‘Strauss Vater’ and Other Poetry by Brian Yapko The Society February 16, 2025 Beauty, Music, Poetry 19 Comments . Strauss Vater Scene: Vienna, Austrian Empire: Midnight, October 15, 1844. On this night the famous musician, Johann Strauss, Sr. snubbed the...
The New York Times’ Attack on Shen Yun Is an Attack on Arts and Culture: SCP Editor The Society February 16, 2025 Essays, Poetry 14 Comments . The New York Times' Attack on Shen Yun Is an Attack on Arts and Culture by Evan MantykSCP Editor & President In the last six months or so, the...
Five Quintilla Poems by Cheryl Corey The Society February 15, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 26 Comments . Scarlet Pimpernel Amassing clouds—the air still warm; But you, my scarlet pimpernel, You sense that there's a coming storm, Compress your petals,...
‘Made from Scratch!’: A Poem by Mark Stellinga The Society February 15, 2025 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments . Made from Scratch! An ever-growing-number of our adolescent children are suckled by the biased breasts of prejudice and greed--- born to persons...
‘How Did You Woo Me? ’ and Other Valentine’s Day Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 14, 2025 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 23 Comments . How Did You Woo Me? Let Me Count the Way You didn’t sweep in on a snowy steedClad in armor buffed until it glittered---A shining knight of bright...
‘My Pensive Valentine’: A Poem by Jonathan Kinsman The Society February 14, 2025 Love Poems, Poetry 10 Comments . My Pensive Valentine Devout Love is not in the offered sweet, nor does Love proclaim in the proffered rose, nor the cliché tucked tight in a...
‘Lines for Your Valentines’: A Valentine’s Day Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society February 14, 2025 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 16 Comments . Lines for Your Valentines Without you here, my life is like A broken pencil, simply pointless. And if you tell me to take a hike, My legs won’t...
‘Fifties Country Living’: A Poem by Roy E. Peterson The Society February 13, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . Fifties Country Living Sit down with me my children, come! __I'll spin a tale or two About when I was just a kid __in nineteen fifty-two. No cell...
‘The Potentate and the Pontiff’: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society February 13, 2025 Essays, Poetry 18 Comments . The Potentate and the Pontiff by Joseph S. Salemi I have often argued that the formalist techniques of traditional poetry are ideologically...
‘Moments Matter’: A Poem by Gigi Ryan The Society February 12, 2025 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 23 Comments . Moments Matter When my daughter was just three __I took her to the zoo. She laughed and smiled and had a blast __And I myself did, too. My friends...
A Poem for the Birthday of Charles Darwin: ‘Dog Eat Dog’ by Warren Bonham The Society February 12, 2025 Poetry, Satire, Science 39 Comments . Dog Eat Dog As cells get divided, if outcomes are guided _completely by rolling the dice, the fit must survive so their genes stay alive, _while...
‘A Grain of Sand’ and Other Poetry by Shindy Cai The Society February 11, 2025 Beauty, Children's, Poetry 12 Comments . A Grain of Sand A grain of sand got lodged into __A little seagull's eye. He spluttered with indignant rage, __"Now I can't even fly!" And so his...
‘Evensong’: A Poem by Peter Venable The Society February 11, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments . Evensong The embers dimmed on the Pacific; _The sky a scarlet hue. One might conclude the fire seraphic--- _A seascape brushed by the muse. Some...
‘A Bogus Bishop’s Prayer’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 10, 2025 Beauty, Poetry, Satire 39 Comments . A Bogus Bishop’s Prayer My prayer is not pitched heavenward _To fall upon deaf ears. It’s lashed to Earth for greater good. _It cashes in on...
‘Leoncavallo Fumes at the Premiere of Puccini’s La Bohème, 1896’: A Poem by Julian Woodruff The Society February 10, 2025 Music, Poetry 14 Comments . Leoncavallo Fumes at the Premiere of Puccini’s La Bohème, 1896 Damn Giacomo Puccini and his little La Bohème. How dare he bring this...
‘Another Winter’: A Poem by Shamik Banerjee The Society February 9, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 13 Comments . Another Winter Another winter's growing old. __Another spring is coming. Another hive, gripped by a branch, __Will make its endless...
‘The Clown’: A Poem by Pamela Ruggiero The Society February 9, 2025 Culture, Poetry 15 Comments . The Clown I went inside my mind today. I hoped my thoughts would want to play. But all they did was get me down. I saw a large imposing clown. She...
‘On the Porch’: A Poem by Margaret Coats The Society February 8, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 30 Comments . On the Porch The roof and eaves, low walls or none, slim railings, Contrive a sense of shelter customary. Worn floor between front steps and door...
‘Splendid Majesty’: A Poem by Warren Bonham The Society February 8, 2025 Poetry 9 Comments . Splendid Majesty "I will meditate on the glorious splendor of Your majesty, and on Your wondrous works."---Psalm 145:5 I tried to meditate uponthe...
