A Poem in Honor of the 13 U.S. Servicemen Who Died in Afghanistan, by Bruce Dale Wise The Society September 2, 2021 Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . With Coffins at the Dover Air Force Base: 29 August 2021 On Sunday, Biden traveled to the Dover Air Force Base to pay respect for thirteen service...
‘Allgibberish’ and Other Poetry by Phil S. Rogers The Society September 2, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments . Allgibberish (I Saw a Man Who Wasn't There) after “Antigonish” (“I Met a Man Who Wasn't There”) by William Hughes Mearns Yesterday in great...
The Society of Classical Poets 2022 Poetry Competition The Society September 1, 2021 From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Contests 17 Comments . WINNERS ANNOUNCED HERE. "Select, all ye who write, a subject fit, A subject not too mighty for your wit! Before you lay your shoulders to the...
2022 High School Poetry Competition The Society September 1, 2021 From the Society, High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests 2 Comments “Select, all ye who write, a subject fit, A subject not too mighty for your wit! Before you lay your shoulders to the wheel, Weigh well their...
2022 Poetry Translation Competition The Society September 1, 2021 From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Translation “Select, all ye who write, a subject fit, A subject not too mighty for your wit! Before you lay your shoulders to the wheel, Weigh well their...
‘The Afghan Plight’ by Satyananda Sarangi The Society August 31, 2021 Alexandroid, Culture, Poetry, Terrorism 20 Comments . The starlit sky is filled with smoke ______and men succumb To dread, while folded hands invoke ______to overcome This awful plight; yet prayers...
A Translation of the Peach Garden Oath from Romance of the Three Kingdoms The Society August 31, 2021 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Translation 14 Comments . The Peach Garden Oath This oath of fellowship is an iconic moment in the first chapter of the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, by...
A Vaccine Mandate Protest Song by Jack DesBois The Society August 30, 2021 Covid-19, Music, Poetry, Song Lyrics, Video 91 Comments . Waking Up (Freedom Doesn't Come in a Can) A Protest Song Written and Performed by Jack DesBois I was lying in my bed, Waiting for the day to...
Neglected Gems: The Poetry of Walter de la Mare The Society August 30, 2021 Essays, Poetry 11 Comments by Adam Sedia The life of Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) spans earthshattering changes in history and art. The England into which he was born was a...
‘Observations of a Former Victim’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society August 29, 2021 Culture, Poetry 16 Comments . Observations of a Former Victim You may think me insensitive or witless, But more and more it seems the case these days, That victimhood is run up...
‘One or the Other’ by Norma Pain The Society August 28, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 22 Comments . “Make a decision,” is what me ma said, As she wearily plucked at each feather, ‘Er old gnarled fingers rough and red And clumsily workin’...
A Major Problem: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society August 27, 2021 Culture, Essays, Poetry 89 Comments . "American pragmatism insists that words are for use, not enjoyment; American puritanism insists that expression is a duty, not a pleasure."...
‘The Gospel According to Galahad’ by Julian Woodruff The Society August 27, 2021 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . The arrogant are all about these days. How disrespectful are their callous ways! They go about as freely as you please— No mask, no vaccine,...
Bedtime Prayer Poetry Challenge The Society August 26, 2021 Humor, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests 108 Comments . This challenge comes form poet James A. Tweedie: Perhaps the most familiar of all formal, English-language poems is the classic 18th century...
‘Funny How a Day Can Go So Slow’ by David D. Irby The Society August 25, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondel 18 Comments . a rondel It's funny how a day can go so slow, and yet a year just simply seems to fly. We blink, and then another one goes by. Those winds of...
‘At the Temple of Yue Fei’ and Other Poetry by Talbot Hook The Society August 24, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . At the Temple of Yue Fei Behind, a lake unstirring sleeps; Ahead, grey fog and budding leaves. A jade-green pool commands the heart, Beneath the...
‘Lost and Found’ and Other Poetry by Lucia Haase The Society August 23, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . Lost and Found I’ve lost myself but in the course, I’ve found a sanctuary glowing, aspen golden. To me, I am the stream to woodland bound upon...
‘The Secret Garden’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society August 22, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau 29 Comments . The Secret Garden Beyond these ivied walls grows naught but heather Gorse and broom, the moors engulfed by blows Of bitter, wuthering wind and...
‘The Night Hank Williams Died’ by Jeff Eardley The Society August 21, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 36 Comments . There never was a night so long When time went crawling by. The Arctic wind came howling in Across the Nashville sky. The planes had all been...
A Brief Poem on Joe Biden and Afghanistan, by British Poet James Sale The Society August 20, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments . The Commander-in-Chief How Biden sucks---I mean the man, Who being wholly characterless Will criticize Afghanistan "Cowards"---when he can’t face...
