‘Castile’ by Miguel de Unamuno, Translated by Cheryl Corey The Society February 2, 2023 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 10 Comments . Castile by Miguel de Unamuno (Spain, 1864-1936)translated by Cheryl A. Corey O Castile! You raise me up in the rugged palm of your hand;To the...
‘The Snuff Box’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society February 2, 2023 Beauty, Children's, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . The Snuff Box from a true story told in My Mother by Fr. Bernard Vaughan (1847-1922) When I was just a little boy, My mother served us shepherd’s...
The Best Poems of 2022: Winners of SCP International Poetry Competition The Society February 1, 2023 Best Poems, Dante, From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Contests 15 Comments The Best Poems of 2022: Winners of the 11th Annual SCP International Poetry Competition Judges Joseph S. Salemi, James Sale, Evan Mantyk Past First...
Winners of 2022 SCP International High School Poetry Competition Announced The Society February 1, 2023 High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests 2 Comments . First Place ($200 Prize) Christiana Thomas, homeschooled 12th grade student in Oregon. "Worth Disguised" . Second Place Laurel Aronian, 10th grade...
‘Disemboguement’ by Anna J. Arredondo The Society January 31, 2023 Love Poems, Poetry 19 Comments . Disemboguement You woke something deep within me, not at first sight, but the second: When distractions ceased to spin me, my eyes focused; your...
‘So Close By’ by Warren Bonham The Society January 31, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . So Close By At one point I was told that I Was purposely created by Some perfect being in the sky Who watches as I live and die. If that was true,...
‘Love and Loss: Poems for Viktoria Sokoli’ by Paul Martin Freeman The Society January 30, 2023 Love Poems, Poetry 13 Comments . Love and Loss: Poems for Viktoria Sokoli . Love I I once loved a girl called Viktoria Sokoli With eyes of the colour of spinach and broccoli. Her...
‘Comfort’ and Other Poetry of the Sea by Catherine Lee The Society January 30, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments . Comfort I gaze upon the endless sea against high cliffs, on golden sand— her everlasting majesty. Through ages rolling wild and grand, oblivious...
‘Media’ and Other Poetry by Norma Pain The Society January 29, 2023 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry, Satire 18 Comments . Media You told us lies, ignored our cries. __Your platforms you abused. You cancelled truth; you damaged youth, __And we are not amused. You took...
StairWell Canto 8: ‘Covid-Priest’ by James Sale The Society January 28, 2023 Covid-19, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry 30 Comments . Canto 8: Covid-Priest from The English Cantos Volume 2: StairWell StairWell is the Poet’s Purgatory, and as in HellWard where we met with...
‘To an Eager Lover’ and Other Poetry by Adrian Fillion The Society January 28, 2023 Love Poems, Poetry 16 Comments . To an Eager Lover This isn’t an unreasonable demand: you have to learn my story with your hands. As a man, you naturally want to know a woman in...
‘Practical Philosophy’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society January 27, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 29 Comments . Practical Philosophy The mind is meant to lead the body, And not the other way around. Permit no workmanship that’s shoddy, And build foundations...
‘Life on the Farm’ and Other Poetry by Aleta Kiefer The Society January 27, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments . Life on the Farm Daddy’s gone. Is he sleeping? For only the shell remains. I hear the cries of cicadas. I listen to their pain. Momma, why are...
A Poem for India’s Republic Day: ‘The Land of Dreams’ by Satyananda Sarangi The Society January 26, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . The Land of Dreams written on the eve of India's Republic Day of India which is celebrated on Jan. 26 every year Some distance far away, the...
‘Look Up and See the Music’ by James A. Tweedie The Society January 26, 2023 Beauty, Music, Poetry 12 Comments . Look Up and See the Music Psalm 19:1 In winter, when the atmosphere is still And cold, and when the nighttime sky is clear, The stars and planets,...
‘The Poetaster’s Plight’ by Kenneth L. Horne The Society January 26, 2023 Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments . The Poetaster’s Plight Some think the poet’s work is ease: "Sit back and write it’s such a breeze;" But those that know will surely say They...
‘The Stonechat Listens At The Asylum Window’ by Charles Southerland The Society January 25, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 31 Comments . The Stonechat Listens at the Asylum Window I fear I might mistranslate what you said And lose the very essence of your words. May I record you as...
A Classical Guitar Rendition of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ for Burns Night, by Jeff Eardley The Society January 25, 2023 Culture, Music, Poetry 17 Comments . Burns Night is when Scotland's most important bard, Robert Burns (1759-1796), is celebrated, usually with the recitation of Burns' poems, the...
A Sonnet for Burns Night, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 24, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 43 Comments . Note: Burns Night is when Scotland’s most important bard, Robert Burns (1759-1796), is celebrated, usually with the recitation of Burns’...
A Poem on the Existence of God: ‘The Problem of Good’ by Jeffrey Essmann The Society January 24, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . The Problem of Good a Petrarchan sonnet If there’s (the armchair philosopher maintains) A God (most likely writing in his blog), Then why’s the...
