New Poetry Recommendations

• First time Lit poet master_chay gives us an erotic poem that is a cut better than the usual fare with My Model. Pretty good for a first effort. Check it out.

• Another first-time poet, MrDark77 posts a more typical Lit erotic poem with The Beauty of Female Flesh. The poem is written in unmetrical couplets (A woman’s flesh is as sweet as sugar by the hour / The perfumes she wears with a nice floral scent shall never sour) that sound rather forced to me, but others may like it.

• I'm not sure that I can actually tell you what Felix921's Little Brother is supposed to be about. I found it a bit over-abstract, I guess.

• shewolfwannabe09 writes a poem about a mother's love in jays poem. The poem has several misspellings, which makes it a bit hard to read.

• There are two new poems today from Tessa8--You and Today. The poems are something of an odd combination, the former being about a lover's steadiness and dependability and the latter being about a woman beginning to recover from an apparent failed relationship.

• New poet Iwaitbytheseaforyou also posts two poems today. Old Mind contrasts "old minds" with a "young man." Old does not come out well in the comparison. Chalk with a Board is a little poem about a relationship that could almost pass for aphorism.

• Finally njoyjade offers us all some advice with Live Life Well, another rather aphoristic poem many will like.

• Tess has a couple that are quite good. Winter stream seems a bit out of season, but is evocative and cooling (welcome in this heat), while Erogenous Triggers pretty much stokes the fire to Furnance Overload, but with a thoroughly excellent kind of heat. Wowza. My p-p-pick of the day.

• The always reliable demure101 has three poems today. I'll mention my favorite, Lost Opportunity, which is a little slice-of-life poem wherein the Narrator comes across a situation that makes him think of his boyhood. Quite well done.

• Oneiria is a poet whose work is often difficult or strange, but also a poet I almost always find interesting to read. Thirst Circa 2043 is both a climatological warning and a shape poem of interest. Well worth a look.

• MSTarot continues a series with Poems without Names (Part 2). These little poems (there are quite a number of them) seem more like short philosophical riddles or koan rather than poetry, at least to me. My personality is perhaps a bit too cynical for these to appeal to me, but probably a number of readers will find them of interest. They are certainly rather different than your usual Lit poetry.

• New poet LangstonLover (after Langston Hughes, I wonder?) gives us a short kind of prose poem/hip hop lyric, Runner, about a woman jogging through a park. The form is a little strange--sentence phrases strung together with ellipses so that the overall effect is of a run-on sentence--but perhaps appropriate for the subject matter, which is of the narrator's thoughts while watching the woman run.

• There are two poems today by DannysBoy. The first of these, The Garden has a rather unusual form in that it seems to be more or less in ballad meter (4-3-4-3, rhymed abcb) except that the stanzas are presented as lines or paragraphs:
  I slept so lonely missing her, and seen her dreams through mine, I felt the only reason left, was waiting throughout time.​
  Frankly, I didn't make it all the way through this poem, which seems to be a lament for lost love. Just wasn't feeling it, but you might find it more congenial.
  
  I had a similar problem with I've Been Here Long, which has a similar structure (though largely trimeter). The singsong character of the lines, perhaps coupled with the warmth of the afternoon here, made me a bit drifty reading. How 'bout reading DB yourself and forming your own judgment?

• First-time poet CamillaHumby writes about fantasy vs. reality in Marketplace of Dreams. As poetry, this reads a little too much like a list of statements rather than composed lines, but that is likely just my personal prejudices coming through. Slight twist ending keeps it from being your ordinary Lit erotic fare.

Tristesse2 said:

The second poem is From a Box of Dreams which has some unforgettable imagery, for instance a ticket for the metro falling from its lodging in a book

“fluttered to the floor like a moth,

exhausted
from hovering all night
around the light at the foot of the stairs.”

and triggers a flood of memories, such a lovely description with not a wasted word.

Thank you for your tolerance, see you next week.

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twelveoone said:

this bothers me, for a variety of reasons,
one it was overlooked

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Tzara said:

My fault. It posted after I did my Friday review (Friday postings are very erratic) and I didn't check back.

But, most everyone here should know by now I pretty much revere gm's poems, so perhaps I'll catch a little slack there.

Interesting poem. Very well-written, as always. I just got back from California and am leaving at dawn for elsewhere, so I will let you carry the discussion on this, twelvie.

Mayhaps you'd like to do the Friday review for the net three weeks, while I am basking in my hard-earned holiday?

Au revoir, in any case.

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Tzara said:

Mayhaps you'd like to do the Friday review for the net three weeks, while I am basking in my hard-earned holiday?

Au revoir, in any case.

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