the poetry thread

[El Zen]

An absolutely excellent thread in praise of Shakespeare for his prosody on Twitter inspired this, my latest in English:

I have no time for your metric prosody

Too often it lends itself (quite heavily)

To parody

Predictability

Follows naturally with rhyming

Patterns, they are dull

Unsurprising

And forced, you get the jist

So shake that, old ‘Speary

I am a rebel, 

…well…

A Modernist

[mjmooney]

11 hours ago, El Zen said:

An absolutely excellent thread in praise of Shakespeare for his prosody on Twitter inspired this, my latest in English:

I have no time for your metric prosody

Too often it lends itself (quite heavily)

To parody

Predictability

Follows naturally with rhyming

Patterns, they are dull

Unsurprising

And forced, you get the jist

So shake that, old ‘Speary

I am a rebel, 

…well…

A Modernist

You're too damn clever, you clever Norwegian, you. 

[useless]

Sleep, darksome, deep,
Doth on me fall:
Vain hopes all, sleep,
Sleep, yearnings all!

Lo, I grow blind!
Lo, right and wrong
Fade to my mind....
O sorry song!

A cradle, I,
Rocked in a grave:
Speak low, pass by,
Silence I crave!

Paul Verlaine

[Xann]

[useless]

in Just-

spring          when the world is mud-

luscious the little

lame balloonman

 

whistles          far          and wee

 

and eddieandbill come

running from marbles and

piracies and it's

spring

 

when the world is puddle-wonderful

 

the queer

old balloonman whistles

far          and             wee

and bettyandisbel come dancing

 

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

 

it's

spring

and

 

         the

 

                  goat-footed

 

balloonMan          whistles

far

and

wee

 

E.E Cummings

[mjmooney]

Just now, useless said:

in Just-

spring          when the world is mud-

luscious the little

lame balloonman

 

whistles          far          and wee

 

and eddieandbill come

running from marbles and

piracies and it's

spring

 

when the world is puddle-wonderful

 

the queer

old balloonman whistles

far          and             wee

and bettyandisbel come dancing

 

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

 

it's

spring

and

 

         the

 

                  goat-footed

 

balloonMan          whistles

far

and

wee

 

E.E Cummings

I knew that was e e cummings (he insisted on lower case) right from the first couple of lines. 

[mjmooney]

[mjmooney]