Sunday, December 19, 2010

Definitely Not Lemmings #31

A welcome and a thank-you to number 31--"fmklalex'-- for coming on board; wish I could tell you more about him/her but that's all I know!

Stamina


jasmine flowers
through morning,

dusk too.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Transient

We don't forget,
but something vacant settles in us.
—Roland Barthes, from “Mourning Diary”


This time whatever that something is
isn’t checking in just for the duration.


NB: My thanks to Bob Arnold for this one.

Friday, December 17, 2010

Revisionist Poetics


Of what is left, suppress
What’s worthless, surely

Whatever’s priceless
Rewrites the rest.


Thursday, December 16, 2010

Huuklyeand Cinquor on Buffoonery in Poets


It’s ridiculous humoring poets who now think
Their work has turned grave—

These people were clowns way back when 
They thought they were dead serious.
 



Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Not One Universe

for William Michaelian, fellow star trekker

Unable to find the time,
We fall asleep

With one unfinished verse still
Running through our mind—

Billions of galaxies
In the universe

One can’t even dream
Of waking up in time.

Monday, December 13, 2010

Huuklyeand Cinquor on Why Begging the Question Never Pays

Get smart, mendicant—

You wouldn’t be holding your hand out
Asking yourself why, if someone gave you
Their two cents’ worth every time
You said something stupid in reply.


Moderator’s comments: Cinquor, en archei aiteisthai or hysteron proteron?
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