‘A Ballade on Being Commissioned’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society July 1, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . A Ballade on Being Commissioned Twixt Florence and the Holy See Of every artist you could hire You thought it meet to torture me. You gave no...
‘On Palestrina’s Music’ by Margaret Coats The Society June 30, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry 28 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHUuaA8DKiQ . On Palestrina's Music Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum, Ita desiderat anima mea ad te, Deus....
Haiku Competition 2022 The Society June 29, 2022 Haiku and Senryu, Poetry, Poetry Contests 612 Comments . Our 2023 Haiku Competition is on now HERE. WHO Anyone in the world, of any age or background, may participate. Among members of the Society of...
How to Write Haiku: What Makes a Good Haiku? The Society June 29, 2022 Education, Essays, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 47 Comments . How to Write Haiku What Makes a Good Haiku? by Margaret Coats The required 5-7-5 syllable form alone does not make a haiku. A good haiku ⦁...
Freedom in China Open Poetry Reading The Society June 29, 2022 Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings 2 Comments . You are invited to a reading of poetry that shines a light on the plight of ordinary, innocent people in China today who are unjustly persecuted by...
‘Gleam by Any Means’ by David Watt The Society June 29, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 17 Comments . Gleam by Any Means The poem that I seek to write, the piece with flair and form, Which raises spirits high as clouds on zephyr breezes warm, Or...
Poems on Sexualizing School Children, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 28, 2022 Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . Groomers The words the school kids speak are not their own--- Fiends mold the untrained brain till every thought Is hostage to their noxious...
‘Life Is a Dream’ by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Translated by Elwin Wirkala The Society June 28, 2022 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 6 Comments . Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) Translated by Elwin Wirkala The king dreams he is king, and lives with this deception...
‘On Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Fields’ by Evan Mantyk The Society June 27, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Science 21 Comments . On Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Fields Are we just rats within a maze? Perhaps. But then perhaps there’s more to rats than what We know. Take for...
The Classical Figures Poetry Reading – Video The Society June 26, 2022 Poetry, Readings, Video 5 Comments . https://youtu.be/DIhS6QTHh90 . Hosted by British poet James Sale and held by the Society of Classical Poets, the theme of this reading is...
‘The Requisite’ by Jeffrey Essmann The Society June 26, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments . The Requisite I may have made a great mistake In my pursuit of solitude and grace; Perhaps have stumbled unaware Into an all-too-human ache I...
‘Abiding Senescence’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society June 25, 2022 Culture, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments . Abiding Senescence My energy and physical abilities Will not again be limitless as once they were. To those more qualified to ponder facts like...
‘Upon These Boughs that Shake Against the Cold’ by Cynthia Erlandson The Society June 25, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments . “Upon These Boughs that Shake Against the Cold” ---Shakespeare, Sonnet 73 Her script was always lovely and unique, And still unique when it...
‘There Is a Quiet Place’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society June 24, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 19 Comments . There Is a Quiet Place There is a quiet place Where we can go to hide. A place where no one sees us, That cannot be denied. There is a quiet...
‘Advice from the Untalented’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society June 23, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments . Advice from the Untalented They smugly said I’d never make much money From playing with my words and making art, That it would be a waste to...
‘Australia in 2022’ by Shaun C. Duncan The Society June 23, 2022 Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . Australia in 2022 written on the eve of a federal election where everything is at stake but nothing is on the agenda. A nation now in name and...
‘In God We Trust’ by James A. Tweedie The Society June 22, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 12 Comments . “In God We Trust” The motto for our nation boldly states, “In God we trust,” Which is, of course, a matter for each person to decide. We...
‘Tongues as of Fire’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society June 22, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 4 Comments . Tongues as of Fire If men desire to find belief, to sing It out through throats works best to make the soul Embrace it. This will make the sought...
‘The Duke D’Alençon Meets Joan of Arc’ by Ben Broussard The Society June 21, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments . The Duke D’Alençon Meets Joan of Arc What task from the dauphin comes to me hence? A lowly maid now seeks his audience. This Joan, a girl from...
‘An Open Poem to Evil’ by Mike Bryant The Society June 20, 2022 Culture, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments . An Open Poem to Evil “Gravity is real... it’s hard to keep a bag of shit in the air forever.” ---Alex Wilhelm You goofy spoofin’ kooks are...
‘Apollo in Retirement’ by Margaret Coats The Society June 20, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 42 Comments . Apollo in Retirement Quite early he approached a humble hut, With saxifrage and canneberge sun-brewed To melt the stone that galled the...
