Poetry Forum

donegalpirate wrote: The icons are hers
this piss is mine.

A humorous aggrandizer at any rate.

Good fun. Those icons deserve what you gave 'em. One nit: S8, L1: shouldn't that be "escape?" (without the "d") I think it might be humorous to seat the Buddha on the water tank at the beginning of the poem if you can work it in. As is, the "mantled" calls up the image ...

Evocative poem of the small town. I like the way you slide from early morning to afternoon, and from the January of the title to the waited-for spring of the last line. The atmospherics are excellent: "another Sunday in a small town;" the "old-white, wooden" houses with their por...

Thanks all. Glad to be here.

Thanks all.

I was asked by B to post this online instead of privately. I hadn't wanted to start an off-poem fight so didn't. But here's what I said re: his comment on not understanding what I meant by "men:" From time immemorial men-- as in the male sex--have been giving birth to nations, to ideas, to...

I'm new to the workshop though I did post a comment and a poem before I came to the place of introductions-- sorry. I've been many a thing in my day-- but now am settled into poetry. For a while I had a fine time teaching in academia but soon became restless with the standard life. I became among ot...

Vincent: Thanks for putting the poem in perspective. The "all/to/gather" is intentional, but maybe I'm doing too much here-- it's the piglets/lines gathering, as well as slantwise an "all together." The "blue milken dreaminess" is from Galway Kinnell (as is the the oth...

At tit a soft pleasure they want more I give more the sheer blue milken dreaminess spurting they suck grunt squeal every which way through the fodder and slops to the spiritual curl of my tail I give more they butt sore even the runts until all to gather they trot spindly-legged down my page.

Have you ever doubted
dawn? Procellous seas?
Loved a gangrel of a girl?
Found an ectype without a prototype?
Only on this January lucent earth,
red-boned.