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Re: Poetry Decathlon
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2018 7:52 pm
by Colm Roe
'and freshest of succulents.' is a stanza on its own.
And an absolutely fab finish.
Shame you're dancing on your own here; but you know I'm not big into writing form poetry.
Re: Poetry Decathlon
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 12:03 am
by Ike
1. (I hope)
Days lost, new ones found
Smile every now and again
The sun blossoms too
Re: Poetry Decathlon
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 1:42 pm
by Tracy Mitchell
Bingo, Ike~~! You're up and running
Re: Poetry Decathlon
Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2018 4:16 pm
by Tracy Mitchell
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1. Senryu:
Out from the closet
fingersmith Mona Lisa
Yes or no, cubist?
Re: Poetry Decathlon
Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2018 3:53 pm
by Tracy Mitchell
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8. Blank Verse:
Sunny Path to Bad Prophesy
Ernesto Miranda was a scuzzbag–
sold autographed Miranda Warning cards
for whiskey money, returned to prison
after retrial, finally died from knife wounds.
Though later banned, Tanya still skated tough
at Lillihammer and even the dead
Greek bastards on the hill watched intently
as she bent to tug on broken laces.
Too much of Florence lies beneath the dome,
the Duomo's naked history, the new
skin of the Last Judgment. Like six hundred
years of ant bites, Crusades lose their mojo.
Sparks echo on black water. Time Passes.
Re: Poetry Decathlon
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 4:50 pm
by Tracy Mitchell
9. Free Verse:
Journey to Epona
My feet first curled to claws
my arms folded in fluff in front of me–
all this before I turned nineteen.
I scuttled down engorging cliffs,
goat-sprinted across starlit sand, and
yodeled to distant bird gods.
Four years on, first light struck
hard on urine-soaked pavement.
I climbed the pondrous railing
rimming Lake Street Bridge, drank
button batteries with Red Bull
and rum, told my family goodbye.
She arrived in the cicada stream
of night air, where distant glows of light
rise like hearts of the soon departing,
hair lifting about her horse in flows, floating
though song-blended godsend above the park.
Feral, tangled – Epona after dark.
Re: Poetry Decathlon
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 5:59 pm
by Tracy Mitchell
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10: Cook's Choice (author's selection of poetry form -- I choose free verse):
Goodbye, Pete
I overeat, overheat
in the damn window seat!
Indiscreet and obsolete, it’s time
to beat retreat.
This back-street white meat
smmeeeeeeeeeearrrrrs
on concrete – fleet like sleet,
downbeat,
browbeat –
soon to be a walking dead heat–
left incomplete
- a thoroughly
judicial
Dutch
treat.
So tight wrap my starch blue bed sheet, red roller
my personal balance sheet, dig in my cleats, and
claw my way to the ejection seat!
Re: Poetry Decathlon
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:10 pm
by Tracy Mitchell
The posting of this limerick completes my decathlon.
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MSPF Apologia
This Poetry Fest has been fun
though my writing was much overdone.
I failed at coherence
but in my defense –
I never resorted to pun!
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Final Scorecard:
Decathlon:
Form Poem Title
1. senryu Mona Lisa
2. limerick MSPF Apologia
3. crown cinquain Paddling Through Storm
4. etheree By Any Name
5. (5x) square poem True
6. triolet Where Voices Meet
7. sonnet Thermidor
8. blank verse Sunny Path to Bad Prophesy
9. free verse Journey to Epona
10. Cooks’s choice Goodbye, Pete
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Re: Poetry Decathlon
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:34 pm
by Colm Roe
And the winner is.......
Congratulations Tracy
I respect your dedication to form poetry, but you know my thoughts on the subject.
And I apologise for not commenting on your poems, but because I'm unfamiliar with them I
wouldn't be qualified to critique them properly.
But I am enjoying the other threads.
When does it finish?
Re: Poetry Decathlon
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:44 pm
by Tracy Mitchell
Colm Roe wrote: ↑Sat Aug 18, 2018 6:34 pm
And the winner is.......
Congratulations Tracy
I respect your dedication to form poetry, but you know my thoughts on the subject.
And I apologise for not commenting on your poems, but because I'm unfamiliar with them I
wouldn't be qualified to critique them properly.
But I am enjoying the other threads.
When does it finish?
Colm - this was a ten-poem challenge, like the thirty poems in thirty days NaPo challenge - no race.
Yes, I know and respect your views of form poetry. And you know mine.
It was a good exercise, I think. No apology needed -- no comments are necessary here. We play, celebrate, splash around, etc. When and if any of these get to a decent draft stage, then they get posted for comment/critique.
I as well am enjoying the other threads -- I need to finalize some drafts, if I can, and get them posted as well. Even if I don't, it has been good.
Monday August 20 is the close of the MSPF. Voting for the Poet Laureate ends at that time.
Cheers.
T