‘Look Homeward, Sweet Afton’: Poem by Brian Yapko, Set to Music by Jeff Eardley The Society May 14, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Song Lyrics 32 Comments . Music by Jeff Eardley . Look Homeward, Sweet Afton after Robert Burns Look homeward, Sweet Afton, back to thy green braes, Recalling with pride...
Book Review: What Was and Is—Formal Poetry and Free Verse by Theresa Werba The Society May 13, 2024 Poetry, Reviews 5 Comments . Book Reviewed: What Was and Is---Formal Poetry and Free Verse, by Theresa Werba, Bardsinger Books, April 2024 by James A. Tweedie With What Was...
Winners of Friends of Falun Gong 2024 Poetry Competition Announced The Society May 13, 2024 Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests 9 Comments . FIRST PLACE . Free to Be the PRC by James A. Tweedie According to the PRC’s unwritten protocol,To be Chinese these days it seems you can’t be...
‘Rosella’: A Mother’s Day Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 12, 2024 Poetry 16 Comments . Rosella My Lone Star mother beams a summer smile As golden as the sun-hugged coastal plains. In snake-proof boots she trekked that extra mile To...
‘A Mother’s Day Sonnet’ by Evan Mantyk The Society May 12, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 22 Comments . A Mother’s Day Sonnet I hope you have a happy Mother’s Day And take a moment out to feel the love I’m sending to you there, though...
A Poem on D.C.’s S.W.A.M.P., by Warren Bonham The Society May 11, 2024 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . S.W.A.M.P. Soulless, Warped, And Monstrous People look at us as smelly “sheeple.” Easily manipulated. Otherwise, we’re mocked and...
‘Hookerville School’: A Poem on the One-Room Schoolhouse by Phil S. Rogers The Society May 11, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Hookerville School Built just before the Civil War, employed till twenty-nine, This one-room school that stands today withstood the test of...
‘Orpheus’: A Poem by James Sale The Society May 10, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . Orpheus We want the heroes back so we can learn: Herakles smashed his way to hell and stormed By violence the ferryman and three-faced dog; Even...
’10/7/2023′: A Poem on the Attack on Israel, by Michael Vanyukov The Society May 10, 2024 Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . 10/7/2023 More than one has risen up against us to destroy us. Rather, in every generation they rise against us to annihilate us. —The...
Election Year 2024 Satire: Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 9, 2024 Pantoum, Poetry, Satire 31 Comments . All Aboard! a pantoum He’s pumped and ripe to ride the gravy train. He’s armed with cheese and charm to save the day. He’ll pulverize...
‘Epicure’s Delight’ and Other Poetry by E.C. Traganas The Society May 9, 2024 Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . Epicure's Delight A wondrous day, my love, is this— An afternoon of utter bliss! The two of us alone at last Embracing tightly, holding...
A Poem on Scotland’s New Hate Crime Law, by Cheryl Corey The Society May 8, 2024 Culture, Poetry 47 Comments . On Scotland Police were inundated with over 7,000 calls in the first week following the passage of Scotland’s Hate Crime and Public Order Act...
‘To a Beet’: A Poem by Kensley Greene The Society May 8, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments . To a Beet I sing the bristled hedgehog grainno horticulture can explain,with six sly seedlings in its brain:__the unborn beet. That...
When Less Is More: A Poetry Challenge The Society May 7, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests 65 Comments . When Less Is More An SCP Poetry Challenge by James A. Tweedie In a recent email exchange with a poet friend, I found myself typing the following...
‘The Cropland’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society May 7, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments . The Cropland Though coins, good health, and victualsAre mortal man's essentials,I pray for great fertilityOf that arable land in me,Where crops of...
‘A Curse Against a Thief’ from the Carmina Burana, Translated by Joseph S. Salemi The Society May 6, 2024 Humor, Poetry, Translation 27 Comments . A Curse Against a Thief from the Carmina Burana Let the thief who stole my cap be by death collected: Let it happen suddenly, and be...
A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic, Part II of An Essay Series by Daniel Kemper The Society May 6, 2024 Essays, Poetry 22 Comments . A Formalist Poet at the Open Mic Part II: The First Reader by Daniel Kemper Keith stands up semi-gracefully in the dead center of the metal...
‘Truth Is Not Beauty’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society May 5, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 31 Comments . Truth Is Not Beauty “What is the worst mistake you ever made in bed?” Reply: “My son.” (Actual dialogue on social media) I learn the...
An Interview with Poet Brian Yapko: Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown The Society May 5, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Essays, Interviews, Poetry 18 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR0MktU78bA . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His...
‘A Divine Mistake?’: A Poem by Norma Pain The Society May 4, 2024 Humor, Poetry 25 Comments . A Divine Mistake? Dear Father up in Heaven, Why create thou rats. Six times out of seven They even scare the cats. Why create thy creature’s...
A Poem on Rubens’ ‘The Hippopotamus Hunt,’ by Casey Robb The Society May 4, 2024 Beauty, Ekphrastic, Poetry 8 Comments . The Sultan’s Aging Son Recalls the Hippo Hunt “The Hippopotamus Hunt” by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1615-1616 “The sultan sent three...
‘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....
