Ecclesiastes 5, Recast in Classical Poetry, by T.M. Moore The Society June 28, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima 2 Comments Honest to God? after Ecclesiastes 5 Watch carefully your step when you draw near to God. Fools play at worship, coming to Him to be seen...
A Poem in Tribute to Sushant Singh Rajput (1986-2020) and Other Poetry by Satyananda Sarangi The Society June 27, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 22 Comments Secret Sorrows in memory of Mr. Sushant Singh Rajput, an Indian actor and youth icon who passed away on 14th of June, 2020 Some secret...
‘Season’s Lost’ by C. David Hay The Society June 27, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments The seasons came and passed again Since last I heard your voice; Many are the ways I'd change If death but gave a choice. I'd pick...
Poetry on Riots, Aunt Jemima, and Common Sense The Society June 26, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 22 Comments I’ll Have My Say… by Susan Jarvis Bryant Don’t spit your ire upon my name. Don’t tell me that my view’s insane--- to sink...
‘The Crow’ by Leo Zoutewelle The Society June 26, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 19 Comments Averted, staring past my busy day, I watched my feeding station for the birds, Was startled by a darkness come my way, Presenting me a...
‘Mont Saint-Michel’ by James A. Tweedie (Part 3 in the Favorite Places Sonnet Series) The Society June 25, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments In triumph the Archangel stands atop __The medieval fortress church and isle __That bear his name—the legendary spot __Where Satan...
‘Samson’s Revenge’ and Other Poetry by Jeff Kemper The Society June 24, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments Samson’s Revenge a translation of Judges 15:16 With but an ass’s jawbone Asses I have made of them, The myriads, the masses. I have...
Poetry on Black Lives Matter Protests and Riots Worldwide The Society June 23, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Terrorism 13 Comments It Matters Not On Sunday, June 21st, three men were stabbed to death while sitting in Forbury Park in Reading, England. by Susan Jarvis...
‘Olympus’ by Anissa Gage The Society June 23, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Olympus Olympus, thou majestic crag, whose bright And jagged spire, aloft the dazzling air Only the winds and snows and eagles dare To...
‘The Trial of Socrates’ by Alan Steinle The Society June 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments Poet's Note: The Apology of Socrates is Plato’s account of Socrates’ defense of himself in a court of law. The present work is a poetic...
‘The Boncompagni Dragon’ and Other Poetry by David Galef The Society June 21, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments The Boncompagni Dragon The Boncompagni Dragon, by Bartolomeo Passerotti (1529-92). Pen with brown ink, over black chalk. Tobey Collection of...
Poetry on the Tearing Down of Christopher Columbus and Other Statues The Society June 20, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 18 Comments . Juneteenth---the Day After by Joe Tessitore Witness the collapse And see the dust clouds rise. Hear the sound of taps And feel the shroud of...
‘Twisted Reckoning’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society June 20, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments Twisted Reckoning If pain can produce beauty, and if beauty causes pain, then how can I be reconciled to more loss than I gain? If love is...
Poems on Famous Composers by Sally Cook The Society June 19, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Music, Poetry 9 Comments Johann Sebastian Bach Truly loved music, yet Managed to wed twice And father a gang. The kids took their tonics, Eschewed bad...
A Poem in Tribute to Dame Vera Lynn (1917-2020), by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 18, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Readings, Video 41 Comments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZUryvFffTQ Some Sunny Day A tribute to Dame Vera Lynn who died today, June 18, 2020 (aged...
Translations of John Gower Poems on Marriage, by Margaret Coats The Society June 18, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 10 Comments Translator's Note: John Gower (c.1330–1408) wrote his Traitié de Matrimoine in French (with Latin notes throughout) to reach the widest possible...
‘A Reminder to Our Young People’ and Other Poetry by Philip Keefe The Society June 17, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 4 Comments A Reminder to Our Young People To say life has no hardship's to deceive, But trials and tribulations help us grow. Commensurate with...
Poetry Readings from 2020 SCP Symposium – ‘A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme’ (Session I) The Society June 17, 2020 From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Symposium, Video 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...
Sonnets on the Music of Bach, Handel, and Mendelssohn, by Peter Hartley The Society June 16, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 30 Comments “Laudamus te” from J.S. Bach’s B-minor Mass This aria so beautifully sung, Its obbligato part ethereal; Such coloratura from one so...
