darkmaas
Literotica Guru
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I know, I know. It's Wednesday and I do the Tuesday reviews. The short explanation for this glaring anomaly is that yesterday I found myself in an alternate place in the time space continuum. The long answer is food for poetry that now hides in my fridge waiting for the mayonnaise to finish ... whatever. I digress.
Well the effects of poetry survivor are being felt. Half of yesterday's submissions were attempts to make fire on tropical islands clad only in cute buffs ... The organizers can now pat themselves on the back, MORE POETRY. Of course the problem with sweaty poets on desert islands fanning the flames of metaphor is whether there be any quality poetry among the flotsam and broken coconuts.
Let's have a look...
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Two poems about shopping for breakfast cereal. Safe_Bet takes us on a dyspeptic Sugar Rush. Then we go Shopping for Cocopops with Jack_Samuel. We can't blame the poets for the banal subject matter and they have both risen to the occasion. So far so good.
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A couple of Crapsey's Cinquins. LadynStFreknBed outdoes the form with Notional Spirit. Then UYS pulls out all the stops with an inverted double acrostic Crapsey. Rhyme certainly caught my ear.
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Two excellent entries by annaswirls. A glossa, wholly to be a fool and a double dactyl, Fight! Fight! Fight!. The latter suffers from the constraints of the trigger but she's made a valiant effort. I loved the glossa though. The first lines, "since feeling is first / there is no speak / before touch..." makes survivor worth the sunburn.
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Another double dactyl, this time by UYS. Read Peeping Tom if only for a chance to increase your vocabulary. Is Tittifillarously really a word? It's not in my scrabble dictionary.
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Read Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor by pushkine. It's a glossa and a rather nice one. It has a nice flow that rises above the restrictions of the form.
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With one of two poems "with audio", Middleagepoet fulfills his Cento 2 obligations with Black and White, Spotted. Perhaps more polemic than poetic, but still worth a read (or a listen).
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My favourite of the day is not a survivor although the author is registered. The second audio poem of today is inky by hmmnmm. Lovely vague whimsy. Read it now before hmmnmm takes it down for plastic surgery.
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All in all, not a bad day poetically. Survivors, pat yourselves on the back, without inflaming that sunburn.
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Well the effects of poetry survivor are being felt. Half of yesterday's submissions were attempts to make fire on tropical islands clad only in cute buffs ... The organizers can now pat themselves on the back, MORE POETRY. Of course the problem with sweaty poets on desert islands fanning the flames of metaphor is whether there be any quality poetry among the flotsam and broken coconuts.
Let's have a look...
::
Two poems about shopping for breakfast cereal. Safe_Bet takes us on a dyspeptic Sugar Rush. Then we go Shopping for Cocopops with Jack_Samuel. We can't blame the poets for the banal subject matter and they have both risen to the occasion. So far so good.
::
A couple of Crapsey's Cinquins. LadynStFreknBed outdoes the form with Notional Spirit. Then UYS pulls out all the stops with an inverted double acrostic Crapsey. Rhyme certainly caught my ear.
::
Two excellent entries by annaswirls. A glossa, wholly to be a fool and a double dactyl, Fight! Fight! Fight!. The latter suffers from the constraints of the trigger but she's made a valiant effort. I loved the glossa though. The first lines, "since feeling is first / there is no speak / before touch..." makes survivor worth the sunburn.
::
Another double dactyl, this time by UYS. Read Peeping Tom if only for a chance to increase your vocabulary. Is Tittifillarously really a word? It's not in my scrabble dictionary.
::
Read Rockefeller Plaza, 65th Floor by pushkine. It's a glossa and a rather nice one. It has a nice flow that rises above the restrictions of the form.
::
With one of two poems "with audio", Middleagepoet fulfills his Cento 2 obligations with Black and White, Spotted. Perhaps more polemic than poetic, but still worth a read (or a listen).
::
My favourite of the day is not a survivor although the author is registered. The second audio poem of today is inky by hmmnmm. Lovely vague whimsy. Read it now before hmmnmm takes it down for plastic surgery.
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All in all, not a bad day poetically. Survivors, pat yourselves on the back, without inflaming that sunburn.
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