Archive for December, 2009
A Seven-Year-Old’s Christmas Wish
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Raven’s Shadow
Marie sits on my knee at recess,
her hair, mangy, tangled, stiff,
flaps in the Decenber wind
like a plastic racing flag.
Playground squeals
and creaking swings
force her to shout
in my ear what she wants
Santa to bring her
boots, a doll, some clothes,
a new coat and a mommy
that stays.
What’s Hot
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Average Poet Blog
A girl that’s hot
and knows she’s hot
is one that leaves me cold
but one that’s hot
and thinks she’s not
is one I’m hot to hold.
Monadnock
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
3 Word Wednesday: Bleak. Hiccup. Queer.
bleak monotony
hiccups into monadnock
what a queer mountain
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Hand on the Wheel
Rating 4.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
Oh I remember it well:
all week in the bitter frost the trains were crying out
“Don’t drive me so hard. Mercy, mercy,”
to the hand on the wheel.
And all over town the tender-hearted
wept for their lost ones and whispered
“Mercy, Beloved,”
to the hand on the wheel.
The earth groaned in [...]
Poetry Video: the giant by Kate Greenstreet
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by World Class Poetry Blog
Poets are getting more creative in how we promote ourselves. I’m glad to see it. I think this is going to be something we see more and more of in the future. Kate Greenstreet has moved us forward into the 21st century with this poetry video. [...]
Artificial, yes. Intelligent, no.
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
Salon has started a rather fine film section in it’s redesign, and it was a surprise to see Chicago Reader movie critic Jonathan Rosenbaum highlighted in a brief piece defending to the defense of the Steven Spielberg’s maligned sci-fi meditation on the human soul, A.I.Artificial Intelligence. His [...]
Blues for Absent Friends
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
When twenty years had gone the musketeers were reunited
for one adventure, after which their fellowship divided.
Porthos was a hero, Athos had a dream
D’Artagnan was a soldier, Aramis had a scheme.
Oh Lord, we carried on and on for years
just like the musketeers
just like the musketeers.
We give too [...]
Blues for Absent Friends
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
When twenty years had gone the musketeers were reunited
for one adventure, after which their fellowship divided.
Porthos was a hero, Athos had a dream
D’Artagnan was a soldier, Aramis had a scheme.
Oh Lord, we carried on and on for years
just like the musketeers
just like the musketeers.
We give too [...]
Leave Links to Holiday Themed Poetry
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Poets Who Blog
Leave a link to a poem about the holiday season. Everyone else go check out the poems and comment.
Breadcrumb Sins: Featured Writer, Guess Who
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by World Class Poetry Blog
A few days ago I discovered a new poetry journal in the form of a blog. This appears to be the latest trend in online publishing and one I welcome and admire. The blog format is the perfect online format for ongoing publication and suits the [...]
Best Books of the Decade
Rating 4.33 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
Strange, it seems, that this December we must consider not only the best books of 2009 , but the best books of the decade, and shudder at the thought that the last ten years have gone by so quickly. Or have they? Thinking back on the events [...]
Dry and Brittle Poem: stale toast?
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
Intertextuality , the notion that text, whether poem, novel, third grade reader or medical textbook, can refer only to other text gets an awkward expression with Linda Gregerson’s poem “At The Window” ,a poem published in Slate in December of 2006. selection. The reader, it seems, finds [...]
More on “Dead Mother”
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
I talked to someone earlier today about the Henri Cole poem “Dead Mother”, and it was remarked that the poem read more like a rehearsal of a response rather than a gathering of the conflicting emotions a parent’s death unleashes on you. It was remarked that that [...]
Flanders in the dark
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
Night never seemed the time to get sentimental about the way the world never becoming what it was you wanted it to be when you were young, so thought Flanders, but this night, this very night, the lights on the wet streets making slurred rainbows and hissing [...]
What we talked about
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
The death of a loved one is not something that one just “gets over”, as if there were an expiration date on grief.Yes, one moves on with their life and tries to have new experiences and adventures, but poets, like anyone else, get older, and the longer [...]
What we talked about
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
The death of a loved one is not something that one just “gets over”, as if there were an expiration date on grief.Yes, one moves on with their life and tries to have new experiences and adventures, but poets, like anyone else, get older, and the longer [...]
Cold Flesh Blossoms
Rating 3.67 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
The wind rumbled in last night
like heavy freight on an overpass.
No moans or whistles: just the growl
of bitter air and the tinkle of
frozen rose petals falling like tiny
scarlet windchimes.
The dead leaves felt it coming
days ago. They crept from my feet,
whispering anxiously with
cadaver tongues in a language
of [...]
Roses in December
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Knocking from Inside Blog
December fifth, and though the trees are bare
there’s still a rosebush with a late-blown bloom.
A trace of summer lingers here and there
a dab of red, a waft of scented air
a touch of August captured in perfume.
December fifth, and though the trees are bare
and dead leaves rustle [...]
D.G. WILLS BOOKS LITERARY EVENT VIDEOS NOW ON YOUTUBE
Rating 3.00 out of 5
[?]Submitted by Ted Burke Blog
D.G.Wills Books in LaJolla, California is a long time mecca for book lovers who crave a shop with a varied and deep selection literature, poetry and philosophy sections .Owner Dennis Wills, whom I’ve known (in full disclosure) since he opened his shop in 1979, has besides keeping [...]