Held on May 26, 2014, at Da Tang, in New York, participants read Tang Dynasty poetry, translated poetry previously...

Blue and Yellow Barn-Swallows She made a note to note when they arrived. It’s obvious whenev’r they fin’lly do. Over...

  Our ends and deaths sit with us all the time defining executioners and crime; and though we try to...

Coastal Shingle There, totem-stacked in paratactic charm, The words cascade: Hay.Shavings.Piglets.Straw. I had not sought a sign from Salt Marsh...

Zhen-Shan-Ren: “Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance,” the three main principles of Falun Dafa Zhen-Shan-Ren, Zhen-Shan-Ren… Hear the Truth that sounds like “Zhen,” Rhythm that...

Ashamed I will no longer be... Ashamed I will no longer be To write an older poetry -- I have...

The cost of insurance was such Its price I could sadly not touch -- So I gave all of that...

Updated January 10, 2020 Ascending the Phoenix Terrace in Jinling by Li Bai (701-762) Here phoenix roamed four hundred years...

The Battleground The slashing blades strike fierce and deep The newly stricken fall down in heaps. In vain: the foe...

  Cynthia Moon Go drag your white skull before blind seas That tumble dazed to your mono-eyed magic Go string...

Waiting, Sadly For Keats I'm waiting, sadly, for a guest to come: What hour defeats me and how I don't...

The two were different as could be as anyone could surely see One was tall and thick and white, the...

The Fallen Vestige The fallen vestige of her foliate time: Browned leaves beneath; coarse needles of old pine Once green...

Vespers Lonely broods the moonlit gloom High above the river's flume, Hiding in its dark vault Stars nebulous clouds exalt....

Click: a Pic of Xi Jinping By Lu "Reed Cabs" Wei He rolls along, like as a giant panda bear,...

Oh what is the hue? The right shade of blue To color the new morning sky And the green for...

Tell me why the patient is still crying. What pharmaceuticals? pain pills? barbiturates? What pretties has the doctor been supplying?...

Retreating Snow Like an old man dragging his long white hair out of the lawn, back toward the forest’s shade,...

  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....