‘A Glass for My Father’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society June 19, 2022 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . A Glass for My Father Marie-Maurille de Virot, Mademoiselle de Sombreuil (February 14, 1768—May 15, 1823) My father was the Marquis de...
‘On the Extradition of Julian Assange’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 18, 2022 Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . On the Extradition of Julian Assange The fiends who wield the power here on earth (The ones who gag our speech to gain control) Are shouting out...
‘Who Bled’ by Alexander King Ream The Society June 17, 2022 Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 8 Comments . Who Bled When all is said and life be trod, One takeaway the Son of God Made clear, when rising from the dead? The winner here's the Guy who...
A Modernization of ‘To His Coy Mistress’ and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society June 17, 2022 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 13 Comments . A Modernization of “To His Coy Mistress” You say we should some years delay The coming of our wedding day, But God commanded us to try To...
‘In Praise of Bollywood’ by Brian Yapko The Society June 16, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments . In Praise of Bollywood To India! To visit from afar... My journey there would be a dream fulfilled. To visit Delhi, Agra, Bangalore, To ride an...
‘Speechless’ and Other Poetry by Clive Boddy The Society June 16, 2022 Beauty, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 7 Comments . Speechless I have smelt the perfect scent of the flower of a rose, Known intoxicated freedom where frangipani grows. Watched majestic rivers meet...
‘Decolonising the Curriculum’: A Dual Scenario by Paul A. Freeman The Society June 15, 2022 Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Decolonising the Curriculum – Dual Scenario on Salford University's recent treatment of the sonnet. We must decolonise our poetry Because it’s...
‘Why This Time, Why This Place?’ by Michael Charles Maibach The Society June 15, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . Why This Time, Why This Place? When I die And leave this land, Please dear Lord Extend Your hand. Extend Your hand To this good soul, Who finds...
‘My Thoughts Laid Bear’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 14, 2022 Humor, Poetry, Readings 24 Comments . . My Thoughts Laid Bear “Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t...
What Is ‘Pro-Choice’? and Other Poetry by Joshua C. Frank The Society June 13, 2022 Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 12 Comments . What Is “Pro-Choice"? If my child were sent to die, Be chopped to pieces like a pig, To spare him death, I’d plead and beg, __His life with...
Classical Poetry and the Martial Ethos: An Essay by Andrew Benson Brown The Society June 13, 2022 Culture, Essays, Homer, Poetry 6 Comments . Classical Poetry and the Martial Ethos by Andrew Benson Brown . The Heroic Age Towards the end of “Egil’s Saga,” one of the masterpieces of...
Lines On Dreadful Instagram Poetry by S.A.Todd The Society June 12, 2022 Culture, Humor, Poetry 24 Comments . "Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing" ---Lines On Dreadful Instagram Poetry A halitosis belch of steam Spewed out in words. Ream after ream Of...
‘Judge Not’ by C.B. Anderson The Society June 11, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Dante, Poetry, Terza Rima 23 Comments . Judge Not We notice, Signor Alighieri, that You have a rather well developed bent For taking your opponents to the mat And showing them that in...
‘Classical Camouflaged’ and Other Poems by James Ph. Kotsybar The Society June 11, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . Classical Camouflaged __It begins, like all prose poems today, with a bit of narrated diary, as though it were a tale by Hemmingway, but...
‘Canzone to the Virgin’ by Petrarch, Translated by Margaret Coats The Society June 10, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 21 Comments . Canzone to the Virgin by Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) Translated by Margaret Coats Virgin beautiful, vested with the sun And crowned with stars,...
Two Sonnets on the Epstein-Maxwell Case, by Shaun C. Duncan The Society June 9, 2022 Culture, Poetry 20 Comments . Jeffrey Epstein in His Cell On nights like this a lesser man might pray; Instead he dreams of islands in his cell And sends his thoughts a thousand...
‘Nature at Peace’ and Other Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society June 8, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments . Nature at Peace The feeder for our hummingbird. Was torn down by a bear today. She didn’t growl a single word She just reached up and had her...
‘A Tribune to Mrs. Malaprop’ by Brian Yapko The Society June 7, 2022 Humor, Poetry 28 Comments . A Tribune to Mrs. Malaprop My fellow poets, lend me your arrears! Of arms and divan I sing. Let’s have three cheers For Mrs. Malaprop, that dole...
‘Gravitas’ by Andrew Benson Brown: On the Sack of Rome, 390 B.C. The Society June 6, 2022 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . "Gravitas" On the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 B.C. adapted from Livy’s “Ab Urbe Condita,” Book V, Chapters 38-42 The sunset torched the...
