‘Pleasuring Dreams’ by P. T. O’Talryn The Society April 18, 2019 Culture, Poetry 6 Comments They fell into a numbing sleep Perchance to darkly dream. The kettle for their tea was boiling; The plants were rich and green. They stoned...
‘Luckily for the Lovelorn’ by E.V. Wyler The Society April 17, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 18 Comments Luckily for the bereft grieving through darkness alone, dawn is abundantly deft at its medicinal tone. When a new morning...
Three Poems on the Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris The Society April 16, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 33 Comments The Cathedral, Burning by T. M. Moore Flames wreck the walls and ceilings that had stood for centuries, scorch ancient timbers, raze to ash...
A Poem on Euthanasia, by Ron L. Hodges The Society April 16, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 13 Comments The Life That Is Not Life “I’m getting ready for my trip now.” —Aurelia Brouwers (who chose to be euthanized at age 29 in the...
SCP Poetry and Culture Symposium 2019 The Society April 15, 2019 Culture, From the Society, Poetry, Symposium 2 Comments The Society of Classical Poets is holding its first Poetry and Culture Symposium at the Princeton Club in Manhattan, on Monday, June 17, 4 to 8 p.m....
‘In Favour of Form’ by M. P. Lauretta The Society April 15, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 18 Comments Today poetic form is ostracised. It’s stifled and suppressed, deemed obsolete; classed as archaic, stuffy and effete, a vestige of the...
‘A Deer Encounter’ by Connie Phillips The Society April 14, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 8 Comments ’Twas just a fleeting moment when our journeys crossed, When you were walking roadside, munching on the moss, On Christmas, we were driving,...
‘Where the Heart Goes’ and Other Poetry by Roy E. Peterson The Society April 13, 2019 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry 13 Comments Where the Heart Goes Where the heart decides to go, The feet must go along. The heart is first to know A thing is right or wrong. The heart...
An Immigration Poem: ‘Of Geese and Migration’ by James A. Tweedie The Society April 12, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 7 Comments The Canada Geese used to migrate each year. They’d summer up there and spend winter down here. Their nests were in Canada, home of...
A Poem for Former Greenpeace Activist Patrick Moore, by Bruce Dale Wise The Society April 11, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, The Environment 5 Comments District E for former Greenpeace Activist Patrick Moore by Eric Awesud Ble It always was at night when people simply disappeared. Names were...
‘Wings’ and Other Poetry by C. David Hay The Society April 10, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 10 Comments Wings Oh, to catch the winds of flight And soar where eagles go, To leave the woes of troubled souls Behind me far below. I'd listen to the song...
‘Domitian’s Dark Dinners’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society April 9, 2019 Blank Verse, Culture, Poetry 3 Comments The Graeco-Roman historian Lucius Dio Cassius, in his Roman History, describes “dark dinners” that were given by the emperor Domitian to...
‘Pachelbel’s Love Song’ by Michael Maibach The Society April 7, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Love Poems, Poetry 3 Comments When we listen To his sweet song, Did he then know It'd live this long? A song that gives To every age, A timeless sense Of history's...
‘The Melancholy Snowman’ and Other Poetry by Theresa Zappe The Society April 6, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Rondeau 23 Comments The Melancholy Snowman Though stony-eyed, I watched the finches glide. The chimney smoke, the builder slide, At night, I gave the constellations...
‘The Water of Life’ and Other Poetry by C.B. Anderson The Society April 5, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments The Water of Life To die Of thirst Is nigh The worst And saddest way A life may end, Since quickened clay Cannot transcend Its...
Poem in Your Pocket Day 2019 Poems (Rhyming!) The Society April 4, 2019 Culture, Education, From the Society, Poetry 25 Comments April 18, 2019 is Poem in Your Pocket Day, part of National Poetry Month. On this day, people are encouraged to carry a poem in their pockets and...
‘Saint Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio’ by Alan Sugar The Society April 3, 2019 Culture, Poetry 10 Comments It seemed a wolf had terrorized the town. Well, isn’t that what wolves are wont to do? The people said, “Say, put that wild thing...
A Translation of ‘In the Evening’ by Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827) The Society April 2, 2019 Beauty, Poetry, Translation 10 Comments translation from Italian by Luigi Pagano Maybe because you are the image of eternal peace O evening, you are welcomed by me with open arms when...
A Pro-life Poem: ‘In the Garden’ and Other Poetry by Joe Tessitore The Society April 1, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 10 Comments In the Garden In Paradise there is a place where ruby-colored roses grace the trellises of precious pearl - so splendidly their buds...
‘Curve’ and Other Poetry by T.M. Moore The Society March 31, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 6 Comments Curve It’s just a simple curve, gouged by a string to make a tidy border in between the walkway and the yard. On one side, green grass...
