‘Structured Verse’ and Others Poems by Glenn Meisenheimer The Society January 3, 2013 Poetry 2 Comments Structured Verse Is structured verse so surely dead? Has it nothing left to say? Have the rhyme and rhythm petered out Somewhere along the...
‘Silver Night’ by Sheila B. Roark The Society January 2, 2013 Poetry 2 Comments Up in the inky, velvet sky on this cold winter night the sky is lit with diamond chips that glow with spirit light. Not far away from twinkling...
2012 Poetry Competition No Longer Accepting Submissions The Society January 1, 2013 From the Society 1 Comment Happy New Year! Thank you everyone for your submissions! We have received approximately 600 submissions to the First Annual Society of Classical...
‘Goblin Market’: Full Text of the Poem by Christina Rossetti The Society December 31, 2012 Poetry . Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come...
Newtown Shootings: A Reflection on American Aesthetics The Society December 30, 2012 From the Society 3 Comments The horrific elementary school shootings on Dec. 14 in Newtown, Conn. have set off a divisive debate about gun control in America. Would more gun...
‘Three Achaean Perspectives’ by Bruce Dale Wise The Society December 29, 2012 Poetry This poem shows three Achaean perspectives on three characters from Homer's Iliad, each from an individual point of view. That individuality is one...
‘Courage’ by Justine Johnston Hemmestad of Burnside, Iowa The Society December 28, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment Burn the want out of every moment, Live the life of every chorus line, Run the race of countless ancient athletes, In them, fortitude breeds...
‘To the Caged Barn Owl’ and Other Poetry by Lauren E. Fields The Society December 27, 2012 Poetry To the Caged Barn Owl, II I had thought you clean and blameless, Blindly cast you as the shameless Victim of baseless derision, Gaped at in...
‘Blessed with Sight’ by Kelly Andre of Ridgecrest, California The Society December 26, 2012 Poetry Oh Beautiful glorious day, Let your sunlight shine on me! Let your many clouds of gray Fade above the lovely sea. Let the mountains in the...
On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity (1629) by John Milton The Society December 25, 2012 Beauty, Culture, From the Society, Poetry 2 Comments I This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven’s eternal King, Of wedded maid and Virgin Mother born, Our...
‘The Seasons Go a’Marching By’ by Fergus O’Cleary The Society December 24, 2012 Poetry The seasons go a'marching by In all their different ways. I never do appreciate The way they change my days. The Spring goes dancing by this...
‘A Sonnet for a Creative Child’ by Mike Scheidemann of Israel The Society December 23, 2012 Poetry The plaintive wail of a child through the night Is a beastly howl, proclaiming its plight. The song of the wind through fractured grasses Echoes...
‘Rituals of Shade’ and Other Poetry by Keith Robson The Society December 22, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment Rituals of Shade Drowsy hang the blooms of light, descending slowly to a night That wanders in and out of me, the shadowed truths of what will...
‘A New Form of Evil Unknown to Man’ The Society December 21, 2012 Poetry This poem is meant to raise awareness about the atrocity of organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners in China today. Please click here to sign...
‘The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado’ and Other Poetry by Betsy M. Hughes The Society December 20, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment Current Events 2012 I. The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado A silhouette is forming in the door. From reel to real, the armor comes...
Classical Design Could Save Troubled Eisenhower Monument The Society December 19, 2012 Art 1 Comment NEW YORK—A planned monument to President Dwight Eisenhower in Washington, DC funded largely by taxpayer dollars has been put off until next year...
‘To Be a Bird’ and Other Poetry by Rowena Hammill The Society December 18, 2012 Poetry To Be a Bird To foil the grab of gravity, To sail across the spaces Engendered by the cavity Between the mountain faces. To laugh at man’s...
‘Adrift’ and Other Poetry by J.C. Elkin The Society December 17, 2012 Poetry Adrift I spy your pain vast as the briny blue. I smell the creosote that seals your hold, but don’t let enmity be what you rue in logging a...
‘Rapture’ by Barry Carter The Society December 15, 2012 Poetry My Grandfather-mining it made him blind and mystery of music almost gave him sight he would play by candle light and demand rapture as eloquent as...
‘Learning to Flourish’ and Other Poems by Alan Nordstrom The Society December 14, 2012 Poetry 3 Comments Learning to Flourish for Dan DeNicola Are we humans half empty or half full? A race of oxymorons, we’re wise fools Or doltish sages, subject...
