‘Independence Day, 2025’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society July 4, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Independence Day, 2025 It’s so much more than red and white and blue And stars that spangle banners flying high. It’s something strong and...
‘Tilted Tales’: Three Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 19, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Triolet, Villanelle 21 Comments . Clueless ---a villanelle How can I tell what is and isn’t true In daffy days that stupefy the wise? I’m sifting through the chaos for a...
A Poem for Father’s Day: ‘The Weight of a Father’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 15, 2025 Beauty, Poetry 30 Comments . The Weight of a Father . I. The Smell of Sawdust On bawling-brother, busy-mother days, The saint who slew the dragons in her dream Whisked her...
‘Family Values’: Four Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 5, 2025 Humor, Pantoum, Poetry, Triolet 34 Comments . Auntie Barb ---a pantoum She cuts the cheats and charmers to the quick—Her tongue will skin a scoundrel in a wink.She’ll scupper every...
‘Sound and Fury’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society May 22, 2025 Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . Sound and Fury . I. Of Farcical Requital He craved the slavish praise his patter wooed. His slick, linguistic syrup charmed the ear Of she who...
A Poem on Shakespeare’s Possibly Missing Skull, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 23, 2025 Poetry, Shakespeare 20 Comments . Bardic Bones Who dug the dust? Who didn’t spare the stones? Who churned the earth that festered with a curse? Who had the gall to judder bardic...
Two Poems for Good Friday, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 18, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 25 Comments . Crucified She pondered horrors of the modern age. He thumbed through piles of dusty history tomes. She craved the timeless wisdom of a sage. He...
‘Spring Bloomers’ and Other Spring Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 10, 2025 Culture, Humor, Poetry, Triolet 28 Comments . Spring Bloomers ---a triolet A lick of spring has kissed the air Whispering of skimpy knickers--- It’s time to toss thick underwear. A lick of...
A Poem for April Fools’ Day, 2025: ‘Spot the Fool!’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society April 1, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Rondeau, Satire 25 Comments . Spot the Fool! ---for April Fools’ Day, 2025 . I. Today’s the day to fox and fool. Today’s the day to flick some fuel On laughter with a...
‘Learning Curves’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 24, 2025 Culture, Poetry, Satire, Science 70 Comments . Learning Curves In classrooms smeared with monkey poop__Where questions meet deceit,She heard she came from soupy gloop---__A slab of soulless...
‘St. Patrick’s Day, 2025’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 17, 2025 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 9 Comments . St. Patrick’s Day, 2025 While swathed in swirls of green, some raise a glass Of dark elixir topped with sheeny cream. Some twirl through Derry...
Three Poems on War, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 10, 2025 Culture, Pantoum, Poetry 14 Comments . The Core of War a pantoum The trickster charms and arms both sides--- He funds the ally and the foe. His hype unites and it divides. He’s oh so...
A Poem for International Women’s Day: ‘Kitchen-Sink Musings’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society March 8, 2025 Poetry, Satire 26 Comments . Kitchen-Sink Musings It’s International Women’s Day today But as a flunkee in biology I’m told I’m far from qualified to pay Fair tribute...
Poems Inspired by DOGE Cuts, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 28, 2025 Poetry, Satire 16 Comments . Bloat A warrior is battling the bloat Of bulging skivers bleeding strivers dry--- The gloating glut of grubbers kept afloat By worn out workers as...
‘Mr. Bluebird’ and Other Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 24, 2025 Beauty, Poetry, Satire, Triolet, Villanelle 28 Comments . Mr. Bluebird Your spirit rose before I spied your form. It dulled the winter sting and stilled the storm. Your warming warble quelled the bitter...
‘How Did You Woo Me? ’ and Other Valentine’s Day Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 14, 2025 Humor, Love Poems, Poetry 23 Comments . How Did You Woo Me? Let Me Count the Way You didn’t sweep in on a snowy steedClad in armor buffed until it glittered---A shining knight of bright...
‘A Bogus Bishop’s Prayer’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society February 10, 2025 Beauty, Poetry, Satire 39 Comments . A Bogus Bishop’s Prayer My prayer is not pitched heavenward _To fall upon deaf ears. It’s lashed to Earth for greater good. _It cashes in on...
‘Pearls or Swine?’: A Rondeau Redoublé and a Villanelle by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 17, 2025 Beauty, Poetry, Rondeau Redoublé, Satire, Villanelle 22 Comments . Pearls or Swine? Pray show me how to tell a pearl from swine. I have a thirst for sanity to slake. I seek a clue---a firm not fluid sign To steer...
A Rondeau on the Fish Behind the California Water Shortage, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 14, 2025 Poetry, Rondeau, Satire 28 Comments . O Delta Smelt O Delta Smelt of silver scale, O threatened gem of fin and tail, In brackish waters made just so By crimson hands as ill winds...
