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Search Results for: "mike bryant"

‘Home Run’: A Poem by Mike Bryant

The Society
June 14, 2024
Culture, Poetry
18 Comments
. Home Run Oh my God the play we made, And, really quite efficiently. We had two billion pawns we’d played, Lost sixty million… two or...

‘The Crimson Creed’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant

The Society
March 2, 2024
Culture, Poetry
31 Comments
. The Crimson Creed We know the primal aggregate, Self-molded at the start of time, Before the Big Bang uppercut Made all the cosmic flotsam...

‘Christmas 2010’: A Poem by Mike Bryant

The Society
December 25, 2023
Love Poems, Poetry
34 Comments
. Christmas 2010 "Love isn't something you find.  Love is something that finds you." ---Loretta Young I hadn't given up on love. I simply thought it...
poem/robin/culture

‘Reckoning’: A Poem on Looming Global Conflict by Mike Bryant

The Society
February 20, 2023
Culture, Poetry
34 Comments
. Reckoning Will darkness drop again so we may know The thrill and chill of winter blowing, storming, And will we feel death's icy undertow As husks...

Science or ‘The Science’? A Poem by Mike Bryant

The Society
November 18, 2022
Culture, Poetry
26 Comments
. Science or “The Science”? “‘The Science' and science are opposites.” ---Richard Lindzen So you believe “The Science”? That is...

‘CDC: Save the Planet from Poison CO2!!’ by Mike Bryant

The Society
November 4, 2022
Culture, Poetry, Satire, Science, The Environment
113 Comments
. CDC: Save the Planet from Poison CO2!! “We used to think CO2 was a harmless trace gas… How wrong we were!” ---Dr. Dillard “Sparky”...

‘An Open Poem to Evil’ by Mike Bryant

The Society
June 20, 2022
Culture, Humor, Poetry
14 Comments
. An Open Poem to Evil “Gravity is real... it’s hard to keep a bag of shit in the air forever.” ---Alex Wilhelm You goofy spoofin’ kooks are...

‘The End Begins’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant

The Society
June 5, 2022
Culture, Poetry, Rondeau Redoublé
20 Comments
. The End Begins a rondeau redoublé Now the end begins, do not despair. It’s meant to be. What better battlecry? It’s time for positivity and...

‘May God Excuse Us’ by Mike Bryant

The Society
May 21, 2022
Beauty, Poetry
22 Comments
. May God Excuse Us If life’s a falling knife then catch the handle... Your every move makes enemies and friends. If life’s a fading flare, a...

On the Jan. 6 D.C. Protest: ‘Patriotic’ by Mike Bryant

The Society
May 11, 2022
Culture, Poetry
28 Comments
. Patriotic It’s really clever, isn’t it, The words they use to smear us with? They call the righteous hypocrite; It’s just a ruse, veneer, a...

‘I’m Here’ by Mike Bryant

The Society
February 14, 2022
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
25 Comments
. I’m Here __Your smile, it hypnotizes. It rises with the Inca doves and sun. __Sleep done, your love surprises And spices dawn with lush and...

‘So Simple’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant

The Society
December 10, 2021
Covid-19, Culture, Poetry
23 Comments
. So Simple Lies are told to Balkanize, To disenfranchise, federalize, To bloat the vote. An anecdote, A narrative, a false footnote To cast their...

‘CDC: Urgent Directive’ by Mike Bryant

The Society
November 27, 2021
Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry
32 Comments
. CDC: Urgent Directive Dillard “Sparky” Barker Is a Doc at CDC. It seems he’s done a study That is sad for you and me. “Accidental deaths...

‘Bywords’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant

The Society
November 7, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
27 Comments
. Bywords Language rang and wedged within our mind. Centuries of words were drawn like swords. A surfeit, rhymes, soliloquies entwined, As singers...

‘We’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant

The Society
October 28, 2021
Beauty, Love Poems, Poetry
24 Comments
. We Sum total of all life is death, And breath sustains us for a time. We’ll live until we’ve spent God's dime. The meter's running faster...

‘Oh No… UFOs’ by Mike Bryant

The Society
September 14, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry
21 Comments
. "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless...

‘Big Shots’ by Mike Bryant

The Society
July 28, 2021
Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry
31 Comments
. You’re glad you’ve nabbed The Covid jab That’s newly fabbed In some large lab Created by The jaundiced eye, The sneaky, sly, Big corporate...

A Poem in Memory Johnny Cash: ‘June’ by Mike Bryant

The Society
July 5, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
37 Comments
. June in memory of Johnny Cash (1932--2003) Johnny was no average guy, __The troubled man in black. His life, by evil, went awry, __And loving...

‘Back to The Beginning’ by Mike Bryant

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June 10, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
45 Comments
. “I want answers. I want all the words the poem whispers to be made flesh, to sit opposite me, and to shout out the reason for our existence…”...

‘Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliaphobia’ by Mike Bryant

The Society
May 3, 2021
Culture, Humor, Poetry, Readings
33 Comments
.   "To indulge in hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian tergiversation is not to show your erudition: rather, it is to be superficial.” ---Steven...

‘CDC: New Guidance’ by Mike Bryant

The Society
April 13, 2021
Covid-19, Culture, Humor, Poetry
37 Comments
. Dillard “Sparky” Barker Is a Doc at CDC. He’s announced a market- Driven cure for you and me. Helicaps—not beanies Are the answer to our...

‘Mastering Magic’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant

The Society
May 22, 2020
Children's, Culture, Humor, Poetry
20 Comments
  Mastering Magic Set the questing mind on fire with magic, Learn the ancient lore then follow through. Effortlessness must be...

