One more poem and I swear I’ll stop after this
Earlier this month I posted Auden’s sonnet for Edward Lear. Many people called Lear the master of limericks, but I don’t agree with that; He was prolific sure, but not original nor unusually witty. He wrote a few longer poems- ballads, you might say. Those are superb; “The Owl and The Pussycat”, “The Pobble Who [...]
‘Nother Poem
Like e.e. cummings, Don Marquise wrote without punctuation. He did it in the voice af a large cockroach named archy- who typed out his missives by jumping head-first onto the typewriter keys, in the middle of the night, after the newspaper office was closed. Marquise aimed to lampoon verse libre. But, in fact, he was [...]
One more poem for the month of April
This is something that I memorised for the open mike over at Smokedaddy’s one evening. I barely got through it, it nearly made me weep. I’ve never tried to speak it aloud since. Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950). Spoon River Anthology. 1916. Fiddler Jones
todays poem is crude and lower case
and has no punctuation and is written by e. e. cummings this is not the poem i memorised and recited for my passing grade in 11 grade lit class
Poetry Spam for Friday The Thirteenth;
A little dose of the horrors, anyone? May I present “To The End Of The World” by Archibald Macleish (1892-1982);
More Poetry Spam; a sonnet on Edward Lear
I meant to wait till tomorrow, but it’s just too gorgeous. W. H. Auden shows us how to do it;
Erotic poetry by a woman of the 15th century
It ain’t mine, though I wish it were; The Dream
Ezra Pound on writing poetry
“No vers is libre for the man who wants to do a good job” And I do. So there will be many more versions of the Blind Gunman, or I may just kick him out, I don’t know which. He also says; “Don’t imagine that a thing will ‘go’ in verse just because it’s too [...]
Singer not the Song (Ice Age Of The Heart)
lyrics are not complete as poetry. They are created with an additional element, and you just can’t take that away- it’s like printing a poem without any vowels. The music is integral to the form- most of the time. And, yes, there are poets that write poems that can be set to music- Leonard Cohen, [...]
