‘Bollical Dogs’ in Response to T.S. Eliot’s ‘Jellicle Cats’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society January 5, 2025 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 26 Comments . Bollical Dogs I have a complaint! T.S. Eliot hogs All the fun with his stories of Jellicle Cats! So let me (inspired by zoo catalogs) Write of...
‘Caleb in Canaan’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society January 5, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Caleb in Canaan Green fields, walled towns, strong foes, but we are fit To overcome. Forward, I say. It’s ours. These forty days of foraging...
‘The Shepherd God’: A Poem by Jane Schulert The Society January 4, 2025 Beauty, Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry 14 Comments . The Shepherd God On Autumn eves when solipsistic stars__Peer down on bloody, towering oaksWhose gnarled, twisted branches create bars__Encaging man...
‘A Freshman Pep Talk’: A Poem by Julian Woodruff The Society January 4, 2025 Humor, Music, Poetry 10 Comments . A Freshman Pep Talk ---upon reading “Composers to Listen to While Studying,”by Andrew Benson Brown, in The Epoch Times, Nov. 2, 2024 You’re...
‘Topics Over Time’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society January 3, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Topics Over Time At 10 boys talk about the games in which they’ve played. At 14 they discuss the girls and “progress” made. At 16 there’s...
‘Kill or Cure?’ and Other Healthcare Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 3, 2025 Poetry, Satire 31 Comments . Kill or Cure? “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patientwhile nature cures the disease.” ---Voltaire . Possible Side Effects: May...
‘Enduring Sight’ and Other Poetry by Mike Ruskovich The Society January 2, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 3 Comments . Enduring Sight Our blindest heroes walk among us, here, where legendary blindness gives us sight. King Oedipus still lives, and so does Lear in...
‘Americans in Florence’ and Other Poems by Mary Jane Myers The Society January 2, 2025 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry, Satire 19 Comments . Americans in Florence Ooo David! Whoa, you’re well-hung! But why a foreskin, underslung? Your left hand, do you hold a sling or dead Goliath's...
‘Oh, the Days’: A Poem on Motherhood, by Gigi Ryan The Society January 1, 2025 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 16 Comments . Oh, the Days Oh, the days of poop and vomit! My best dress had drool upon it While I walked my teething child Up and down the hall for miles. Oh,...
Two Meditations in Verse by T.M. Moore The Society January 1, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Meditation 4 "Now our Lord bestowed great gifts through small means..." ---Homily on Our Lord (11) "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or...
‘My New New Year’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 31, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 44 Comments . My New New Year I’m shunning bards of lilt and kilt tonight. My cup o’ kindness guzzled dry by kin Has urged the spurning of that worn-out...
‘December 31’: A New Year’s Poem and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society December 31, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments . December 31 __Another year _Gasps out its dying breaths. __Oh, do not spare _Any further Death’s ___Swift hand _From seizing its demand! __Do...
‘A Creation Myth’: A Poem by Evan Mantyk The Society December 30, 2024 Culture, Epic, Poetry 17 Comments . A Creation Myth The curtain opens. A million violinsCrescendo. Trumpets blare. A single drumBeat booms. In perfect time, the cosmos spins.The Hero...
‘Nordic Memories’: A Poem by Dan Tuton The Society December 30, 2024 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Nordic Memories They rise with the dawn of fashion Their eyes for new booty are keen, To ride the tide of nostalgia For something that they’ve...
‘Lines Written in a Time of Illness’ and Other Poetry by A.J. Illingworth The Society December 29, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Lines Written in a Time of Illness My body is weak, and this reflects my soul,Who baser pleasures is obsessed to know;For the mind, of late,...
‘The Matters of Life’: A Poem by Margaret Brinton The Society December 29, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . The Matters of Life With furrowed brow she knits away her troubles,Her wrinkled face so tight and drawn with age.The skeins of yarn unwind in rapid...
‘Help! I Can’t Stop Speaking in Iambic!’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society December 28, 2024 Humor, Poetry 33 Comments . Help! I Can’t Stop Speaking in Iambic! Help! I can’t stop speaking in iambic Pentameter! No matter what I say, Somehow it keeps on coming out...
‘On Learning of a Lover’s Death’ and Other Poetry by Cheryl Corey The Society December 28, 2024 Beauty, Ekphrastic, Poetry 18 Comments . On Learning of a Lover’s Death Your parting words were not exactly nice, But when I read the news that you had died, At least for old times’...
‘The Blank-Page Stage’ and Other Poetry by Warren Bonham The Society December 27, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . The Blank-Page Stage I once embraced the blank-page stage, when words would somehow always rhyme, but now my brain shows signs of age, and operates...
