‘Apologies at Antoninus Pius’s Table, 155 A.D.’: A Poem by Christopher Fried The Society October 17, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . Apologies at Antoninus Pius’s Table, 155 A.D. . I. Rome’s Glory “Arriving at this feast, how proud I stand that Rome endures to succor those...
‘To Melody, on Her Wedding Day’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society October 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . To Melody, on Her Wedding Day And now the hour has come for you to fly, To leave your early nest and take the air For vistas yet unseen (though God...
‘Old Chestnut’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society October 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments Old Chestnut I’m the spirited girl with the chestnut hair, Common countenance pale, smile occasionally stressed, High forehead and wide, sculpted...
‘Washington’s Armor’ from Andrew Benson Brown’s Mock Epic Poem The Society October 15, 2024 Epic, Poetry 8 Comments . Washington’s Armor Under a watchful sky, a thick, long snake Was slithering: red regulars and blue Virginians groaned while dragging banners to...
‘Sudan, 2005—On the Death of Dr. John Garang’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society October 15, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Sudan, 2005 ---on the death of Dr. John Garang, Liberation Fighter and Sudanese Vice President Garang is dead! An accident, they say--- his...
‘Three Death Musings’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society October 14, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . Three Death Musings . 1 One day the conqueror worm will conquer me And therewith render life the Joker's joke. Ensuing laughter will then posit...
‘Westward, with Columbus’: A Poem for Columbus Day by Paul A. Freeman The Society October 14, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Westward, with Columbus The North Atlantic Ocean was awashwith monsters and leviathans, or sowe fearfully supposed, and thought it toshby sailing...
‘Their Principal Principle’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson The Society October 13, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . Their Principal Principle With their hideous lies and a gleam in their eyes They disable each new generation, For the best route to power in...
‘A Roman Noble on Constantine the Great’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society October 13, 2024 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . A Roman Noble on Constantine the Great Setting: A villa on the outskirts of Rome, ab urbe condita 1082 (329 A.D.) Cornelia, no. The household gods...
‘Peter Pan’s Soliloquy’: A Poem by Joshua C. Frank The Society October 12, 2024 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Peter Pan’s Soliloquy In Never Land, each sunrise brings anew A day of play and laughter to pursue. I meet the mermaids, swim in their...
‘To the Autumn Birches’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society October 12, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . To the Autumn Birches The languid light of waning day Glares undiffused by any cloud, Still strong, defying its decay, Then breaks on a dark...
‘Odd One Out’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society October 11, 2024 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Odd One Out Moored to the screen, he barely gets involved In vapid, paltry things his workmates seem To swap their saneness for—magnetic...
‘It Must Be True’: A Poem by Daniel Freeman The Society October 11, 2024 Poetry, Satire 22 Comments . It Must Be True In The Jungle Book Kipling describes the “Bandar-log”—the monkeys of the Seeonee Jungle—whose scatterbrained chatter is...
‘Ghosts of the Watchtower’: A Poem by Kyle Fiske The Society October 10, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rubaiyat 10 Comments . Ghosts of the Watchtower The end-of-summer breeze gives hint with cool caress Of coming autumn gales and forecasts of distress. But who beneath the...
‘The Meaning of Pearl Necklaces’ and Another Sonnet by Phillip Whidden The Society October 10, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments . The Meaning of Pearl Necklaces Most pearls are prized because the luster of Their loveliness lies held in shapely spheres— Though never...
‘Consideration in Friendship’: A Poem by Jeremiah Johnson The Society October 9, 2024 Beauty, Dante, Poetry 6 Comments . Consideration in Friendship In The Inferno Canto Twenty-Nine, When Dante pauses, looks with longing for His uncle’s son amid the suffering...
Three Curtal Sonnets by Shaun C. Duncan The Society October 8, 2024 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . The Prestige of the Puppet-Master To be deceived must bring some satisfaction, For all are well aware of the illusion Yet most will play the dupe...
‘Time For Some Gardening’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise The Society October 8, 2024 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Time For Some Gardening It was time for some gardening. He heard a train go by. Its distant airhorn sighed. There were no clouds up in the sky. He...
‘Carcinoma’: A Poem on the UK’s National Health Service by Clive Boddy The Society October 7, 2024 Poetry, Satire 8 Comments . Carcinoma The NHS, though poised and calm, Have so far done no hurt or harm, Towards this cancer on my arm. They saw it there a month ago, And...
‘Consequences of Following Advice’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society October 7, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . Consequences of Following Advice Advice can come in snappy lines __That have a fun refrain: “Let a smile be your umbrella,” __Though that...
