Sibylline Sonnets for Eastertide, by Margaret Coats The Society May 26, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . Sibylline Sonnets for Eastertide See an explanation on what Sibyls are here. The Phrygian Sibyl Speaks portrayed with the resurrection banner or...
‘Where Your Treasure Is’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society May 25, 2022 Beauty, Blank Verse, Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments . Where Your Treasure Is “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and...
Society of Classical Poets Journal X Published The Society May 24, 2022 From the Society, Poetry 9 Comments . The Society of Classical Poets Journal X has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the SCP...
‘Nil Carborundum Illegitimi’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 24, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Rondeau Redoublé 25 Comments . Nil Carborundum Illegitimi On dismal days enswathe yourself in rays, Then flash your splash of sunrise with panache. Such zesty citrus, saffron...
‘The Mass Mock-Shock of Monkeypox’: A Villanelle by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 23, 2022 Covid-19, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 21 Comments . The Mass Mock-Shock of Monkeypox a villanelle Shun the mass mock-shock of monkeypox--- Force-fed fear declaiming death is nigh. Spurn the...
‘Free-Fall’ and Other Ponderings by James A. Tweedie The Society May 23, 2022 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments . Free-Fall My life has been in free-fall since the day that I was born. __Through clouds and sunshine, I have flown and soared. The trip has been...
‘Actaeon Transformed’ by Royal Rhodes The Society May 22, 2022 Culture, Poetry 2 Comments . Actaeon Transformed after Titian and Ovid Like his hounds, the hunter Actaeon in Titian's painting, drawn by some sharp scent, saw the goddess...
‘May God Excuse Us’ by Mike Bryant The Society May 21, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 22 Comments . May God Excuse Us If life’s a falling knife then catch the handle... Your every move makes enemies and friends. If life’s a fading flare, a...
‘Formal Poetry Against Free Verse’ and Other Poetry by Phillip Whidden The Society May 21, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments . Formal Poetry Against Free Verse "Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Plato in...
‘Now Once Again’ by Leland James The Society May 20, 2022 Beauty, Blank Verse, Poetry 5 Comments . Now Once Again How many years ago, I’ve lost the count, we lay beneath these trees at summer’s end; the orchard left to tend itself for...
‘Shanghai’s Robo Dogs’ by Maura H. Harrison The Society May 19, 2022 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings 7 Comments . . Shanghai's Robo Dogs With quick unnatural steps, and side to side Focusing glances, robo dogs preside And prowl the streets. They wear their...
‘Culloden, April 16, 1746’ by Jeff Eardley The Society May 19, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments . Culloden, April 16, 1746 In the Winter of 1745, the Jacobite army of Bonnie Prince Charlie passed through my town of Leek on the way to Derby. This...
‘Shear Wickedness’ and Other Cat Poetry by Julian Woodruff The Society May 18, 2022 Humor, Poetry 15 Comments . Shear Wickedness He was black from his nose to the tip of his tail __But for irises of a rich yellow. In his earlier days he was handsome and...
University Program to Remove Sonnets as Part of ‘Decolonising the Curriculum’ The Society May 17, 2022 Education, Poetry, Shakespeare 25 Comments . According to The Telegraph, the University of Salford is planning to remove sonnets from its Creative Writing program. The reason? They are...
‘All Are Numbered’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society May 17, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 28 Comments . All Are Numbered Moving along the narrow grassy rows Under a sherbet sky, time seems to be The only place where nothing ever grows Or dies, and...
‘The Devoted Angler’ by David Watt The Society May 16, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . The Devoted Angler The river follows on its winding way, And in the angler’s camp above the bank Lilt murmurings arise to greet the...
‘Satan’s Limericks on the Seven Deadly Sins’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society May 15, 2022 Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 19 Comments . Satan’s Limericks on the Seven Deadly Sins Sepulchrum patens est guttur eorum; linguis suis dolose agebant: venenum aspidum sub labiis...
‘The Obsession of Emily Rose’ (A Cautionary Tale) by Norma Pain The Society May 15, 2022 Children's, Humor, Poetry 28 Comments . The Obsession of Emily Rose (A Cautionary Tale) Emily-May Matilda Rose, from the age of three, Acquired the habit of picking her nose wherever she...
‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Reading by S.A. Todd The Society May 14, 2022 Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Video 6 Comments . https://youtu.be/6gDs63kyLhc . CREDITS Poetry: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Voice-Over: S.A. Todd Photos/Footage: Photo of Pharaoh by...
‘Some Days in the Life of a Bride of Christ’ by Jack DesBois The Society May 14, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 26 Comments . Some Days in the Life of a Bride of Christ “But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” —Paul, 1 Corinthians 6:17 Some days my Lord...
Winners of the 2022 Friends of Falun Gong Poetry Contest Announced The Society May 13, 2022 Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Readings 12 Comments . FIRST PLACE https://youtu.be/F3aTnHiJ4yU . Amends to the Innocent by Brian Yapko Dear Falun Gong, I owe you my amends. I heard but would not...