‘That I Might Learn to Love’ and Other Poetry by Jeffrey Essmann The Society March 30, 2019 Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry, Villanelle 18 Comments That I Might Learn to Love a villanelle That I might learn to love I sorely prayed with hopes that God might teach me by romance as yearning I...
Three Poems from Divine Comedies, by James Sale The Society March 29, 2019 Culture, Dante, Poetry 41 Comments The following are excerpted from James Sale's upcoming book Divine Comedies. Exit from Hell I did well in life. But everything is real in...
‘The Current State of Brexit’ by Damian Robin The Society March 28, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 28 Comments When May became P. M., she had a doggéd view - Her Parliament majority would fly us through: All Brexit documents on leaving the E....
‘The Pregnant Woman’ and Other Poetry by Beverly Stock The Society March 28, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry 2 Comments The Pregnant Woman The Pregnant Woman nests a baby seed Who's ever pressing on her very core While her body adapts to baby's needs She's...
‘Freakish Tattooing’ by Joseph S. Salemi The Society March 27, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 20 Comments —from A Gallery of Ethopaths The world is filled with brainless brats Who all insist on having tats. These morons with their inked-up...
‘Love of Life’ by David Paul Behrens The Society March 26, 2019 Beauty, Poetry 6 Comments How I long for the days gone by, Such memories overtake me. I look back on my life and sigh, May the future not forsake me. All the...
‘Annunciation’ by J.C. Scharl The Society March 25, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments Beyond the brimming ages Gabriel waits, his foremost message burning on his breath. Through time men slide, creeping through the...
A Poem from the Soviet Union, by Ryhor Krushyna The Society March 24, 2019 Deconstructing Communism, Poetry, Translation 2 Comments Translated by Ihar Kazak At the door it seems I hear The stomping of evil strangers. This has been my fear for many a year And my former...
‘Zaleucus the Epizephyrian to His Sword’ by Daniel Galef The Society March 23, 2019 Culture, Poetry 8 Comments (by the ancient lawgiver who threw himself on his blade to satisfy a legal technicality) 625 b.c.e. Yours is a hard but hardy justice: When __The...
A Poem for Tommy Robinson: ‘The Lad of Luton’ by Joseph Charles MacKenzie The Society March 22, 2019 Culture, Poetry 15 Comments Though all the world should grovel and bend To the minions of deepest hell, Our days of glory shall not end Where brave men fought and...
‘The Black Children’ and Other Poetry by J.D. Graham The Society March 21, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Human Rights in China, Poetry 1 Comment . The Black Children In China, until rather recently, each pair of parents was allowed one kid, according to the “one-child policy.” Some parents...
‘Blue’s Didgeridoo’ by David Watt The Society March 20, 2019 Culture, Humor, Poetry 14 Comments From the stations they sent out a call To their jillaroo friends - one and all; For an overnight camp, while the sky bore the stamp Of a...
‘Villanelle of the Wicked Queen’ by David Whippman The Society March 19, 2019 Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 9 Comments I am a captive of the wicked queen. My mind’s a blank; the temptress took my soul. I know too well what this desire must mean. And...
Poetry Lesson Plan: British Romantic Period (including Lecture Notes) The Society March 18, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Education, Poetry 6 Comments Note: Teaching classical poetry rather than other forms of poetry or modern literature makes a difference. Inherent in classical poetry is a respect...
Two Translations from German by Charles Eager The Society March 17, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Translation 3 Comments Anonymous (12th Century), 'Du bist mein' ('You are mine') I am yours and you, mine are; Of this ought you be 'ware. You are a part of, prisoner...
‘The Architect’ by Annabelle Fuller The Society March 16, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 10 Comments He thinks in lines And vexing vertices. His shining mind always inclines To maths and magnitude, minute degrees Of formulae, and the...
‘The Dragonslayer’ by Jeff Nicholson The Society March 15, 2019 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 13 Comments Ere gloaming wanes, acceding sable night, As writhen mists conceal a pallid moon, From bastion vigil, thou descry a sight; To rumours,...
Review: “Profane and Sacred Love” by William Ruleman The Society March 14, 2019 Beauty, Essays, Poetry, Reviews 2 Comments William Ruleman: Profane and Sacred Love, Feather Books, 2002 and reprint 2014 by James Sale Having read some excellent poetry by William Ruleman...
Sonnet ‘1/12/2019’ by Edward Hoke The Society March 13, 2019 Love Poems, Poetry 6 Comments O how I long to hold thee in my arms, And taste again of nature’s sweet reprieve, To cast off masks, false affectations, charms; To savor all I...
A Poem on New York’s Abortion Law, by Amy Foreman The Society March 12, 2019 Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Poetry 46 Comments Room 402: Gehenna Comes to New York (On Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Jan. 22,2019 repeal of New York’s Public Health Law §...
