‘The Human Skylight’ by Satyananda Sarangi The Society October 5, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 31 Comments The skylight lets the nascent streak Of gold inside this darkened room; Some wisp of scent invades therein, A perfumed faith to counter...
A Translation from Goethe’s Roman Elegies V The Society October 4, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 8 Comments Here stand I happ’ly on classical grounds, inspired; the voices speak distinctly in enchanted tone from worlds of today and former...
A Cento from the Political Poetry of Presidents Lincoln, Taylor, and Taft by Beverly Stock The Society October 3, 2019 Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Political Voice (A Cento) A cento or collage poem takes bits of poetry from past poets and puts them together in a new order. The below poem draws...
‘Irrelevant’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society October 2, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments Irrelevant If the room is the tomb then the elephant is irrelevant. Haiku From my heart was shown how very much I loved...
Poems on Helen Keller, the Wright Brothers, and Others, by Martin Elster The Society September 30, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments Helen Keller (1880-1968) Your eyesight and hearing were gone, yet you felt just as blithe as a fawn ___when you learned that a word ___could...
Essay: ‘A Breeze Came Out of the North…’ The Society September 29, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 6 Comments A breeze came out of the North one day, and cried, "September's begun!" A breeze came out of the North one day, declared, "The Summer is...
‘Writer’s Block’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society September 29, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments Writer's Block I feel like I am plodding through cement; My mind is full of cotton batting. Dull, And dense, and empty-headed, thinking...
‘Don’t Flog Yourself When Playing Golf’ by Raymond Gallucci The Society September 28, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 23 Comments A ball that’s lost should never cost ____A one-stroke penalty. Where now it dwells finds someone else— ____It’s stolen property! When...
Mourning Verse by Michael Curtis The Society September 27, 2019 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 8 Comments Sandprints Yes: Life is pleasure, life is grand, __Life is sweet and fleeting; Alike a stroll upon the sand, __Alike a heart that’s...
‘The Pain of Foreign Occupation’ and Other Poetry by Leo Zoutewelle The Society September 26, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments The Pain of Foreign Occupation The land lay naked under hobnailed boots Of German occupiers in The Hague. The Blitzkrieg had commenced with...
‘Spoke the Mansion’ and Other Poetry by Alexander King Ream The Society September 25, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 5 Comments Spoke the Mansion All around be the space of a halcyon day, Some salon where discussion meets wine and croquet; There are salads of crab, on the...
‘Knowledge as a Mixed Blessing,’ Three Sonnets by Philip Keefe The Society September 24, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 17 Comments I. Is curiosity the bane of man As seeking knowledge often leads to woe? Do only fools pass their allotted span Disclosing some things...
‘Romantic Triangle, With An Ice-Pick’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society September 23, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry, Short Stories 16 Comments In 1937, the renegade Communist Leon Trotsky (real name: Lev Bronstein) came to Mexico with his family and took up residence with the painter Diego...
‘A Man for Two Seasons’ by T.M. Moore and a Response by C.B. Anderson The Society September 22, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 11 Comments A Man for Two Seasons by T.M. Moore I’m in a constant state of readiness for fall. For me, the perfect climate goes from winter straight to...
‘Subversive Modernism in Art’ by Sarban Bhattacharya The Society September 22, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 22 Comments "Progressive" mind accompanies the art Of writing poetry at present time. Great intellectuals from forms depart, And love free verse...
‘Keeping the Door’ and Other Poetry by James Sale The Society September 21, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments Keeping the Door Ant hordes scurried in purposeful files; Angry, alert, full to demonic marching: They came in batteries to batter: _____But I...
‘Song of the Crab Nebula’ and Other Poetry by Daniel R. Leach The Society September 20, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments Song of the Crab Nebula in celebration of 50 years after Apollo 11 Long before the first eyes ever saw me __Floating like a ghost upon the...
‘Of All God’s Living Creatures’ and Other Poetry by Peter Hartley The Society September 19, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments Of All God’s Living Creatures Of all God’s living creatures only we With subtle artifice create our style Of dress and image, and with...
A Pair of Punny Poems by James A. Tweedie The Society September 18, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 16 Comments Fright and Flight The sleeping farm was bathed in soft moonlight. A quiet evening, peaceful and subdued; When suddenly a single bovine...
Homophonic Poetry Challenge The Society September 16, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests 88 Comments by Joe Tessitore and James A. Tweedie We are issuing a challenge to all poets to create poems that incorporate word homophones. Call it what you...
