‘Back in the U.S.S.R.’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society May 11, 2025 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . Back in the U.S.S.R. ---St. Petersburg, Russia. The present. Your borscht, Dmitri. Come and eat, smart boy. You asked me how life was? Well take a...
An Ekphrastic Poem on Pearce’s ‘Saint Genevieve’ by Jeffrey Essmann The Society May 10, 2025 Ekphrastic, Poetry 9 Comments . Genevieve Perhaps those languid eyes are looking up At angels hymning in the dove-grey sky, So soft and saccharine (and fluent in Provincial...
‘Supernova’: A Poem on Ben Shimoni and Other Poetry by Margaret Coats The Society May 10, 2025 Culture, Poetry 23 Comments . Supernova With no notice, the rockets destroyed festive peace,And a volley of bullets brought death and dismay.Ben ran straight to his car, telling...
‘Ghost Town’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society May 9, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . Ghost Town With phantoms, I have lived for far too long. Both day and night, I’ve sighed, without a song. In vacant shells, I’ve tried to make...
‘An Unfortunate Encounter’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society May 9, 2025 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . An Unfortunate Encounter ---27 March 2025 A ragamuffin mob surrounded mewhilst on an errand, walking in the street.They pressed in close, they...
‘The Sky’: A Poem by Margaret Brinton The Society May 8, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments . The Sky _I'm watching the storm_From the sea coming in,Windy and rowdy and gray._The raindrops begin_And the gale makes a spin.Pelicans swoop o'er...
‘On Epic Madness’: A Poem by Bruce Dale Wise The Society May 8, 2025 Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . On Epic Madness Sing, goddess, of the hate, and killings, on the Earth unleashed, destructive wrath which brings such woe to south, west, north and...
‘A Faithful Friend’s Advice’ and Other Poetry by Christian Muller The Society May 7, 2025 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 6 Comments . A Faithful Friend's Advice The girl you have is just the one for you— my head could not conceive a better match. She is your sun, your earth, the...
‘Riverside Breeze’: A Poem by Daniel Howard The Society May 7, 2025 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 15 Comments . Riverside Breeze ___How beautiful you look __Browsing the flowers one by one _While lying down along the babbling brook; ___And there, beneath the...
SCP Survey of Poets The Society May 6, 2025 From the Society, Poetry . This survey is open to Society Member and non-Members alike. Designed by Roy E. Peterson and Evan Mantyk of the Society of Classical Poets to...
‘Big Pharma Ads Are Everywhere’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 6, 2025 Poetry, Satire 22 Comments . Big Pharma Ads Are Everywhere Big Pharma ads are everywhere __Suffusing my TV. They fail to give me confidence __that they are right for me. They...
‘Alive, Alive-o’: A Poem by Jeff Eardley The Society May 5, 2025 Culture, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments Alive, Alive-o In Dublin’s fair city,Where the girls are so pretty,There lived an old woman,Who was well known to me;Where she sighed with...
‘Territorializing’: A Poem by Mark Stellinga The Society May 4, 2025 Children's, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments . Territorializing Slithering slowly, so very precise, A methodic invader (and catcher of mice), She stealthily slips toward the enemy there, So...
‘Bear Spray’ and Other Poetry by Paul Burgess The Society May 4, 2025 Children's, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Bear Spray My little brother took a dare To pepper spray a mama bear. It seems the spray was much too mild, So I've become an only child. Except...
‘The New Headmasters’: A Poem on British Boarding Schools, by Lucius Falkland The Society May 3, 2025 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . The New Headmasters As I sat, that afternoon, upon his kneeWhile he read a “witty” book and I faux-laughedI’m afraid, aged eight, I didn’t...
‘Pollinator’: A Poem by T.M. Moore The Society May 3, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments . Pollinator When swift spring breezes suddenly excitethe conifers out back, they really comealive in dips and bows and surges rightbefore my eyes. I...
‘The Ego Lingers Longer Than the Mind’ and Other Poetry by Rob Fried The Society May 2, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Triolet 5 Comments . The Ego Lingers Longer Than The Mind The ego lingers longer than the mind, It dares to whisper yearnings of its own: To manifest a will more keen...
‘Headspace’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society May 2, 2025 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Headspace It’s easy to detect folks’ disrespect, And hope your feats will make them feel quite small. But better still would be if the...
‘Back to the Greenwood’: A Poem by Patricia Rogers Crozier The Society May 1, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Back to the Greenwood The spring has come to England once again But I am far away and cannot see The blackthorn blossoms blowing in the wind, And...
SCP Journal XIII Published The Society April 30, 2025 From the Society, Poetry 5 Comments . The Society of Classical Poets Journal XIII has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the...
A Poem on the Kashmir Terrorist Attack, by Satyananda Sarangi The Society April 30, 2025 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . There’s Nothing to Regain ---on the terrorist attack on tourists in Pahalgam town, in Kashmir, India Their hapless screams over that vale Had...
