Ode to Alexander They say he cried, the great king, when He marched upon his journey's end. To live...

"Beauty comes from life well lived." —Wilbur Dee Case They are all looking for a loveliness refined, a beautiful design...

Held on April 14, 2014, at Da Tang, in New York, participants read Tang Dynasty poetry, contemporary poetry previously written...

  This Autumn Evening These words of Bashō I cannot claim as my own, but they appear again and again...

In prison cells our aching calls go nowhere but around the walls, and bruising hands repress our cries, replacing truth...

I love to gaze into the midnight sky To search the night for planets and bright stars, Caress, with pointing...

A little hurt, a little grime, a little dirt, a little crime on Falun Gong. A little smell, a little...

O sweet be this soft morning’s song As golden mist on earth descends And skylarks trill an hour long While...

Because he gave up life in town To graze the old undulant farm They called him a provincial clown Who...

I dreamed again last night, of waters, raging, That break in waves across the Thunersee, Where mountains coldly climb, fir-clad...

A grand council of trees Stood majestic, serene Heavy laden with snow Beautiful and pristine And I felt reverence For...

If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want them to be very brilliant,...

We are proud to announce the publication of The Society of Classical Poets' 2014 Journal! The best poetry of the...

  Daybreak As day begins in honey’d light, I watch a flock of geese take flight. They fly formation heading...

Where Does the Sky Begin or End? Where does the sky begin or end? The sea above, the stars attend?...

  Waiting for Dawn atop Butterfly Mountain A dilapidated lepidopteran dying atop The Mountain of Butterflies holds out her wings...

The wisp of wind that makes the leaves go dance and play above the browning grass, cannot but stir awake...

  A Message in the Halloween Decorations (Based on a True Story) Compressed and clandestine, the Chinese script small, The...

  Unbroken If I should break myself today Unchanged from every burden bare Determined unafraid to say That I shall...

  The Philadelphia Pepper Pot Legend This day in 1777, American soldiers, at Valley Forge, camped. By hunger and winter's...

"More SpongeBob, Mimi"--this I hear a dozen times a day. How much more can I stand to see? No more...

  First Place: Bruce Dale Wise (Prize: $500) Second Place: Damian Robin Third Place: Reid McGrath Honorable Mention: Betsy M....

  Made (by Imprisoned Falun Gong) in China It's mass production everywhere I look, From toys of plastic hope to...

What’s out to kill us makes us more alive. Let’s go escape with me forget our fear, So run with...

  Instruction The tales of Ovid are a theme that suits The Prince, but will not do for your repute....

  Research Guideline Throughout investigative history, a basic principle has long held sway: When we unravel Nature’s mystery, complexity’s the...

  Metaphorical Meditation Musings My thoughts, like waves of ocean's surface swells that roll repeatedly, then crash on shore, neglect...

Imprisonment, torture, pathetic wrong - begat from  a people of age-old culture, wit, classic beauty, artistry and song: practices akin...

  Greeks, Bearing Gifts The coils of wood cascade as worn blades glide from cedar lengths, rough-hewn deformed and coarse,...

What wonder! - In the arcs described by wings Aloft and floating on the fair spring air. In graceful glides,...

  The Rainbow A wave of color binds our sentiments before it fades. For each emotion, is a subtlety in...

  Ballet Lesson The flow has ebbed and left a tidal pool. A little tern wades in with webbed feet...

  Calpurnia’s Paranoia Beware the Ides of March, she said— if you ignore the signs, you’re dead. But Caesar did...

Sparks from nearby campfires Might be stars of paradise Glimpsed through twilight’s window Too briefly for surmise Of their height...

He looked all around him and saw monuments so vast Built with good intentions to endure and hold steadfast Awesome...

  Bounty When apples hang untouched on branches’ bottom, Or beans lie grounded, neither grown nor dead, Or bulbs down-nestle...

  The Persecution of Falun Gong I. Meditating group One clear crisp day at Shanghai In earth’s sunny loop II....

  The pendulum o' th' old grandfather clock goes back and forth, and forth and back, and back and forth,...

  Ode to Matters of Fact The best advice I've ever read -- if you don't breathe you'll soon be...

It spreads like wildfire when you give a smile. At first you won’t really notice at all, But if you...