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. Rusty Nail – whisky and Drambuie cocktail (2:1) To all who have a heart and gut to nourish,Ĭome revel in some luscious Gaelic flourish! To steer some saucy stanzas through the dark. Of Auld Lang Syne as kilted kin link arms.Įat haggis, snaking steam, piped in with glee.Ī tim’rous beastie blest, compar’d wi’ me!įrom wanton witches. Of Nessie, lochs, and bagpipes in the throes Its likely owing to this poem by Burns that. His crowlin ferlie calls me to the charms The haggis needs to be addressed first with Burns Address to a Haggis before it can be served with whisky. Tonight, I’m lured by Rabbie’s red, red rose. It occurs on January 25, Burns’ birthday. Note: Burns Night is when Scotland’s most important bard, Robert Burns (1759-1796), is celebrated, usually with the recitation of Burns’ poems, the eating of haggis, and the drinking of whisky.
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