Tag: Poetry
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Poor Poetry – Experimentation
Early days followers of this blog may remember a few posts I did featuring my shaky attempts at the poetic form called ‘Poor Poetry‘. Well, I’ve been at it again. First off the band wagon is a poem I call ‘I Don’t Write Poetry’ I Don’t Write Poetry I don’t write poetry Because I don’t know how. […]
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Poor Poetry: Greeting Card Love
I saw call for valentine’s day greeting card submissions and I started writing without, pausing to read the guidelines (rookie error). As it turns out they want long narrative like poetry about personal experience and definitely no rhymes. Read on to see how epicly I missed the mark. I will not call you my first […]
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Poor Poetry: Cinquain
Cinquains are rather short poems and so I wrote two! I sleep till late through the dogs shrill barking. They cannot wake my fate. All along I’m dreaming although I fear it’s falling. It’s a black sun. It’s in my chest and gut. It’s not fun. It’s a whimpering mutt this black sun in my […]
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Poor Poetry: Villanelle
In my last post I mentioned I’d been reading poetry lately and, in fact, I’ve also been writing some of my own. They’re by no means great, hence the title of today’s post, but I thought I’d share them anyway. Here’s my first attempt at a villanelle (I fudged the rhyme scheme a little but it’s […]
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Ode on Periods by Bernadette Mayer
I’ve been checking out poetry over at Poets.org today (you know, as you do) and came across this brilliant Ode by Bernadette Mayer. I’m all about openness and saying it like it is these days, especially when it comes to women’s bodies which have been ushered behind some ridiculous veil of impropriety and shame for centuries […]