Archive for November, 2009
Saccharine
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[?]Submitted by Average Poet Blog
Everything I’ve written is a sham
a shadow of the failure that I am—
if only I could buy into the scam
that someone out there truly gives a damn
for any reason other than to spur
the image of themselves that they prefer
but frank critiques infrequently occur
when sugar-coated scribbles start to [...]
Distillation
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
You Know, my Friend, how I Took on this Task
To Seek the Essence in a Vintner’s Cask
That Holds it even as the Heart Confines
The Soul like Liquor in a Chemist’s Flask.
These Earthly Trials do but the Soul refine
Bring Spirit forth, as Fire that breathes on Wine
Producing [...]
From the captain’s tower
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
T.S.Eliot and Ezra Pound weren’t friends of democracy,but they did their own style of the mash up –classical and pop styles and a preferring a diffusion of coherence rather than writing a series of unifying metaphors–in ways that would better express their idea of the fracturing of [...]
a paragraph with general praise for David Lehman
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
I enjoy David Lehman’s mosaics of place names, mad jazz and painterly effect; there is an fabulous improvisation in his lines that performs an activity I think is poetry’s core province, which is testing language’s ability to accommodate experience and offer up perception in a manner that [...]
Poetry Express
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[?]Submitted by Poets Who Blog
Anyone checked out Poetry Express? When I visited there were 60 members online at that particular moment. Seems to be a hopping site. Click here to visit them.
The Nuts And Bolts Of Zukofsky
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[?]Submitted by World Class Poetry Blog
After reading 12-1/2 chapters of “A” by Louis Zukofsky, I’m convinced Zukofsky must have been a lunatic. Only such a person could have spent an entire life on a work such as “A”.
I’m sure “A” has some literary value, but in large part it is a [...]
Put out that damned cigarette
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
I quit smoking eleven years ago, and one of the great things about it is that I am no longer compelled to feign being the ardent sensualist who insists on exploiting every appetite and sensation our nerve endings can stand, and neither is there the need to [...]
Distances made swiftly
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
Distances
Philippe Jaccottet
Swifts turn in the heights of the air;
higher still turn the invisible stars.
When day withdraws to the ends of the earth
their fires shine on a dark expanse of sand.
We live in a world of motion and distance.
The heart flies from tree to bird,
from bird to distant [...]
Hecht’s hammer
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[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
A little guilt mongering is just what you need to deliver several stanzas of applause ready morality. Anthony Hecht loves to bask in the glow of Points Already Made.The idea seems to be that even with the advance of decades since a horrific event, later generations still [...]
Poetry Matters Now
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[?]Submitted by Poets Who Blog
Have you checked out Poetry Matters Now,online collection of readings and video interviews with poets.
Click here to visit their site.
Back list
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[?]Submitted by Poets Who Blog
When you find a poet you enjoy online do you ever go back and read old poems of theirs (ones not on the first page)? Do you leave comments for those?
How often do you leave comments online? Anyone willing to admit they are just a lurker? If [...]
Fun post!
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[?]Submitted by Poets Who Blog
I really enjoyed this post about poetry. Check it out and maybe you will too. That posts links to fourteen poems you may also want to check out and comment on.
Poetry Lovers Unite
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[?]Submitted by Poets Who Blog
Poetry Lovers Unite is a brand new blog where you can submit your poems if you are so inclined.Click here to check it out.
Closer to True
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
I was restless in grieving the last of the leaves with their banners of scarlet and gold
All faded to brown in the gutters and drowning, awaiting the silence and cold.
Walked out in a dawn that was roofed with an awning of clouds that were stained by [...]
I Call the Weather
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[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
but not on the phone—
I call it “pissing-down forty-mile-jetstream-gust standing-under-firehose two-trees-running-from-a-dog duck-drowning gully-washing Pineapple-Express fish-in-a-lifeboat
rain”
that’s what I call it.
Collection available! Knocking from Inside
Pearls
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[?]Submitted by Average Poet Blog
Words can be kinetic
laconic or frenetic
and those you should have listened to
so painfully prophetic.
Poised
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[?]Submitted by Average Poet Blog
Each day as dusk descends
a motley murder wends
its way across the sky from west to east,
with eager ebon wings
these crassly cawing things
look greedily for scraps on which to feast;
we scurry through the rain
ignoring constant pain
unsettled by the hungry heckling call,
I’ve had my share of grief
don’t need to [...]
Online Audio Poetry Resources
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[?]Submitted by Poets Who Blog
By clicking here you will find a list of online audio poetry resources. Listen to poets read their work.
Why I Love My Wife
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[?]Submitted by World Class Poetry Blog
My wife is a great woman. When I ask for chicken broth she brings it to me. And she does other things too. But I needed chicken broth last night and she made me the best cup of broth I’ve ever had. Thanks, wife.
I’ve been fighting [...]
Mind, Body, and Soul
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[?]What is the measure of the mind,
what is the content of the soul,
when the body is dead and cold?
Every mind is of the body
Of one another they exist.
So of what does the soul consist?
Twins parted by experience,
Considered separate, or same?
Which single twin does the soul claim?
If in mind memories part us,
And [...]