‘Carmen Cygni, a Retourne’ by Mike Bryant The Society March 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Found Poem, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments Carmen Cygni, a Retourne She holds the sickle and the scythe, Dark clothed and hooded, glimpse of white. A dancer languorous but...
A Translation of ‘Hector and Andromache’ by Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805) The Society March 21, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Homer, Poetry, Translation 4 Comments translation by Jonathan Shoulta Andromache Will you, my Hector, forever go away to where with unmatched hands Achilles makes Patroclus...
Poetry on Panic Buying The Society March 20, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments Pearls of Wisdom in Times of Crisis by Susan Jarvis Bryant Pearl clutchers of the world, please take a breath: take time to breathe the...
‘The Graveyard of My Mind’ by Phil S. Rogers The Society March 20, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments I pour myself four fingers, or maybe it is five, sit in a broken rocker and slowly close my eyes. I muse on my survival for nigh on eighty...
‘The Glory of Spring’ by M. P. Lauretta The Society March 19, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments Mere words have not the power to convey the loveliness laid out before my eyes; this triumph of rebirth; this lustrous day; this crowning...
‘If Biden Had a Brain’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 18, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 30 Comments He has spent a shower of hours obtaining power and glowers from bigwigs in Ukraine--- he’d minimize the drama and he’d be the...
Three Poems on the Spread of the CCP Virus (COVID-19) The Society March 17, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments The Society of Classical Poets refers to the COVID-19 coronavirus as the CCP virus because the Chinese Communist Party’s coverup and mismanagement...
‘Brave Soldiers We’ and Other Poetry by Beverly Stock The Society March 17, 2020 Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Brave Soldiers We after "The Things We Dare Not Tell" by Henry Lawson We muster in the heat somewhere, We sign our oaths, and then we...
‘This Luxurious Empire’ and Other Poetry by Anissa Nedzel Gage The Society March 16, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments This Luxurious Empire Vesuvius, you have destroyed a world! __With roars of fire and thunder, hails of ash, __You've hurled your...
‘Planned Barrenhood’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society March 15, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 8 Comments Margaret Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood Moloch: ancient Canaanite god of child sacrifice Is there one in your...
‘If Milton Were Alive Today’ by Andrew Benson Brown The Society March 14, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments The blind poet awakes and feels his way Into the living room, where light of day Will find his daughters ready to preserve The words of...
‘Tower of Ivory’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society March 13, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments What curve, what contrapposto, shift of weight, Recalls the tusk from which some Gothic hand Had carved the Paris Virgin holding...
The Divine Significance of the Coronavirus: Three Poems on the Wuhan Flu The Society March 12, 2020 Covid-19, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 93 Comments The Crown of Wuhan by Daniel Kemper "Hast thou forgot me then?" says she of dreams, "A Goddess arm'd Out of thy head I sprung... Come see...
‘Being Ducks’ by James Sale The Society March 12, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 32 Comments for Mark F. Stone and all his pets The duck has special properties: Like water off its back; If only we as humans could Perfect the...
‘Candidatus Non Compos Mentis’ by Rob Crisell The Society March 11, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments Candidatus Non Compos Mentis Joe lacks the humility To see the futility Of running for office While fighting senility. With growing...
‘Unbridled Change’ and Other Poetry by John Marmaro The Society March 11, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Unbridled Change O tempora! O mores!... Fuit ista quondam in hac re publica virtus... ---Cicero, First Catiline Oration These days of...
‘The Author’ and Other Poetry by Rod Walford The Society March 10, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments The Author He portrays a lonely figure In his cottage by the sea With his pencil and his paper and his dog. Gone his youthful verve and...
‘A Soliloquy on Modern Poetry’ and Other Poetry by Richard Lackman The Society March 9, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 4 Comments A Soliloquy on Modern Poetry I write this, a soliloquy Regarding modern poetry. I don’t appreciate the terse Disheveled nature of...
A Poem on Sam Gilliland: ‘The Last Bard of Scotland’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society March 8, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 109 Comments Waters of Irvine and Annock, flow with my tears, West to the Firth of Clyde and Arran: Soon, soon, Ayr will be mute and barren. Flow,...
‘Daylight Savings’ by T.M. Moore The Society March 7, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments "Save daylight!" spoke the powers-that-be, and everyone supined, except for Arizona, see, which steadfastly declined. Hawaii, too, and...
