’s in the...
‘On Volkswagen’s Emission Scandal’ by Tony Henderson The Society October 19, 2015 Humor, Poetry 2 Comments Volkswagen has admitted to rigging as many as 11 million vehicles with illegal software that cheats on emission tests. Lies and...
‘The Magic Hour’ by Kathy Figueroa The Society October 16, 2015 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment It’s called “the magic hour” Before the sun sinks low When everything is bathed In a warm, golden glow Colours look much richer Flowers,...
‘Farm Air and Poplar’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream The Society October 13, 2015 Beauty, Poetry . . Farm Air and Poplar Before the air be clearly cool, In Georgia, Monticello, see, Be one precursor of the rule, That lower heat - humidity - Be...
‘Winter Smoke’ and Other Poetry by Mary Kay Simmons The Society October 10, 2015 Beauty, Humor, Poetry Winter Smoke Winter smoke and little houses Drawing blinds against the dark The cold, the crying wind Against a stark White moon Winter smoke....
On the Chinese Leader’s Upcoming Visit to UK Prime Minister Cameron The Society October 7, 2015 Poetry By Damian Robin ‘Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? Wider still, and wider, shall thy...
25 Riddles by Evan Mantyk (with Answers) The Society October 4, 2015 Humor, Poetry, Riddles 3 Comments For 30 more riddles click here. I. I may not have a large population Compared to China or the United States, But more than those two or any...
‘Dawn on the Shore’ and Other Poems by Ann Keith The Society October 1, 2015 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments Dawn on the Shore An hour before the dawn of day, I walked beside the tranquil bay, Along the sandy shore. The air was still. The wind had...
‘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 Alec Ream 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 unobtrusive...
‘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 Alec Ream 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...
