Thursday, January 28, 2021

"Poetry Lesson," Fifty Years Later

And yet, we still know something 
Of that bittersweet ambivalence— 
 
The draining out of love in syllables 
Taught us, among other things, silence 
 
And how we talked our way around it.
 
https://vazambam.blogspot.com/2010/05/poetry-lesson.html
 
 
 
 

 

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Abominable Welcome Of A Dangling Postmodern Poetic Modifier

Being 
 
Wrapped up 
Snugly 
 
In the mind of a snowman, 
The wintry 
 
Reception could not 
Put the indefatigable 
 
Raucous rapper’s cool 
Red-hot delivery 
 
On ice. 
 
 
 

 

Saturday, January 23, 2021

Coleridge On Why His "Rime Of The Ancient Mariner" Turned Out To Be So Long And Drawn-Out

Oh, I’d have finished it 
Straightway in a high romantic fit 
Alright but for that hellish albatross 
That hung round brooding 
Over my best laid plans,
Not to mention those 
Spent endless days 
Soul searching damnable 
Interminable nights,
And bearings too loose
To set my course aright.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

Thursday, January 21, 2021

Unwavering Rustic Song Of Heraclitus

Concurrently caught  
 
In the babbling 
Brook, the rippling yet 
Still clear reflection 
 
Of that brooding 
Face swaying this 
Way and that, 
 
And the clinging,
Beckoning music 
Of reeds firmly 
 
Stuck in muck. 
 
 

 

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Fat Chance, Moneybags

Supine in a frozen greenback trance, 
You’re nailed to the earth still banking 
 
On the hoarfrost round your body 
To stand up and dance. 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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