tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post6120790395880170242..comments2024-03-28T06:56:40.727-04:00Comments on Progressive Eruptions: Sunday Night PoetryShaw Kenawehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-56147243087165640332012-11-19T18:06:59.382-05:002012-11-19T18:06:59.382-05:00Thank you, Ms. Shaw, for kind words and for giving...Thank you, Ms. Shaw, for kind words and for giving Non Sequiturium an airing. It's part of a set of five sonnets each radially different in tone and content, but all built on the name of a lost love. It's easily spotted, if you notice the acrostic running down. <br /><br />Being something of a reactionary ;-) I naturally gravitate towards strict formal schemes and thrive when working within limitations. <br /><br />Your free verse is intriguing and reads beautifully, but has about it an inescapable aura of impenetrable mystery.<br /><br />For some reason -- Heaven only knows why -- I felt drawn into an atmosphere not unlike that created in the film Blue Velvet.<br /><br />I can easily see you as Ms. Rossellini in that eerie, rather terrifying role -- hauntingly beautiful she was, I might add.<br /><br />_______________<br /><br />To Les:<br /><br /><br />There's a bit more to it than pure sensory images. If you read carefully there's a definite progression towards something increasingly sad and unpleasant the various non-sequiturs appearing amidst all those blossoms and foliage.<br /><br />~ FT<br /><br />_______________________<br /><br /><b>HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all, whether you believe in it or not.</b> FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-23505074926968519332012-11-19T10:42:45.004-05:002012-11-19T10:42:45.004-05:00Thanks to the poets who shared their work here.
...Thanks to the poets who shared their work here.<br /><br />FT, your poem reads deliciously.<br /><br /><br />(O)CT(O), I love it when you play with your words. Very witty.<br /><br />Shaw Kenawehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08637273000409613497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-60394407595349654512012-11-19T10:19:12.005-05:002012-11-19T10:19:12.005-05:00VOWEL SOUNDS
Please note what silent ‘e’ is not:
...VOWEL SOUNDS<br /><br />Please note what silent ‘e’ is not:<br />It will not put more hope in your hop,<br />More spine in your spin, <br />More gripe in your grip, <br />Nor spite in your spit.<br /><br />Silent ‘e’ may turn bits into bites, but<br />Please note what silent ‘e’ is not.<br /><br />It cannot grind your ax into an axe,<br />Dissuade those who tip their hat in hate,<br />Nor unmake the wares of wars.<br />It absolve us of neither sham nor shame.<br /><br />Please note what silent ‘e’ is not:<br />A vowel sound alone cannot<br />Change ‘human’ to ‘humane.’<br /><br />(c) 2012 - Jeffrey Berger(O)CT(O)PUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07589336822561030860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-44238818698247603082012-11-18T22:03:22.726-05:002012-11-18T22:03:22.726-05:00A cornucopia of sense experiences FT.
An intrigui...A cornucopia of sense experiences FT.<br /><br />An intriguing poem Shaw, thank you...Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1883838569462983439.post-64886610865342856072012-11-18T18:57:14.354-05:002012-11-18T18:57:14.354-05:00Non Sequiturium
Kale, kohlrabi, Swiss Chard, Brus...Non Sequiturium<br /><br />Kale, kohlrabi, Swiss Chard, Brussels sprouts -<br />Asters, mums, tea roses, baby’s breath -<br />Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, onions, doubts -<br />Heliotrope, petunias, laurel wreath -<br /><br />Yarrow, carrots, parsnips, turnips, bloodwart -<br />Salvia, canna, birds of paradise -<br />Azalea, rhododendron, plantar wart -<br />Nandina, lilac, dogwood, aphids, lice -<br /><br />Dates, raisins, nutmeats, citrus peel -<br />Elms, poplar, maple, pin oak, beech -<br />Ragweed, Joe Pyeweed, goldenrod, piglet’s squeal -<br />Sweet pea, bittersweet, a ragged urchin’s screech -<br /><br />Orange blossoms, tender river reeds -<br />Nasturtium, deadly nightshade --- widow’s weeds.<br /><br />~ FreeThinke (2008)<br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.com