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Quite Different Chains: free verse

Posted on March 21, 2017 by John

I’m not sure I can even write “free verse” anymore. Ever since I started using specific poetic forms, I find myself writing poems to be read aloud; their purpose, if they are to be effective when spoken, dictates employing some … Continue reading →

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See Here Now: forensic poetry

Posted on March 20, 2017 by John

“See here,” one poet said, “for beauty’s sake, I would enslave a thousand listless men, and though it cause the earth’s deep core to shake, would carve away the mountains with my pen that one and all might see as … Continue reading →

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The Book of Forms (revisited, Round 3)

Posted on February 3, 2017 by John

If wondering I’m again creating daily poems using each poetry forms from #LewisTurco’s #BookofForms, 3rd Edition. Currently in the C’s. Share This:

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If the Germans Could Laugh Like the Irish

Posted on March 17, 2014 by John

If the Germans could laugh like the Irish, reckless, deep in drunken ambrosial seas, walking wandering paths, their cracked looking-glasses on open hearths (these are the holy fools) If the Irish could laugh like the Germans, deep and still like … Continue reading →

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TS BS

Posted on February 8, 2014 by John

My idol was once Eliot: I sought out stranger words to seem more erudite and suave, and introduced philosophies through quotes in native tongues; with long, ecstatic footnotes in expository text I piled up paraphrases, odd translations and asides. The … Continue reading →

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I wonder if like days

Posted on November 11, 2013 by John

I wonder if, like days that start to shorten and slowly cede their hours to the dark, each hour’s breath becomes much more important, because it marks the dying of a spark; or if, because we pay it no attention … Continue reading →

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Mere Words

Posted on April 30, 2013 by John

Are they still weapons, these mere words we use to crystallize what thoughts may form at random in our heads or like to squeeze out for some end, a worthy cause we would advance, a blessing, curse or snare of … Continue reading →

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