‘A Prayer in Three Quatrains’: A Poem by William Harrison The Society September 10, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . A Prayer in Three Quatrains Too well I know, I am a son of error; Too well I know the weakness of my frame. Yet still I plead, Lord, save me from...
‘The Traveler’ and Other Poetry by Shindy Cai The Society September 9, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments . The Traveler I walked along a dusty road, The night was long and cruel and cold. When suddenly upon the path, I came across a speck of gold. I...
‘Common Brief’: A Poem by T.M. Moore The Society September 9, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . Common Brief I watch the leaves awaken in the wood behind our home, as daybreak crawls along the trees, and shafts of sunlight penetrate the...
‘An Awkward Endorsement’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society September 8, 2024 Poetry, Satire 32 Comments . An Awkward Endorsement on Putin's recent endorsement of Kamala Harris for president There's no disputing, Putin's put the boot in. In rooting for...
‘Crystal Spires or Lake of Fire?’: A Poem by Peter Venable The Society September 8, 2024 Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . Crystal Spires or Lake of Fire? The day shall come. For some, just like a thief That sneaks unknown. An accident and grief. __Our flesh and spirit...
‘Nehemiah Questions Robert Frost About Walls’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society September 8, 2024 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Nehemiah Questions Robert Frost About Walls “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” ---Robert Frost, “Mending Wall” “Jerusalem...
‘I Have Waited for September’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society September 7, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 26 Comments . I Have Waited for September I have waited for September When the stars shine silver white; When the sun with trepidation Chases off the cold of...
‘Empty Words’: A Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society September 7, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Empty Words There was a time not long agoWhen insults led to deadly duels.Today, on streaming videoI saw men call each other fools. And women did...
‘Cicada Serenade’ and Other Summer Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society September 6, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 27 Comments . Cicada Serenade Boys hang their beat on the heat of the summer. Sticky days twang with their thick, tinny ring. Banshee crescendos and thrums from...
‘Supply and Demand’ and Other Poetry by Benjamin Cannicott Shavitz The Society September 6, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments . Supply and Demand Infinite happiness isn’t available. Something so precious just isn’t that scalable. Boundless dismay, though, is much more...
‘Where Virtue Dies’ and Other Poetry by Warren Bonham The Society September 5, 2024 Poetry, Satire 9 Comments . Where Virtue Dies In the city of Washington, where virtue dies in the immoral sewage as it putrefies, those who tell the most brazen, despicable...
‘Dante in Modern Times’ and Other Poetry by Rob Fried The Society September 5, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Dante, Poetry 14 Comments . Dante in Modern Times If I were Dante, and the quest were mine To reprise chapters of his Comedie For modern times, perhaps no less Divine For...
‘Recipe for a Poem’ by Sally Cook The Society September 4, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 30 Comments . Recipe for a Poem Scraped clean of glib and warty observation, On pristine paper place one piercing thought. Add in the fragrant oil of...
‘Coupled in Rhyme’: A Poem by Jonathan Kinsman The Society September 4, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry 10 Comments . Coupled in Rhyme She sees me better than I do, so in her sight I strive to be worthy to lie with, never to lie to. She knows me better than my...
‘The High Priest’s Homily’: A Poem by Shaun C. Duncan The Society September 3, 2024 Culture, Poetry, Science 20 Comments . The High Priest's Homily Once Man, in thrall to ignorance, believed the world was round, But now we know that everything is one vast sea of...
‘Clouds Over Skye’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society September 3, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . Clouds Over Skye Vast mounting clouds rise over peak and vale; Their shifting billows filter noonday´s beams, Which pierce the spectral haze, so...
‘Circling In’: A Poem in Terza Rima by Jeffrey Essmann The Society September 2, 2024 Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima 9 Comments . Circling In It’s time (I tell myself) we circled in;Gave up at last the overwrought concernThat pulls us this-way-that till we begin To lose the...
A Poem for Labor Day and Others by Christine de Pisan, Translated by Margaret Coats The Society September 2, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 25 Comments . For All Who Labor by Christine de Pisan (1364-c. 1430) Lady, fair branch where God’s grace blooms,Our labors, Saint Bernard assumes,Are benefited...
‘Garden Party’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson The Society September 1, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . Garden Party The sparrows near the feeder flit and preen While predators politely quit the scene. A mockingbird is chirping up a storm, And soft...
‘Married to the Mob’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society September 1, 2024 Culture, Poetry, Satire 24 Comments . Married to the Mob He’s going out again today. What for? His hundredth chance to settle some old score? “Damn this! Screw that! Free cash! Free...
