‘The Populace Invisible’ by Lannie David Brockstein The Society June 22, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry The human body is perpetually pregnant with Trillions of microorganisms that hath colonized Its intestinal lair, and like the gravid...
‘Leaf in Fall’ and Other Poetry by David Francis The Society June 21, 2019 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 3 Comments Leaf in Fall I feel hard without my love at my side; she is the part of me that lacks the soft buoyancy that rounds and bears me...
Two Poems on Hong Kong Protests, June 2019 The Society June 20, 2019 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry 6 Comments The Hong Kong Protest Hymn by Lu "Reed ABCs" Wei The Christian hymn "Sing Hallelujah to the Lord" emerged as anthem of the Hong Kong protests....
Two Ballads on Abortion The Society June 20, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 2 Comments Planned Parenthood's a Euphemism upon reading March for Life's annual report by Roy E. Peterson Planned Parenthood’s a euphemism __Covering...
‘In The Know’ by David Watt The Society June 19, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 14 Comments It’s easy to look without seeing The beauty of life all around; When moments arisen to being Deserve to stir feelings profound. To all of...
‘Message in a Bottle’ and Other Poetry by Tony L. Damigo The Society June 18, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 16 Comments Message in a Bottle A ballad written on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019 While birds above the beachhead soared __and winds began to...
‘I Spent My Youth with Byron and the Bard’ and Other Poetry by Caleb Winebrenner The Society June 17, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 4 Comments I Spent My Youth with Byron and the Bard I spent my youth with Byron and the Bard, With Tennyson, the Brownings, and dear Keats— And...
‘Ballroom Dancing’: A Sonnet Cycle by James A. Tweedie The Society June 16, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments Note: Formal Ballroom Dance competition involves five specific dance forms. This sonnet cycle attempts to introduce and describe them. I have also...
‘Cicadas’ and Other Poetry by T.M. Moore The Society June 15, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 14 Comments Cicadas There is, I know, some benefit in this, this cycle of emerging, breeding, dying- so brief a time for knowing any bliss, or making...
Poetry Celebrating President Trump’s 73rd Birthday The Society June 14, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 22 Comments The Limerick I’d Love to Write by Joe Tessitore There once was a President Trump And many thought he was a chump. ____But none was more...
‘Quicksilver’ by Charles Bauer The Society June 13, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments A song’s composer’s music might reveal A question or idea in such a way That black notes penned on paper weigh what’s real; But if...
‘Birthday Greeting to a Doomed Child’ and Other Poetry by Martin Rizley The Society June 12, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 9 Comments Birthday Greeting to a Doomed Child a song of lament decrying New York´s “birthday abortion” law, approved January 22, 2019 So,...
‘To Conservatives’ by Carl Hildebrand The Society June 11, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 3 Comments To fight a fight on ground of your own choosing, To force the foe to battle at your pleasure Is feasible so long as you’re not...
‘The Conch Shell’ by Sally Sandler The Society June 10, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments Its coarse name belies this silken treasure, with iridescent dome and spiral apse. Imagination slips in with pleasure, to contemplate an...
Three ‘Imaginary Sonnets’ by Daniel Galef The Society June 9, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Ekphrastic, Poetry 5 Comments These poems are part of Daniel Galef’s series Imaginary Sonnets. Each sonnet is a verse soliloquy from the perspective of a different historical...
‘An English Spring’ by Nathaniel Todd McKee The Society June 8, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 3 Comments May 2018 How pleasant to recall the light of spring, Which with effulgence breaks the woodland morn, As we through beech-clad glade walk...
‘I Am One, Then’ and Other Poetry by James Sale The Society June 7, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 4 Comments I Am One, Then "In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of Hell" - Isaiah 38.10 I am one, then, who's been to hell: __Cut down in my old...
A Ballad for College-bound Students, by Ron L. Hodges The Society June 6, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Short Stories 2 Comments Icarus’ Fall at College Prologue Dear reader, surely, you must think, __“What could be taught to us That we haven’t already...
‘Newlyweds’ by John Kastamo The Society June 5, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 1 Comment We are a young ocean. We, __with merry veins once meek and coy, shall fill the belly of this sea. And at our bounds of God’s...
‘Forgetting the Tiananmen Square Massacre for 30 Years’ and Other Poetry by Damian Robin The Society June 4, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 41 Comments Forgetting the Tiananmen Square Massacre for 30 Years Robbed of life and liberty in open air, Young citizens ran out of breath inside the...
