‘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 40 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 Alec 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...
On Wendy Cope’s Wasteland Limericks (Essay) The Society May 15, 2019 Culture, Essays, Humor, Limerick, Poetry, Reviews 6 Comments by Lew Icarus Bede The way I dealt with T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland was to write a poem, equally desperate, in that same allusive style—with...
Poetry Challenge: Write a Square Poem The Society May 14, 2019 Culture, Poetry, Riddles 30 Comments by David Watt I recently came across the following “square poem” attributed to Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carrol). Please note...
Friends of Falun Gong Poetry Contest Winners Announced The Society May 13, 2019 Culture, Human Rights in China, Poetry, Poetry Contests 2 Comments Congratulations to contest winners David Whippman (First Place), Randal Burd (Second Place), Theresa Rodriguez (Third Place), and Dusty Thorne...
Selected Poems from ‘Journey to the East’ by Evan Mantyk The Society May 13, 2019 Beauty, Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Short Stories 10 Comments A Journey to the East by Evan Mantyk is a historical and poetical fairytale adventure styled after Journey to the West, by Ming Dynasty writer Wu...
Three Poems for Mother’s Day The Society May 12, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 1 Comment Bunny by Sally Cook Indebted to a simple spark of life, You missed your chance at Europe’s wondrous door. A conscientious mother and a...
‘On Seeing You Upon Waking’ by Martin Rizley The Society May 11, 2019 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 21 Comments I woke this day from napping, and I saw you lying there, Across the room, upon a couch, asleep without a care. The golden beams of...
‘Paper Flowers’ by Sathya Narayana The Society May 10, 2019 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 27 Comments With lifeless smiles she's sitting tight in the vase. With painted flowers, leaves and twigs she's like a dressed deadman on funeral day....
A Line of Shakespeare Poetry Contest The Society May 8, 2019 Culture, Education, From the Society, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Contests, Shakespeare 148 Comments Winners announced here! Write a short poem that begins with one line from any Shakespeare play or poem. The poem should be two to four lines...
A Riddle by Connie Phillips The Society May 8, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Riddles 8 Comments Riddle No. 1 So astounding is this part— A major muscle, like your heart. And so astonishing its job, Without it you would be a blob: You...
‘Irrelephant’ and Other Poetry by Raymond Gallucci The Society May 7, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 21 Comments Irrelephant Within the room there’s something big, But management ignores it. A redwood tree, not tiny twig? Concern they haven’t for...
‘Tolstoy: A Very Brief Biography in Verse’ by William Walters The Society May 6, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 6 Comments Dust to lust to disgust to trust to must to just to dust. Wm. Walters is a professor of English and linguistics at...
‘Some People Did Something’ by J.M. McBirnie The Society May 6, 2019 Poetry 8 Comments Some People Did Something On Rep. Omar's reducing the 9/11 terrorist attacks to "Some people did something" Some people swallowed towers, kept...
‘Streamlined’ and Other Poetry by David Whippman The Society May 5, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 10 Comments Streamlined In some alternative reality I have remained unmarried, all alone. Would that have been a better way for me - Some Spartan bachelor...