‘Two Tattoos,’ Poems by Damian Robin The Society June 15, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry, The Environment 13 Comments Two Tattoos Tattoo One: On the Corporate and Politic Bodies Across my town, the shops and offices are short. Its buildings don’t blot...
‘On Antifa, Coming to the Country’ and Other George Floyd Riots Related Poetry The Society June 14, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments On Antifa, Coming to the Country A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep...
‘Silver’ by Charlie Bauer The Society June 14, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 8 Comments Consider black’s effect; when it’s combined With other colors just a little trace Creates a shade but more will hide, erase The hue...
New Zealand, Dutch, and Indian Poets Wish President Trump a Happy Birthday with Poems The Society June 13, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 18 Comments The Society of Classical Poets, a New York-based 501(c)(3) non-profit with Members across the nation and around the world, wishes a happy birthday to...
The Society of Classical Poets Releases Journal VIII The Society June 12, 2020 From the Society, Poetry 6 Comments The Society of Classical Poets website receives millions of views every year. Visitors read engaging, beautiful, topical verse that...
A Poem Written for Rush Limbaugh, by Mark F. Stone The Society June 12, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments Destined for the Mount Rushmore of Radio Triumphal times are on the way, America’s Anchor Man. We Dittoheads will toast the day when...
A Poem for George Floyd Protestors, by Rob Crisell The Society June 11, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 3 Comments Georges Danton's Ghost Counsels the Protestors “Yes, America is burning. But that’s how forests grow.” –Maura Healey,...
‘Repeal’ and Other Poetry by Michael Curtis The Society June 11, 2020 Poetry 3 Comments Repeal All the world and all the universe are still, ____All that moves, moves but as God wills; ____All that might be is by God’s...
Poems on George Floyd Riots and Looting The Society June 10, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 11 Comments If I Owned a Macy's by Nancy Weber If I owned a Macy’s or other such stores… I'd tear down the plywood and unlock the doors. It used to...
‘The Day Louis Armstrong Died’ by Martin Hill Ortiz The Society June 10, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments My father wore his sorrow like a hundred millstone weight. I seldom saw him angry and I never saw him hate. And though he dressed for...
‘Corona Fatigue’ by Raymond Gallucci The Society June 9, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment May 4, 2020 Response is Draconian, As if Napoleon’s Back on the emperor’s throne. Except now with “wanna-bes” Ruining...
An Analysis of ‘The Gods of the Copybook Headings’ by Rudyard Kipling The Society June 9, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Essays, Poetry 12 Comments The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper...
A Smorgasbord of Craziness: An Essay by Joseph S. Salemi The Society June 8, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments I recently discarded some unnecessary texts, and among them were two past editions (the 17th and the 20th) of Len Fulton’s Directory of Poetry...
Poetry on Riots Across America and Communist Takeover in Hong Kong The Society June 7, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Limerick, Poetry 2 Comments A Riot Limerick by Joe Tessitore The Most Evil has cast the first brick And his antics make decent folk sick. Though he rant and he rail His...
‘Istanbul’ by James A. Tweedie (Part 2 in the Favorite Places Sonnet Series) The Society June 7, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Astride the Golden Horn, where Occident __And Orient collide, the silhouettes __of minarets co-mingle with the scent __of spice and...
‘D-Day Desecration’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 6, 2020 Culture, Poetry 24 Comments “London BLM riot: Cenotaph vandalised on the 76th anniversary of the D-Day Landing” –UK News headline, June 6, 2020 In nineteen...
‘The Captain’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society June 6, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 4 Comments The captain stood amidst his crew, and wiped the bar for someone new. To make them laugh he'd tell a joke and light himself another...
‘Dear Editor’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 5, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Villanelle 36 Comments Dear Editor, My odes are grandiose and overblown With pudgy gluts of stodgy adjectives In floods of flabby babble prone to drone, All...
A Dizi Gui Translation: Chinese Children’s Poetry The Society June 4, 2020 Beauty, Children's, Culture, Poetry, Translation 9 Comments The Dizi Gui (弟子规) is an ancient Chinese text for children that was written in the Qing Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Kangxi...
A Poem on the Director General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom, and Other Related Poetry The Society June 3, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 6 Comments The Director General of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom by Sarban Bhattacharya His accent’s weird, his hair is pretty grey, He is too calm to...
‘Elegy on a Strauss Waltz’ by Adam Sedia The Society June 3, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 15 Comments The room fills with a charming melody— A choir of violins in soaring flight With basses, cellos pulsing—one, two,...
