‘Excusing Evil’: A Poem on Hamas Attacks on Israel by Warren Bonham The Society October 23, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 21 Comments . Excusing Evil A peaceful protest just took place, and some unlucky people died. Hamas just wanted more air space where at-risk kids could...
‘The Word’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society October 23, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima 8 Comments . The Word “Let there be light,” He said and light there was. The seething chaos split to day and night And space and time were brightly set...
Classical Poets Live: The Problem with Arts Grants The Society October 22, 2023 Classical Poets Live, Poetry, Video 13 Comments . Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 7 Part 1: The Problem with Arts Grants If you enjoy this video, please like and subscribe on...
‘The Life of the Party’: A Poem by Shaun C. Duncan The Society October 22, 2023 Poetry, Satire 19 Comments . The Life of the Party The commissar, in his most common clothes, Patrols the margins of their conversations, And tries to feign that cheer which he...
A Poem on Cystolitholapaxy, by Jeff Eardley The Society October 21, 2023 Culture, Humor, Poetry 36 Comments . Cystolitholapaxy Cystolitholapaxy (si-stow-luh-THAA-luh-pak-see): a procedure to break up bladder stones into smaller pieces and remove...
‘Be Careful What You Ask For’ and Other Poetry by Julian Woodruff The Society October 21, 2023 Poetry, Satire 21 Comments . Be Careful What You Ask For “Genie, please make me a banana split.” Poof! “You are a banana split! Just feel yourself sliced down the...
‘The Truth about Fall Colors’ and Other Autumn Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society October 20, 2023 Alexandroid, Beauty, Humor, Satire 22 Comments . The Truth about Fall Colors I am October’s most submissive bitch, And just when I believed I’d struck it rich, The gold that hovered overhead...
‘Quiet Night Thoughts’ by Li Bai, Translated by Talbot Hook, and Other Poetry The Society October 20, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . Quiet Night Thoughts by Li Bai (701-762), translated by Talbot Hook My bed looks over bright moonlight. I muse: could it in fact be frost? I lift...
‘Unveiled, They Appear’: A Poem by David Hollywood The Society October 19, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments . Unveiled, They Appear Reminiscence, and longings, and echoes unseal, from the depths in the ground which has covered, concealed, recollections of...
‘Salome’s Soliloquy’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society October 19, 2023 Culture, Poetry 38 Comments . Salome's Soliloquy John the Baptist rebuked Herod Antipas, ruler of Galilee, for an incestuous and adulterous union with his brother’s wife,...
‘Avoidance’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society October 18, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 19 Comments . Avoidance I don’t sign up for group Zoom calls __With folks I know are boorish. I don’t go visit galleries __Where art is amateurish. I...
The Battle of Bunker Hill in Epic Poetry, by Andrew Benson Brown The Society October 18, 2023 Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . Bunker Hill an excerpt from the forthcoming Legends of Liberty, Vol. 2 . The Eve of Battle The midnight moon. The month of June. A neck Of land. A...
‘Words of Wisdom’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 17, 2023 Poetry, Satire 22 Comments . Words of Wisdom “The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.” ---Socrates She knows the what. She knows the why. __She knows the...
‘A Petless State’ and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers The Society October 17, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 14 Comments . A Petless State after Katherine Philips' A Married State, 1664 A house with pets affords but little grace. The best of dogs or cats destroy the...
SCP Poet Paul A. Freeman Wins Queen’s English Society Poetry Competition The Society October 16, 2023 Chaucer, Poetry 23 Comments . Congratulations to Society of Classical Poets Member Paul A. Freeman who won the Queen's English Society Poetry Competition. His winning poem was...
‘My Brother in Galilee’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society October 16, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 38 Comments . My Brother in Galilee I had a fearsome dream---I saw my friend -- My teacher-brother---nailed onto a cross. I wept with sorrow at my brother’s...
‘A Leftist Rebukes Hamas’: A Satirical Poem by Joshua C. Frank The Society October 15, 2023 Poetry, Satire 35 Comments . A Leftist Rebukes Hamas Hey, Hamas, you silly dolts, You need to mow down more adults. Keep fighting for your patch of sand, Since Jews do not...
‘Autumn Winds have Come Again’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society October 15, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 33 Comments . Autumn Winds have Come Again Autumn winds have come again, Whistling wafts are dithering, Trees are shedding leaves like rain, Garden vines are...
Three Epiphanic Poems (and a Short Note) by Joseph S. Salemi The Society October 14, 2023 Beauty, Education, Essays, Poetry 23 Comments . Epiphany It stays in your memory like a pealing bell, A smallish thing, an unimportant fact— The mute suggestion of a random act. What do I speak...
Two Trump Haiku, by Monika Cooper The Society October 14, 2023 Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 10 Comments . Trump in Asia the carp glows in dark waters, remembering the time that Trump fed him . . White House Advent Melania walks in her orchard of glass...
