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What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
Higgledy-piggledy
Emily Dickinson
Liked to use dashes
Instead of full stops.
Nowadays, faced with such
Idiosyncrasy,
Critics and editors
Send for the cops.
So! You guys should also share some cool poetic forms that you like! And examples if you want! Yes poetry yay
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 12:14 am (UTC)(link)Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.
They're very funny (to me anyway).
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)Eyed the last shot of a
Prewar cognac de Champagne:
"So much for you, little brandy; do svidanya."
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
“Now that he is in grave condition,
My uncle, decorous old dunce,
Has won respectful recognition;
And done the perfect thing for once.
His action be a guide to others;
But what a bore, I ask you, brothers,
To tend a patient night and day
And venture not a step away:
Is there hypocrisy more glaring
Than to amuse one all but dead,
Shake up the pillow for his head,
Dose him with melancholy bearing,
And think behind a public sigh:
‘Deuce take you, step on it and die!’”
I don't read the translations of Onegin that do not mimic the original in this regard. I think it kind of defeats the purpose. This work is supposed to be glib, an easy read that one could recite aloud the way they'd be saying a speech.
On a related note, it irks me when people misquote the "to love both young and old surrender" bit. That's not how it goes. The next line literally starts with "but...".
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
One of my favorites is this one that was published by McSweeney's:
The Nesting Doll.
BY Marly Youmans
- - - -
Once upon a time a little doll
Encountered demons in the woods near home;
One took the guise of a well-bred traveler,
Smiling and chatting as he trailed her here
And there, at last jumping right into her mouth
By cunning sleight, so he could taste her soul.
At first the demon could not find the soul,
And he was roiling-wroth against the doll,
Sending her vomit, scalding her small mouth
With curses; Mama turned her out from home,
And Papa yodeled that she couldn’t bunk here—
She’d take her thwacks and be a traveler.
How cruel to make a child a traveler,
A ditch her nest! The dark night of her soul
Let fall a single star; the demon could hear
It crackle, plunging like the tears the doll
Had shed when she looked back at Home Sweet Home.
Wrinkles were rock around her papa’s mouth.
The demon snatched the starlight in his mouth—
Then grief was in him like the traveler
They call the Wandering Jew, who has no home
And cannot die. The fiery drop of soul
Explored his throat and gut; meanwhile the doll
Kept dreaming that some girl would beg, “Stop here!”
Nobody did. The demon could still hear
Her words; in pools he must have glimpsed her mouth
Bewailing fate, although it seemed the doll
Was rubbish to him now, the traveler
Less than the tiny, prisoned flame of soul
That made his mazy heart a hearth and home.
A demon’s heart is a queer sort of home …
Yet the star burned as brightly there as here
Or any place, and had not changed from soul.
At times it whisked up to the demon’s mouth.
Perhaps light sought to reach the traveler,
And knew when demon nested in the doll.
When home was starlight singing in her mouth,
All powers burned to hear the traveler
And marveled soul was nested in a doll.
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
I like "The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina" by Miller Williams
Somewhere in everyone's head something points toward home,
a dashboard's floating compass, turning all the time
to keep from turning. It doesn't matter how we come
to be wherever we are, someplace where nothing goes
the way it went once, where nothing holds fast
to where it belongs, or what you've risen or fallen to.
What the bubble always points to,
whether we notice it or not, is home.
It may be true that if you move fast
everything fades away, that given time
and noise enough, every memory goes
into the blackness, and if new ones come-
small, mole-like memories that come
to live in the furry dark-they, too,
curl up and die. But Carol goes
to high school now. John works at home
what days he can to spend some time
with Sue and the kids. He drives too fast.
Ellen won't eat her breakfast.
Your sister was going to come
but didn't have the time.
Some mornings at one or two
or three I want you home
a lot, but then it goes.
It all goes.
Hold on fast
to thoughts of home
when they come.
They're going to
less with time.
Time
goes
too
fast.
Come
home.
Forgive me that. One time it wasn't fast.
A myth goes that when the years come
then you will, too. Me, I'll still be home.
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 02:27 am (UTC)(link)http://www.drunkenboat.com/db8/oulipo/feature-oulipo/para/oubapo/madden/spiral00.html
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
I read this poem in 'Omni' magazine years ago - and cut the page out to save. It's called a sestina.
I recently cleared out a few draws of stuff and found the poem again. It still rocks.
I used to be a monk, but gave it over
before books and prayer and studies cooled my blood,
and joined with Richard as a mercenary soldier.
(No Richard that you’ve heard of; just
a man who’d bought a title for his name.)
And it was in his service I met Saul.
You can read the rest here: Saul's Death.
Also - my first slashy poem.
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 04:59 am (UTC)(link)From http://the.sockdolager.net/post/51726510560:
Noonien Noonien
Benedict Cumberbatch
pastiest Khan that you
ever did see
Infiltrates Starfleet, then
hies himself Kronoswards
pseudocanonic’ly
trolling Jim T.
Re: What is a cool form of poetry that you like?
(Anonymous) 2013-12-07 05:05 am (UTC)(link)I don't know if it has a formal name, but it's anapestic meter in a 4-3-4-3 pattern with an (AA)B(CC)B rhyme scheme. I love the way the syllables roll through my head when I read it.