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Re: The Poetry Thread

Postby Misplaced » Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:43 am

Mr Smith wrote:I've been reading more and more poetry lately and I would love to write it, but I'm finding it quite difficult. Does anyone here write poetry?


I've been writing poetry since I learned what a poem was--back in elementary school. I very rarely write rhyming poetry, however. I bow down to the masters who can create amazing imagery with rhyming verse. (Though I have written song lyrics, so I do it at times.) I've studied poetry and still read it obsessively.

I don't write as much poetry as I used to--not since focusing more on writing prose. I think it's like taking on any kind of new style of writing--a hair-pulling venture until it eventually becomes intuitive. I'm pretty comfortable with my style, and I don't feel a drive to branch out further. Probably because I don't have much interest in selling my poetry. It's really just for me. Whereas, I'm constantly trying to push my envelope in writing prose.

I will give you an example of my work, though. (Be kind! It may be a passion, but it's really only a hobby--if that makes sense. :lol:) I wrote this a few years back:

I Wonder

I wonder what it would be like
to feel your warm breath upon my skin
just before your lips make tender contact
and all reason flutters away
like a startled butterfly.
I wonder what it would be like
to place my hands upon your chest
and push in mock disapproval
as I let you fumble
the buttons of my blouse.
Would we then become a mass
of entangled sweat and flesh
where there are no endings
and no beginnings
as you become complete in me?
I wonder what you would do
after my nails have raked your spine
and my teeth have pressed
against your shoulder
to stifle my burning euphoria.
Would you stand and dress with speed,
having finally gotten from me
all that you've desired?
Or would it be just a hint,
an achingly small taste,
of a more potent longing
that cannot be so easily sated?
I wonder...

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Re: The Poetry Thread

Postby Glory1863 » Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:25 am

Misplaced wrote:I Wonder

I wonder what it would be like
to feel your warm breath upon my skin
just before your lips make tender contact
and all reason flutters away
like a startled butterfly.
I wonder what it would be like
to place my hands upon your chest
and push in mock disapproval
as I let you fumble
the buttons of my blouse.
Would we then become a mass
of entangled sweat and flesh
where there are no endings
and no beginnings
as you become complete in me?
I wonder what you would do
after my nails have raked your spine
and my teeth have pressed
against your shoulder
to stifle my burning euphoria.
Would you stand and dress with speed,
having finally gotten from me
all that you've desired?
Or would it be just a hint,
an achingly small taste,
of a more potent longing
that cannot be so easily sated?
I wonder...


T'Pol must have been reading that shortly before she dropped the robe in Harbinger. Very nice, Misplaced!
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Re: The Poetry Thread

Postby Misplaced » Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:34 pm

:oops: Thanks.
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Re: The Poetry Thread

Postby bluetiger » Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:57 pm

Is it getting warm in here?

It puzzles me how someone that professes to not be romantic can write the way you do. That is so evocative and sensual.

I have zero gift for poetry and greatly admire those that do.
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Re: The Poetry Thread

Postby Artisticmom2 » Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:24 pm

WoW! :clap
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Re: The Poetry Thread

Postby Misplaced » Sun Apr 01, 2012 2:13 am

Thank you. :)

bluetiger wrote:It puzzles me how someone that professes to not be romantic can write the way you do.


It puzzles me too! Although, I just did a period romance film/series binge the last few nights, and I can say when it comes to Austen, Gaskell & the Bronte sisters, I'm hopelessly in love with romance. And good fanfic with my favorite pairings will get me every time, too.

The rest of the time, however, I can't stand romance (outside of a good romantic comedy). I don't know why I'm built this way. I just am. :lol:

It's a running joke between my husband and I -- that scene from "A Knight's Tale" when the female farrier comments on how romantic something is. One of the guys says, "Are you a woman or a blacksmith?" To which she replies, "Sometimes I'm both." I'm both a raging anti-romantic and a softy--though rarely both at the same time. :lol:
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Re: The Poetry Thread

Postby Glory1863 » Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:24 am

My PBS station was running Ken Burns' film Baseball on continuous play this past weekend, probably because Cubs Opening Day is tomorrow. One of the segments featured a poem about the Cubs infield (double-play combination) of Tinker to Evers to Chance from the early 1900s (the last time they won the World Series).

Here's the original poem by Franklin Pierce Adams:

Baseball's Sad Lexicon

These are the saddest of possible words:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."
Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds,
Tinker and Evers and Chance.
Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double --
Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:
"Tinker to Evers to Chance."

It occurred to me that Archer to Tucker to Reed fits the same metre. So here's how I "Enterprised" it: :twisted:

These are the hottest of all of Earth's men:
Archer to Tucker to Reed.
Randy as rabbits: "Let's do it again!"
Archer and Tucker and Reed.
Effortlessly jumping from bed into bed,
Ruby warned them, "Don't let it go to your head.
You'll screw with some Vulcan and all end up dead."
Archer to Tucker to Reed.

Anybody want to join the fun? "Fleeter" in the original poem makes me think there should be a MACO/Hayes verse. Maybe a 3-way verse with the boys? Come on, I dare ya! I didn't find it as easy as it looks. :lol:

Edited to add a Hayes verse: :P

So these are the guys with all of the guts?
Archer to Tucker to Reed.
From where I'm sitting, these "fleeters" are nuts!
Archer and Tucker and Reed.
The captain gives speeches about a gazelle.
The chief engineer, from the warp core he fell.
The armory officer? Oh, bloody hell!
Archer to Tucker to Reed.
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Re: The Poetry Thread

Postby paulinem » Thu Apr 05, 2012 10:52 pm

Holy sheep doodoo, Batman!

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Re: The Poetry Thread

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Re: The Poetry Thread

Postby Glory1863 » Sun Apr 28, 2013 6:32 pm

Mr Smith wrote: . . . but now I absolutely love war poetry, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen in particular.


I found this yesterday while messing about on YouTube, Mr. Smith, and thought you might like it:

Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum Est read by Ben Whishaw.
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