‘Hippocrene’ by Anissa Nedzel Gage The Society May 18, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments O do not chasten me with tales of fine __Fresh wells of wisdom and of warriors bold, __Or sacred veins of Ethiopian gold, Your more than...
‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning (1812-1889) and ‘My Next Duchess’ by Lawrence Jones The Society May 17, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments My Last Duchess The Duke of Ferrara recalls his last wife. by Robert Browning That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if...
‘The Rats of Kathmandu’: Two Sonnets by Peter Hartley The Society May 16, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments I. The rats infesting Kathmandu Airport Appear to co-exist in peace with man And have, it seems, since local time began, Been treated...
Ten Great Spenserian or Scottish Sonnets The Society May 15, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Love Poems, Poetry 22 Comments Edmund Spenser by Margaret Coats Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) wrote 121 sonnets of rhyme scheme abab bcbc cdcd ee, including 87 in his love...
Poetry Challenge: ‘My country used to be… ‘ The Society May 14, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests 51 Comments New York poet Joe Tessitore challenges poets to begin a poem with these words: My country used to be... Post your...
‘I Loved You…’ by A.S. Pushkin, Translated by Kristina Buric The Society May 14, 2020 Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation 1 Comment I Loved You... I loved you, and I probably still do, and for a while, the feeling may remain, But let my love no longer trouble you... I do not wish...
Friends of Falun Gong 2020 Poetry Contest Winners Announced The Society May 13, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Readings, Video 2 Comments FIRST PLACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F96xN0VV7JU The Virus and the Cure by Rob Crisell One hundred years of tyranny, One hundred...
‘The Pilot’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society May 12, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments all poems by Bruce Dale Wise The Pilot by Air Weelbed Suc I saw him flying overhead, a pilot in a plane, and looking down, he gazed...
A Reading of “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud (Daffodils)” by William Wordsworth The Society May 10, 2020 Beauty, Poetry, Readings, Video 10 Comments https://youtu.be/bYg-ITiEEyM "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud," also known as "Daffodils," the poem by former British Poet...
‘The Transatlantic Serpent’s Tale’ and Other Poetry by Glenn Turner The Society May 10, 2020 Poetry 9 Comments The Transatlantic Serpent’s Tale Do you recall the time when I was born? A time of ferment---Honest Abe was dead. The Civil War had left...
‘Better Stock Than You’ by Beverly Stock, and Other Poetry The Society May 9, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments Better Stock Than You after Henry Lawson’s "Prouder Man Than You" by Beverly Stock Your tome of pride be shattered, I’m from better Stock...
‘HellWard Canto 11: Poetasters,’ From James Sale’s English Cantos The Society May 8, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments The Argument: The Poet, having escaped the HellWard of European and corrupt politicians, emerges into the penultimate HellWard depth where he,...
‘Tennyson’ by Don Shook The Society May 7, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment Tennyson thought it better “to have loved and lost, than…” Well, you know the rest. Of course this begs the question most of us...
A Poem Celebrating St. Piran, by Neil Rhind The Society May 6, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rhupunt 1 Comment St. Piran (Feast Day: March 5) A rhupunt Irish heathens, Unbelieving, Strapped poor Piran To a stone then Rolled him over. A cliff!...
‘In Praise of Formal Poetry’ by James A. Tweedie The Society May 5, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments In the midst of free-verse critics’ Smug, inchoate analytics __Seasoned with self-righteous pedantry, There are poets who are...
Poetry on the CCP Virus (Covid-19), Including Peter Austin Sonnets The Society May 4, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 5 Comments Dear Governor, by C.B. Anderson Reopen every workplace, pretty please; Your "cure" has proven worse than the disease. Your lockdown's...
On Oxford University’s Classics Department Proposing to Drop Homer and Virgil, by Ted Hayes The Society May 4, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Homer, Poetry 10 Comments Oxford "University"? Its preference now: diversity. The Homers, Ovids, Virgils--- Now peanuts for the squirrels! This "school" now...
‘Approaching Storm, Night’ and Other Poems on Spring by Adam Sedia The Society May 3, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Spring Snow Tyrant Winter reaches __Beyond its frozen tomb, Dares cast its icy mantle __On bud and crocus-bloom. Long it reigned...
A Poem on the Russian Submarine Kursk and Other Poetry by Rod Walford The Society May 2, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments Deep Regrets Dedicated to the memory of the 118 men of the Russian submarine Kursk, which exploded and sank in the Barents Sea on August 12th...
