‘The Indian Ballad Of Gitchy Naigow (A Sestina)’ by Douglas Thornton The Society April 2, 2013 Poetry, Sestina 2 Comments Oh sad age, how the years will pass us by, Pass us and then our last visions refuse, Refuse us to look on our childhood skies: Oh daughter I am a...
Painting: ‘Amistad, 2011’ by William Storck The Society March 31, 2013 Art 1 Comment William Storck has painted professionally for over 30 years. His work is in private collections throughout the United States as well as public and...
Excerpts from ‘Versology’ by Alan Nordstrom The Society March 29, 2013 Poetry 1 Comment On the Beam At times when my roiled brain becomes serene, I may achieve a state of clarity In which intuitive insight grows keen, As if it were...
Haiku by Ibe Ware Desu LC The Society March 27, 2013 Poetry The water-birds too are fast asleep upon the Great Lakes of the North. Looking carefully, one finds shepherd's purse on a Vancouver...
Support the Society The Society March 25, 2013 From the Society 2 Comments You can support the Society of Classical Poets in a variety of ways: I. Participate: Write poetry and submit it; comment on others poetry; post...
‘Forever Burn’ by Clayton L. Sanders The Society March 23, 2013 Poetry If I were dying, would you ask me to stay Until the Divine came to take me away From the Earthly protection of your arms, Ascending as energy,...
Spiritual and Emotional Paintings in Oxford, UK The Society March 21, 2013 Art By Damian Robin The intricately patterned Oxford Town Hall is the latest UK venue for the The Art of Zhen Shan Ren, a continuous international...
‘As Icarus Drowns: After Breugel’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society March 19, 2013 Art, Poetry As Icarus drowns in the deep-green, wine-dark sea, before the white, round fisher happily ensconced and th' extr'ordinary sailing ship...
‘Unicorns on New Mown Lawns’ and Other Poetry by Keith Robson The Society March 17, 2013 Poetry 1 Comment Unicorns on New Mown Lawns Quintessential qualities quite quickly quantified Each reason for the morning winds that oh so slowly died, Some...
‘Opinions and Advice’ by Alan Jankowski The Society March 15, 2013 Poetry 4 Comments People always offer opinions and advice, As to what you should or shouldn’t do, Though they can barely manage themselves, They seem to know...
‘To The Society of Classical Poets’ by Steve Johns The Society March 13, 2013 Poetry To the Society of Classical Poets, The website you have is great for starting poets. I don’t know what I would have done without your help. I...
Art: An Angel Reads Li Bai The Society March 11, 2013 Art In this new work by Li Jinyu, of New York City, an angel reads poetry by Li Bai of the Tang...
‘Looking for Your Keys’ and Other Poetry by Christopher W. Boyden The Society March 9, 2013 Poetry 1 Comment Looking for Your Keys While trapped between your life and soul. You look for keys to fit the hole, You struggle through your daily...
A Reading of a Poem by Washington Allston (1779–1843) The Society March 7, 2013 Art, Beauty, Poetry ‘On The Group Of The Three Angels Before The Tent Of Abraham, By Raphael, In The Vatican’ O, now I feel as though another sense, From heaven...
‘Zombie Dawning’ and Other Poetry by James Ph. Kotsybar The Society March 5, 2013 Poetry 2 Comments Zombie Dawning The zombies are coming; no one knows why – no time to ponder such things anyhow. Apocalypse gives us no time to cry. Survival...
2013 Poetry Journal Released The Society March 5, 2013 Featured, From the Society, Poetry 1 Comment The Society of Classical Poets is pleased to announce the publication of its First Annual Poetry Journal, available on Createspace and Amazon....
Art Analysis: Gustave Jean Jacquet by Kara Lysandra Ross The Society March 3, 2013 Art Gustave Jean Jacquet (1846–1909), is known among scholars as one of William Bouguereau’s top students. Although Jacquet’s subject matter was...
Commentary: Three Tributes to Formalist Poetry by Alan Nordstrom The Society March 1, 2013 Essays, Poetry Verse Forms as Evokers of Poetry I wish to dispute the notion that a “poem” arrives in the formal poet’s mind as if it were a compressed...
‘A Season of Youth’ by Doug Thornton of France The Society February 27, 2013 Poetry The simple fruit the body once begot To please the supplicating year’s poor sky, Who pleaded tearful, nor did have a plot For bare escapes the...
‘Composed Upon a Sunlit Chair’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society February 26, 2013 Art, Poetry "Heavenly Hurt, it gives us—" —Emily Dickinson A sunlit chair by Michael John Hunt sits in light, inside a house with open door. It's at...