‘Autumn in Pennsylvania in 2023’: A Poem by Jeff Kemper The Society October 13, 2023 Poetry, Satire 12 Comments . Autumn in Pennsylvania in 2023 In response to Susan Jarvis Bryant’s poem on "Autumn in Texas" If Autumn is a bummer down in Texas, Up north it...
‘Two Bugologues’ and Other Poetry by Donald Mace Williams The Society October 13, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Two Bugologues . Moth Onto a wall in chilly gloom I fold myself, all silk and dust, and then, from half across the room, the candle flickers: Come....
‘Homage to the Cultural Contributions of Native Americans’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society October 12, 2023 Poetry, Satire 38 Comments . Homage to the Cultural Contributions of Native Americans Columbus bumped into this wondrous land— Out of his ships came a little band To offer...
‘Uninvited Guest’: A Poem on Immigration, by Warren Bonham The Society October 12, 2023 Poetry, Satire 33 Comments . Uninvited Guest A man came by my house one day. I smiled and said he couldn’t stay. He smiled right back and said “OK,” but then he didn’t...
‘The Number 235: The Fall’: A Bus Poem by Paul Martin Freeman The Society October 11, 2023 Poetry, Satire 11 Comments . The Number 235: The Fall Sludge in extremis ‘Twas on the 235 at Feltham Station, It happened in the very recent past, That Sludge began to...
A Psalm of Lament for Israel, by James A. Tweedie The Society October 10, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . A Psalm of Lament So says the Lord: A voice is heard on high, lamentation, bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, she refuses to be...
A Poem on Great Sacandaga Lake, in New York, by Brian Cook The Society October 10, 2023 Beauty, Poetry . Sacandaga I go, I go to the lake so blue, Tree-lined shore in autumn hue. This place, my heart, my Shangri-la-da— The deep blue lake of...
The Man from Porlock Poetry Challenge The Society October 10, 2023 Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests 41 Comments . One of England’s best-known poems, “Kubla Khan,” was written by Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). Waking from an...
‘Ode to the Cello’ and Other Poems on Music by Joshua C. Frank The Society October 10, 2023 Beauty, Music, Poetry 27 Comments . Ode to the Cello Fingered strings upon the cello Vibrate by the moving bow. Autumn tones in red and yellow Echo from the to and fro Through the...
‘For Israel Under Siege’: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society October 9, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 84 Comments . For Israel Under Siege Imagine that you live in fear of violent Acts of terror daily---bombs may kill Your friends and family---all you love grows...
‘The Man in 2C’: A True Story in Poetry, by Jeffrey Essmann The Society October 9, 2023 Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . The Man in 2C I’m trying not to make too much of this, But someone in 2C (the floor below) Has walled himself within an edifice Of waste, a rank...
Two Poems in the Style of Robert Frost, by Dusty Grein The Society October 9, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments . Morning Witness To greet the dawn, I crossed a meadow green, still blanketed in jewels of morning dew. I sat upon a rock, still and serene, and...
A Poem on Alexa’s 2020 Election Fraud Analysis, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 8, 2023 Culture, Pantoum, Poetry, Satire 69 Comments . Not Alexa's President a pantoum on the news story here “The real risk with AI isn't malice but competence.” —Stephen Hawking Alexa says...
A Poem on Biden Backing the Border Wall, by James A. Tweedie The Society October 8, 2023 Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . It’s All for Show The Big Guy’s going to build a wall. He’s going to build it strong and tall "Because," he says, "we cannot leave Our border...
‘The Cabin’: A Poem by Nathaniel Todd McKee The Society October 8, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment . The Cabin _Atop the plateau’s rise, __I’m homeward bound, When sights familiar strike my eyes. Come with me---see the scenes I've...
A Poem on Writers’ Block and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society October 7, 2023 Culture, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments . Blocked Though honeyed breezes warm the marble halls on Mount Parnassus, vainly do I search for writing on my January walls— molasses clogs my...
The Lowest Heaven: Canto III of Paradise, Translated by Stephen Binns The Society October 7, 2023 Beauty, Dante, Poetry, Translation 10 Comments . The Lowest Heaven: Canto III of Paradise by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns The sun which with first love had warmed my...
Two Poems Inspired by Donner Lake, California, by James A. Tweedie The Society October 6, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 23 Comments . Winter Storm in May A High Sierra snowstorm passes through, Injecting winter into springtime May; As frozen fluffs of ermine drift into A world...
‘Village Home’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society October 6, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry 26 Comments . Village Home after George Enescu's Orchestral Suite no. 3, “Villageoise” Along the tree-lined lane he walks at dusk; What brought him here, he...
‘Hybrid and Wild’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society October 5, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Hybrid and Wild All of her life had a meaning, Each section in its compartment. Tenants went through a close screening— Somehow, I got the...