‘Political Musings’: Couplets by Cheryl Corey The Society October 6, 2024 Poetry, Satire 16 Comments . Political Musings . While bumbling Biden’s basking on the beach, The Donald’s dodging bullets in the breach. . Abortion this, abortion...
‘Not the Same Thing Anymore’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society October 6, 2024 Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . Not the Same Thing Anymore Of most who go to school these days __It sadly must be stated, No longer can they be appraised __As being...
‘Three Things Alexander Knew’: A Poem by James Sale The Society October 5, 2024 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . Three Things Alexander Knew “What can you tell me that deserves such excitement, except perhaps that Homer has come back to life?” ---Alexander...
‘Remnants of the Spring’: A Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society October 5, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . Remnants of the Spring Lupine, Paintbrush, remnants of the spring Color summer’s browning meadows, splashing Renoir dots and drabbles along...
‘Political’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society October 4, 2024 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Political The culture tells us every day that we can’t be political, so Christians nod and meekly pray, but if we’re analytical, when...
Three Rhyming Haiku by Benjamin Cannicott Shavitz The Society October 4, 2024 Beauty, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 9 Comments . Riverside Park—Labor Day An ambling river. Just a wheeze of gentle breeze. My soul aquiver. . . Desert Only sand and dread. Sunset looms in...
‘On the Death of Mike Lynch, August 19, 2024’: A Poem by Jeff Eardley The Society October 3, 2024 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . On the Death of Mike Lynch, August 19, 2024 They say his blood was Irish, with his toothy Gaelic smile. A master of the cyberworld, with features...
A Translation of the German National Anthem, by James A. Tweedie The Society October 3, 2024 Music, Poetry, Translation 9 Comments . A Translation of the German National Anthem and a Musical Setting for the Tune “Austria” Some months ago, I jotted down a tune that carried a...
‘The Fool’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society October 2, 2024 Poetry, Satire 10 Comments . The Fool Astrology has always left me cold (As cold, at least, as interstellar space); The lines along my palm can only trace The rate at which my...
A Rosh Hashanah Poem on the Blowing of the Shofar, by Margaret Coats The Society October 2, 2024 Culture, Music, Poetry 24 Comments . The Ram's Horn "A great horn shall be blown, and they that were lost shall come from the land of Assyria, and they that were outcasts from the land...
‘To Speak Unique’: A Poem by Caroline Chen The Society October 1, 2024 Culture, High School Submissions, Poetry 4 Comments . To Speak Unique From youth we have been urged to stay unique. For boxed-in meetings, we must always be The ones outside the box, must always...
‘Autumn Reversed’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society October 1, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . Autumn Reversed Once snowflakes have recrystalized,__they rise from where they fell;in Earth’s alternate universe__it’s early winter’s...
‘Plowing’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society September 30, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 34 Comments . Plowing Plain plowing cultivates delight Of partnership with animals: Two horses and a man unite To draw behind them crows and gulls Feeding on...
‘What Mother Goose Neglected to Mention’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society September 29, 2024 Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments . What Mother Goose Neglected to Mention . A Soup Spoon Reflects upon His Past So the dish ran away with the spoon, we were told, __And he treated...
‘Send in the Clones’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society September 29, 2024 Pantoum, Poetry, Satire 34 Comments . Send in the Clones Year One. Computer, help me make this switch! This lab is now my church. Advance my mission: To nail the science for my sex...
The Best Haiku of 2024: Winners of the 2024 SCP Haiku Competition The Society September 29, 2024 Haiku and Senryu, Poetry, Poetry Contests 14 Comments . The Best Haiku of 2024 The Winner and Runners-Up of the Society of Classical Poets 2024 Haiku Competition Judged by J. Thomas Rimer and Margaret...
‘Public Benches’: A Poem by Joshua C. Frank The Society September 28, 2024 Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . Public Benches Lusty men and randy wenches Making out on public benches Used to be a common sight In afternoon or moonlit night, And single people...
‘Downtown’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society September 28, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Downtown Like an iron maze, Clustered close, towers rise, Caging the very sky. Casting their cold gaze Through myriad glazed...
‘Aphrodisiac’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society September 27, 2024 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . Aphrodisiac I. It was past midnight when we met and spoke One rainswept winter Friday. The wet street Stood empty save for us (that clinched the...
‘Resolve’: A Poem by Maria Panayi The Society September 27, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments . Resolve Much gain involves much pain and we can see, That discipline is hard, like pumping steam, Spending each glorious day sowing seeds Striving...
