keta: From My Fishing Days

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:50:45 EST

There is a young lady from Tahsis,
With one of those picture book asses.
Though good for a ream,
It just doesn't seem,
She's as good as those Prince Rupert gashes.

thefadd: Mmmmm, zen

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:10:18 EST

The thing about that haiki is...it makes sense.

permazorch: Re: Sweet, sweet Charles Bukowski

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:58:36 EST

Uhmmm... No. I really like Charles Bukowski, and I like this poem. I do think hardcore Charles Bukowski fans overrate him, but...

I'm an IDIOT!

thefadd: Re: This is just to say

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 13:12:27 EST

I like the scene when he tells the economics teacher he's going about the outline for starting a business all wrong and needs to be considering all the under the table payoffs he'll need to make.

nmiguy: Re: This is just to say

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:36:03 EST

Obsessing on the holocaust is so depressing.

Plath, as talented as she was, was consumed by guilt of some kind. Almost a one trick pony. I find it so difficult to "enjoy" her poems.

T.S Eliot is my favorite poet. That

nmiguy: Re: Sweet, sweet Charles Bukowski

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:29:55 EST

This is kinda good, you really think this is bad poetry?

dzetetes: Seen as a sig on another forum

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:42:31 EST

Haikus are easy
But sometimes they don't make sense.
Refrigerator.

permazorch: A Shameful Plug

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:25:39 EST

Here's some found Poetry, entitled:

Coming Soon/New Releases

take seriously the promise that love is an ambiguous force
something not unlike a snuff film starring yourself
it never evaporates

Azathoth: Shameless plug

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:12:29 EST

There was a Mad Arab who said
That Cthulhu, though dreaming, is dead,
But some future night
When the stars become right,
He'll abandon his watery bed.

--Azathoth & Ve

dzetetes: Re: This is just to say

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:23:26 EST

Pound.

LOQUITUR: En Bertrans de Born.
Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer up of strife.
Eccovi!
Judge ye!
Have I dug him up again?
Th

Admit The Woods: Re: This is just to say

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:58:33 EST

Isn't it?

uncarved block: Generally

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:58:48 EST

poets, along with other writers, are given a pass on their first book: if they do better later, it's "growing pains", and if nothing else happens . . well, what's the point of picking on a nobody? Indeed, a couple writers I had as teachers viewed the first

thefadd: Re: This is just to say

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:53:14 EST

Now that's some fucked up shit.

thefadd: Re: Rain, Rain Go Away

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:53:03 EST

It worked! The sun came out in time for the season's final Saturday of racing at Santa Anita!

keta: A Nice Pair

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:15:00 EST

Two of G.K. Chesterton's triolets:

I wish I were a jelly fish
That cannot fall downstairs:
Of all the things I wish to wish
I wish I were a jelly fish
That hasn't any cares,
And doesn't even have to wish
I wish I were a jelly fis

permazorch: Sweet, sweet Charles Bukowski

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:23:57 EST

what can we do?

at their best, there is gentleness in Humanity.
some understanding and, at times, acts of
courage
but all in all it is a mass, a glob that doesn't
have too much.
it is like a large animal deep in sleep an

Admit The Woods: Re: This is just to say

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:12:38 EST

After that Hughes poem, I should probably temper it with something more traditionally beautiful:

The Ships Are Made Ready In Silence

Moored to the same ring:
The hour, the darkness and I,
Our compasses hooded like falcons.

Now t

Admit The Woods: Re: This is just to say

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:09:35 EST

And since I quoted Plath, here's her former hubby (taken from the book Crow) with part of his bleak creation story:

A Childish Prank

Man's and woman's bodies lay without souls,
Dully gaping, foolishly staring, inert
On the flowe

Admit The Woods: Re: This is just to say

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:01:10 EST

Here's a good one for our times (for all times):

Sadiq

It is a condition of wisdom in the archer to be patient because when the arrow leaves the bow, it returns no more. (Sa'di - 13th Century)

It should make you shake and sweat,

Admit The Woods: Re: This is just to say

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:55:50 EST

I have to take issue with nmiguy's depiction of Sylvia Plath's poetry as "whining". You could call, for example "Lady Lazarus" a lot of things (including chilling, flippant, raging, etc), but "whining" would be a difficult interpretation to justify. Here:<

3fingerspointback: Oh Bill...

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:16:09 EST

We have a new type of rule now.
Not one man rule or rule of aristocracy or plutocracy,
But of small groups elevated to positions of absolute power
By random pressures and subject to political and economic factors
That le

nmiguy: Re: Epithalamion

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:32:55 EST
Wow, and Cummings got published again after that clunker?

thefadd: Re: This is just to say

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:07:43 EST
we really need auto carriages or a reminder that we don't have them:(

thefadd: Rain, Rain Go Away

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:06:57 EST
cribbed from wikipedia because it is raining not just outside where LA drivers cannot function when wet but also inside my office: Rain, rain, go away. Come again some other day. Rain, rain, go away, Come again another day. Rain, rain, go away. C

gerrymander: Epithalamion

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:35:18 EST
A selection from e.e. cummings' first published work:
In heaven's intolerable athanor
inimitably tortured the base day
utters at length her soft intrinsic hour,
and from those tenuou

nmiguy: Dairy Torture by Nmiguy

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:59:44 EST
She forced us to eat cheese
To make us constipated
We begged her please
Because we were nauseated
She made us wash it down
With milk in a tall glass
And like a log jam
It blocked up my ass
Groan and moan
Can't pass a ston

tomc: Re: This is just to say

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:29:13 EST
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
I WANDERED lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all

rombuu: I'm always a big fan...

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:24:36 EST
..of Dulce Et Decorum Est.. because you know, quoting poetry makes you a prick, but quoting poetry with Latin passages makes you a pretentious prick.

tomc: Re: This is just to say

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:24:14 EST
Spring has sprung
The grass has riz
I wonders where
Da boidies is?

rEvolution inAction: Re: This is just to say

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:30:47 EST
tweet chirps the little bird
meow says the cat, toungue licking lips
each has things to say

This is just to say (Trees And Things)

keta: From My Fishing Days

thefadd: Mmmmm, zen

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keta: A Nice Pair

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3fingerspointback: Oh Bill...

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gerrymander: Epithalamion

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