Someone had to say it...

[schencka.mindsay.com]

LOL.

well for really "horrible poetry" this blogger person
sure seems extraordinarily obsessed with spending PHENOMENAL amounts of time
critiquing it

very funny

its a cute poem
i wouldn't "study" it per se

its just how she felt at the moment

what's the big deal?

I like both the poems, but especially this one -

[www.poemhunter.com]

After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard

East of me, west of me, full summer.
How deeper than elsewhere the dusk is in your own yard.
Birds fly back and forth across the lawn
looking for home
As night drifts up like a little boat.

Day after day, I become of less use to myself.
Like this mockingbird,
I flit from one thing to the next.
What do I have to look forward to at fifty-four?
Tomorrow is dark.
Day-after-tomorrow is darker still.

The sky dogs are whimpering.
Fireflies are dragging the hush of evening
up from the damp grass.
Into the world's tumult, into the chaos of every day,
Go quietly, quietly.

Charles Wright

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And I love this part of the second poem -

"This is the half hour, half-light, half-dark,
when everything starts to shine out,
And aphorisms skulk in the trees,
Their wings folded, their heads bowed."

Hi Kidraw. Nice to see you back! Those "poems" make me feel like throwing up though. I hope you didn't like the dead one's poem.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/13/2014 11:16PM by SueZ.

He's actually critiquing our low cultural standards in the age of the idiocracy. Bad yet widely celebrated poetry is simply an example in this case.


la_veronique Wrote:
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> well for really "horrible poetry" this blogger
> person
> sure seems extraordinarily obsessed with spending
> PHENOMENAL amounts of time
> critiquing it
>
> very funny
>
> its a cute poem
> i wouldn't "study" it per se
>
> its just how she felt at the moment
>
> what's the big deal?

HH Wrote:
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> He's actually critiquing our low cultural
> standards in the age of the idiocracy. Bad yet
> widely celebrated poetry is simply an example in
> this case.


Do you think Charles Wright's first poem was bad poetry?

New Poet Laureate: 'The Meaning Has Always Stayed The Same'

[www.npr.org]

I like him even more now

Virginia Poet Charles Wright Explores “Inexhaustible Power of Words”

[www.poetryfoundation.org]

"The NewsHour travels to Charles Wright's home in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he has lived for more than 27 years. For Wright, poetry is his "reason for living," and his work serves as a sort of autobiography, exploring his relationship with language, landscape, and the idea of God."

I wish I knew enough about his poetry to comment.


KidRaw Wrote:
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> HH Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > He's actually critiquing our low cultural
> > standards in the age of the idiocracy. Bad yet
> > widely celebrated poetry is simply an example
> in
> > this case.
>
>
> Do you think Charles Wright's first poem was bad
> poetry?
>
> New Poet Laureate: 'The Meaning Has Always Stayed
> The Same'
>
> [www.npr.org]
> aureate-the-meaning-has-always-stayed-the-same