New Poetry Recommendations

[champagne1982]

Good Friday is upon us and brings us 28 new poems. There are plenty of poems today and I hope you read them if you have time. They run the complete gamut of Master-Submissive relationships and a few expressions of love and desire from literotica's poetry community.

In his poem, Xining, China, Anshul takes us to darker places than the city he describes so well. See if his imagery will hover behind your eyelids long after you close the webpage on this poetry.

If you find a new poem on the list today which you'd like to review on this thread please do! I would love to see someone else's take on the work submitted to the archives.

Have a wonderful Easter everyone and smile, it's SPRING!

 

[WickedEve]

I see new poems for the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th.
I'll see if there is anything exciting that really needs to be mentioned here.
I'll read them now and if anyone else wants to jump in with a recommendation, then please do so.

 

[WickedEve]

For the 22nd of March, don't miss Jamison's Summer (c. years ago)
Seems as though only a few have discovered it, so give it a read and comment. The majority of the poem is very good.

----------

Also check out High School Theatricals by AnonAndAnon, posted on the 23rd. Good stuff.

Okay, that's what I liked for the 22nd and the 23rd and now I'm off to read the 24th. Please do give all the poems a read. I bet I missed something good, since I'm racing through them like a speedy, shameless creature.

 

[WickedEve]

Monday

Someone fairly new to lit, and someone who just wrote a gooood poem: Atonement* by thebeautifulmind
Check this out:
Perpetually interconnected
Our fashionable intercourse
Was heralded around the world
And it was more then domestic
I should have wrapped it up
Instead of implementing
My raw method


That hmmnmm has such a quirky sense of humor.
Chickadee


I haven't finished reading but it will have to wait. My Hugo just called and he's coming over and so I have to wash my hair. Seriously.


I'm back.
Seduction by sassynyc has its moments.

It is:
The sultry slink of scandal
Draped in black and white
The flash of the camera
Big city, bright lights

It is:
Dead presidents
And the joy they can bring
Passed from fingertips to palms
And taken in vain

 

[Angeline]

March 25, 2008

Eight new poems. I liked about 12 percent of them (i.e., one). According to Kolkore, it's a Good morning, not at all, but it is an interesting poem that I believe may be a response to this week's Sleeping on the Wing poetry challenge. Is it all a dream? I think not, but read it to see where you think the waking begins and ends.

If you wish to recommend other new poems, please feel free to do so in this thread. And read, vote, comment and be poetic!

 

[LeBroz]

Wednesday's Review

.
.

There are 16 New Poems posted today with but 3 catching my eye.


tungtied2u gives us an Ode to a tattoo, a piece perhaps inspired by Eve's recent tattoo AV? My only small quibble is the third strophe:

I am forced to acquiesce
dig into the bodice
of her dress and free
her golden orbs, drink
in their wondrous beauty

I'm thinking that, since the subject matter has already been well established, using "golden orbs" is a bit redundant. Some might go so far as to suggest it as being clichéd. Drop those two words and change "their" to "her" in the final line and it seems more understated. My impression is that by being more understated it carries a greater impact. Just a thought; go ahead and read it all for yourself and see what you think.


Victoria_Lucas has an interesting piece in toward a word. With an opening like this:

i'm straining toward
a commotion
licking olives

picked up
off the floor.
i'm slouching,

you may find yourself rereading this and wondering, what does it all mean?


Finally, KOLKORE gives us a giraffe poem in his Towers in nature. Give this one a try as it is brimming with very vivid imagery. It's easy to imagine, from his words, the giraffe closely examing the poet, then munching on the leaves of a nearby tree.


That's it for today. I'll be back this Friday filling in for a most wondrous poet. In the meantime, read, vote, comment ~ it's the least you can do. Above all, comment ~ a fair exchange for the pleasure of reading free poetry.

.
.

 

[WickedEve]

Thursday

Seven new poems this morning. Will there be more? Answer me! Will there? Okay, I'm doing the seven that are posted. The first one I read is by AnonAndAnon.

