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 Alec 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 strength, And...
‘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...
‘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...
