‘Overkill’ and Other Light Verse by James A. Tweedie The Society May 3, 2024 Humor, Poetry 16 Comments . Overkill K.I.S.S. ("Keep it simple, stupid.") My heart enflamed with rapture, burned With passionate desire; yearned For her and only her,...
‘Bridgerton’s DEI vs. Historicity’: A Poem by Drilon Bajrami The Society May 3, 2024 Culture, Poetry, Reviews 20 Comments . Bridgerton’s DEI vs. Historicity They sacrifice true historicity, So DEI trumps authenticity. But Bridgerton and Netflix, they don’t...
‘Reservoir’: A Poem by Stephen M. Dickey The Society May 2, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Reservoir Those who can still see through accreting years Are getting scarce, those who can lift such veil To remember when the Corps of...
‘Carmen’: A Poem by Théophile Gautier, Translated by Bruce Phenix The Society May 2, 2024 Culture, Poetry, Translation 13 Comments . Carmen by Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) translated by Bruce Phenix Carmen is thin—a dark-brown line Of bistre rings her gipsy eye. Her black...
SCP Journal XII Published—Read the Introduction & Table of Contents Here The Society May 1, 2024 Essays, From the Society, Poetry . The Society of Classical Poets Journal XII has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the...
‘Easter Evening Appearance’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann The Society May 1, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 8 Comments . Easter Evening Appearance Luke 24 Sealed up within my upper room, Absorbed by morbid discontent And fear, I questioned everything I’ve done and...
May Songs from Miracle Plays, Translated by Margaret Coats The Society May 1, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Song Lyrics, Translation 19 Comments . May Songs . I. Where does loyalty take its rest? Where is charity’s portraiture, Except in you, sweet virgin pure? Where has virginity...
‘Some Can’t See the Beauty’: A Springtime Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society April 30, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 20 Comments . Some Can't See the Beauty Some can’t see the beauty in __A flower or a tree. I call them nature blind because __Their minds won’t let them...
‘The Cartographer of Neverland’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society April 30, 2024 Poetry, Satire 45 Comments . The Cartographer of Neverland inspired by a Qatar funded-map, in a Brooklyn public school, that erases Israel I’m late, so please forgive if...
‘Throughout American Academies’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise The Society April 29, 2024 Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Throughout American Academies One hears throughout American academies a strainthat is at once belligerent, intolerant, and strange.It drips with...
A Poem on Being Openly Jewish in London: ‘Lie Low, Jew!’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 29, 2024 Culture, Poetry 41 Comments . Lie Low, Jew! Echoes and Irony The Hamas flags are raised on London streets By swarms that seethe with scorn and blaze with hate. This nasty nod...
‘Third-Degree Burns’ and Other Poems by C.B. Anderson The Society April 29, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 22 Comments . Third-Degree Burns A young poet who came from Dundee Looked around him and then took a knee, __For the older he grew __The more surely he knew That...
‘If I Have Gone To Sleep’: A Poem by Angel L. Villanueva The Society April 29, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry 22 Comments . If I Have Gone To Sleep If I depart in early sleep__And cease to be with you,My thoughts I'd leave for you to read,To hold your hands in times of...
‘How Many Wrongs Make a Right?’ and Other Poetry by Warren Bonham The Society April 28, 2024 Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . How Many Wrongs Make a Right? The left rights wrongs by doing wrong, but wrongs so fixed don’t stay fixed long. When things re-break, they wrong...
A Poem on Anti-Israel Encampments at U.S. Universities, by Cheryl Corey The Society April 28, 2024 Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . On Student Protestations They protest on behalf of Gaza from afar— Why won’t they do the same regarding Myanmar? To speak of Falun Gong and...
‘Watching My Children at Play in a Graveyard’: A Poem by Shaun C. Duncan The Society April 28, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments . Watching My Children at Play in a Graveyard Laughing, the children slip between the stones Laid out in rows like cracked and crooked teeth, And...
A Letter from Incarcerated Poet D.T. Holt to the SCP The Society April 27, 2024 Essays, Poetry 21 Comments . To Mr. Evan Mantyk, . I know you lead a busy life curating the Society of Classical Poets and I don’t want to waste a bunch of your time with...
‘Jerzy and Cyla’ and Other Holocaust Poetry by Peter Austin The Society April 27, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Jerzy and Cyla Jerzy, a Polish teen in World War Two, Arrested for suspected membership Of the resistance, faced a one-way trip To Auschwitz....
‘The Devil’s Trill’: A Poem on Tartini’s Famous Violin Piece, by Julian Woodruff The Society April 26, 2024 Acrostic, Music, Poetry 21 Comments . The Devil’s Trill I. A heavy meal and three glasses of port Weighed down Tartini when at length he rose From supper to retire....
‘The Dance’: A Poem by Margaret Brinton The Society April 26, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments . The Dance __'Tis springtime _And air is a-breezin', Wafting through fair winds that blow. __The blossoms _From flowering jasmine Are waltzing along...
