‘Delightfully Mine’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society April 27, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 32 Comments . Delightfully Mine Of handsome landscapes I admire, How few were planned to please my sight. High skies of which I never tire Are gifts of light,...
‘Encapsulations of Classic Texts’: Four Poems by Joshua C. Frank The Society April 27, 2023 Alexandroid, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Encapsulations “It’s a shame that the tradition of producing small poetic encapsulations of classic texts seems to have died out.” ---Joseph...
‘La Luna’ and Other Poetry by Monika Cooper The Society April 26, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . La Luna The poet compares the moon to Eve, our fallen but redeemed mother, and the sun to Mary, daughter of Eve and Mother of us all; she...
‘Receiving an Organ Transplant from China’: A Poem by Evan Mantyk The Society April 25, 2023 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 38 Comments . Receiving an Organ Transplant from China The waiting time was short, extremely short: A couple weeks and fifty thousand bucks Was all it took in...
A Poem for New Writers: ‘The Window Seat’ by D.T. Holt The Society April 25, 2023 Beauty, Poetry, Satire 24 Comments . The Window Seat “They don’t read poets till they’re dead.” That’s what my wise-guy father said. “They wait till they have gone...
Sketches of Three Communistic Big Heads: Poems by Damian Robin The Society April 24, 2023 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Satire 9 Comments . Sketches of Three Communistic Big Heads . 1. Xi Jinping Who thinks this belly-flopping avarist is good except those marrying the flies that buzz...
Beatrice Does Not Smile: Canto XXI of Paradise by Dante Alighieri, Translated by Stephen Binns The Society April 24, 2023 Beauty, Dante, Epic, Poetry, Translation 6 Comments . Beatrice Does Not Smile: Canto XXI of Paradise by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns And now my eyes were fastened once...
A Poem on Social Media Vanity: ‘Awaiting Adulation’ and Other Poetry by Warren Bonham The Society April 23, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . Awaiting Adulation We all spend our lives awaiting adulations’ late arrival. We’re convinced that’s all we need for our emotional...
Poems for Shakespeare’s Birthday in an Era of A.I. Poetry, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 23, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire, Shakespeare 29 Comments . Bardic Bots Will Shakespeare has been rendered obsolete. Bill’s quillings are a patriarchal scandal. His iambs...
Poems by Human Beings Versus Poems by AI Poems by ChatGPT: Take the Quiz The Society April 22, 2023 Essays, Haiku and Senryu, Limerick, Poetry, Villanelle 30 Comments . Human Poetry Versus ChatGPT's AI Poetry Can you tell the difference between artificial intelligence poetry and human poetry? by Evan Mantyk and...
A Poem for Earth Day: ‘Green… Greener… Greenest…’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 22, 2023 Pantoum, Poetry, Satire, The Environment 43 Comments . Green... Greener... Greenest... a doomsday pantoum Zoom with raving saviors to Net Zero. Bewail our frail and...
Two Cinquains by Tiree MacGregor The Society April 21, 2023 Beauty, Blank Verse, Education, Poetry 6 Comments . A Novice Speaks to a Guardian Tell me, Oh honoured one, The secret of the Way, Of how to live, to reach the place Of light! . The Guardian’s...
‘A Few Special Letters’: An Alphabet Poem by Paul Martin Freeman The Society April 21, 2023 Children's, Humor, Poetry 26 Comments . A Few Special Letters . The mother goddess The m’s the mother goddess of the letters: Her shape exemplifies the female form. A bosom there for...
Poems on a Vilhelm Kyhn Painting and Jan. 6 Writer Julie Kelly, by Bruce Dale Wise The Society April 20, 2023 Acrostic, Art, Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 7 Comments . A Picture of Repose A young boy’s seated on a wall that overlooks Capri, an oil painting by Dane Peter Vilhelm Carl Kyhn, where a rock ridge...
‘Standing Up’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society April 19, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Science 25 Comments . Standing Up The screech of an eagle __Will marshal our senses And, if reckoned regal, __Refocus our lenses __On many events That we blithely...
A Poem on Friendship and Other Poetry by Stephen M. Dickey The Society April 19, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . Friendship When was it first struck up? Nobody knows. It’s carried us through heydays, drabs, and falls. An unsown balm, ex nihilo it...
‘Historical Negation’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society April 18, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 27 Comments . Historical Negation A pen works wonders. Just ink in, scratch out. Rewrite what people learn about the past. Repeat false facts, promote a...
‘La Pompe Funèbre’: A Dramatic Monologue in Poetry by Joseph S. Salemi The Society April 17, 2023 Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . La Pompe Funèbre Félix François Faure, President of the French Republic, died on February 16, 1899 in his chambers at the Palais de l’Elysée,...
Japanese-Style Poems on Free Thought, by Laura Kelly The Society April 17, 2023 Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry, Satire 9 Comments . Senryu on Free Thought . I. As storied Kipling Is stricken from pupils’ tales I feel his burden . II. Arise Dame Roseanne From the...
