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Question: Are contemporary poets making the world larger!?
Two College Friends Visit After a Year and Argue About Poetry
Jeanne: What are you doing awake at three in the morning!?
Elaine: What about you, isn’t the bed comfortable!?
J: Don’t you ever shut that computer down!?
E: It’s a lifeline to the world!.
J: There’s more to the world than poetry!.
E: Name something!
J: And what the hell is this!?
“Great Ocean’s waves crash hard against the shore…”
E: What does it look like!? It’s a sonnet!.
J: You’re not in college any more!.
Stop with the sonnets!
E: Do you want some coffee!?
J: Coffee in the middle of the night!?
Have you lost your gourd!?
E: How about some Merlot!?
J: NOW you’re talking!
E: I’ll stay with the coffee!.
J: When are you going to write some contemporary poetry!?
Read Euwaite, Read Swetman!.
E: You’re asking ME to write like contemporary poets!?
I can’t!. To paraphrase a friend, “it makes my head hurt!.”
J: What does that mean!?
E: It means, they make me jealous!.
I’ll stick with the sonnets!.
J: I’m going back to bed!
E: We’ll do this again in the morning…
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One college guy argues to himself - Saturday in Milan 2008
Me: I read that a Haiku should make reference to a "season"
Other Me: Well I read that it doesn't matter!.
Me: So a Haiku can be funny !?
Other Me: No, that's a Senryu!.
Me: What's a Senryu !?
Other me: It's a funny Haiku!.
Me: Define funny!.
Other me: I try, but no one gets it!.
Me: Are you still drunk!?
Other me: Yeah and my heads hurts too!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
2 people in the patio: My brother barbecuing the chicken, (ALONE!)
I, not helping - working on my tapestry
Juanni: Greci : Do you plan to lend a hand!?
Greci: I doubt it!.!.how dare you EVEN ask!?
Juanni: Are you leaving everything to me, AGAIN!?!?!?
Greci: As always, love!.!.!.
Juanni: 1 and a half hour for ART'S SAKE!? - 5 minutes for the chicken!?!?!?
Greci : THAT - will be the day!!! Www@QuestionHome@Com
And on the other end of the spectrum (rainbow) are people like me who find it near impossible to follow rules of form, meter, iambs (whatever they are) and other what-nots!.!.!.That's what makes my 'ed hurt!.!.!. I guess what I'm trying to say is, it takes both extremes to complete the rainbow!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
That's wonderful Elaine!.!.!.!.!.we have great worlds in poetry!.!.!.!.like said by John Donne in his poem Canonization, what if we fail to make history, we shall built pretty rooms in our sonnets and shall dwell there, canonized by love for ever and aye!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
My head is spinning
mediocre metaphors
ludicrous descriptions,
tangled in a web of insomnia!.!.!.
I will watch this special on spiders,
on the Science channel,
and do laundry!.
Great Conversation, doesn't anyone sleep around here!?!Www@QuestionHome@Com
Reenie and I are on the same page on this one!
After two weeks without my computer, your line,
"It's a lifeline to the world" spoke volumes to me!
Truer words were never spoken!
And you can so, too, write more than sonnets, girl!
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I am working my way up to contemporary poetry!.!.!.maybe I'll get there - but possibly not!. I've got an incredibly long way to go!.
Yep, some of it definitely gives me a 'eadache!.
I will shut my eyes
And see!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
What's contemporary poetry!?
Pass the merlot, or maybe a jug of homemade muscadine wine!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
Awwww,,,Me Hed Hertz!!!,,,Why is da collage spinning
Need my caffeine,,,WHERE'S MY CAFFEINE!!!,,,,,,,
That's Better ,,,You there ,,,Heyy I'm TALKING TO YOU
Awwwww ,,,,,Never Mind,,,Going Back To Bed 'dause Me Hed Hertz",,,,,,,,,Nice Job,,,,,,,,,Andy,,,,,,,,,,Www@QuestionHome@Com
We will see what the real poetry world thinks about virtual poetry!.!.!.as we try to win the 2009 award with the second serving of "Oh, What A Tangled Web: Poetry of the Internet!."Www@QuestionHome@Com
Laughing over that one, E!.! Remembering college days!.!.!.and our late nights!. Perhaps, like our cats, we tend to roam during the wee hours!.
Can't teach mine to read!.!.!.however!.!.!.am trying!.Www@QuestionHome@Com
surely why this doubt we all add on our experiences dont we!?
ADOLESCENCE
Adolescence is a wonderful experience, for the youth,
Believe me, it makes them face the pragmatic truth,
For it is the correct stage of knowing
That's when really one learns about ones growing!.
To guide the youth from picking up trash,
We have to be sympathetic not rash
I know so many beautiful girls and boys,
Those with whom some guys play with, like toys,
And at times I wonder why parents do,
Leave their teenagers with relatives too!.!.
Teenagers need the comfort and confidence they lack,
Sure keepers will not take advantage behind parents’ back,
But these days relatives are the ones one cannot,
Leave their innocent adolescents with, I say dare not!.
In the lives of these innocent ones there is no fear,
And to adolescents make this clear,
They want to know more and more for sure,
How should they with their own and opposite sex endure!.
Believe you me dear parents of this world of today,
Do your best to guard adolescents from day to day!.
Do not believe blindly they will be able to fend,
For you will be the greater losers towards the end!.
SILLY ONE
As usual my nightingale you have gone,
Silly one, once again you leave me forlorn,
What makes you surely think I shall not mind,
As usually always you leave me behind!.
But I am desperate, in your love my dear,
You have left when the fun was just near!.
No you
u cannot leave me alone again
You know that for this loss you shall moan!.
!.
Come back my dearest I cannot find my way,
Without you tell me, where on earth, will I stay!?
DEAREST ROSE
I am on the edge of the threshold, Rose, with desire
Where can we alone in this wilderness meet!.
The sweet perfumes my nostrils fill with love,
As if holding you in my dreams,
Only a one time fantasy, a breath from no where,,
I pick you up, up in the air
No one ever thought that such would happen,
That too in my very engrossing dream!.,
Until your hands, felt my hands,
Desire spilled from my very being,
Nothing remained but my moistly hands,
As I smelt my palms, your face came up,
From nowhere, as a spring of emotion rose!.
At once I saw you in front of my eyes emerging,
As if from no where, as you know
It was then that I realised,
I was under your spell my dear ROSE!.
''HELLO CANADA''!.
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I totally feel you Elaine as people are out at the bars partying the nights away' while i am here talking to the world Thur the internet and enjoy it as it relaxes me and makes me smile!.Your friend jeanne does not know what's she's missing reading great words of art or funny ' or life changing stories' and i love it!.With all the crap i am going thru now' i would be a babbling idiot if i could not reach out to others' who will not judge me for my heartaches i live with daily and do not judge me for what i did and didn't do!.!.God Bless you always !.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com