‘Minotaur’ by Alan Sugar The Society June 3, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 2 Comments Half man, half monster—I am in a maze. They banished me because of others’ sins. Among these walls, I’m doomed to spend my...
‘The Lament of the Editors’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society June 2, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Sapphic Verse 14 Comments a satirical piece in Sapphic stanzas Every day they come in a flood: unwanted Big manila envelopes stuffed with verses. Mostly...
Six Clerihews by Peter Hartley The Society June 1, 2019 Clerihew, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Forms 39 Comments The clerihew is a kind of epigrammatic verse (normally) consisting of a pair of rhyming couplets. The first line will usually introduce the name of a...
‘Song of the Yew, at University of Georgia, Athens,’ and Other Poetry by Alexander King Ream The Society May 31, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments Song of the Yew, at the University of Georgia, Athens a sprig of General Oglethorpe's ancestral yew was transported and planted aside the...
‘A New Life’ and Other Poetry by Dusty Grein The Society May 30, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 18 Comments A New Life an English ode With the blending of two souls, in a dance as old as time a spark ignites, and a cell divides; a baby—hers...
Some Truncated Quatrains by Bruce Wren The Society May 29, 2019 Culture, Education, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Forms 12 Comments A truncated quatrain is a form I have invented in an attempt to find some appropriate English form similar—for its brevity and single-mindedness in...
‘John Company’ by Geoffrey Leggett The Society May 28, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 16 Comments John Company was the familiar name of the Honourable East India Company which administered India until the Indian Mutiny in 1858 But, Oh, if...
‘Solemn Legion of the Brave’ by Roy E. Peterson The Society May 27, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 7 Comments Solemn Legion of the brave Marching by there grave to grave, Defending faith and family, Fighting wars for our country. Solemn Legion...
‘The Forlorn Hope—Vicksburg 1863’ and Other Poetry by Randal A. Burd, Jr. The Society May 26, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Rondeau The Forlorn Hope—Vicksburg 1863 Back in Vicksburg, the town was surrounded With a battle line twelve miles long. U.S. Grant sought to conquer...
‘Delimitation’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society May 25, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 15 Comments Delimitation To rhyme with proper meter in the cause Of classic forms is nothing anyone Should derogate, but old poetic laws Were fashioned to...
Journal VII Released The Society May 24, 2019 From the Society, Poetry 3 Comments We are pleased to announce the publication of The Society of Classical Poets’ Journal VII. The new journal is larger and more impressive than any...
A Riddle by Horus Hardtke The Society May 24, 2019 Children's, Poetry, Riddles 3 Comments Skin hard as jade, Mouth like a blade, I’m seldom dry, A dross lookst I, And hard to find, But my inside Has hidden treasure For...
“We are super, we are fine, We’re the Class of ’69!” by James A. Tweedie The Society May 24, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 13 Comments Fifty years ago . . . (it seems Like only yesterday) . . . the dreams, The hopes, and the unspoken fear That marked and marred my Senior year . ....
‘Abortion Rites’ by Edward C. Hayes The Society May 23, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 14 Comments lyrics inspired by the movie Unplanned Ms. Sally loved the parties, spent her nights out "on the town." Her door was open for the boys, whenever they...
‘The Cottage in the Glen’ by Martin Rizley The Society May 22, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 17 Comments While driving on an April day along a winding road Through rolling hills, beside the way, I spied a small abode A little cottage in a...
‘I Want To Believe’ and Other Poetry by Sally Cook The Society May 21, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 11 Comments I Want To Believe I want to believe a scarlet sky Promises sunshine. Don’t know why They say red skies mean turbulence— To me it...
‘New Day’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez The Society May 20, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 30 Comments New Day Welcome to a new day. I must go Ahead with life as it presents to me I have to forge ahead steadfast and show What moving on and...
A Poem on Terrorism: ‘Why Not?’ by T.M. Moore The Society May 18, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Terrorism 6 Comments We shake our heads, and wonder, “Why?” aloud each time some speeding truck plows through a crowd, or grinning gunman gloats at...
‘A Poet’s Lament’ and Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society May 17, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Essays, Poetry 19 Comments A Poet’s Lament - for Charles Southerland, whose brilliant prose style I so painfully tried to imitate and incorporate Nobody cried when poetry...
‘White Is A Color, Too’ and Other Poetry by Ron L. Hodges The Society May 16, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments White Is A Color, Too It seems strange to have to say this After what that great man taught, Yet I have seen so much amiss That I fear we all...