Poems on the English Moors, by Peter Hartley The Society August 20, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 30 Comments . Geese on the Moor On Laddow Moss the April air is cold And still. A single pair of wayward geese We find beside a tarn, their nest of fleece And...
The SCP Late Summer 2021 Poetry Reading, Online The Society August 19, 2021 From the Society, Poetry, Readings 8 Comments . You are invited to a reading of exquisite poetry and conversations with the poets. This reading is part of a quarterly series of online poetry...
‘Internal Combustion—Vision for a New Dark Age’ by Paul Erlandson The Society August 19, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 28 Comments . “Come with me, child, past all this camouflage.” “Is there a secret garden there, Grandpa?” “Not quite. It’s just a small, padlocked...
‘The Devil in the Pulpit’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society August 18, 2021 Culture, Poetry 36 Comments . Cheap Sauvignon’s chilled and then swilled just to stave off the pain, While TVs drone on as cons ponder on who is to blame. We lumber along...
Review: Legends of Liberty Volume 1 by Andrew Benson Brown The Society August 18, 2021 Culture, Epic, Essays, Humor, Poetry, Reviews 3 Comments Reviewed Book: Legends of Liberty Volume 1, by Andrew Benson Brown, T A J Classics, 2021 by James Sale Legends of Liberty is an important new...
‘Pierrepoint on Capital Punishment’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society August 17, 2021 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments . Albert Pierrrepoint (1905-1992) served as one of GreatBritain’s chief executioners from 1931 to 1956, duringwhich time he hanged over 500...
Poetry on Afghanistan’s Fall to the Taliban, by James A. Tweedie The Society August 16, 2021 Culture, Poetry 24 Comments . Debacle in Kabul We all make mistakes and we all have regrets. The mess in Kabul is as bad as it gets. We messed up before when we left...
‘The Return of Chaos’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society August 16, 2021 Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . The gods of ancient Greece return to cast their blight upon our nation. Throughout the eons come and gone, now social strife is their...
‘Spectral Child’ by Beverly Stock The Society August 15, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments . after “Ballade of the Unborn Child” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox I wrote by hand my lines of verse, __Just lit by reading light; I made no sound, no...
A Poem for the Chinese Communist Party: ‘WARNING’ by Damian Robin The Society August 14, 2021 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 5 Comments . W A R N I N G : __You won’t be forgivenfor the belt road you are livingfor flat miles that you have drivenover roadkill stacked and strivenon...
‘The Worst of Rhymes’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society August 13, 2021 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments . The Worst of Rhymes No matter where we choose to sit, A fool, alone, would not admit, We’re living in a world of shit And I have more than done...
‘A Bagatelle for Brokenness’ by Daniel Kemper The Society August 12, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 24 Comments . A burst of laughter slips into an echo past the tinny bells and rattling glass of Joe's, my corner liquor store, the last and first of every...
What Rhymes with Orange? Poetry Challenge The Society August 11, 2021 Humor, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests 109 Comments . Write a poem rhyming the word "orange" with something else. Post it in the comments below. This challenge comes from Cheryl Corey, who provided the...
‘Tales of Tales of Tales’ by Luca D’Anselmi The Society August 11, 2021 Culture, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments . We can’t remember. After years of war that thing once known as “poetry” was lost. We know there was a Greek named Robert Frost; we don’t...
‘Take Heart’ by T.M.A. Day The Society August 10, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments . Running round ruins of things long forgot, These tried, tiring times---who can make an end? Can read the scroll or seven seals rend? The limpid...
Two Poems on Propaganda, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society August 9, 2021 Culture, Poetry 53 Comments . Inklings The clues are there. They skulk between the lines. They lurk in spin and smirk in murky spiel. The clues are there. They leer...
‘If We Knew It All . . .’ and Other Poetry by James A. Tweedie The Society August 9, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . If We Knew It All . . . Where do dreams go when we wake up? Where does time go as we age? Why did William Shakespeare make up Plays we still...
‘Hagi at My Study Window’ and Other Late Summer Poems, by Margaret Coats The Society August 8, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry, Shape Poems, Translation 24 Comments . Hagi at My Study Window hagi or bush clover, a symbol of poetry, blooms as summer turns to autumn. Paper shapes the future’s...
‘When the Eagle Flies’ by David Watt The Society August 7, 2021 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . Far from the city’s ceaseless bustle— __That’s where the eagle flies! Borne by the means of plume and muscle— __That’s how the eagle...
‘The English Cantos: Volume 2: StairWell. Canto 3 Ex-Wife’ by James Sale The Society August 6, 2021 Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Poetry 20 Comments . The Argument: The Poet, with Dante and Virgil, has arrived on the third step of the StairWell, or Purgatory. Dante at the start of Canto 3 has been...