Three Poems on Spring by C.B. Anderson The Society May 1, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments The Onus of Vernal Duty Surrounding fields and woods unfreeze, The air once more is filled with light, As springtime’s blanket...
Online SCP Poetry Symposium 2020 – “A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme” The Society May 1, 2020 From the Society, Readings, Symposium 8 Comments Due to the unprecedented circumstances regarding the CCP virus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Symposium has been moved online. The details of the event...
A Sonnet on President Donald J. Trump, by Evan Mantyk The Society April 30, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 18 Comments Donald J. Trump They laugh at him and sneer as if his lack Of faith in modernism’s unholy gods Can justify each Philistine attack And...
‘Human Beings Being Human’ by David L. Hatton The Society April 30, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments It takes patience to learn patience; It takes courage to be brave. One must first find mental freedom To no longer be a slave. Only faith...
‘Vermont in April’ by T.M. Moore The Society April 29, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments Vermont in April doesn’t seem to know quite how to dress. She thinks she ought to wear bright, flowery things, and yet, she cannot...
‘Diomedes Speaks’ by James Sale The Society April 29, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments We meet Diomedes, the Greek hero of Troy, trapped in a flame with Odysseus in Canto 26 of Dante’s Inferno. Odysseus speaks but Diomedes remains...
‘Winter’s Breath’ and Other Poetry by Angel L. Villanueva The Society April 28, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments Winter's Breath The sudden chill of winter's sigh Caresses me when autumn flees. My meager warmth she tries to pry, While planting kisses...
A ‘Mock Praise Hymn’ for Zimbabwean Leader Robert Mugabe (1924-2019), by Sheri-Ann O’Shea The Society April 27, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 8 Comments "Winner: Humanitarian Award" Mugabe’s universally adored. He made his people multi-millionaires--- Zim dollars are the answer to their...
‘Eyes Right’ by David Whippman The Society April 26, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments They march in an imaginary parade, All of the dear ones I have ever known, Relatives, friends, impressively arrayed, Saluting them, I...
Poems on Life During CCP Virus (COVID-19) Lockdown The Society April 25, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 31 Comments The Back-to-Work Protesters Limerick by Mark F. Stone Our minders with power and pensions can rob our hopes, while the Fourth Estate...
‘Beyond His Ken’ and Other Poetry by Peter Austin The Society April 25, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments Beyond His Ken based on a true story The plane was in the skies above Beijing When, let us call her Joy, a stewardess With China Eastern...
‘Basho’s Frog’ by Conor Kelly The Society April 24, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments That day a dark, vermillion, winter sky, like a Turner water-colour, was seen reflected in an old pond where, nearby, the poet Basho...
A Poem for St. George’s Day 2020, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 23, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 32 Comments For England & St. George In praise let’s raise our flagons to the conqueror of dragons to the Saint who fought for all he thought...
‘Golf’ and Other Poetry by Russel Winick The Society April 23, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment Golf My friends love golf so much But I do not share the allure. There’re many other ways for me To function like...
‘The Statutes of Liberty’ by Martin Hill Ortiz The Society April 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments The statue stands and holds aloft her torch, the Kalahari moon, the Northern Star. A lantern glimmers on a Southern porch; a balefire...
‘Earth Day 2020’ and Other CCP Virus (COVID-19) Poetry The Society April 21, 2020 Covid-19, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry, The Environment 12 Comments Earth Day 2020 Poet's Note: April 22 is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Earth Day is an annual celebration on which events are held worldwide...
‘The Watchskulls of Erringtide’ by Joe Spring The Society April 21, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 140 Comments Seven skulls sit side-by-side atop the wall of Erringtide. Their salted sockets watch the wide expanse of waves within which hide the...
‘Puzzle Box’ by Mathew Wenham The Society April 20, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments The empty sonnet frame’s a puzzle box into whose elaborate maze ideas are dropped. They press its walls and work to plot a path through...
‘Sonora: The Desert’ and Other Poetry by John Marmaro The Society April 19, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments Sonora: The Desert Harsh sunlight beats upon the thirsty land And glares upon the limestone cliffs and sand, While waves of heat rise...
Three Poems on Spring, by Martin Rizley The Society April 18, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments The March of Spring O, hear the bold approach of spring, who marches, stamping, blowing! He startles all the birds that sing above the fast...
Poetry from the 2020 Coronavirus Quarantine The Society April 17, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 44 Comments Mayor Rules Chocolatier "Essential Business" by Mark F. Stone Our craving for chocolate is serious. Deny us and we will be...
