Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Poems

Distracted by the unexpected
Arrival of cooing, nest building

Mourning doves in our twinned
Cypresses, I set down

An anthology of Poems Inspired
By the Life and Work

Of William Carlos Williams and try
Excitedly to capture

The moment that is about
To fly away until I hear

A soft whooshing sound
And turn to see that

One has landed and is now
Looking for twigs

A scant few feet away.


NB: A companion piece to this poem can be viewed here and the photograph which preceded the poems here.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Huuklyeand Cinquor on Poetic Ciphers


Arrogant to the letter, always
Telling us all his poems,
Even the easiest ones
Are made up simply of words, asking
Why do we not understand them, I can
Deal with that but when
Is this cipher ever going to tell us what
His poems are not then? 


Moderator's comments: No Cinquor--he's not.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Revulsion of the Open Eyesore


near wounded river

where once
I remember

women gathered
to wash

mounds of clothes,
so many mounds

of festering trash
one wants not

to forget to wash
one’s hands of it.


Friday, June 3, 2011

Robert Lax on Patmos

in

his

small


house,

filling

small


slender

note

book


after

note

book


with

small

slender


poems

so

large


nothing's

lacking




Thursday, June 2, 2011

Huuklyeand Cinquor on Poetic Bankruptcy

Those precious
Plays on

Words you continue
To invest in,

When will you stop
Thinking they are all

When they are nothing?

Moderator’s comments: I never knew Cinquor invested in and/or produced plays, but this moronic little poem proves he thought he could make a big hit on Broadway by simply falling flat on his face!
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