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  • Poetry on Piero della Francesca’s ‘History of the True Cross,’ by Michael Coy

    The Society
    January 20, 2021
    Art, Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry
  • ‘Priam, King of Troy, Addresses Cassandra’s Concerns about the Horse’ by Michael Vanyukov

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    January 20, 2021
    Culture, Poetry
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  • ‘Stream’ and Other Poetry by Leland James

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    January 19, 2021
    Beauty, Culture, Poetry
    2 Comments
  • ‘Childhood, 1919’ by David Whippman

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    January 19, 2021
    Culture, Poetry
    20 Comments
  • ‘Virtual Propitiation: Sacrifice of the Quarantined Caregiver’ by Bethany Mootsey

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    January 18, 2021
    Culture, Humor, Poetry
    3 Comments
  • ‘Meditation’ by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), Translated by Joshua Mincio

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    January 18, 2021
    Beauty, Poetry, Translation
    3 Comments
  • ‘Every Little Thing’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Kemper

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    January 18, 2021
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    January 18, 2021
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  • ‘Rosarium’: A Sestina and Other Poetry by Benjamin Thomas Cepican

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    January 17, 2021
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    7 Comments
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‘A Ditty’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore

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August 14, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
18 Comments
  A Ditty What happened to the human race? It vanished, friend, without a trace. And what, pray tell, of humankind? You may well seek, but...

‘Hong Kong’s Freedom Fighters’ by Douglas J. Lanzo

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August 13, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry
5 Comments
  dedicated to all those braving injustice in Hong Kong with nobility of spirit Muffled voices, anguished cries, Trampled freedom, published...
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On a Photo of Sgt. James J. Regan’s Grieving Fiancee, and Other Poetry by Rod Walford

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August 12, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
16 Comments
  Hero of Her Heart On February 9, 2007 Sgt. James J. Regan of the 3rd Battalion 75th U.S. Ranger Regiment was killed on active service in...

‘Defy the Mask’ by David Watt

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August 11, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
9 Comments
  Due to a recent government edict, approximately 5 million Australians must wear masks whenever they leave the house. We wear a mask because...

‘Blake’s Prairie Fair’ by Bob Schildgen

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August 10, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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  Cotton candy is, yes, is angel hair spun out while merry-go-rounds whirl full-speed with satisfaction fully guaranteed in the local...

‘The Prisoners in Manacles’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise

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August 9, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry
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All poems by Bruce Dale Wise The Prisoners in Manacles by Lu “Reed ABCs” Wei The prisoners in manacles in western China were just on a...

‘Oh, When I Think Back’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez

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August 8, 2020
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14 Comments
  Oh, When I Think Back Oh, when I think back to those halcyon days, When I believed the possibility That truest love would manifest to...

‘The Taj Mahal’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley

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August 7, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
44 Comments
  Taj Mahal Built to commemorate a love that died Four hundred years ago, how sad to say She never saw what we can see today. Serenely does...

‘Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, by Joseph Lange’ and Other Poetry Julian Woodruff

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August 6, 2020
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  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, by Joseph Lange (1783? / 1789?); as viewed by a Philistine Consider Lange’s well-known portrait Of his in-law, a...

Ecclesiastes 6, Recast in Classical Poetry, by T.M. Moore

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August 5, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
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  Full Lives, Empty Souls after Ecclesiastes 6 There is an evil I have seen in those who live beneath the sun: A man to whom God gives both...

English Tomb Poetry, With an Introduction by James A. Tweedie

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August 4, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Found Poem, Poetry
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by James A. Tweedie On my most recent visit to England in 2017, I paused to record a number of prominent grave monuments that included poetic...

‘Laocoön’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia

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August 3, 2020
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  Laocoön To prophesy is not a gift to those So gifted, who can see in subtle signs What is to pass; they bear the double woes Of speaking...

‘Verses on the Death of His Father’ (‘Coplas por la muerte de su padre’) by Jorge Manrique

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August 2, 2020
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translated by Alan Steinle. Introduction and translation copyright ©2020 by Alan Steinle. Skip Introduction and go to...

‘Rueing Tattoos’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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August 1, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry
53 Comments
  Rueing Tattoos When young she was drawn to that skin-art taboo of embellishing flesh with a tattoo or two. Now time’s marching on and...

A Poem on Moses on the Mount by Jeffrey Kemper

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July 31, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
7 Comments
  On Consecrated Ground Moses on the Mount; Exodus 3-4 Moshe, a Hebrew truant from His resident Egyptian land Committed crimes with this...

Three Poems of the Nuclear Age by Peter Austin

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July 30, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, The Environment
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  Tomoko When the Enola Gay dropped ‘Little Boy’, Tomoko---just a little girl herself--- Was robbed of any hope of earthly joy And...

A Poem for Kargil Vijay Diwas (Kargil Victory Day), by Satyananda Sarangi

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July 29, 2020
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"During the war, the Indian Army evicted Pakistani intruders and succeeded in recapturing Tiger Hill and other posts as a part of ‘Operation...

‘Golden Gloves’ and Other Poetry by Joseph S. Salemi

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July 29, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
22 Comments
Golden Gloves My father fought in Golden Gloves. Back then The ring was where you slugged your way to hopes. It was no place for fey, aesthetic...

