To some the world revolves around them, And nothing else can matter. They’ll do anything to reach that end, Including...

Go Forth, Graduates! To all you graduates, fare well! This world is yours today. Don’t follow the masses who sell...

What if the tall tales we’re told as children, are in fact true?Lost stories about elves, hobbits, and knights of...

By Douglas Thornton "And lo I lie between the sun and thee" (Venus and Adonis; line 194) To see the...

Original Shakespeare followed by imitation.   Sonnet 49 Against that time, if ever that time come, When I shall see...

  If anything I could choose to be, certainly the pig I would choose; with an oink and a roll...

  Zhang Dejiang's Hong Kong Visit, May 2016 By Li "Web Crease" Du "But if you go carrying pictures of...

  Grooming Kids get pressed down tight in rooms — closed rooms with bare soft furnishing — fresh flowers tunnelled,...

By James Sale In our egalitarian and democratic societies we very much hope and want all good things to be...

I thought that maybe you’re no longer free To think separately from Time’s favored paths Choosing its well-worn roads to...

Chapter I: Arrival in Beijing Inspired by real events   Sing to me, Muse, who flies through Heaven’s realms, Sing...

  The Mirror True When all at once I seem to see you there I find I never knew you...

By James Sale Poetry is a delicate balance of language that is prone to either too much yin or too...

  Spring O hallow tulip, flower of the spring, I cannot wait until the sun may bring, From out the...

By Wilbur Dee Case | Edited by Kent Van May Now I can see why T.S. Eliot disliked Edgar Allan Poe's...

  1.  The Man There’s a little village up north,     yet untouched by modern strains, Where plain folk in stilted...

In the Lotus Pose By Uwe Carl Diebes At first, he was uncomfortable in the lotus pose, but as he...

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Unripe Deceived are we by the state of the skin, when overly reliant on our eyes. Of greater concern is...

William Shakespeare is believed to have died on April 23, 1616. Post your commemorative poems in the comments section or...

A Riverside Sonnet Under a tree and upon roots I sit, Drinking a forlorn draught of love’s sweet rhyme. Leaves...

By Damian Robin Quick, pick a good book of poems and let your soul soar. Or clip in your ear...

. . Tahoe Plane On the above photo by M. Kirson Far above the lake I soared, Above the dock,...

The Society of Classical Poets is pleased to announce the release of its 2016 Journal! Click here to purchase a...

Dear George, If only you were living at this hour, Day, week, month, year. These times are newly strange— Hilarious,...

Born at Constantinople in 1762 of a French father and Greek mother, André Chénier grew up in pre-revolutionary France and studied...

A gray mid-March day: the bare branches lean across the blank sky. All colors moved indoors where my daughter and...

Storyteller We sit around the fire. The storyteller drones, until his words expire in silence like the stones. Primeval darkness...

  Winners   Conformists of a feather flock together. Michael R. Burch, Nashville, Tennessee   The u of solitude allays...

  The Clockwork Butterfly When I was a child, and my dreams were of gold I always believed everything I...

By Dusty Grein and Evan Mantyk “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe remains one of the English language’s most popular...

 After Phoebe Cary, after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.      Tell me not, in scolding shouts,     Education is an empty dream, For...

The Rock Climbers By Cal Wes Ubideer I saw them climbing up the gray-white, rocky mountain hills, like any mountain...

August 13, 2012 I dreamt last night of singing with Li Po. (Or is he now sleeping, dreaming of me?)...

Sonnet II The spark which lights my innermost desire,     whose flame burns fierce in Spirit and in vein, your blinding...

. Dunblane Cathedral On the massacre of sixteen children and their teacher at the Dunblane Primary School near Stirling, Scotland,...

Roly-Poly Talking on the telephone, a mother missed her baby Wait a sec, I’ll go and check And call you...

. . Metaphysical Mortar Between the cobalt and the blueGlean gestalt and sum of trueAll and each be more than...

Inspired by real events in China   Not that long ago in China, in a labor camp confined a Year...

By Kristina Pentchoukova Right from the first email from William Ruleman, I knew that I was interacting with a classicist...