‘Catching Up’ and Other New Year’s Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society December 27, 2024 Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Catching Up An hour passes in a second. A month goes by in just an hour. The rosy future that once beckoned Has now become a withered...
‘Twas the Day After Christmas’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society December 26, 2024 Poetry, Satire 10 Comments . 'Twas the Day After Christmas ‘Twas the day after Christmas. Mom went to the store To return all her presents and gift herself more. The...
‘Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming’: A Musical Arrangement by James A. Tweedie The Society December 26, 2024 Music, Poetry 5 Comments . Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming Every year I either compose new music for Christmas or create a new arrangement of a familiar carol. This year I...
‘Ode to a Christmas Pudding’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 25, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . Ode to a Christmas Pudding O fragrant orb of dark and luscious depths Made with magic conjured every year By souls who know the spell---those...
‘Stars Voluble’: A Christmas Poem by Margaret Coats The Society December 25, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . Stars Voluble Profound and lightless silent night _Lay still with curtains closed. Into unspeaking dark the Word Descended from his regal...
‘Christmas in Florida’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society December 25, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 22 Comments . Christmas in Florida I watched him pass! St. Nick himself---Kris Kringle,Who hails from Buffalo, not the North Pole.He waved; I heard bells on his...
‘A Present Unclaimed’: A Christmas Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society December 25, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . A Present Unclaimed Under the tree is a present unclaimed Paper and ribbon and bows, good to go. Who is it for? “Who it’s from” isn’t...
A Yuletide Medley Performed for Christmas Day by Poet Jeff Eardley The Society December 24, 2024 Music, Poetry 10 Comments . Professional musician and SCP poet Jeff Eardley performs a medley of Christmas songs on his guitar. Merry Christmas from the Society of Classical...
‘Make Room, He’ll Come In’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society December 24, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . Make Room, He’ll Come In Have you spent much time wandering, feeling distressed,and upon your arrival, found no place to rest?You can’t...
‘Santa Claus Has Passed Away’: A Christmas Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society December 24, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Santa Claus Has Passed Away As is their custom every year, the Men’s Club promptly after class had half the hallway commandeered and cheerfully...
‘Love Broke Through Time’: A Poem by Gigi Ryan The Society December 24, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Love Broke Through Time On the first Christmas night Love broke through time With pain to Mary and her child whose bed Was straw with ox and ass in...
‘A Remarkable Day’: A Christmas Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society December 24, 2024 Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 3 Comments . A Remarkable Day "He's God in human form!" whispers the crowd In motley clothes and groups of twos and threes Beneath the bulky, partly-aqua...
‘A Christmas Eve Sestina’ by Mary Gardner The Society December 24, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Sestina 8 Comments . A Christmas Eve Sestina “He who sings prays twice.” ---Saint Augustine The vagabond had too much Christmas cheer. He doesn’t notice that the...
Jupiter Hammon’s Christmas Poem: An Essay by Michael Curtis The Society December 23, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 6 Comments . Jupiter Hammon’s Christmas Poem by Michael Curtis 1761 was a slow, yet interesting year for poetry. The imposter Macpherson announced the...
‘Home for Christmas’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society December 23, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Home for Christmas Beneath the sinking skies I ride, a traveler on his way, .Through drizzling mist and fading light...
A Christmastime Poem by Gigi Ryan, Sung to the Tune of ‘Sterling’ The Society December 23, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry 16 Comments . The Story the Stars are Retelling ---to the tune of 'Sterling' When burdens are heavy and Christmas is near And faraway star luster barely...
‘The Interview’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society December 22, 2024 Culture, Poetry, Satire 20 Comments . The Interview “Respect my grammar rules or else,” K said, “This interview will be extremely short. Or better yet, I’ll summon you to...
Three Christmas Sonnets by Phillip Whidden The Society December 22, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Dim and Not He carries one white candle in the space Beneath cathedral vaults. He has to hold His hand in front of it so just a trace Of light...
‘Be Still and Know . . .’: A Poem by Peter Venable The Society December 21, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Be Still and Know . . . Gulls brawl over a chip and squawk. __Waves wash shell shards on sand. On the sea shore, a morning walk. __I wade through...
‘Full Circle’: A Poem by Dennis McSweeney The Society December 21, 2024 Culture, Poetry, Science 7 Comments . Full Circle From age to age how long the fray’s been fought Tween those who seek the Truth on sacred ground And those who wish to harness...
‘Song of the Sophist’ and Other Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 20, 2024 Pantoum, Poetry, Rondeau, Satire 37 Comments . Song of the Sophist a pantoum I tiptoe past all that is true--- The facts never matter to me. My aim is to wheedle and woo. I peddle malarkey with...