On Alma Tadema’s Coign of Vantage and Other Poetry by Mary Jane Myers The Society January 24, 2023 Art, Beauty, Ekphrastic, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments . . On Alma Tadema’s Coign of Vantage Flora peeks over the marble parapet, a dizzying perch above the azure Aegean. The Roman fleet is...
Transgression, Fake and Genuine: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society January 23, 2023 Essays, Poetry 40 Comments . Transgression, Fake and Genuine by Joseph S. Salemi When Henry Harland and Aubrey Beardsley brought forth their groundbreaking periodical...
A Poem on the World Economic Forum’s Davos 2023, by Julian D. Woodruff The Society January 23, 2023 Culture, Music, Poetry 20 Comments . WEF, Davos, ‘23—A Modern Reply after “Endless Pleasure, Endless Love”* Endless hooey, endless snow, We’re exposed to here below. Ever on...
‘On a Terrible Orchestral-chorale Concert’ by Peter Venable The Society January 23, 2023 Humor, Poetry 4 Comments . On a Terrible Orchestral-chorale Concert Trapped here with vain musicians---what a fate! An echo chamber that I can't escape. Conductors lead,...
‘Ever Flowing’ by Dusty Grein The Society January 22, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments . Ever Flowing Upon the rushing river’s bank I stand, deep water, ever flowing as it goes. The turbulence of my life it reflects as if my mortal...
“John Adams in Heaven,” from Legends of Liberty by Andrew Benson Brown The Society January 22, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Epic, Poetry 18 Comments . John Adams in Heaven John and Abigail Adams are being guided through heaven by John Milton. He takes them to a villa in the Elysian Fields, where...
‘Iambic Barktameter’ by Mark F. Stone The Society January 21, 2023 Culture, Humor, Poetry 31 Comments . A Note on Iambic Barktameter I have an Australian Shepard named Sunny who loves poetry. I didn’t believe it at first, but she proved it to me....
‘Bats at Sunset’ and Other Poetry by Maxim D. Shrayer The Society January 21, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 22 Comments . Bats at Sunset The monster is rotund, vile, enormous, three-muzzled, and barking ---Vasily Trediakovsky, after Virgil The woods are lovely, dark,...
Launch Event for Michael Pietrack’s Legacy: You Are Invited The Society January 20, 2023 Children's, Poetry 7 Comments . SCP Members and readers are invited by poet Michael Pietrack to his Virtual Launch Party on Saturday, January 21 at 12 Noon EST. The...
‘The Calendar’ and Other Poetry by Jez Punter The Society January 20, 2023 Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . The Calendar You are the festive dregs of January,you liven February with Valentine’s.You are the March that gives spring sanctuary,you are the...
‘Moments from Dante’s Inferno’ by Paul Buchheit The Society January 20, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry 15 Comments . Moments from Dante’s Inferno Prepared to travel, if the gods allowed, I saw the woods were dreary, dark as death. I chose to heed a blessing...
‘Banish the Thought’ by Susan J. Cappellari The Society January 19, 2023 Beauty, Poetry, Triolet 6 Comments . Banish the Thought Who are you? Not me, I know You creep and crimp my edges fray, An apparition of Dickens’ play--- Who are you? Not me, I...
‘Swimming with Dreams and Memory’ and Other Poetry by Pippa Kay The Society January 19, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau 21 Comments . Swimming with Dreams and Memory My childhood dreams and memories remain through adulthood and old age. My doll speaks. My toy car surfs that tidal...
Poem on the Failed British Space Launch, by Jeff Eardley The Society January 18, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Science 16 Comments . “Newquay, we have a problem” January 9, 2023 We’ve gathered in thousands to witness the blast-off, We’re sipping Champagne with our eyes...
‘Greta’s Smorgasbord of Hate’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society January 18, 2023 Culture, Poetry, Satire 61 Comments . Greta's Smorgasbord of Hate I love the pretty trees, the trees love me! They make me dance and sing, they make me shout And sulk and give loud...
‘Gloucester in July’ by Patricia Rogers Crozier The Society January 18, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . Gloucester in July A thousand silent saints and angels Hewn from vertex, plane, and angle Raised by blow of mason’s hammer Raised from stone to...
‘Beatitude’ by Gregory Ross The Society January 17, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau 6 Comments . Beatitude Be glad and smile, for they revile, The Truth they mock and put on trial, The Beauty they do not possess, The Good, they curse, and will...
‘El Pescado’ and Other Poetry by Monika Cooper The Society January 17, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . El Pescado They gloat: the age of Pisces, it is over. They chant to call Aquarius’ forces in. In the deep labyrinths we sought the sign, The...
‘The Christmas Story’ and Other Poetry by Lauren V. Leon The Society January 16, 2023 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . The Christmas Story An angel of the Lord, Came forth with joyful news, Of Him Who is adored, Messiah of the Jews. The angel hailed the one, A...
‘The Wind’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society January 16, 2023 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . The Wind Listen, listen! Do you hear it? It is on the march tonight--- The incessant winter wind that blows throughout the wood and glade. Like a...