‘Government Waste’: A Poem by Warren Bonham for the Reagan Movie Premiere The Society August 31, 2024 Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Wisdom of Reagan: Government Waste “Government is like a baby: with a big appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.” ...
The 2024 Society of Classical Poets International Poetry Competition The Society August 31, 2024 Poetry, Poetry Contests 16 Comments . "Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument." ---John Milton, "On Shakespeare" First Prize: $2,000. Publication...
The 2024 SCP International High School Poetry Competition The Society August 31, 2024 High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests . “Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.” —John Milton, “On Shakespeare” First Prize: $200....
‘Observation’: A Poem by Margaret Brinton The Society August 31, 2024 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 9 Comments . Observation ____Comes morning, __And fog fills the forest Where bluebirds are wet on the wings. ____The toadstools __Are soaking up moisture, One...
‘Ode to the Zeer’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society August 30, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Ode to the Zeer Across the Sahel states, the humble zeer, A pear-shaped or full-bellied earthen pot Strains muddy water, turns it cool and...
‘Autumn Fades’ and Other Poetry on Death by Joshua C. Frank The Society August 30, 2024 Alliterative, Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 20 Comments . Autumn Fades The orange leaves decay to crinkling gray, And sunsets sink and fade the clouds to black. “You’ll see them all in Heaven,” so...
‘Oversimplification’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society August 29, 2024 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Oversimplification What so many people tend to say or write, Reduces complex issues of today, To merely simple packages of black or...
‘The First Fallen Leaf’ and Other Poetry by Pamela Ruggiero The Society August 29, 2024 Children's, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . The First Fallen Leaf A single leaf begins to fall. He wants to be the first of all. His brethren strain to join his fun. For now he’s still the...
‘Hard To Tell’ and Other Poems by Mark Stellinga The Society August 28, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . Hard To Tell With attributes that only those who know him understand, A countenance deceptive, and a being hard to gauge, Within what seems...
‘It’s Only a Thought’: A Poem by Richard Bailey Johnson The Society August 28, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry, Rondel 7 Comments . It’s Only a Thought It’s only a thought to help pass the night, But what if our love should come to naught? Christ! That would be an unbearable...
‘Leave’: A Poem by Martin Elster The Society August 27, 2024 Beauty, Children's, Poetry 10 Comments . Leave Above the land, suspended, green and grand and splendid, we furnish food for trees, whisper with the breeze till cold winds bluster in and...
‘Tranquil Tokonoma’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society August 27, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 28 Comments . Tranquil Tokonoma One thing a perfect purple rose cannot Accomplish is a type of sadness. Man Is best at that. That is mankind’s special...
‘August Foraging’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society August 26, 2024 Culture, Poetry 28 Comments . August Foraging “It’s hot, it’s dry. No fun outdoors; No fungi, flowers, foliage, fruit For us to eat where Nature stores Wild food. The...
‘Emergence’: A Poem by Venessa Lee-Estevez The Society August 26, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . Emergence A child within the chrysalis, __awaiting to emerge. __Fruition and desire, __hoping to converge. The years prove long and arduous __and...
‘New Directions, or Deviations?’: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society August 25, 2024 Essays, Poetry 25 Comments . New Directions, or Deviations? by Joseph S. Salemi Many years ago I read an account of a discussion between Ezra Pound and an interviewer...
Tools for Writing Classical Poetry—Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown The Society August 25, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Education, Essays, Poetry, Video 26 Comments . https://youtu.be/o4TS45A7KEM . Tools for Writing Classical Poetry ---adapted from the video by Andrew Benson Brown Do you want to be forgotten...
DoorWay Canto 7: ‘Flight to The Eyrie’ from James Sale’s Epic Poem The Society August 24, 2024 Epic, Poetry 14 Comments . DoorWay Canto 7: Flight to The Eyrie In Canto 7, the narrating Pilgrim Poet deviates from the Zodiac, leaving Sagittarius, to visit the...
‘Patient in a Nursing Home’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Pugh The Society August 24, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Patient in a Nursing Home Such a frantic brilliance in the flagpole’s banging chain! I’m blind, __confined, ____but now I know: Winter’s here...
‘The Worst of Our Convictions’: A Poem by T.M. Moore The Society August 23, 2024 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . The Worst of Our Convictions When, finally, the last church shuts its doors; when we run out of new identities to choose from; when the politicians...
Epigrams by Maria Panayi The Society August 23, 2024 Epigrams and Proverbs, Poetry 5 Comments . Epigrams . Bear in mind that whilst you’re sleeping Your enemies are busy scheming. . If you absorb everything without a filter Don’t be...