‘Reflections on Still Waters’: A Collection of Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society February 7, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . Reflections on Still Waters . Isaiah 55:12 You shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace, And a song will break forth from the lands. While...
‘Piazza della Signoria, Florence: February 7, 1497’: A Villanelle by Tom Wehtje The Society February 7, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 20 Comments . Piazza della Signoria, Florence: February 7, 1497 Savonarola gets up off his knees (much contact with the ground has formed a welt) and lights the...
‘Lament to the Passing of Paper’: A Poem by Paul A. Freeman The Society February 6, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 29 Comments . Lament to the Passing of Paper I learned to write my A-B-Cs and form my shapely 1-2-3s on paper, when I was a lad; but now, since I’ve become a...
‘A Summer Hour’ and Other Poems by Sally Cook The Society February 6, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 9 Comments . A Summer Hour A burgeoning bush, some butterflies, Low wooden steps, warped, faded, rise Amid the calm of idle talk— The blur of shadows on the...
A Poem on USAID, by Warren Bonham The Society February 5, 2025 Poetry, Satire 24 Comments USAID USAID Mission Statement: On behalf of the American people, we promote and demonstrate democratic values abroad, and advance a free, peaceful,...
‘Concerning Snow’: A Conversation in Verse by T.M. Moore The Society February 5, 2025 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments . Concerning Snow ---a conversation between Beauty and Necessity “Well, there you go again.” “What's that?” “Come now, don't act so...
‘Classic Case History’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society February 5, 2025 Beauty, Humor, Poetry, Terza Rima 11 Comments . Classic Case History Though I was blind, it wasn’t hard to see That blindness was a gift at least as good As any other. People seeing me As...
Two Poems of Judgment by Joseph S. Salemi The Society February 4, 2025 Poetry, Satire 12 Comments . The Judge Addresses the Defendant "Living in America is like serving in the army; ninety percent of conduct is prescribed by law and the remaining...
‘Our National Precipice’: A Poem by Kenneth Horne The Society February 4, 2025 Culture, Poetry 4 Comments . Our National Precipice The time has come for all good men To recognize our nation’s end. We have been silent much too long, Just caught up in a...
‘Sonnet 1’ by Saki The Society February 3, 2025 Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments . . Sonnet 1 I felt like trying something new today, And so I put my pen upon a page To mimic Shakespeare's famous olden way— A style which, I...
‘The FBI—Then and Now’ and Other Poems by Russel Winick The Society February 3, 2025 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . The FBI---Then and Now So respected when I was a kid, For the things we all read that they did, It’s substantially altered today--- Now we hardly...
‘Dead Sea Scrolls Trilogy’: Poems by Brian Yapko The Society February 2, 2025 Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . Dead Sea Scrolls Trilogy “Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for...
‘The Grindstone’: A Poem by Michael Pietrack The Society February 2, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments . The Grindstone The grindstone spun as fiery sparks were sprayed,for even iron broke against his force,and by his edge the blunt became the bladea...
The Best Poems of 2024: Winners of SCP International Poetry Competition The Society February 1, 2025 Best Poems, Poetry, Poetry Contests 28 Comments . The Best Poems of 2024: Winners of the 13th Annual SCP International Poetry Competition Judges C.B. Anderson, Susan Jarvis Bryant, Margaret...
Winners of 2024 SCP International High School Poetry Competition Announced The Society February 1, 2025 High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests 2 Comments . First Place ($200 Prize) "The Shepherd God" Jane Schulert, 11th grade student at Redeemer Classical School in Indiana . Second Place "To Speak...
‘Forecast One to Two Inches’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann The Society January 31, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 12 Comments . Forecast One to Two Inches Within the snow’s approach I sense a hope Connected more to memory than truth. It fails to fall within the narrow...
‘The Untimely Demise of My Dear Uncle Sam’ and Other Poetry by Susan Steele Rives The Society January 31, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Satire 6 Comments . The Untimely Demise of My Dear Uncle Sam I received the somber news __as sun set low today. My beloved Uncle Sam __by death was swept away. It...
‘Accidents Happen’: A Poem by Shaun C. Duncan The Society January 30, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments . Accidents Happen We’re told time tends toward catastrophe, And that a butterfly’s ephemeral wings Might quake the sky somewhere across the...
‘The Discharge of the Woke Brigade’: A Poem by Peter Lillios The Society January 30, 2025 Poetry, Satire 6 Comments . The Discharge of the Woke Brigade ---after Tennyson Half a mil, half a mil, __Half a mil onward, __All from the Treasury ____Filched the...
‘The Settlers’: A Poem by Martin Rizley The Society January 29, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments . The Settlers —to my forefathers, and all the intrepid men and womenwho settled the Oklahoma panhandle. Across these barren hills, the cold winds...
‘Rather Drown Than Hang’: A Poem by A.R. Pereira The Society January 29, 2025 Culture, Poetry 2 Comments . Rather Drown Than Hang “He who is destined for the gallows will not be drowned.” ---Russian proverb A lethal thing, the writ of man _that soaks...