‘The Knight of Monticello’: A Poem on Thomas Jefferson by Mary Jane Myers The Society April 25, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . The Knight of Monticello Everywhere and always, Jefferson read. His library stocked a sage’s daily bread. Four volumes, leather-bound,...
‘Theópneustos’: A Poem by Peter Venable The Society April 25, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . . Theópneustos Greek, “God breathed” . The Word of God is absolute— __Or else, some claim, it’s obsolete. Many hold it in...
A Country Song on China and the CCP, by Evan Mantyk (Music Added) The Society April 24, 2024 Human Rights in China, Music, Poetry, Satire 24 Comments . Lyrics and vocals by Evan Mantyk / guitar by Jeff Eardley . The CCP Song (CCP: Chinese Communist Party) The world ain’t got the balls to take...
A Poem on China’s Belt and Road Initiative, by Paul A. Freeman The Society April 24, 2024 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 16 Comments . When the Dragon Spreads Its Wings Millennia, the Dragon stayed at home, Consumed its own, kept dissidence at bay, Until it felt a gnawing urge to...
‘A Shakespeare Garden Stroll’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society April 23, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Shakespeare 22 Comments . A Shakespeare Garden Stroll Of all the blooms, I like the lily best. Might you prefer a deep vermilion rose? Well, each to earth some special good...
On the Occasion of William Shakespeare’s Birthday: ‘Shakespeare’s Women’ by Brian Yapko The Society April 23, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Shakespeare 26 Comments . Shakespeare's Women for Susan Jarvis Bryant, who has a spiritual home in Stratford-on-Avon It’s April 23rd. The rain is pouring And from the Gulf...
‘Exodus’: A Poem for Passover by Michael Vanyukov The Society April 22, 2024 Culture, Poetry 28 Comments . Exodus "The entire community of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron in the desert. The children of Israel said to...
‘Not Sonnet 18… Yet’ and Other Poetry for Shakespeare’s Birthday, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 22, 2024 Humor, Poetry, Shakespeare 40 Comments . Not Sonnet 18… Yet I strain in vain to sparkle like the Bard. I strive to spill slick iambs by the ream. Comparing thee to spring in my...
‘Another Coffee Shop, Another Crush’: Poems by Daniel Kemper The Society April 22, 2024 Love Poems, Poetry 22 Comments . Another Coffee Shop, Another Crush Another coffee shop, another crush, a moment frozen just before my turn, a chance to grin and let her make me...
Are Epic Heroes Toxic?—Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown The Society April 21, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Culture, Essays, Poetry, Reviews 11 Comments . https://youtu.be/ICEvMGx4WnY . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His epic-in-progress, Legends of...
‘On an Otter’: A Poem by Kensley Greene The Society April 21, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . On an Otter He slinks beneath, but not for long; surprise! he sprouts atop the pool to stare: his leather nostrils round, his prickled whiskers...
‘Climate: The Movie’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise The Society April 20, 2024 Poetry, The Environment 15 Comments . Climate: The Movie learn about and watch the movie here It shows there is no basis found in science for its fare.The film exposes the alarm as an...
‘Rolling the Roads—The Days Before Snow Plows’: A Poem by Phil S. Rogers The Society April 20, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Rolling the Roads The Days Before Snow Plows . A major storm throughout the night __Of heavy, wet, spring snow. Nor'easter off the coast of...
‘The Moment’ and Other Poems by Benjamin Cannicott Shavitz The Society April 19, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . The Moment I’m sure of what will happen when The tide resumes its rise again And drowns the beach: Erasing signs that we were here, The water...
Carpe Diem: A Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society April 19, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . Carpe Diem Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero. (“Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow.”) Horace, Odes I:11 We live our...
‘The Sound of Dirt’: A Poem by Gigi Ryan The Society April 18, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . The Sound of Dirt in memory of my granddaughter, Valerie (March 30, 2020 - April 20, 2020) Above uneven chairs a canopy Protects the mourners...
‘On Noms de Plume’: A Poem by Mark Stellinga The Society April 18, 2024 Poetry, Satire 15 Comments . On Noms de Plume Justin Von Depathos strode across the ballroom floorTo sit with Carlton Vishizwa and Charlotte Genevieve—While I, in silent...
‘If Need Be’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society April 17, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Satire 20 Comments . If Need Be If lawfare prosecutors aren’t proficient, And Biden family crimes can’t be denied, The ballots that they harvest aren’t...
‘Snowy Egret’ and ‘Dusky Seaside Sparrow’: Two Bird Poems by Margaret Coats The Society April 17, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 39 Comments . Snowy Egret Here where sunlight sparkle rinses Cypresses whose balding branches Shoulder epiphytic orchids (Cowhorn, spider, ghost, or...
A Poem on the Persecution of Donald J. Trump, by Brian Yapko The Society April 16, 2024 Culture, Poetry 43 Comments . . On the Altar of Our Nation I must confess it took a long, long time For Donald Trump to grow on me. He’s gruff, Undiplomatic, calls opponents...