Let's go out for a drink
I take a six-pack out to the porch,
The spring peepers make a din
Just as loud as any bar,
The screens keep the mosquitoes out,
They can't pay the cover charge.
The moon sits on the neighbor's roof,

This is a nice poem. When I say nice, I'm talking about nice like a conversation on the front porch.

------------------------------

Black Girl by Willow Rain is an erotic and earthy poem. I have a few nitpicks but, other than that, I do like it very much.

I will
make her a sweet grass ring,
talk her into laying down
in calf high clover,

--------------------------------

If you enjoy a sonnet, then Anschul brings you Sonnet 4 - What Money Can Buy

Goes on when other businesses can't bear
The stench of economy's dying beat.
When men can't thump their chests for all to see,
When frightened for the treasure they have lost,
When masters lose that thing that sets them free,

----------------------------------

Steam
by x_ray_glasses

Curling in gossamer wisps
As it curls your hair
Steam

Rivulets of sweat trace
The curve of your breast
Steam

I read this poem and thought it wasn't bad. I kind of like it, despite some cliché stuff going on in the poem. Maybe I like the repetition of Steam. Anyway, give it a read.

---------------------------------

 

[LeBroz]

Friday's Review

.
.


Filling in for the formidable Champs, I see that today's New Poems have but four new postings showing up. What I did see didn't grab me, but I'll check in from time to time to see if there are any additional postings later in the day.

In any case, feel free to check out any of the new postings. Just bear in mind my favorite maxim to read, vote, comment ~ it's the least you can do. Above all, comment ~ a fair exchange for the pleasure of reading free poetry.

.
.

 

[Liar]

Sunday reviews

15 poems on this sunny Sunday. I'll check in later to see if there's anything added during the day. But so far there are four that stands out.





Each time you've left by AnonAndAnon is a toned down and poignant view from the home front. A simple image conveying much complex emotion.

Each time you've left
I've taken our son's colored chalk
And round your remembered steps
I've drawn outlines on the walk
And then watched them fade
From use or from rain.


---------

For something merrier, here's Little Letters by Willow Rain. A sweet and kind of earthy, old school style filled with anticipation.

She hints about
sticky sweet.
How she’ll fill my bowl
with enough dark sugar
that I’ll have to use both hands
to hold it all.


---------


dominatrix by RubyFern has a compressed and intense style that takes careful reading. I'm not always not quite sure where one notion ends and the next begin, which can be only confusing, but here adds to the erotic effect. Personaqlly, I'm not a big fan of the oyster metaphor, but each to their own.



fleshy oyster drips
and sips up the wetness
in swollen lips of crimson
drip the blood
beneath the hide where
fear creeps up rotten


-------------


SunrockSin's To the Second to Last Poet gets extra kudos for the intriguing title, and the poem itself does not dissapoint. A blue homage to a fellow wordsmith. Done in rhyming couplets without feeling the least bit forced.

We broke their lines, set words free,
blued their skies with metaphor
though they called us bourgeoisie
it was we who searched for more.



Keep it up, poets.

 

[WickedEve]

Monday

Nine new poems for Monday. Most of them are good. There are two by Liar that I recommend reading.

Shoegazing and While Waiting for a White Trabant

As I said, most of the new poems are good, but after reading Liar's two, the rest just seemed to fade away. Please read them all. Liar, if these two poems show up in a book, I'd buy it.

 

[Angeline]

April 1, 2008

I have an announcement. I am leaving the poetry forum to pursue my new and true calling: scuba diving.

Not.

Happy April Fool's Day.

There are 14 new poems posted today. Here are my favorites:

Our own unpredictablebijou has three new submissions today. All are good because Bijou is a wonderful writer and a natural storyteller. My favorite is Fall, the least prosy of the three.

Though my legs are water
and my arms are ghosts,
you hold me firm
and though I take
the force of you against my sail of spine
I will not fall

Don't miss Take, Eat, which strikes me as a little morality play, or Quia Peccavi, which is true and has a wonderfully funny/ironic ending. A new poem day with Bijou poems is a good new poem day.