The Society of Classical Poets Journal XI Published The Society April 16, 2023 From the Society, Poetry 10 Comments . The Society of Classical Poets Journal XI has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the...
‘Art Freezes Time’: A Poem for National Poetry Month by Roy E. Peterson The Society April 16, 2023 Art, Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments . Art Freezes Time Great art freezes time when a painting is hung. An image of beauty eternally young. Who painted the pictures that hang on this...
‘Worse Than Widowed’: A Poem by Cynthia Erlandson The Society April 15, 2023 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Worse Than Widowed They’ve made us widows while we’re still alive. I’m not allowed to see my wife, although She isn’t sick; the head nurse...
Poems on Growing Up, by James A. Tweedie The Society April 15, 2023 Culture, Epigrams and Proverbs, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments . Growing Up . Starving Children in China If you don’t eat the food that’s on your plate ....I will, in turn, assert That you will be...
‘Just Words’ and Other Poetry by Norma Pain The Society April 14, 2023 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 26 Comments . Just Words The more we are together dear, __I fear… can love suffice? Of late I find you’re cavalier __And not so very nice. Your nonstop...
‘Restoration of Nôtre Dame’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society April 14, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . Restoration of Nôtre Dame One Paris evening seven years ago, We walked the neighborhood of Nôtre Dame, But no café had seats. We settled on A...
‘Acceptance’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society April 13, 2023 Culture, Education, Love Poems, Poetry, Satire 24 Comments . Acceptance Relationships are courses in which You should not enroll, If changing other people is your Pre-existing goal. . . When One Overrides...
‘The Little Knight’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society April 13, 2023 Alexandroid, Beauty, Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 26 Comments . The Little Knight The kitchen door slams open wide; The boy flies through to play outside. His house becomes his castle’s walls; The distant car...
Essay: ‘On the Musical Language of Poetry’ by A.J. Illingworth The Society April 12, 2023 Essays, Music, Poetry 21 Comments . On the Musical Language of Poetry In Defense of the Classical Style . by A.J. Illingworth The historical connection between music and poetry is no...
Three Sonnets by Vittorio Alfieri, Translated by Adam Sedia The Society April 12, 2023 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 9 Comments . Three Sonnets by Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803) translated by Adam Sedia . LXXIV Melancholy, why take your only seat On this, my miserable...
‘Walking Near the Waves’: A Love Poem by Daniel Howard The Society April 11, 2023 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 10 Comments . Walking Near the Waves When, walking near the waves, with eyes downcast, I look at my reflection from the shore, Which seems to sink towards the...
A Poem on Joe Biden and Ice Cream, by Cheryl Corey The Society April 10, 2023 Humor, Poetry 9 Comments . The King of Ice Cream in reference to recent Biden comments here. The current White House resident Is more than just the President. He’s King!...
‘Cryogenic Freezing’: A Poem by Joseph S. Salemi The Society April 10, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 35 Comments . Cryogenic Freezing from the conclusion of A Gallery of Ethopaths Let’s end on a deathly note To grab my readers by the throat. When ethopathic...
‘Parque España, Mexico City’ and Other Sonnets by Geoffrey Smagacz The Society April 10, 2023 Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Shakespeare 8 Comments . Parque España, Mexico City I walked until I couldn't walk without at least alighting on a city bench, the first that had a shaded seat, about ten...
Winners of the Whatfinger Poetry Contest Announced The Society April 10, 2023 Poetry, Poetry Contests 6 Comments . Whatfinger Poetry Contest Judged by Mike Bryant . FIRST PLACE . Untitled by Damian Robin Support the online enterprisethat picks the brave from...
Three Denarii or Best Offer: An Easter Poem by James A. Tweedie The Society April 9, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 5 Comments . Three Denarii OBO For Sale: One ten-foot wooden cross. Good cedar, cypress with some pine. The owner selling at a loss. Used once, by Rome, to...
‘How Great Thou Art’: An Easter Ballade by Brian Yapko The Society April 9, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . How Great Thou Art __An Easter Ballade . It’s Easter. I can hear the choir sing. The gospels have been prayed upon and read And now I cheer the...
A Poem for Easter Day: ‘After the Storm’ by Martin Rizley The Society April 9, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . After the Storm All darkness past, the sun now shines Through shredded storm clouds drained of rain; Its bright beams crown, as day declines, The...
‘Hymn’ and Other Poetry for Easter Sunday by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 9, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry 21 Comments . Hymn I met Him on that Sunday afternoon I trod the Kentish cobbles through the streets Of Rochester past dwellings in the gloom Of...
An Easter Poem and Song: ‘The Shroud of Death’ by James A. Tweedie The Society April 8, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry 12 Comments . . The Shroud of Death The shroud of death’s night-shadow fled Before the dawning light of day; Unveiling tombs wherein the dead In grave and...
‘Of St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague’: A Poem by Isabel Scheltens The Society April 8, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Of St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague Once I used to live a waking dream Devoid of starlight: lanterns on the hill Betwined the huddled palaces which...
