Tag Archives: poetics

Answering Jonathan Mayhew

Posted on May 25, 2005 by John

Jonathan over at Bemsha Swing posted a set of questions related to poetics, aimed at poets, I assume, a few days ago. Although I’m not sure I’m qualified to answer these questions, I’m taking a stab at them. By the … Continue reading →

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Outside the Morphology of Poetics

Posted on April 27, 2004 by John

For about two years, I have immersed myself in the classic forms of Poetry, forcing myself when I write to use common stanza forms with their dictates of rhyme and meter. I felt this was a necessary exercise to “formalize” … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Poetry

Posted on March 16, 2004 by John

I extract this comment from a thread on my Poetry at Poetryslamming, not because I want to draw attention to the person who wrote it, but rather because I think that forum is not the place to engage in a … Continue reading →

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Optimistic anapestics

Posted on August 26, 2003 by John

When the world is so full that it fails to react to the tears of a child, it has lost any hope; and when cries in the night go unheard and are lost in the noise of the street, we … Continue reading →

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The Width of a Circle

Posted on August 21, 2003 by John

Each thing that starts must have an end; for every wax there is a wend that once begun, moves to its finish. Every birth has bury in it. Like the moon face cycles through, and new leaves sprout, then leave … Continue reading →

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Iambs and Trochees

Posted on August 17, 2003 by John

IAMBICS: Until the world returns to sane, I will not fail to write. These words, though just small things, can burst through walls; there must be words of peace. Inside my head the world is pure, and thoughts, like rain … Continue reading →

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