This is an interesting one, with ABABCDCCD rhyme and 868686886 meter. “Gossip:” Your poems have turned me on to irregular 8/6 forms (I’m used to regular ones from music). The repeating form of the rondeau coupled with its venerability really highlights the age-old, endlessly recurring problem. I also greatly enjoyed your rondeau which you have reinvented and weaponized for modern times. “Tales that devastate” reveals the consequence. It’s that revelation of “snide and vile ideals” that reveals the innocent subjects of the poem to be wolves in sheep’s clothing. I was particularly struck by these lines: When Susan Bryant concentrates those alliterations and assonances, watch out! But all of these tantalizing tongue-twisting turns of phrase only barely camouflage a truly serious message observing the poison that underlies the fair facade. Sans gossip, of course! Your particularly concentrated language of insipidly vacuous terms tells us your disdain for the gossips. I get the feeling that there’s a story here and would love to hear some of the background. Reading these out loud has given my tongue such a work-out I don’t have the energy to gossip!Ī poem like “Gossip” doesn’t come out of a vacuum. These are two marvelous poems, Susan, which handily demonstrate your brilliance in the use of poetic devices. Susan is the winner of the 2020 International SCP Poetry Competition, and has been nominated for the 2022 Pushcart Prize. She also has poetry published in TRINACRIA, Beth Houston’s Extreme Formal Poems anthology, and in Openings (anthologies of poems by Open University Poets in the UK). Susan Jarvis Bryant has poetry published on Lighten Up Online, Snakeskin, Light, Sparks of Calliope, and Expansive Poetry Online. Tosh sweeps the net. Trash hits the mail.

No sleuth gleans proof from just one trail. Two slants. Two chants. Two points of view. Its schmooze tempts snoopers ripe for fun Much bad in the best of us, that it hardly becomes “There is so much good in the worst of us, and so

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