‘Snowdrops’ by Martin Rizley The Society March 7, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments Now breaking through the crust of snow, pale messengers appear To herald with celestial glow the springtime of the year; With gentle...
SCP Poetry Symposium 2020—“A Celebration of Meter and Rhyme” The Society March 6, 2020 From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Symposium 1 Comment NOTE: This event has been canceled due to the CCP virus (COVID-19) pandemic. A new online SCP Symposium has been planned. The details of...
‘Threadbare—a Haiku’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society March 6, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry 7 Comments My Coat---a Haiku God pays no heed to disguises He can see through--- I've worn myself out. The Old Poet's Tree I'm bent with...
What Happened to Narrative Poetry?—An Opinion Piece by James A. Tweedie The Society March 5, 2020 Culture, Epic, Essays, Poetry, Short Stories 26 Comments This isn’t so much an essay as it is an opinion piece where I shoot off a few words in praise of narrative poetry or, in other words, poetry that...
A Bernie Sanders Poem: ‘B.S., 2020’ by Joe Tessitore The Society March 4, 2020 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 16 Comments Who is this finger-waving man--- this millionaire, this communist? Let’s think about him while we can, this grandpa with the Marxist...
‘Orchards Let Light In’ and Other Poetry by Don Kubicki The Society March 4, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 3 Comments Orchards Let Light In “Oh to be like ‘The Man who Planted Trees’” There is a grove that in the meadow grows Where stately...
Essay: ‘Moralistic Authenticity’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society March 3, 2020 Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry 43 Comments A not infrequent problem that a poetry editor must face is a contributor’s intransigence. Sometimes this resistance is on metrical issues...
Psalms for the High Country, by Peter Bridges The Society March 2, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments Psalm CIV: Benedic, Anima Mea O praise the Lord, my soul. The aspens sigh As high above Mount Axtell in blue sky The hawk cries out God’s...
‘Wake-Up Call’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society March 1, 2020 Culture, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments Wake-Up Call "Shoulda," "coulda," "woulda" and "whatever" Are telltales that evince velleity In speakers who most probably will...
On a Bereavement: Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society February 29, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 21 Comments On a Bereavement I Mourning Sickness Can anybody say how long it lasts, This numbness that deceives while it relieves The harrowed brain? My...
A Sonnet on Death, by Charlie Bauer The Society February 28, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments 20 January 2020 My father died, just yesterday, and mom About a year ago; I’m filled with grief For things that were not, might have...
Two Poems on the Coronavirus by Evan Mantyk and Damian Robin The Society February 27, 2020 Covid-19, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Villanelle 7 Comments From Some Nightmarish Vial a villanelle by Evan Mantyk Did it emerge from some nightmarish vial? Is it a weapon meant for killing...
‘Kneeling’ by Sean Galli The Society February 27, 2020 Culture, Poetry 6 Comments On TV, I saw them kneeling __Before their golden cow; Mere worshippers of a flimsy feeling __Desecrating a vow. They’ve never knelt in...
‘On Hearing of Hosni Mubarak’s Death, 25 February 2020’ by Kevin Blankinship The Society February 26, 2020 Culture, Poetry 2 Comments The days we choked on rage and fed on tears, that lit my guts with deep and purple flame— but when they go, I wish they still were...
‘Yarran and Myaree’ by David Watt The Society February 26, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 10 Comments In a time long ago, where the high myrtles grow, Lived a tribe of the Bellenden Range. While below, on the plain, in their tropic...
‘Ash Wednesday’ by James A. Tweedie The Society February 25, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Icy, biting breezes cut like knives; Sea-spray wave crests crash upon the shore; Silent, unseen clam and crab life writhes, Buried neath...
‘Through an Open Graveyard’ by Satyananda Sarangi The Society February 25, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Terrorism 10 Comments Through barren fields, beside the ruins of man, The sunlight hardens stains of blood and gore; Macabre deeds that years ago began, Their...
‘Festive Clothes (or On being among Poets)’ by Alejandro Páez The Society February 24, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments I have been bid into the House of Song To merry-make at Inspiration’s fest Alas! I fear my raiment would but wrong The stately host...
‘The House Remembers’ by Amy Foreman The Society February 23, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Shape Poems 26 Comments ...
‘Love’s Wisdom’ by Roland Holst (1888-1976), translated by Leo Zoutewelle The Society February 22, 2020 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry, Translation translated by Leo Zoutewelle To you my word will be reproached as lie, Maliciously: “who left you so maligned, In vain are all the days in which...
