‘Saint John Southworth’ by Peter Hartley The Society April 17, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 41 Comments So here he lies as he has lain in state These ninety years in this cathedral crypt At Westminster. We come to venerate The relics of a...
‘Tongues Spin and Weave’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 16, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments Tongues Spin and Weave Tongues spin and weave their sophistry, a slick and silken tapestry, from golden throne and ivory tower and each...
‘What If My Time’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society April 15, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments What If My Time What if my time is limited? if all That I have left is perhaps months, not years, All laden with the worries and the...
Life Under Quarantine: CCP Virus (COVID-19) Poetry The Society April 14, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 15 Comments Costume Parties by Fiat? by Julian Woodruff ‘Round nearly vacant lots The cars grow fewer still. No traffic tied in knots, No malls in...
‘Alexander’ by Daniel Kemper The Society April 14, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments As Alexander rose upon a hill, somewhere east of King Darius’s dust, at once a pure, serene and awful still undoes the man. For conquer...
‘Sonnet of the Silent Voice’ and Other Poetry by Gregory Ross The Society April 14, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 2 Comments Sonnet of the Silent Voice Unbounded power marks a tyrant’s choice: He chains the infants up to keep his throne, Refusing freedom to the...
New Sally Cook Art Exhibit Can Be Visited Virtually The Society April 13, 2020 Art, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments The painter and poet Sally Cook has a new exhibition at UB Art Galleries. Because of the current coronavirus pandemic, UB Art Galleries has...
A Verse Translation of Piers Plowman C, Passus XV, lines 62-105 The Society April 13, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 6 Comments Translation by David O'Neil Translator’s note: Piers Plowman is a late medieval allegorical narrative poem, believed to be authored by...
Poems for Easter Sunday 2020 The Society April 12, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments Easter by Joe Tessitore Behind the stone of timeless wait He rose alone despite its weight and strode from darkness into...
A Poem by an Emergency Physician and Other CCP Virus (COVID-19) Poetry The Society April 11, 2020 Beauty, Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments Dulcius Ex Asperis by Andrew Ross Invisible and terrible A virus stalks the land. It floats across the atmosphere And moves from man...
Ecclesiastes 4, Recast in Classical Poetry, by T.M. Moore The Society April 11, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terza Rima 6 Comments No One to Comfort Them after Ecclesiastes 4 Just look around: Oppression everywhere exists beneath the sun, and the oppressed cry vainly...
‘Good Friday’ by James A. Tweedie The Society April 10, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Sullen, somber skies— Heavy leaden tears are shed in sorrow. Heaven cries. Thunderous sobbing grief— Thrashing, crashing; Flashing,...
Translation of Pushkin on Cholera Quarantine and Poetry on the CCP Virus The Society April 9, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Limerick, Poetry, Translation 16 Comments Time Is the Measure of Every Pleasure a coronavirus limerick by Mark F. Stone The State took a stand that we practice techniques to...
Review: ‘The Stargazers,’ A First Book of Poems by James McKee The Society April 9, 2020 Essays, Poetry, Reviews by T.M. Moore James McKee, The Stargazers (Atmosphere Press, 2020), $17.99 James McKee’s inaugural foray into verse publishing offers a panoply...
‘The Unknown Circle of Hell’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society April 8, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Dante, Epic, Humor, Poetry 28 Comments Personae and scene: Vergil and Dante, somewhere in the mid-region of Hell. Dante: Honored Vergil, tell me where we’re going— It’s...
‘The Art Professor’ by Sheila Mulrooney The Society April 7, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments Pygmalion knew these women all too well; his instincts told him he’d better sleep alone. He took to art. —Ovid, The Metamorphoses, Book...
Scots Translation and Poetry by George T. Watt for Tartan Day 2020 The Society April 6, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Translation 12 Comments The Last Bard o Scotland Translation by George T. Watt, frae the original by Joseph Charles MacKenzie Watters o Irvine an...
A Poem Celebrating Tartan Day and 700th Anniversary of the Declaration of Arbroath The Society April 6, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Translation 8 Comments Read by George T. Watt The Scrieve fae Arbroath Non enim propter gloriam, diuicias aut honores pugnamus set propter...
‘The American Revolution: An Epic Poem,’ Chapter I, by Andrew Benson Brown The Society April 5, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Epic, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments Chapter I Who sings of arms these days? Or even men? The seed of Adam’s tucked inside Eve’s apple, And sits not taking root—his...
An Arthurian Interlude in Alliterative Verse, by Rahul Gupta The Society April 4, 2020 Alliterative, Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments Rahul Gupta holds a PhD for a thesis on mediaeval Germanic and modern mediaevalist metre and poetics from the University of York....
