Poetry

  Message in a Bottle A ballad written on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019 While birds above the beachhead soared __and...

  I Spent My Youth with Byron and the Bard I spent my youth with Byron and the Bard, With...

Note: Formal Ballroom Dance competition involves five specific dance forms. This sonnet cycle attempts to introduce and describe them. I...

Cicadas There is, I know, some benefit in this, this cycle of emerging, breeding, dying- so brief a time for...

The Limerick I’d Love to Write by Joe Tessitore There once was a President Trump And many thought he was...

  A song’s composer’s music might reveal A question or idea in such a way That black notes penned on...

  Birthday Greeting to a Doomed Child a song of lament decrying New York´s “birthday abortion” law, approved January 22,...

  To fight a fight on ground of your own choosing, To force the foe to battle at your pleasure...

  Its coarse name belies this silken treasure, with iridescent dome and spiral apse. Imagination slips in with pleasure, to...

These poems are part of Daniel Galef’s series Imaginary Sonnets. Each sonnet is a verse soliloquy from the perspective of...

  May 2018 How pleasant to recall the light of spring, Which with effulgence breaks the woodland morn, As we...

I Am One, Then "In the midst of my days I shall go to the gates of Hell" - Isaiah...

Icarus’ Fall at College   Prologue Dear reader, surely, you must think, __“What could be taught to us That we...

  We are a young ocean. We, __with merry veins once meek and coy, shall fill the belly of this...

  Forgetting the Tiananmen Square Massacre for 30 Years Robbed of life and liberty in open air, Young citizens ran...

  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...