. When I was eighteen years old, something happened that had a profound effect on my view of the world....

. Entering college is an easy way Of making lots of friends, a herd of mares; Just drink a toast...

. A Sonnet for My Son On Mother’s Day, I simply have to say I’m humbled by my role and...

. At Matins’ hour, the middle of the night,I woke, and soon found I was not alone;A man who seemed...

.For all my lifeI felt alone---Out on the road,As well as home. I saw couples With children near,Filled to the...

. Split a line from a nursery rhyme and use the halves to open and close a poem. Post yours...

. Part II of the Coffee Trilogy. (Part I can be found here.) In the beginning was the Word, and...

. Today I spied you, red in beak and claw.You perched atop a roadside pole to dineOn scaly prey with...

. I asked the moon, "Do you feel all alone?" She said, "I have no time. I've lots to do....

. There once was a very big lie, That our country refused to deny. While we did what they told...

.. Whoever said that change is good Is living in a purple wood Behind a tree behind a bough; A...

. Set your priorities—don't be uncouth—know the Secret to happiness lies in this truth: “Though the Sum of all things...

. Six hundred years before Old Sarum fell, the might of Rome faced down the Gallic tribes on earthen ramparts...

.   "To indulge in hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian tergiversation is not to show your erudition: rather, it is to be superficial.” ---Steven...

Compiled by Roy E. Peterson Readers are encouraged to add other great poets' and writers' epitaphs in the comments section...

. One Fate Ecclesiastes 9:1-6 Shall I portend, and shall I explicate What eyes can see themselves, ere they go...

. Prayer Of people who pray, Routinely or not, He wonders what the case is. Are they of belief Prayer...

by Michael Curtis When next you float down the Yangtze River through Jingzhou City, likely you will notice Guan Yu,...

. "I Lived and languished.” —Andrei Platonov by "Weird” Ace Blues Last year we learned th’ Empire struck back with...

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5FdfL8sVRM Like Abelard and Heloise Like Abelard and Heloise This woman has the gorgeous mind. Her touch of tenderness...

. written while walking out my front door You weren’t born with that thing on your face, So look in...

. Like a bell struck in the clear night, A voice that no one hears Tells me to leave my...

. Vaticination  Sibylla says, Fear archers of immunity! Beware the vanguard shock troops sharpening double tongues, Whetted with grave authority...

. The first soft days of Springtime greet my eyes __Like a young girl’s face smiling fresh and clean, The...

. The Tale of Governor Do-as-I-Say-Not-as-I-Do-som It’s funny how Democracy In many states now colored blue Produces rank hypocrisy, A...

. We’re poets first-and-foremost and agree that meter, rhyme and rhythm oft are spurned; the plethora of poetry we see...

.  Brush with Shame In reference to “Couple accidentally paints over $500,000 artwork,” Ben Cost, New York Post, 4/3/21 The...

. O Spring, you’re such a tease, Fickle as a good-time lover; Temptingly, you hover Warm against my cheek, Windless,...

. Themistocles Athens, Greece, 483 B.C. “Barbarians loom upon the coast—dark clouds. Athenians see them, but don’t think they’d pour...

. This poem is commemorating the peaceful appeal of 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners for freedom of belief, in Beijing, on...

. The gaffe-prone Duke of Edinburgh has died, who asked if native Aussies still chucked spears and told some Brits...

. The Seven Dwarves of Old Age The seven dwarves of old age __Have come to live with me, But...

. Martyred daughter of a libeled Czar, You for whom St. Basil’s bells have rung, Condemned to die dishonored and...

. Bardolatry He boasted an iambic ear, That playwright with insight, Shakespeare; Yes, Measure for Measure He’s given much pleasure With Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear. The...

.   __Like Don Quixote’s windmills, rhymes keep spinning in my head! My dark-passion is to write Light Verse; my...

. A Eulogy for Justice It looks like we got justice for George Floyd Because of the techniques that were...

. A Chemistry Lesson There was a time she pined to be a boy, Around the age of six or...

. Poet's Note: These poems are non-autobiographical. . When Love is Lost To see the summer sun and wish for...

Dear SCP Members and Readers, Poet Leo Zoutewelle died on March 11, 2021 in Charlotte, North Carolina under the care...

. She started her Pilates class, Upon the Internet. The city was in lockdown, So, she knew, some work she’d...