‘Child’s Play’ by James Cronin The Society December 13, 2012 Poetry Imagine a childhood as tragic premiere. Unwashed, bruised, soiled clothing, still she’s a star. The cops and the guy passed out in the...
Artist Susan Fox Paints Genghis Khan’s Mongolia The Society December 12, 2012 Art 1 Comment American oil painter Susan Fox has traveled the world on wildlife expeditions, photographing and painting her way through the pristine wilds of Kenya...
‘Dust, a Sestina’ by Sally Carter The Society December 11, 2012 Poetry, Sestina 5 Comments The village school is cold and still. Its entrance gate is rusted shut, the playground overwhelmed by sounds of loaded lorries, hissing past, no...
‘The Painter’ and Other Poetry by Dawn Munro The Society December 10, 2012 Art, Poetry 1 Comment The Painter Transfixed, I bow before art’s magic splendour, enraptured by the glory of such hues, enchanted, charmed beyond all human...
‘No Pastor (To Ghosts)’ by Evan Lockwood The Society December 7, 2012 Poetry There are so many different ways to behave And yet we often behave in just one. There are so many different types of “depraved” but the most...
‘The Returning’ The Society December 6, 2012 Poetry 2 Comments A Squinting gaze through the fog and the haze A glimpse at a shimmer while in a daze Brief yet bright, its beauty light is luring Something has...
‘Mycenae’ and Other Poetry by Toni La Ree Bennett The Society December 5, 2012 Poetry Mycenae Passing through the lion-headed gate, years fall from her shoulders like heaps of old rags. Even in the innocent daylight, she clearly...
Hudson River School Reborn in Artist Erik Koeppel The Society December 3, 2012 Art 1 Comment Relatively young artist Erik Koeppel walks in the footsteps of giants from the Hudson River School. The below is from his latest blog entry on his...
Shen Yun Tickets: The Greatest Aesthetics Money Can Buy The Society December 1, 2012 From the Society NEW YORK—Shen Yun Performing Arts will begin its 2013 seasons in Buenos Aires, Agentina, on Dec. 13, bringing with it the true beauty engendered by...
‘Argument from Design’ and Other Poetry by Graal Braun The Society November 30, 2012 Poetry Argument from Design God’s antelopes have eyes placed far to side And horizontal pupils, features they Employ to see wide spans and speed...
Poetry by Mary V. Williams of Shropshire, England The Society November 29, 2012 Poetry 2 Comments Sonnet If I could choose to quietly slip away and make my exit while your backs are turned I'd do it now, why waste another day, after my time...
Stone Roberts: An Eye for Light and Detail The Society November 28, 2012 Art NEW YORK—As a fine arts painter, Stone Roberts had all the right conditions growing up, including severe myopia as a child. This may seem ironic,...
‘The Colour of Dying’ (a Sestina) by Maroula Blades The Society November 27, 2012 Poetry, Sestina 2 Comments The purple snail (Purpura patula pansa) is found in the Mixtec villages of the Oaxacan Coast in Mexico. The inhabitants carefully bleed the snails...
‘The River Villanelle’ and Other Poems by Samuel East The Society November 26, 2012 Poetry, Villanelle The Playground The playground stands beside itself In grey, and waits upon the hill. The books are stones upon the shelf, Their spines are...
‘Why Beauty Matters’: BBC Documentary The Society November 24, 2012 Art Famous British writer, philosopher, and composer Roger Scruton reaches an above average level of aesthetic clarity here in this inspiring...
‘Ballade for Trains’ and Other Poems by John J. Brugaletta The Society November 23, 2012 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Popular Poetry Archives 9 Comments Ballade for Trains They are no more, the whistles’ longing wails, Retreating like a stately, mournful queen. Where are the smokestacks that...
‘At Rainbow’s End’ and Other Poems by Jack Horne The Society November 22, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment At Rainbow's End At rainbow’s end, I looked for gold; And still I search, Alone and cold: The rainbow’s gone And now I’m...
‘The Atheist Scientist’ by Damian Robin The Society November 21, 2012 Poetry She swings huge plates and spins colliders, Shoots particles at stars to drown, (Slides coins from ears and tax providers Which wane and wax from...
Poetry by James Ph. Kotsybar of Lompoc, California The Society November 21, 2012 Poetry 1 Comment Tipping Point In our millenium's first dozen years, they say we’re headed for a tipping point -- a disastrous sum of many fears when Nature...
Sonnet Sequence: On Cinderella The Society November 20, 2012 Poetry 5 Comments By Julie Catherine Vigna Sonnet III: Beginnings In bare and dusty feet she wields her broom With none save cat, and creatures of the...
