Half man, half monster—I am in a maze. They banished me because of others’ sins. Among these walls, I’m...

a satirical piece in Sapphic stanzas   Every day they come in a flood: unwanted Big manila envelopes stuffed with...

The clerihew is a kind of epigrammatic verse (normally) consisting of a pair of rhyming couplets. The first line will...

. . Song of the Yew, at the University of Georgia, Athens a sprig of General Oglethorpe's ancestral yew was...

  A New Life an English ode With the blending of two souls, in a dance as old as time...

A truncated quatrain is a form I have invented in an attempt to find some appropriate English form similar—for its...

  John Company was the familiar name of the Honourable East India Company which administered India until the Indian Mutiny...

  Solemn Legion of the brave Marching by there grave to grave, Defending faith and family, Fighting wars for our...

The Forlorn Hope—Vicksburg 1863 Back in Vicksburg, the town was surrounded With a battle line twelve miles long. U.S. Grant...

Delimitation To rhyme with proper meter in the cause Of classic forms is nothing anyone Should derogate, but old poetic...

We are pleased to announce the publication of The Society of Classical Poets’ Journal VII. The new journal is larger...

  Skin hard as jade, Mouth like a blade, I’m seldom dry, A dross lookst I, And hard to find,...

Fifty years ago . . . (it seems Like only yesterday) . . . the dreams, The hopes, and the...

lyrics inspired by the movie Unplanned Ms. Sally loved the parties, spent her nights out "on the town." Her door...

  While driving on an April day along a winding road Through rolling hills, beside the way, I spied a...

  I Want To Believe I want to believe a scarlet sky Promises sunshine. Don’t know why They say red...

New Day Welcome to a new day. I must go Ahead with life as it presents to me I have...

  We shake our heads, and wonder, “Why?” aloud each time some speeding truck plows through a crowd, or grinning...

A Poet’s Lament - for Charles Southerland, whose brilliant prose style I so painfully tried to imitate and incorporate Nobody...

White Is A Color, Too It seems strange to have to say this After what that great man taught, Yet...

by Lew Icarus Bede The way I dealt with T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland was to write a poem, equally...

by David Watt I recently came across the following “square poem” attributed to Charles Dodgson (better known as Lewis Carrol)....

Congratulations to contest winners David Whippman (First Place), Randal Burd (Second Place), Theresa Rodriguez (Third Place), and Dusty Thorne (Fourth...

A Journey to the East by Evan Mantyk is a historical and poetical fairytale adventure styled after Journey to the...

Bunny by Sally Cook Indebted to a simple spark of life, You missed your chance at Europe’s wondrous door. A...

  I woke this day from napping, and I saw you lying there, Across the room, upon a couch, asleep...

  With lifeless smiles she's sitting tight in the vase. With painted flowers, leaves and twigs she's like a dressed...

Winners announced here! Write a short poem that begins with one line from any Shakespeare play or poem. The poem...

Riddle No. 1 So astounding is this part— A major muscle, like your heart. And so astonishing its job, Without...

Irrelephant Within the room there’s something big, But management ignores it. A redwood tree, not tiny twig? Concern they haven’t...

  Dust to lust to disgust to trust to must to just to dust.     Wm. Walters is a...

Some People Did Something On Rep. Omar's reducing the 9/11 terrorist attacks to "Some people did something" Some people swallowed...

Streamlined In some alternative reality I have remained unmarried, all alone. Would that have been a better way for me...

  This poem recounts the famous mythical battle, “Centauromachy.” It unfolds in the ancient home of the Lapiths in the...

  —from A Gallery of Ethopaths What generates the half-assed views That this dimwit nation spews? Why are persons mindless...

  For Lori Kaye and Riley Howell I sing in praise of Lori Gilbert Kaye. When racist hatred paid a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9LEnZ9T4F0&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be  by John Keats When I have fears that I...

Epigrams on the Decay within Academia   Liberal Artifice "Progressives," through advanced miseducation, Have shaken our fair land to its...

Read the poetry of the recently departed John Whitworth at Trinacria or The Poetry Archive. by Sally Cook Any ordinary...

An Ode to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern 50 Years Later A Poetic Summary of Tom Stoppard’s Award-Winning Play As Seen Through...