Justmyimagination is a new Lit poet with two submissions up today: 14 and Natural Wonder. I found both of his poems especially interesting in light of the Emily Dickinson poetry challenge this week, and ED's short, simply worded poems. Just's poems seem similarly structured to me (but without rhyme), and it's interesting to see how a short, rather clipped writing style can still evoke really clear images for the reader. This seems very true of 14, less so of Natural Wonder to me. See what you think.

bluebell7 has exactly two poems at Lit, one posted over a year ago and today's posting, Respirator. It is amazing writing. Do not miss it! I am not kidding!

There are girls who befriend it, the fog.
Harbor small hopes until truth comes
Rather than mark time, they curl in its mantle
The cold fuzz of numb
Abnegate.

Some stiffen under its bulk and pray for discovery-
Hand-picked. Indigo with wait
They line up
unrealized paper dolls.

HeartShapedAss is a writer (with a really hawt name) whose poems I always enjoy reading. Her posting today Soul's Worth strikes me as less strong than some of her other poems--or maybe it's the stellar company she keeps today. Nevertheless, today's offering has its strength in a quiet sort of way.

What I've known
shoulda stayed free
I sold cheap
a whole soul's worth
the truth that was my own

What I find
so cruel, not kind
despite the cost
I bought the truth
and did not sell it.

Kolkore has a touch of spring fever in I see good signs on the road. Any poem that references forsythia blossoming makes me extemely jealous because there's still *a lot* of snow in my neck of the woods, but this poem, in spite of its need for some editing, has a delightfully springy feel that seems just right to me for the beginning of April.

And then there's Mock Ulysses and the Siren from the possibly-Nobel-Prize-winning (if you believe La Hynde) Tzara. Poetry flows effortlessly from his pen (keyboard?) in this one, except maybe for his "wax-encrusted ears," which is maybe TMI for moi.

Only the infirmity of distance
cripples my pursuit, keeps me off
the flinty rock of my desire
that rises, streaming with seaweed,
from the deep, chthonic Id.

All in all, it's a very good day for new poems here, so please don't miss out on these little wonders, and don't forget to vote and comment after you read.

 

[LeBroz]

Wednesday's Review

.
.

Yesterday was April Fool's Day, so today's listing of 36 New Poems must not be a joke. There are 14 illustrated poems plus 22 other poems. At first glance most seem rather nice, but I'll focus on those that seem to stand out {at least to me} and deserve your attention.

Among the illustrated poems there are three I'm recommending, then we'll see what the other poems have to offer.


robert12 offers up A Feather on Alcatraz. While not as powerful an illustrated piece as the other two that caught my eye, I still found my eyes drawn to the illustration while reading the poem. The poem itself could stand on its own merits. Still, the illustration seems to add something to the poem and support its subdued dramatic overtone.


Jamison has a rather surrealistic vision in Cutter with some really strong emotional content. This is one of those MUST READS.


SunrockSin has a powerful piece in Teardrops. The illustration of standing water with the ripples of raindrops is an excellent background to the sad and moving end of the poem. I'd say this should also be a MUST READ for you today.



That's it for the illustrated pieces. There are other nice ones that you might like, but that's it for me today with the illustrated poems. Now to check out the other poems, taking them as they come.



sweet GA peaches offers up a very brief erotic piece in Pitch Black, that says very little yet manages to create an image of one very winded lover — just think of all the exertions needed to create stars.


slyc_willie has a piece that sounds best read aloud. When done so, Union has a breathless, almost panting sound with its rather clipped style as it works up to the climactic conclusion.


Anschul is back with another sonnet. He seems to be maturing quite nicely in the form as in March he speaks of the move from Winter's harsh ending to the coming of Spring and hope. This is quite good and you ought to give it a try.


thepaleeyes from over in the UK has a real oddity in Seminal Boat and Catfights. If you want to try something that's a bit offbeat, this might just be the one for you — and than you can decide if the poet has had a bit much to drink or smoke or both.


