‘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...
‘Research Guideline’ and Other Poetry by James Ph. Kotsybar The Society February 5, 2014 Beauty, Poetry Research Guideline Throughout investigative history, a basic principle has long held sway: When we unravel Nature’s...
‘Metaphorical Meditation Musings’ and Other Poetry by Rama Devi The Society February 2, 2014 Beauty, Poetry Metaphorical Meditation Musings My thoughts, like waves of ocean's surface swells that roll repeatedly, then crash on shore, neglect...
‘Contemporary Chinese Holocaust’ by Jim Dunlap The Society January 29, 2014 Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Imprisonment, torture, pathetic wrong - begat from a people of age-old culture, wit, classic beauty, artistry and song: practices akin to...
‘Greeks, Bearing Gifts’ and Other Poetry by Phill Doran The Society January 26, 2014 Culture, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment Greeks, Bearing Gifts The coils of wood cascade as worn blades glide from cedar lengths, rough-hewn deformed and coarse, while nearby,...
A Sonnet by Evan Guilford-Blake The Society January 23, 2014 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment What wonder! - In the arcs described by wings Aloft and floating on the fair spring air. In graceful glides, parabolas of dare Defying, in ascent,...
‘The Rainbow’ and Other Poetry by Robert Woods The Society January 20, 2014 Beauty, Poetry The Rainbow A wave of color binds our sentiments before it fades. For each emotion, is a subtlety in hue expressed, And through life's...
“Ballet Lesson” and Other Poetry by Betsy M. Hughes The Society January 17, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Ballet Lesson The flow has ebbed and left a tidal pool. A little tern wades in with webbed feet So delicate they wobble in the...
Humorous Poetry by Wayne Lee The Society January 14, 2014 Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments Calpurnia’s Paranoia Beware the Ides of March, she said— if you ignore the signs, you’re dead. But Caesar did not share her...
‘Stars from a Different Sky’ by Robert Walton The Society January 11, 2014 Beauty, Poetry Sparks from nearby campfires Might be stars of paradise Glimpsed through twilight’s window Too briefly for surmise Of their height above the...
‘Building for Eternity’ by Richard D. Lackman The Society January 8, 2014 Humor, Poetry 4 Comments He looked all around him and saw monuments so vast Built with good intentions to endure and hold steadfast Awesome structures pointing up to heaven...
‘Bounty’ and Other Poetry by Bronwen Hudson The Society January 6, 2014 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Bounty When apples hang untouched on branches’ bottom, Or beans lie grounded, neither grown nor dead, Or bulbs down-nestle into...
Haiku by Evan Mantyk The Society January 3, 2014 Beauty, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry The Persecution of Falun Gong I. Meditating group One clear crisp day at Shanghai In earth’s sunny loop II. What is...
A New Year’s Eve Poem: ‘The Pendulum’ by Lee Ubis Cardew The Society December 31, 2013 Culture, Poetry The pendulum o' th' old grandfather clock goes back and forth, and forth and back, and back and forth, and forth and back, again, again,...
‘Ode to Matters of Fact’ and Other Poetry by Joseph Psarto The Society December 30, 2013 Humor, Poetry 2 Comments Ode to Matters of Fact The best advice I've ever read -- if you don't breathe you'll soon be dead. And secondly -- a pleasant...
‘Smile’ by Kylee Draper The Society December 27, 2013 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment It spreads like wildfire when you give a smile. At first you won’t really notice at all, But if you wait patiently for a small while, You’ll...
Essay: ‘Twas the Night after Rhyme… The Society December 24, 2013 Poetry 4 Comments By Clinton Van Inman Editors who reject classical styles of poetry in submissions usually respond with, “I hate meter, rhythm and rhyme.” It...
Preparing for Winter and Spring by Damian Robin The Society December 21, 2013 Poetry An English Autumn’s Coming Indoors, a crisp leaf skates on smooth floorboards, gunned by silent puffs from our gapped doorway – A...
‘The Actor’s Prayer’ by Francesca Cappelli The Society December 18, 2013 Culture, Poetry You came to life from dreams and thoughts and whispers. You were told and you were – forever true. The centuries have left you young...