‘Let Flow’ by Sathya Narayana The Society September 16, 2019 Beauty, Poetry, Villanelle 4 Comments a villanelle Ye let it flow, the bitter brine, let flow! How long you hold it back, those snowy streams! Don't stop their course, until they touch...
‘The Miller’s Daughter’ by Bob McAfee The Society September 15, 2019 Beauty, Poetry, Short Stories 3 Comments inspired by “The Lady of Shalott” by Tennyson Part I The forests loom at Nottinghamshire. The river oaks still aiming higher, Surround the...
‘Soaplessly in Love’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Galef The Society September 14, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments Faust Money ___________________________I sold my soul for silver. ___________________________In blood I signed my name. I soon enjoyed the...
Three Poems for Hong Kong Protesters, Moon Festival, 2019, by Damian Robin The Society September 13, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 2 Comments The Moon Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, is a traditional holiday that celebrates the Harvest Moon (the full moon nearest the Fall...
Translations of ‘Quiet Night Pondering’ by Li Bai and a Nostradamus Quatrain, Dedicated to Hong Kong Protesters, by Evan Mantyk The Society September 13, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 2 Comments . Quiet Night Pondering by Li Bai (701-762) A bed before the bright moonlight. Does frost below lie on these halls? I lift my head: the moon is...
‘Leveled Outcomes’ by Charlie Bauer The Society September 12, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 22 Comments Philosophers of Marxist ilk designed For leveled outcomes, then they slew en masse. It pleased the Nazi socialists to grind Up twenty...
Essay: On Yeats’ ‘Second Coming’ and the Power of Poetry The Society September 11, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Education, Essays, Poetry 45 Comments by T.M. Moore I had just finished teaching one of the adult classes at our church on the meaning of Christmas, using John Milton’s Ode on the...
‘Timeless’ by Rod Walford The Society September 10, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Today I strolled upon the shore Where Grandad walked in days of yore; Along its sandy, glossy sheen Where once his imprint would have...
Joseph Charles MacKenzie’s Sonnet 5 Inspires the World of Pop (Video) The Society September 9, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Readings, Video Originally published here. ALBUQUERQUE, NM — July 27, 2019 — Sonnet 5, a marriage poem from MacKenzie’s Sonnets for Christ the King, has...
Haiku by Bruce Dale Wise The Society September 8, 2019 Culture, Haiku and Senryu, Humor, Poetry 9 Comments (All poetry by Bruce Dale Wise) Haiku by W. "Cured Eel" Sabi I came to the sea. I saw mountains of water. I conquered nothing. *** The...
‘Cape Horn’ and Other Poetry by Adam Sedia The Society September 7, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, The Environment 9 Comments Cape Horn They lifted anchor, spread the sails, __Quit shores where they were born, Bound for spice isles from doubtful tales __By way of far...
A Poem on America’s Trade War with China, by James A. Tweedie The Society September 6, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 3 Comments Calling China to Task The PRC has ways to make a foreign capitalist rich With plenty of cheap labor featured in their tempting sales...
‘Three Riddles’ by Rupert Palmer The Society September 6, 2019 Culture, Poetry, Riddles 11 Comments I. Half-man half-beast I seem to be A thousand years is naught to me For I watch kings and kingdoms die Who once were gods, beneath me lie In...
A Poem on Chinese Diagnostic Dolls, by Beverly Stock The Society September 5, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Anonymous Diagnosis In ancient China, a sense of propriety did not allow women of high social status, and women in general, to expose any part of...
Bryant Park Poetry Reading: Two Poems by Theresa Rodriguez (Video) The Society September 4, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, From the Society, Poetry, Readings, Video 9 Comments ...
‘For Elba’ by Clinton Van Inman The Society September 4, 2019 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 5 Comments Pale would be the water ____Reflecting only skies, Gracing not the splendor ____Of your enchanting eyes. Pale would be the...
‘Slim Pickings’ by David Whippman The Society September 4, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 5 Comments His frame was gaunt, his income was erratic: The crowd ignored the writer high above Who wrote and brooded in his lonely attic, Starving...
‘Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road’ by Stephen D. Hagerman The Society September 3, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments (Anapestic trimeter, in the vein of Edward Lear) On June 19, 2007, an official presentation took place of the document "Guidelines for the Pastoral...
‘An Open Letter to a Fellow Poet’ and Other Poetry by Denise Sobilo The Society September 2, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 5 Comments An Open Letter to a Fellow Poet for Adam Sedia But why against one poor poet, a hundred men? —Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand) What dreams...
The Society of Classical Poets 2020 Poetry Competition The Society September 1, 2019 High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests 9 Comments Winners of the competition can be found here. "But with the true poet every thing is terse, touching, or brilliant. He gives the choicest...
