‘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...
2020 Poetry Translation Competition The Society September 1, 2019 From the Society, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Translation 3 Comments "But with the true poet every thing is terse, touching, or brilliant. He gives the choicest thoughts in the choicest language. He illustrates them by...
2020 High School Poetry Competition The Society September 1, 2019 From the Society, High School Submissions, Poetry, Poetry Contests 5 Comments Note: Winners of this contest can be found here. We have begun a new high school poetry contest here. "But with the true poet every...
Six Poems Concerning Poetry, by Sally Cook The Society August 31, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 23 Comments Learning Experience The world is filled with rules For making things; and schools Where ziggurats of thought, Erected there, are...
‘Love Song for a Grapefruit’ by Anna J. Arredondo The Society August 30, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 17 Comments Love Song for a Grapefruit Dear Grapefruit, I of late have been untrue, Seduced by sweet confections of all sorts; My tastebuds languish, and my...
Two Waste Poems by Chantel Lavoie The Society August 29, 2019 Culture, Poetry 5 Comments from a crown of sonnets I. In Khayelitsha, an urban township of Cape Town, an average of 635 sexual assaults on women travelling to and from...
‘Investment Strategies’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society August 28, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments Investment Strategies At work we studied many charts and graphs With due attention to the bottom line, But had we dwelt upon our epitaphs We...
The Remote Islands of Scotland: Six Poems by Peter Hartley The Society August 27, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments I. The Evacuation of St Kilda The remote island community on St Kilda had existed for thousands of years in considerable hardship until, from the...
‘Sonnet à Double’ by Leo Zoutewelle The Society August 26, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments When our new park enticed me to a walk I saw a dandelion on the trail. Its yellow bloom hung on its broken stalk And it appeared to call me with a...
‘I’ll Never Own a Leaf Blower’ by Jack Suss The Society August 25, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 1 Comment I'll never own a leaf blower, I'll never rake with noise, Or drive away God's tiny mole By blasting at his tunnel hole. I'll never own a leaf...
‘The Thorn’ by Theresa Zappe The Society August 24, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments My father woke the day that he __Was in the forest born To find that all gentility __Was from his nature shorn. A base unwilled...
‘These Nice Guys,’ after Gwendolyn Brooks, by Joe Spring The Society August 23, 2019 Culture, Poetry 6 Comments These Nice Guys after Gwendolyn Brooks NICE CHRISTIAN MAN. A DIME A DOZEN. These nice guys. They forfeit the prize. They get pushed around....
Haiku and Limericks by Joe Tessitore The Society August 22, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Haiku and Senryu, Humor, Limerick, Poetry 4 Comments Haiku When a newborn cries, locked in a room by itself, does it make a sound? Fog enshrouds the night. Woven in the heavy...
A Translation of ‘Evening Stroll’ by P.C. Boutens The Society August 21, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 4 Comments Evening Stroll by P.C. Boutens (1870-1943), written in The Hague in 1909, translated by Leo Zoutewelle We wandered much too late today! __Nearby...
Ten Best Rhyming Riddles of 2019 The Society August 20, 2019 Poetry, Poetry Contests, Riddles 13 Comments Thank you to everyone who participated! Judges: Joseph S. Salemi, Adam Sedia, Manfred Dietrich First ($100 Prize) A spike is there, but...
A Fairy Tale in Poetry: ‘The Singing Bone,’ by Jan Darling The Society August 20, 2019 Children's, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments This is a tale of sibling rivalry from the 1812 Brothers Grimm collection of Children’s and Household Tales. Similar stories exist in...
‘Love’s Bliss’ by Gleb Zavlanov The Society August 19, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 12 Comments The Moon, torn from the Sun, her only lover, Rose, starry-eyed and weeping beams of light, A mourning widow left to wisp and hover, A...
‘After the Rain’ and Other Poetry by Jared Carter The Society August 18, 2019 Alexandroid, Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments After the Rain After the rain, it’s time to walk the field again, near where the river bends. Each year I come to look for what this place will...
‘The Captive Caesar’ and Other Poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Society August 17, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 20 Comments all poetry by Bruce Dale Wise The Captive Caesar by Aedile Cwerbus Though it was many years ago, millennia, in fact, it seems, like...
‘Bucket-Kicking Musings’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society August 16, 2019 Humor, Poetry 25 Comments Bucket-Kicking Musings “Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” —Mark Twain When my mortal coil has...
A Poem for the 50-Year Anniversary of Woodstock, by Daniel R. Leach The Society August 15, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 16 Comments The Devil at Woodstock I was a mere sixteen that Summer day We all piled in a beat-up car and drove To Woodstock, or someplace we had been...
‘Beyond Scientism’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society August 14, 2019 Culture, Poetry 13 Comments Beyond Scientism Old wives’ tales, humble kin of ancient lore, Like road signs carved in stone are durable. Traditionists are deemed...
‘Gray’ and Other Poetry by T.M. Moore The Society August 13, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 19 Comments Gray I feel a certain loyalty to gray. Gray days, gray sweaters, cars - gray everything. Gray soothes and calms. It doesn’t boast, or...
Poetry, Beauty and the Modern Era: Essay by James Sale The Society August 12, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Epic, Essays, Poetry 20 Comments One interesting question is ‘why poetry, specifically?’ I am currently writing an ‘epic’ called The English Cantos, and I have...
‘Faith’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant The Society August 11, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 13 Comments Faith I'm pond scum, someone said today. Some soup primordial, in a bay was struck by lightning. Oh, I see I'm wrought by electricity... then,...
A Poem on Ned Kelly: Australian Bushranger, by David Watt The Society August 10, 2019 Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Ned’s Revision Ned Kelly was an outlaw, of humble Irish stock; Born to Australian parents who farmed a rural block. Assault at fourteen years...
‘Do I Remember?’ by Martin Rizley The Society August 9, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 7 Comments Do I remember him? How could I fail To think of that tender boy, handsome and hail, Zealous and hearty, his muscles in tone, Who once...
‘Sebastian’ by Theresa Rodriguez The Society August 8, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 28 Comments An ode to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Sebastian: from Greek “venerable” I touch the pages of your music. Then My thoughts transport to...
SCP Symposium Readings (Videos): Joseph S. Salemi, James Sale, Adam Sedia, Michael C. Maibach The Society August 7, 2019 Beauty, Culture, From the Society, Humor, Poetry, Readings, Symposium, Video 1 Comment ...
‘Compulsive Euphemism’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society August 7, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 12 Comments From A Gallery of Ethopaths Ethopaths fear, as much as cancer, A straight, unvarnished, simple answer. They love the euphemistic...
‘Two Laws’ and Other Poetry by Philip Keefe The Society August 6, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments Two Laws In this imperfect world who suffers less: A good man wrongly jailed with conscience clear? Another whose low deeds he can't...
‘For Dayton and El Paso’ by James A. Tweedie The Society August 5, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 5 Comments Two mass shootings took the lives of twenty-nine this afternoon. Fifty-one (at least) were injured, every life cut short too...
Five Clerihews for the Iliad, by Raymond C. Roy The Society August 5, 2019 Clerihew, Epic, Homer, Poetry 9 Comments A Clerihew is a four-line comic poem with a rigid rhyming scheme, aabb, but no metric requirements. It stands in stark contrast to the strict metric...