Three Poems by Orthopaedic Cancer Surgeon Richard Lackman The Society April 3, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments A Life I Could Not Save She did not feel her age though she was old, But still looked young as she was often told. And so she was a...
‘Battle of the Bib’ and Other Poetry by Peter Venable The Society April 3, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment Battle of the Bib Emma was wearing a new autumn dress. Papa snapped on her bib, to prevent a mess— oatmeal was planned at her...
Poetry on Dr. Ai Fen and the CCP Virus (Coronavirus) The Society April 2, 2020 Covid-19, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 12 Comments The Last Words from Her Phone The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) has done everything within their power to expunge Dr. Ai Fen's interview off...
‘Foolosophy’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 2, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Rondeau, Rondeau Redoublé 18 Comments Foolosophy I know that I know nothing more than you, for neither of us know a single thing of relevance; I opt not to accrue vast knowledge as the...
‘Don’t Get Caught’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society April 1, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 28 Comments Don’t Get Caught The catfish and the trout hum different tunes, But both agree they love hot afternoons When no one wants to fish, when...
Pestilence and Quarantine: Poetry on the CCP Virus (Coronavirus) The Society March 31, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 48 Comments Pestilence Killed Them by James Sale The Pestilence killed them So the Proverb said, And with that happy thought They laid down in...
‘The Valley’ by Martin Hill Ortiz The Society March 31, 2020 Humor, Poetry, The Raven 10 Comments Cruising down an LA freeway, hustling for a little leeway Passing many a rusted relic from Detroit's Plutonian shore. Hoping all would...
‘Harbinger’s Gift’ by Tony L. Damigo The Society March 30, 2020 Culture, Poetry 4 Comments My waning days give way as dark besieges all my light. My tree, its branches sway in frigid Winter winds that bite! So too, the chill...
The Dark and the Light: Poetry on the CCP Virus (Novel Coronavirus) The Society March 29, 2020 Beauty, Covid-19, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Limerick, Poetry 7 Comments As the Lights Go Out - the Last Limerick "The night cometh, when no man can work." John, 9:4 by Joe Tessitore I can tell there will be no...
‘Song of the Elk’ by Alexander King Ream The Society March 29, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments From hoof and hide, to flank and horn, Amid the wood, was noble born, Upon the field I walked at length, Swift in motion, high in...
‘Whisper of Thunder’ by T.M. Moore The Society March 28, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments Job 26.8-14 The flash and crash were simultaneous. The whole house shuddered, like it was about to come apart, and all the lights went...
‘The Once-Lost Land’ and Other Poetry by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society March 27, 2020 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 42 Comments The Once-Lost Land The arm that threw the disc of day __Across the sky we know must dim, The hand that strewed the Milky Way __Where angels...
Humorous Poetry for the CCP Virus (COVID-19) Quarantine The Society March 26, 2020 Clerihew, Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry 108 Comments Note: The Society of Classical Poets refers to the COVID-19 coronavirus as the CCP virus because the Chinese Communist Party’s coverup and...
‘Im Fruhling’ (‘In Spring’) by Ernst Schulze, and Other Translations by David B. Gosselin The Society March 26, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Music, Poetry, Translation 5 Comments Im Fruhling (In Spring) by Ernst Schulze (1789-1817) I sit here lonely on a hill Where skies are clear and blue; The sunset casts a...
‘Mist in the Forest’ by Leo Zoutewelle The Society March 25, 2020 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments . A very finely scattered sigh Of bashful mist would nigh attend My view and try---one wonders why--- To dare with utmost care to blend The reigning...
Turning to Heaven During CCP Virus Epidemic: Three Poems The Society March 24, 2020 Beauty, Covid-19, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Remember God “Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.” —Alexandr Solzhenitsyn by Connie Phillips We must...
‘Bill Butler Leaves His Mark’ by David Watt The Society March 24, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 29 Comments Bill Butler made a shopping trip each Friday, to the town, Astride his silver bicycle he’d purchased for a crown; For this was many years...
‘Briefs’: A New Poetry Form The Society March 23, 2020 Culture, Essays, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Poetry Forms 21 Comments by James A. Tweedie The form of the “brief” ordinarily consists of a couplet of anapestic tetrameter with the first soft beat of each line...
‘If a Contemporary Free-Verse Poet Wrote a Sonnet’: A Poem and Brief Essay The Society March 23, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 17 Comments by James A. Tweedie If a Contemporary Free-Verse Poet Wrote a Sonnet Today, because I’m early for Pilates, __I stop at Starbucks for a...
A Poem on the World Health Organization’s Praise for Beijing, by Bruce Dale Wise The Society March 22, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 61 Comments The World Health Organization by Baidu Wercs Lee The WHO has praised Beijing's response to COVID-19's spread, despite the fact of all the...