‘Alas Babylon’ by C.Q. Hone The Society February 25, 2013 Poetry 1 Comment The losses of this lifetime in retrospect I see Reflect a downward spiral of a flawed society: can we now recapture a mere morality? Erase...
On China’s Air Pollution: An Urbanelle, Winter 2013 The Society February 23, 2013 Poetry "How the Chimney-sweeper’s cry/ Every blackning Church appalls…” —William Blake, London “The Beijing Cough may not be as bad as the...
‘Elegy for a Blush’ and Other Poetry by Reid McGrath The Society February 23, 2013 Poetry Elegy for a Blush No more does she show her flower; No more does the maiden cower. Snow-white cheek has turned to tawny. All the lads are...
‘History’ and Other Poetry by Steve Johns The Society February 21, 2013 Poetry History There’s a story in every piece of history. Each time I probe into a part of history, I see wars, plagues, triumphs, romances, and...
‘A Sketch of Stone Roberts’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society February 19, 2013 Art, Poetry A line that travels down the middle of the scene divides the picture's plane in two: above, the vast and airy openess o' th' arching building,...
Poetry Competition Winners Announced The Society February 15, 2013 From the Society, Poetry Dear Competition Participants, Thank you for your submissions! I am pleased to announce the winner and honorable mentions of the 2012 Society of...
Valentine’s Day Poem: Flowers for My Lady The Society February 14, 2013 Art, Poetry 1 Comment How that florid scent Wafts through your two vents Making all your senses yield To wilderness in a field. How the petals soft Carry you...
Anand PKC: ‘A New Day Rising’ The Society February 14, 2013 Art 1 Comment Anand PKC’s “transcendental realism” is on view now through Feb. 27 at Walter Wickiser Gallery, Manhattan, NY. Featured Image: A...
‘To Plait Celestial Chains’ and Other Poetry by Bob Aldridge The Society February 13, 2013 Poetry To Plait Celestial Chains They also serve who only stand and wait. - John Milton, “On his Blindness” They also serve who only stand and...
‘Armor’ and Other Poetry by Sabrina Chen The Society February 11, 2013 Poetry 2 Comments Armor Discard the anxious sheath which guards The balanced song inside Lest ballads deep in ebony Reverberate untied Forgo the throttling...
Poetry Analysis: On Two New Millennial Poems The Society February 8, 2013 Poetry By Lew Icarus Bede It is difficult, if not impossible, to know the state of poetry in any language during its "present...
‘Mount Solitude’ and Other Poetry by Ruth Hill The Society February 7, 2013 Poetry Mount Solitude Snow shelves sit like sentinels Waiting for a tuft-eared lynx Stacked like dishes jutting jewels Balance weights on tiny...
‘Spring’s Rhyme’ and Other Poetry by Amy McCombs The Society February 6, 2013 Poetry Spring’s Rhyme Colour floods so slowly, Each petal takes its time-- It blossoms near to holy As it enacts Spring’s Rhyme. The petals...
Photo Exhibit: Shiprock and Mont St. Michel The Society February 5, 2013 Art PHOENIX—What does a rock formation in New Mexico have to do with an old abbey in France? It’s not the premise of a paperback novel, but a...
An Odysseus Sonnet Sequence by Jessica F. Smith The Society February 4, 2013 Homer, Poetry My Love, Penelope My love, Penelope, I'm incomplete– You are not here, and I feel so alone; Love is a chore, without you there's no...
Poetry Analysis: ‘Death Be Not Proud’ by John Donne The Society January 31, 2013 Poetry 4 Comments Death Be Not Proud Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom thou think’st thou...
‘Instead of Sominex’ and Other Poetry by Meryl Stratford The Society January 30, 2013 Poetry 2 Comments Instead of Sominex Write a sonnet tonight before you go to bed. Just fourteen lines before you fall asleep. Something to clear your...
‘Quids Pro Quo’ and Other Poetry by Lynn Veach Sadler The Society January 29, 2013 Poetry 1 Comment Quids Pro Quo Does beauty matter? You, of all, know why: it skirts the edge of my and your decay. It brings at once both smile and knowing...
‘On Cancer, Guns, and Hit ‘n Runs’ and Other Poetry by Javeed Chida The Society January 28, 2013 Poetry On Cancer, Guns, and Hit 'n Runs The chemo sessions wore him down, He so despised the sterile smells, The chatter, beeps, and flimsy gown, And...
‘Sonnet—To a New Yorker, Evan Mantyk’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society January 26, 2013 Art, Poetry "every where the trace of men" —William Cullen Bryant In Thomas Cole's The Catskills and Lake...
