Category Archives: Poetry (What is it?)



Down At The Paddle Tennis Court: Andrea A.

Plainly, we’re surrounded. Nothing escapes,
No matter how benign. For loving words
(The flesh of poetry) generate japes,
Create expectations wholly absurd!
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Posted in Beauty, Friends, Local Color, Poetry (What is it?), Vanity

Biblical Verse

Some Hebrew Bible poems
Are not too bad.
After all, they are
The words of god
(Reported by stenographers).
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Posted in Beauty, Lust, Poetry (What is it?), Religion, Words

Ars Poetica

I look at other people’s new-formed poems
And sink into despair. They detail fights
‘Twixt narrow arteries and veins—syndromes
Of narcissistic shadow and delight.
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Posted in Poetry (What is it?), Politics, Vanity

A Philosophical Inquiry Into The Nature of Poetry

What is it that a poem’s supposed to do?
More, surely, than display the poet’s wit,
Project the pain of poets’ pious rue,
Or plump the bulky texts for English lit.
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Posted in Death, Lust, Poetry (What is it?), Today's News

Reality

“Love” (“Lust” really) and “Death,” we’re often told,
Infuse the bulk of all poetic art.
I’ve loved a lot while tumbling toward the cold
Dark consequence of Death’s sharp toxic dart.
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Posted in Aging, Poetry (What is it?), Wisdom

Life: The Extended Sonnet

Poetry attempts portrayal; it paints—
In ordered forms—our terror, loves, our dreams.
Its synaesthetic mode swirls sense, acquaints
Our sight, sound, touch, smell, taste with textured whims.
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Posted in Illusion, Poetry (What is it?), Wisdom