‘Premonition’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society April 30, 2025 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . Premonition The sun shines down in undimmed majestyAcross the heavens’ undiminished breadthOn life unsapped, unweighted levityOf loves and laughs...
‘Zips and Zooms’: A Hummingbird Poem by Gigi Ryan The Society April 29, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . Zips and Zooms The hummingbird both zips and zooms To search for nectar in the blooms Of flowers that unfold in spring. The hummingbird has peewee...
‘How I Spent My Spring Vacation’: Poetry and Photography by James A. Tweedie The Society April 29, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments . How I Spent My Spring Vacation: Poetry and Photography by James A. Tweedie . It Begins 45 Days Surrounded by the circle of the sea I cruise...
‘Heritage’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society April 28, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Heritage I’ve never asked for anything The living soil does not provide. I don’t want cash; I don’t want bling; I only want to stand...
‘An Ode to Silay’: A Poem by Yoshikaze Kawakami The Society April 28, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments . An Ode to Silay Cathedral bells now toll, And horses march the streets, The crowd has filled the hall, We hear the priest now preach. A lady makes...
‘Medusa’s Sisters’: A Poem by Julian Woodruff The Society April 27, 2025 Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments . Medusa's Sisters Medusa lost her head and found renown instead. Her living sisters roared, “And why are we ignored who so much fouler are and...
‘High Society’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society April 27, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 15 Comments . High Society The Cornelius mansion on Park Avenue, New York City, Sunday, August 22, 1886 A derby hat; a fresh, white boutonniereOn my lapel. You...
Book Review: Doorway: The English Cantos, Volume III by James Sale The Society April 26, 2025 Dante, Epic, Poetry, Reviews 10 Comments . Book Reviewed: Doorway: The English Cantos, Volume III, by James Sale, 2025 by Cynthia Erlandson It’s been several years since I’ve read...
A Poem on ‘Saint Elzéar Curing the Lepers’ by Margaret Coats The Society April 26, 2025 Art, Ekphrastic, Poetry 23 Comments . Healing by Heart Dear André, let me see your face And cry out with you to lament The rot of flesh and foul disgrace You suffer, ulcered hands...
‘Linden’: A Poem by Thor Kangas The Society April 25, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 20 Comments . Linden She stands against the sunlit sky, _Her beauty plain to see. The birds sing sweet and pleasant songs _High in the linden tree. The weary...
‘Anachronistic Chaucer’ and Other Springtime Poetry by Paul A. Freeman The Society April 25, 2025 Beauty, Chaucer, Humor, Poetry, Triolet 12 Comments . Anachronistic Chaucer When April showers, forecast on TV,delayed our pilgrimage to Canterbury,an eating house, clept Hooters, we espiedbeside a...
‘The Luigi Mangione Act’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society April 24, 2025 Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . The Luigi Mangione Act We need to contemplate the true impact of The Luigi Mangione Act. Although we sympathize with those who penned this act, it...
John Neihardt’s Epic Western Poetry (Final Part): A Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society April 24, 2025 Classical Poets Live, Epic, Poetry 10 Comments . https://youtu.be/9Qx03HgoXAQ . . Andrew Benson Brown‘s epic-in-progress, Legends of Liberty, chronicles the major events of the American...
‘The Ballad of Shamus’ by Steve Cooper The Society April 24, 2025 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 4 Comments . The Ballad of Shamus Well, Shamus were a likely lad wid a good well-meanin’ ‘eart As strong as O’Malley’s ox, ‘dey say—but only ‘alf...
A Poem on Shakespeare’s Possibly Missing Skull, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 23, 2025 Poetry, Shakespeare 20 Comments . Bardic Bones Who dug the dust? Who didn’t spare the stones? Who churned the earth that festered with a curse? Who had the gall to judder bardic...
‘Sonnet 18’: A Song Inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnet by Gunny Markefka The Society April 23, 2025 Music, Poetry, Shakespeare 8 Comments . Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do...
Sonnets for Shakespeare’s Birthday, by Margaret Coats The Society April 23, 2025 Poetry, Shakespeare 18 Comments . The Comedy of Rosalind ---As You Like It I show more mirth than I am mistress of. This forest and my folly prompted change Of sex, and my disguise...
Four Sonnets on Shen Yun Performing Arts, by Evan Mantyk The Society April 22, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Performing Arts, Poetry 12 Comments . On Shen Yun . I. The land of China. Deep in history That like a river flows with people and culture, Extending into misty mystery. But now this...
‘Voyage Among the Ancients’: A Poem by Mary Jane Myers The Society April 22, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 17 Comments . Voyage Among the Ancients "Tread softly, for here you stand On miracle ground…" ---Lawrence Durrell, "On Ithaca Standing" ( 1937) The Juno...
