Archive for February, 2009
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zipped back and forth
as if the air were ripped and they were stitches
between the stippled cattail-tips. Spangles
of sunlight caught on angles
in the tangled cobwebs dangling
from the shingles on the shed-roof,
gemmed the hemlocks and the cattail stems
like flipping coins, or silver bangles
or dipping dragonflies.
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Vinegar Sunshine
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Vinegar sunshine catches on thorns
of light that prickle off the river
brilliant fever in a flash of silver
caught between passing storms.
Vinegar sunshine and acid rain
spill from a sky-framed mansion
whose cloud-walls shiver with tension
releasing thunder and a sudden flame.
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Falling Free, Flying Free
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Sky pales
on time-lapse.
Sun leaps,
morning bell peals,
dew on sepals
utters silent pleas.
Unheard pleas
as a face pales,
crumpled like sepals.
Another “lapse”
evokes peals
of pain. Leaps
of faith, leaps
strung with wasted pleas
like beads, silent peals.
But faith pales
as every lapse
unfolds poison sepals.
Shedding sepals,
a flower leaps.
The stem begins to lapse
into decay. Its pleas
are trapped behind [...]
Savanna Dust
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Of all the things I’ve lost, I think I miss
the smell of rain on hot savanna dust
more than the rest. Imaginary kiss
of all the things I’ve lost.
I think I miss
the silent scorpion, the adder’s hiss—
these loves I knew too well to ever trust—
of all the things!
I’ve [...]
Sixth Jigsaw Poem
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Tired All by Samuel Tan
Nine boys, tired all, run
Boots crunching as they fly
Toasted, one said, for he saw
Monstrous, gleaming eyes
Seven girls, sages all, walk
In the gleam of snow-fall land
Happy all, run, fantastic
Smiling, this day will end
Five men, dying all, lie
In the pool of frost-cold blood
Belated long, their [...]
a gratuitous swipe at MFA programs in poetry
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I would generally support graduate programs in writing prose,since this is the thing that all of us live by and it is the language form that is most useful in enabling us to construct something resembling a coherent approach to a world that cares not at all [...]
Guest Blogger: The Simulacra, Context, and Poetry
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Jean Baudrillard, a French philosopher, wrote Simulations and Simulacra in the early 1980s. In this book, Baudrillard takes on two major themes of a postmodern society that lead to an interesting problem: the loss of the Real.
For this entry, I will focus just on the simulacra [...]
Absolution through poetry.
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
The small yet dread thought most of must struggle
not to give an ear to as we pass the supermarket meat section is exactly how did all those fine sides of beef, ham, chicken, turkey, lamb get to where they are, from animal to shrink wrapped packages kept [...]
World Class Poetry’s First Guest Blogger
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A few days ago I put out an invitation for guest bloggers. I immediately had a few nibbles on the hook of my line and it wasn’t long before one of the mud cats snagged it good. Yes, I have my first guest blogger.
His name is [...]
Addicted To Poetry
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Here’s a quickie: I found a cool website where you can search for a topic and create an instant page with multiple resources. I typed in “poetry” and got this.
New Poet?
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Are you an inspiring poet looking for direction to take your ideas from your head to the page? Then click here to visit the Literary Mamm Blog: Poetry for the People to read details about award-winning poet Sage Cohen’s class.
There is a nearly two hundred dollar fee.
Disclaimer: [...]
Invisible Ink
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And my hands rest quiet on the keys
summoning no numbers to dance, no words to sing
building no report on the state of the world
from raw data or realized metaphor.
If I ever captured truth, it wasn’t in the words
but in the space between them. It follows that
a [...]
Hooked on Petrarch
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A “true” Petrarchan octave (abbaabba) is difficult to pull off in English. (Alert readers will observe that I only managed it in “Watercolors” with the aid of a slightly slant rhyme– “should” shouldn’t really rhyme with “blood/flood/mud”.)
But the modified Petrarchan octave, abbacddc, isn’t any more difficult [...]
Watercolors
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The Colorado runs as red as blood
with silts eroded from the sandstone heights
and colored clays, the beds of ammonites
that swim bewildered in this saltless flood.
And Mississippi, synonym for “mud”,
renowned for earth-consuming appetites,
is thick with loess and powdered dolomites
and prairie soils run where water should.
Columbia is fed [...]
Another Jigsaw Poem for Your Enjoyment
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19.february 09
by the lakeside of a fantastic voyage
through syringes belated by withdrawal
lie seven gleaming onyx stones
broken from the same snow-covered hopes
that parade in a lone requiem
to the melodic submission
of the ground beneath weary steps
like morning toast dying bite by bite
in the greedy mouths of adolescence
By Jared Hasbrouck
Ahem
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[?]Submitted by Average Poet Blog
Some blabbers have convinced themselves there’s so much that they do
they can’t remember half of what they planned,
but talking isn’t quite the same as striving to pull through
a concept those of action understand.
Handwork
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3 Word Wednesday: Callous. Interfere. Persist.
lotions interfere
but can’t prevent forming of
persistent callous
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Abnegation
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Abnegation is the back of a mirror
held before the face
Abnegation is black gloves and a coat
is a hole in a winter landscape
with snow and bare trees
Abnegation is a window or a door
instead of a wall
is opening
is absence
and if you see your reflection
you’ve missed the point
image by [...]
Cropped
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The disillusioned sheep
have woken from their sleep
their pastures aren’t as green
their wells don’t run as deep
deprived of those obscene
assaults on the machine
how rapidly their haughty airs
move closer to the mean
for nothing truly scares
contributors of tares
than finding they won’t get to keep
their undeserved shares.
The Naisaiku Challenge
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There’s an exciting new poetry prompt site that debuted last week. Its focused on creating Naisaiku poems. For instructions on how to write one of these poems click here.
To find links to many Naisaiku poems written last week for the first prompt, to read the prompt details, [...]
The Crisis in American Poetry: NO MORE GREAT POETS??
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New York Times writer David Orr begins a recent article with a great hook for poetry readers, that Library of America has issued a volume of poems by John Ashbery. Terrific enough, we think, but this a segue for what he really wishes to talk about, that [...]
37 Ways To Make An Artsy Living
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If you’re anything like me, you pine for ways to make money doing the one thing you love most - creating. If I could follow in the footsteps of Robert Service and make a million by writing and publishing poetry then I would. Heck, I’d settle [...]
John H. Reid Poetry Contest
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Press release:
Dawn Raymond of Epping, NH Wins Sixth Annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest
Dawn Raymond is the winner of the sixth annual Tom Howard/John H. Reid Poetry Contest sponsored by Tom Howard Books. This contest awarded $5,350 in cash prizes, including a top prize of $2,000, [...]
Jigsaw Poem Four, Feb. 2009
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RAINBOW
(for Layne Staley)
we toast your life
ended with a broken syringe
yet giving us unbroken words
spinning
spiraling around like
your kaleidoscope eyes
looking for your dad
spinning
swirling around like
fragmented, lost colors
in shadow
spinning
like those lost colors, these
shattered prismatic lights
living in the abyss
inside your seven-year old mind
because one day, you figured out that Daddy wasn’t [...]
Poetry Toolbar
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For quick access to over fifty poetry blogs and other journals, check out The Poetry Toolbar from World Class Poetry. Click here to read more about it.