‘How to Write Contemporary Poetry’ and ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’ by Brian Yapko The Society March 21, 2023 Culture, Education, Humor, Pantoum, Poetry, Satire, Shakespeare 35 Comments . How to Write Contemporary Poetry a pantoum in free verse composition keep letters lower case. dump classical tradition then cite the...
‘Learnin’ Letters’ and Other Poetry by Norma Pain The Society March 20, 2023 Education, Humor, Poetry 28 Comments . Learnin’ Letters I wanna learn me letters Ma, I wanna learn ta read. If I can learn me letters Ma, We’ll ‘ave the things we need. An’ when...
‘The Antiques Buyer Meets His Match’: A Poem by Mark Stellinga The Society March 20, 2023 Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . The Antiques Buyer Meets His Match "What's the best you'll do?" I asked; __“It's nice, but needs some work... and parts for these, as you may...
‘Ex-Freedom of Speech’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society March 19, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 36 Comments . Ex-Freedom of Speech In fact, most liberals don't support free speech today, And often see a need for censorship instead. They claim...
A Poem on Bank and Financial Collapses: ‘Ponzi’ by C.B. Anderson The Society March 19, 2023 Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . Ponzi Your promises mean nothing if they lack fidelity. It grieves a man to hear such welcome words, then have them taken back without the least...
‘Old Orphan’: A Poem by Jeffrey Essmann The Society March 19, 2023 Beauty, Ekphrastic, Poetry 13 Comments . Old Orphan They’re over on my dresser, simply framed And looking 1940s fresh and young. There’s something to them holy and unnamed, Some song...
A Poem for Josh Alexander: ‘The War on Children’ by Julian Woodruff The Society March 18, 2023 Culture, Poetry 21 Comments . The War on Children “I quoted some Scripture, I said that there are only two genders. And apparently, because there are transgender students in...
‘The Last Night That We Met’: A Poem by Tiree MacGregor The Society March 18, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . The Last Night That We Met in memoriam CQD, Halifax, February, 2001 We gripped hands awkwardly. I’d grasped your shoulder To say goodbye, and,...
‘The Leprechaun’: A Saint Patrick’s Day Poem by Cheryl Corey The Society March 17, 2023 Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments . The Leprechaun Come mid-March, the leprechaun Glides up and o’er the rainbow, Playful as a unicorn That’s prancing in a meadow. With greedy...
‘The Lark in the Morning’: A Tune for St Patrick’s Day by Poet Jeff Eardley The Society March 17, 2023 Culture, Music, Poetry 15 Comments . "The Lark in the Morning" is a traditional Irish song performed on classical guitar by poet and professional musician Jeff Eardley: . . Jeff...
‘Freedom Convoy Song’: Lyrics by Lannie David Brockstein The Society March 16, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Song Lyrics 6 Comments . Freedom Convoy Song To bravely speak is to turn on the lights, __To silence darkens all of our debate; Yea, We the People know free speech...
‘St. Jerome’s Cicero Obsession’ by Joshua C. Frank The Society March 16, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . St. Jerome’s Cicero Obsession based on St. Jerome’s letter to his disciple St. Eustochium in Rome, A.D. 384 When I was young and foolish long...
Beatrice Smiles: Canto XXXI of Purgatory by Dante Alighieri, Translated by Stephen Binns The Society March 15, 2023 Beauty, Dante, Epic, Poetry, Translation 7 Comments . Beatrice Smiles: Canto XXXI of Purgatory by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) translated by Stephen Binns “You, on the other side of the sacred...
A Poem on Thales of Miletus, by Stephen M. Dickey The Society March 15, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 16 Comments . Θαλῆς 2.0 In days of yore, Thales, the famous sage, Went out on a stargazing walk and fell Straight down an overlooked and vexing well. A...
‘The Sea Cliffs’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society March 14, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments . The Sea Cliffs Imposing, somber, motionless they stand, Like ranks of rugged soldiers primed for war, They stand where they have always stood...
‘Britomart and Marinell’: A Faerie Queene-Inspired Poem by Jeremiah Johnson The Society March 13, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Britomart and Marinell In Edmund Spenser's epic poem, The Faerie Queene, Britomart is a female knight who represents the virtue of chastity. ...
‘The Scottish Gourmand’: A Poem by Wael Almahdi The Society March 12, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 23 Comments . The Scottish Gourmand A culture-rich country which lay to the east where we were invited to conference and feast from Cuba to China, and some of...
‘Winter Sunset’: A Poem by Adam Sedia The Society March 11, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments . Winter Sunset Gnarled, naked boughs, shadowed skeleton arms Stretch in despair and agony. They frame Like barbed-wire twists the western sky...
Pastoral Calls—Part 2 of 3: Poetry by Retired Pastor James A. Tweedie The Society March 11, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments Pastoral Calls—Part 2 of 3 . Face-to-Face A weeping woman called me on the phone And said, “My daughter’s in the county jail. They will not let...
‘Ondine and Lucien’s Great Adventure’: A Poem by Paul Martin Freeman The Society March 10, 2023 Children's, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments . The Number 17: Ondine and Lucien’s Great Adventure; Or, The Kind that Can Float from The Bus Poems: A Tale of the Devil, currently in...