‘Carmen Cygni, a Retourne’ by Mike Bryant

The Society
March 22, 2020
Beauty, Culture, Found Poem, Humor, Poetry
19 Comments
  Carmen Cygni, a Retourne She holds the sickle and the scythe, Dark clothed and hooded, glimpse of white. A dancer languorous but...

‘Faith’ and Other Poetry by Mike Bryant

The Society
August 11, 2019
Culture, Deconstructing Communism, Humor, Love Poems, Poetry
13 Comments
Faith I'm pond scum, someone said today. Some soup primordial, in a bay was struck by lightning. Oh, I see I'm wrought by electricity... then,...

‘Reprobate’s Prayer Sestina’ by Mike Bryant

The Society
July 6, 2019
Beauty, Culture, Humor, Poetry, Poetry Forms, Sestina
14 Comments
  I lift my eyes and pray to God above, deliver me, dear Lord, from Satan's Hell. I come to You with heart brimful of Love, content to...

‘Peaches, Plums, and the Sistine Chapel’: Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
February 21, 2024
Art, Culture, Pantoum, Poetry
43 Comments
. . Peaches, Plums, and the Sistine Chapel . . I. Pondering Prufrock   a pantoum  . The women come and then they go As foggy muzzles...

On the Recent Destruction of the Georgia Guidestones, by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
July 6, 2022
Culture, Poetry
51 Comments
. America’s Most Mysterious Monument The first of the anonymously funded Georgia Guidestone’s guidelines: “Maintain humanity under...

‘For Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2021’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant

The Society
January 18, 2021
Beauty, Culture, Poetry
30 Comments
“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” ---Martin Luther King,...

SCP Journal XIII Published

The Society
April 30, 2025
From the Society, Poetry
4 Comments
. The Society of Classical Poets Journal XIII has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the...
poem/anderson/love/valentines day

The 10 Best Love Poems of 2022

The Society
June 9, 2023
Best Poems, Love Poems, Poetry
11 Comments
. The 10 Best Love Poems of 2022 If you are more of an academic poetry lover who stills enjoy Shakespeare’s love sonnets now and again, then the...
poetry/mantyk/essay

Poems by Human Beings Versus Poems by AI Poems by ChatGPT: Take the Quiz

The Society
April 22, 2023
Essays, Haiku and Senryu, Limerick, Poetry, Villanelle
30 Comments
. Human Poetry Versus ChatGPT's AI Poetry Can you tell the difference between artificial intelligence poetry and human poetry? by Evan Mantyk and...
poetry/mantyk/from the society

The Society of Classical Poets Journal XI Published

The Society
April 16, 2023
From the Society, Poetry
10 Comments
. The Society of Classical Poets Journal XI has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the...
poetry/bryant/contest

Winners of the Whatfinger Poetry Contest Announced

The Society
April 10, 2023
Poetry, Poetry Contests
6 Comments
. Whatfinger Poetry Contest Judged by Mike Bryant . FIRST PLACE . Untitled by Damian Robin Support the online enterprisethat picks the brave from...
poetry/bryant/contest

Whatfinger Poetry Contest

The Society
February 27, 2023
Poetry, Poetry Contests
45 Comments
. ABOUT THE CONTEST Many poets who have been published by the Society of Classical Poets have had their poems linked to, and therefore promoted, by...

How to Write Haiku: What Makes a Good Haiku?

The Society
June 29, 2022
Education, Essays, Haiku and Senryu, Poetry
47 Comments
. How to Write Haiku What Makes a Good Haiku? by Margaret Coats The required 5-7-5 syllable form alone does not make a haiku. A good haiku ⦁...

Society of Classical Poets Journal X Published

The Society
May 24, 2022
From the Society, Poetry
9 Comments
. The Society of Classical Poets Journal X has been published! It features poetry, translations, and essays selected from those published on the SCP...

The 10 Best Love Poems of 2021

The Society
January 30, 2022
Beauty, Best Poems, Love Poems, Poetry
5 Comments
. The 10 Best Love Poems of 2021 What makes a great love poem? Love is such an emotionally charged topic that the answers to that question are going...

Video of the SCP Late Summer 2021 Poetry Reading

The Society
September 26, 2021
From the Society, Poetry, Readings
Held on September 19, 2021, hosted by James Sale. See full poetry details below the video: https://youtu.be/57lYz8tJtjM?t=3 Featured Poets “On...

The SCP Late Summer 2021 Poetry Reading, Online

The Society
August 19, 2021
From the Society, Poetry, Readings
8 Comments
. You are invited to a reading of exquisite poetry and conversations with the poets. This reading is part of a quarterly series of online poetry...

Turn a Famous Poem into a Limerick: Poetry Challenge

The Society
July 11, 2021
Humor, Limerick, Poetry, Poetry Challenge, Poetry Contests
153 Comments
. Choose a famous poem and write it in limerick form, putting the title of the original poem at the top. Please fit your chosen poem into one...
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  1. Gigi Ryan on Cat Poems by Gigi RyanMay 19, 2025

    It is a good point that we will pay the “price of love” many times in our lifetimes. Your Zoe…

  2. Gene Branaman on ‘Bonanza’: A Poem by Jonathan KinsmanMay 19, 2025

    Jonathan, I love the imagery you use in this piece - the colors, textures, & sounds are so effective! So…

  3. Gigi Ryan on Cat Poems by Gigi RyanMay 19, 2025

    Indeed they do, Cheryl! Gigi

  4. Adam Sedia on ‘Size Lies’ and Other Poems by Russel WinickMay 19, 2025

    You tackle a subject in “Size Lies” that has frustrated many a man who has ever bought clothes for a…

  5. Adam Sedia on ‘Today Like Yesterday’: A Poem by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Translated by Paul BurgessMay 19, 2025

    Bravo on an excellent translation! You’ve managed to remain faithful to the original in both language and form, which is…

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