‘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...
‘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...