‘The Very Best Business’ by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli, Translated by Joseph S. Salemi The Society March 9, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 12 Comments . The Very Best Business by Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863) translated from Romanesco by Joseph S. Salemi First I was a gardener (a...
‘El Melon’ and Other Poetry by Monika Cooper The Society March 9, 2023 Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . El Melon There is a maze or map on melon skin Even the blind could read and seek to solve. A little girl watches the housewives, deft, Touching the...
‘Poet Tree’: An Excerpt from Legacy: The Saga Begins, by Michael Pietrack The Society March 8, 2023 Beauty, Children's, Poetry 27 Comments . Poet Tree Legacy: The Saga Begins is a 14-chapter narrative poem. In this excerpt, the adolescent hero Abelbee, who has to venture deep into...
A Poem on the French Pension Reform Strike, by Margaret Coats The Society March 7, 2023 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Why Strike? With prices high and living standards low, Our times are like what our grandparents knew. They fought world war; we slave for war...
‘Farinelli’: A Poem on the Famous Castrato by Brian Yapko The Society March 7, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 88 Comments . Farinelli A thousand thanks, Martini, for your visit. Bologna is a town of balladeers. You’ll love it! Now I wonder, how long is it Since we both...
‘Lean on Him’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society March 6, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments . Lean on Him after Ecclesiasties We labor long beneath the sun. Forgotten soon by everyone. We come from dust and end the same, Depart this life...
For Jerks Who Gossip: Two Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 5, 2023 Poetry, Rondeau, Satire 34 Comments . Gossip “There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes any of us to talk about the rest of...
A Poem on Aging Gracefully: ‘Evolution’ by Russel Winick The Society March 5, 2023 Beauty, Poetry, Satire 25 Comments . Evolution I can’t run fast or jump high anymore. Mistakes I make I never made before. Some maladies and aches don’t have a cure, Alertness and...
‘Homeric Hot or Not’: Poem by Morrison Handley-Schachler The Society March 5, 2023 Homer, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . Homeric Hot or Not (Hotness Ratings Out of 10) . 10 By birth divine and radiantly tressed And beautiful and of a charm possessed That turns men...
‘Before Going to Sleep as a Boy’ and Other Poetry by Tiree MacGregor The Society March 4, 2023 Beauty, Epigrams and Proverbs, Poetry 5 Comments . Before Going to Sleep as a Boy I saw Him when I closed my eyes, Gazing down sidelong, seeing all, Serenely, stoically wise. I knew that judgement...
A Poem on a Lost Child: ‘Ruben’ and Other Poetry by Cynthia Erlandson The Society March 4, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . Ruben “We have words that speak of the ongoing presence of such privations: orphan, widow, widower. And perhaps the fact that we have no word for...
‘Civics 101’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society March 3, 2023 Culture, Epigrams and Proverbs, Poetry, Satire 23 Comments . Civics 101 Jejune excuses used too many times Do not undo the doer from the deed: A miscreant accused of many crimes Is not the type of model...
‘Of When I Lived in Prague’: A Poem by Isabel Scheltens The Society March 3, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . Of When I Lived in Prague--- I wander through a maze of gold and stone, Mosaic pavement watched by gilded faces; Bridges, towers etched with...
‘Eulogy for a Them’: Poem on a Transgender Burial by Jeffrey Essmann The Society March 2, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 33 Comments . Eulogy for a Them We gather here to celebrate a him Or her (an it? a they?) and in the end A prophet of the present who could bend Reality to suit...
A Group of Poems on Screen Obsession, by Joshua C. Frank The Society March 2, 2023 Culture, Pantoum, Poetry, Triolet 32 Comments . Screened. I. The Phony Mom a true story Her phone, in hand above the stroller, Blocked her baby from her view. She held it like a game...
‘Peach Blossom Dreaming’ by Margaret Coats The Society March 1, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Shape Poems 35 Comments . Peach Blossom Dreaming Peach blossoms furnish inwrought dreaming room Intangible to fingertips corrupt; __Substantially beyond each tapered...
‘Spring Shower’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society February 28, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments . Spring Shower How beautiful the rain– The cool and cleansing rain! I watch as tiny rivulets Run down my window pane And countless glad and golden...
A Poem on the Covid Lab Leak, by Brian Yapko The Society February 27, 2023 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry, Satire 58 Comments . Born in a Wuhan Lab Newsflash: U.S. Energy Department says it was probably a lab leak. Those men in suits and labcoats thought it worth The lives...
Whatfinger Poetry Contest The Society February 27, 2023 Poetry, Poetry Contests 45 Comments . ABOUT THE CONTEST Many poets who have been published by the Society of Classical Poets have had their poems linked to, and therefore promoted, by...
‘The Piano Student’: A Poem by Royal Rhodes The Society February 27, 2023 Beauty, Music, Poetry 6 Comments . The Piano Student Glissandos flow like rivers from the keys, One by one, you slide with practiced skill And let us hear some hidden...
