The Bridge by Victor Hugo (1802-1885) translated from French by Joy Nevin Axelson Shadows before me. An abyss...

    A Wedding Song (Away the Winter) In May shall be her wedding day, When hawthorn blooms do scent...

  The Sun The sun’s so conscientious She gives us every dawn--- Her rays across the treetops And then across...

  The Room Exhaled Before I Did The patient sat before me on the table Clearly hoping that I would...

  My California A tangled maze of gushing streams My sunny California cries. Her sky is veiled in morbid memes...

  In the Vault of Default I store my memories in empty bottles, Which rest on horizontal 2x4s That gird...

  Mother’s Loom ---after Li Bai's poem "Midnight Song of Wu" The moon above the palace, Reigns bright within the...

Beneath an Iron Hand Though they spent years beneath an iron hand, the quiet people still knew how to sing...

  The Ladies on the Floor Above ---for the pianist NW and her daughters, and AGM, aged just one "And...

  The Sons of Issachar “The Sons of Issachar understood the times in which they lived, and knew which way...

  Will the Sentence Get the Death Sentence? ---a triolet I write a line, then I decide: will it survive,...

  Mass Destruction Give me a reason to trust in words spoken--- Tricksters have twisted the truth till it’s dead....

  Cycle of Song O Schubert! Praise with Song your blessed Birth; With youthful Skill, no mortal Feats surpass, You...

. The Contest Today in China peaceful Falun Gong practitioners are imprisoned, tortured, and killed by the communist regime simply...

  It Must Be Spring Again The air is clear and crisp today _While walking through my garden. A morning...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6Cg5bC-KwM   The Society of Classical Poets is proud to announce a new partnership with Freedom 250, a nationwide initiative...

  At the Wine Bar Embrace the riverlike and endless flow, the rush of energy, the burgundy of Cabernet, Petite...

  Limerick Poetry Challenge Write a limerick (learn how to write one here) about a famous poet or about writing...

  Sough I learned a new word, “sough,” today. _I think it’s quite poetic. Although it’s quirky in a way...

  Blood Miracle Red marrow makes most of the cells of our blood, _A half-trillion plus every day. Though we're...

  Extracted from a recent article in Intellectual Takeout by Jeff Minick: Every day a new poem from the Society...

  The Last of Winter I stand here at the window glass, The scene before me clear and wide, To...

  Mixed Blessing Our image of ourselves helps keep us grounded, As thoughts and deeds conform to feel well-founded. It...

  The Otherhood of Man “He who is compassionate to the cruel will ultimately become cruel to the compassionate.“ ---Jewish...

  Reverie I genuflected, claimed a pew. _The nave was silent-dim. Polychrome glimmers, stained glass threw: _a stagy shark’s-tooth scrim....

  Directions to a Cup-Maker by Anacreon (573-495 B.C.) translated from the Greek by Joseph S. Salemi Skillful craftsman, make...

On the Ruins of the Ancient City Cumae by Jacopo Sannazaro (1458–1530), translated from Latin by Margaret Coats Here the...

  Extracted from a recent article in American Essence by Marlena Figge:   Among the many interesting facts about Abraham...

    The Villa in Durrës The villa lies in shambles, a woman ravaged, spent, stripped of beauty, usefulness, abandoned...

  250 Years of the "Invisible Hand" We should all want to shake the invisible hand, since it knows how...

  Bombing Iran How sad that war provokes such controversy. Why can’t we just get on with it without A...

  Nature's Release Her mind would not surrender; The night kept dragging on. Concerns and obligations--- She struggled towards the...

  The Willow Guard Beneath a willow weeps a girl, All hidden by green fronds that furl And stretch and...

  The Number 86: A Humean Tragedy "For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself,...

  Who Wrote Shakespeare?   It could not be the glover’s son; _it had to be the Earl. To know...

  Leave your endless odes at the door please! Sometimes all it takes is a couplet to hit the spot....

  Hidden Harmonies “In all chaos there is cosmos. In all disorder a secret order.” ---Carl Jung   I. Slaying...

Extracted from a recent Epoch Times article by Tiffany Brannan:   In 1620, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. In...

  How Fast __How fast can AI do Theology? How quick can it descry _The infinite, sort somehow through _The...

Last September, when the Society of Classical Poets, a non-profit organization, held a Poetry Symposium in the Chicago area, it...