‘Kill or Cure?’ and Other Healthcare Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society January 3, 2025 Poetry, Satire 31 Comments . Kill or Cure? “The art of medicine consists of amusing the patientwhile nature cures the disease.” ---Voltaire . Possible Side Effects: May...
‘My New New Year’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 31, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 44 Comments . My New New Year I’m shunning bards of lilt and kilt tonight. My cup o’ kindness guzzled dry by kin Has urged the spurning of that worn-out...
‘Ode to a Christmas Pudding’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 25, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 32 Comments . Ode to a Christmas Pudding O fragrant orb of dark and luscious depths Made with magic conjured every year By souls who know the spell---those...
‘Song of the Sophist’ and Other Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society December 20, 2024 Pantoum, Poetry, Rondeau, Satire 37 Comments . Song of the Sophist a pantoum I tiptoe past all that is true--- The facts never matter to me. My aim is to wheedle and woo. I peddle malarkey with...
‘Smile’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 21, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 15 Comments . Smile “Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.” ---Connie Stevens I didn’t weigh your sway and worth__Until you left my...
A Poem on Trump Making Susan Wiles Chief of Staff, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 10, 2024 Poetry, Satire 26 Comments . Feeding the Alligators The orange king of lava tongue has won. He sings a spangled song that rings throughout A plundered land where dreams and...
‘Simplicity’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society November 7, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 34 Comments . Simplicity “Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” ---Sir Isaac Newton I smell you in...
‘Lady Gwyn’: A Halloween Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 31, 2024 Culture, Poetry 11 Comments . Lady Gwyn I hear the scratching of a claw--- A disembodied monkey’s paw Scraping at decaying bones. I feel a gust of ghostly moans Wuther...
‘Lucifer’s Lament’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant: Reading and Video by Andrew Benson Brown The Society October 29, 2024 Classical Poets Live, Culture, Poetry, Readings 14 Comments . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5zId3BCl6M . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His...
‘S O S’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society October 21, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry 49 Comments . S O S Keep the fleecy wolves from bleating. Hold the pack of jackals back. Seize the greedy grubbers eating Scraps from bowls of those who...
‘California Meme-ing’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society September 19, 2024 Poetry, Satire 28 Comments . California Meme-ing ---on Gov. Newsom's recent ban of AI deepfake memes The perilous and puckish AI fairy Has magicked mocking memes so sharp...
‘An Awkward Endorsement’: A Poem by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society September 8, 2024 Poetry, Satire 32 Comments . An Awkward Endorsement on Putin's recent endorsement of Kamala Harris for president There's no disputing, Putin's put the boot in. In rooting for...
‘Cicada Serenade’ and Other Summer Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society September 6, 2024 Beauty, Culture, Poetry, Villanelle 27 Comments . Cicada Serenade Boys hang their beat on the heat of the summer. Sticky days twang with their thick, tinny ring. Banshee crescendos and thrums from...
‘Lucifer’s Lament’ and Other Poetry by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society August 17, 2024 Beauty, Poetry, Satire 25 Comments . Lucifer’s Lament They’ve gone too far. They’ve set the bar So high that I’m no longer star Of My own show. Their hellish plot Has hurled Me...
A Poem on Children Stabbings and Free Speech in the UK, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society August 11, 2024 Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . Knock, Knock! ---free speech in the UK is dead Three more children stabbed---a country mourning The murdering of minors by the score. Opine...
‘Boycott the Bullies’: A Poem for the Real Women Boxers, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society August 4, 2024 Culture, Pantoum, Poetry 37 Comments . Boycott the Bullies ---a pantoum for the real women boxers at the Paris Olympics Don’t let a slappy chap punch out your lights. Refuse the...
‘It’s All Her Fault’ and Other Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society July 24, 2024 Beauty, Humor, Poetry 31 Comments . It’s All Her Fault ---with a nod to Eleanor Brown's "Bitcherel" Why write in meter when penning a poem, __You ask me, so here’s my reply: When...
On the Attempted Assassination of Trump: ‘Trail of Hate’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society July 14, 2024 Culture, Poetry 54 Comments . The Trail of Hate Amid the upbeat crowd a sudden blast Of noise arose like fireworks kissing skies. Fallacious musings struck then swiftly...
‘A Hurricane by Any Other Name…’: A Poem on Hurricane Beryl, by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society July 5, 2024 Culture, Poetry 34 Comments . A Hurricane by Any Other Name... The lights went out in Mexico today. A fury hit Cancun with no remorse. With death upon her breath, she makes her...
‘The Day the Roofers Came’ and Other Poems by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 19, 2024 Humor, Poetry 26 Comments . The Day the Roofers Came He fled the day the roofers came. His fur was fluffed and frizzy. He whizzed across the busy lawn so quick it made me...
‘A Sonnet for My Son on Father’s Day’ by Susan Jarvis Bryant The Society June 16, 2024 Beauty, Poetry 25 Comments . A Sonnet for My Son on Father’s Day You coo her name in buoyant notes of joy Then watch her toddle, tickled by her grin. She spies the bug-eyed...