Amid U.S. Riots, A Reflection on Robespierre’s July 28 Execution, by Rob Crisell

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July 28, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
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  A Proposal---July 28, 2020 Upon this date in 1794, The French Revolution concluded in gore, As Robespierre’s head hit the blood-stained...

Poetry Readings from 2020 SCP Symposium – ‘A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme’ (Session II)

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July 28, 2020
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All of the below poems were read on May 31, 2020 at The Society of Classical Poets Symposium, which was held online due to the pandemic. Below are...

Three Monkey Tales in Poetry, by Terry L. Norton

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July 27, 2020
Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry
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  How Monkeys Came to Be adapted from a Palestinian folktale Monkeys and people once were one. For monkeys had from Adam come. As Adam's...

Three Poems Dealing with Garden Pests, by C.B. Anderson

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July 26, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry
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  The Gardener at War Throughout our lives we hustle and we slave __To turn our gardens into magic places __Where beauty at its pinnacle...

A Poem on BLM Riots: ‘The Enemy Within’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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July 25, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
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  "One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."...

A Poem in Tribute to Dame Vera Lynn (1917-2020), by Jeff Eardley

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July 25, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry
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  Vera A fine and sunny Summer’s day And now our Vera’s slipped away. Auf Wiedersehen, we’ll meet again; We don’t know where, we...

‘From J.S. Bach’s French Suites: An Allemande’ by Leo Zoutewelle

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July 24, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry
19 Comments
  Alike a trusted hand that comes to rest On harried shoulders to relieve the stress, This allemande fulfills its basic quest: Bestowing...

Poetry on the Death of America, by Joe Tessitore

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July 23, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
17 Comments
  No Epitaph The lies lie heavy on his chest, Striped red, striped white, now tattered vest And soon to draw his final breath--- Who’ll...

‘Clean Beauty’ by Kevin O’Keeffe

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July 23, 2020
Beauty, Poetry
4 Comments
  How wild become the eyes! How fine it is to learn! That the beauty in the sky's Cold torch of perfect pearl, Or in the trunk of the...

‘The Trial of Saint Joan of Arc (d. 30 May 1431)’ by Theresa Rodriguez

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July 22, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
  You had to act, because you heard the voices Within your head. Saint Michael came to you, Saints Catherine and Margaret. But what...

On the Resignation of Bari Weiss from The New York Times, and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Kemper

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July 21, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
12 Comments
  With Sorrow Do I Leave It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times. ---Bari Weiss, opinion...

‘Notre-Dame de Chartres’ by James A. Tweedie (Last Part in the Favorite Places Sonnet Series)

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July 21, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
11 Comments
  Enrobed in blue—enthroned and crowned—her Son, __With proffered blessing, safely in her hands— __The Queen of Heaven reigns on high...

‘Hidden in a Flyer’ by Daniel Magdalen, and Other Poetry on the Persecution of Falun Gong

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July 20, 2020
Beauty, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings
12 Comments
on the 21st anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party's launching the persecution of the peaceful practice of Falun Gong on July 20, 1999   Hidden...

‘Beauty Should Be Appreciated’ by Janice Canerdy

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July 19, 2020
Beauty, Poetry
5 Comments
  There’s beauty in the ordinary things like challenges and joys each season brings, the world of work and school, and kids at...

Poems on Riots and the State of the World: July, 2020

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July 18, 2020
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry
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  I Make My Way by Joe Tessitore These times, indeed, have tried my soul. With lightening speed, I’ve lost control Of all that...

‘Existence’ by David Paul Behrens

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July 18, 2020
Beauty, Poetry
6 Comments
  It's easier to not exist And yet existence does persist. Although I cannot fathom why, I cannot rest unless I try. To wonder why or...

‘An Old Friend’ by Phil S. Rogers

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July 17, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
3 Comments
  An old friend called on me today, past indiscretions to relive. Long decades passed since we had spoke; he hoped ill feelings I'd...

Poetry on the Passing of the Poet’s Wife, by Peter Hartley

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July 16, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
34 Comments
  Coming Home “Thank you for letting me come home,” she said To me the night she died, and I, tongue-tied, I could not answer her. I...

A Poem on Black Lives Matter Riots and Other Poetry, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

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July 15, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry
13 Comments
  Lockdown Leisure with apologies to W.H. Davies In lockdown life, should I but dare To take more time to stand and stare?--- More time...

‘Your Smart Device (A Rondeau)’ and Other Poetry by Alan Steinle

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July 14, 2020
Culture, Humor, Poetry
19 Comments
Your Smart Device a rondeau Your smart device was strange and new; It learned your voice and habits too; It played the songs you liked to...

The Spice of Life: Metric Variation in Formal Verse (An Essay)

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July 13, 2020
Culture, Essays, Poetry, Poetry Forms
14 Comments
by Adam Sedia John Dryden In 1688, John Dryden, England’s first official poet laureate, was deprived of that title for remaining Catholic...
COVID 19 historical perspective

Documentary on Pandemic Features The Iliad and SCP Member

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July 12, 2020
Coronavirus, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Readings, Video
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