‘Resist Arrest Instead of Arresting Resistance’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society May 12, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 14 Comments . Resist Arrest Instead of Arresting Resistance In Denmark, something now is very rotten, As fetid as the food-scraps in the trash That we have,...
A Poem on Michelangelo’s Dusk and Dawn, Night and Day, by Margaret Coats The Society May 12, 2022 Beauty, Ekphrastic, Poetry 30 Comments . Moments in Marble from Michelangelo’s sculptures; above from left are depicted Dusk, Dawn, Night, and Day Day hustles up, impelled to...
On the Jan. 6 D.C. Protest: ‘Patriotic’ by Mike Bryant The Society May 11, 2022 Culture, Poetry 28 Comments . Patriotic It’s really clever, isn’t it, The words they use to smear us with? They call the righteous hypocrite; It’s just a ruse, veneer, a...
In Response to the ‘In This House’ Sign: A Poem by Brian Yapko The Society May 11, 2022 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry, Readings 31 Comments . Read by Susan Jarvis Bryant . In This House... In this house... We value science so much we accept that male and female chromosomes exist and...
Re-imagining Spenser: A Review of ‘Virtue’s End’ by Joseph Sale The Society May 10, 2022 Poetry 19 Comments . Reviewed Book: Virtue’s End by Joseph Sale by James Sale In writing this review I have to come clean and confess an interest that not many...
A Translation and Musical Setting of Victor Hugo’s Poem, ‘Demain, dès l’Aube,’ by James A. Tweedie The Society May 9, 2022 Beauty, Music, Poetry, Translation 11 Comments . "Tomorrow, at Dawn" Sung in English . "Tomorrow, at Dawn" Sung in French . Tomorrow, at Dawn by Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Translation by James A....
‘Euryalus Describes His Mother’ by Margaret Coats The Society May 8, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments . Euryalus Describes His Mother In Vergil’s Aeneid, the youthful Euryalus volunteers for a dangerous nighttime raid, asking that his mother not be...
‘In Honor of Birthing Person’s Day’ by Brian Yapko The Society May 8, 2022 Culture, Humor, Poetry 40 Comments . In Honor of Birthing Person's Day In gratitude and thanks I bless the one Who gave me life, who sacrificed each breath; Whose love unbounded warmed...
‘A Mother’s Worth’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 8, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . A Mother’s Worth A mother’s worth, it glows and gleams in eyes. It beams in grins and giggles sent her way. It echoes at the core of coos and...
The Canterbury Tales General Prologue: Translation of Lines 1-18 The Society May 7, 2022 Beauty, Chaucer, Culture, Education, Poetry, Translation 16 Comments . The Canterbury Tales---General Prologue, Lines 1-18 by Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) Translated by Evan Mantyk When April’s sweetest showers...
‘Mind Games—Three Cerebral Triolets’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 7, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Triolet, Villanelle 25 Comments . Mind Games---Three Cerebral Triolets Propaganda It wants your mind. It wants you blind. It warps and washes wayward brains. It gains control of...
‘The First Spring Rain’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society May 6, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments . The First Spring Rain a rhupunt The first spring rain ends winter's pain; new growth again, the earth revived. Soft melting snow will quickly...
Christmas and New Year Poetry Reading Video Now Available The Society May 5, 2022 Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video 5 Comments . A recording of our Christmas and New Year Poetry Reading in December has just been made available. Thank you again to the host, James Sale, and...
‘This, Too, Will Pass’ by Michael Charles Maibach The Society May 5, 2022 Beauty, Poetry 2 Comments . This, Too, Will Pass This, too, will pass--- They like to say. This pain now here Will fly away. This, too, will pass--- This broken heart, This...
‘Incense’ by Jeffrey Essmann The Society May 4, 2022 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . Incense I cast my words aloft this way and that, Imagining they’re incense offered sweet And fragrant, curling in their brief conceit, Their...
‘Crank Out a Few, Please’: Observations on Poetic Composition by Joseph S. Salemi The Society May 3, 2022 Education, Essays, Poetry 22 Comments . Crank Out a Few, Please by Joseph S. Salemi Many years ago, when I was in graduate school, I attended a seminar on Vergil’s Eclogues. These are...
‘Guardians of the Sunset’ by J.B. Mulligan The Society May 3, 2022 Beauty, Blank Verse, Poetry 5 Comments . Guardians of the Sunset III. The years go down like liquor. Drink and pour and drink again, and laugh or sigh, and look behind you at the dark...
‘The Song of Nina Jankowicz’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 2, 2022 Culture, Humor, Poetry 37 Comments . The Song of Nina Jankowicz The lies burst ripe and rife today. __Their juice spurts forth with pride. The thirst of those who’ve gone astray __Is...
‘A Sonnet for My Nephew’ by Caitlin O’Brien The Society May 2, 2022 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments . A Sonnet for My Nephew Your mother held you first, and then your dad, And after that, the nurse. But then: your aunt. You curled inside my...