And while not quite as powerful as some of her earlier submissions, Curiouswife offers up a pair in To Bide One's Time and And So It Is, this last being the better of the pair in my humble estimation. But check them both out and feel the undercurrent of emotion that's present.


Finally, Biffalo_Buff has a pair posted for your consideration. While both are a bit odd, I think they're both MUST READS as well for today. Just look as this snip from Dakini:

you open her to the world of adamantine words
rich with juice, her throne is corpses like your own
even in your passion for the supple form revealed
she proves that flesh is overlaid like death
around the ecstasy

Or try the really strange Game with its comparisons between a snake and a ladder.

Whew.

That's more than enough for today. There are plenty more out there to pick from, if you so choose. But that's all you get from me for today. Give these and perhaps the others a look-see; just remember what I always say to do: read, vote, comment ~ it's the least you can do. Above all, comment ~ a fair exchange for the pleasure of reading free poetry.

.
.

 

[WickedEve]

Thursday

An April Headline seems to be a poet's attempt to deal, once again, with tragedy, and we all know that writing is great therapy. This poem incorporates a handful of lines from a news article about fifteen-year-old April's violent end.

An April Headline
by swallowedscream
did he see only meat and not her soul?
hadn't he seen her eyes sparkle in the sunlight?
what was he thinking when he stole her tomorrows?
was she only spent, splayed legs and an inconvenience ?
"The state will not seek the death penalty..."

~~~

Silk
by Curiouswife
blushed in red heat
like peppers
crushed
creeping up my collar.

A fairly brief poem with some lovely and original lines, like the ones above.

Mud Dive is another good one by Curiouswife.

~~~



Also today, we have four new poems by fallenangel_jaded

Anschul gives us two new poems. You may want to check out I Hate New York: Unfriendly? Greasy sidewalks, sagging boobs/On aging hookers, pissing vagrants, sore

And one new poem by sheyna with lots of numbers.


~

 

[champagne1982]

It's good to be back home and able to read some terrific poetry.

First up this Friday the fourth of April is vampiredust's poem Knife. Chris uses the description in his poem to attach figurative value to his father's possessions and then, lumps himself in with them. I think you should go fishing with this poet and enjoy his words.

leeuwenhoek, on love by ElmerGlew, is a poem that proves the theory that anything goes when it comes to choosing a subject. I love how the handprint is absorbed by the wet concrete that dissolves into the skin of a lover's thigh and becomes the amoeba squished between the cover slip and the glass of a specimen slide. It's a freaking great title and a really fine poem.

If you've ever wondered how to tell a poetry reviewer to not critique a poem, you should read ChuckRickman's poem No Worries. It really is the thought that counts.

There are other new poems today that are good reads and I hope if you find one that you think should be reviewed or mentioned on this thread that you do so. Have a good weekend, everyone.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

I found this one by thepaleeyes pretty interesting. It's pretty rough and bumpy in spots but I was engaged by the first couple of lines - "Shall we wait and see what happens?"

I'm thinkin' this author has some potential; s/he's digging around for unique subjects and interesting metaphors. Try it and see what you think.

bj

 

[LeBroz]

I found this one by thepaleeyes pretty interesting. It's pretty rough and bumpy in spots but I was engaged by the first couple of lines - "Shall we wait and see what happens?"

I'm thinkin' this author has some potential; s/he's digging around for unique subjects and interesting metaphors. Try it and see what you think.

bj

I'll second that recommendation. TPE is tryinng to get one of his pieces pulled {being published elsewhere, I think} so you may want to take a quick look at what he's got up before it's gone. Creative seems to be an understatement when describing his poems.

.
.

 

[Unbridled_Passion]

Saturday Poems


Seduction by Lady_Guenivere... read and enjoy.....(~_~)


have a quality week (~_~)


Met (sorry Lou...did it again)

 

[Liar]

Sunday April 6

12 new poems and 5 i find pretty good. That must be considered a decent day.


Nirvanadragones starts today off with Enharmonic, a vivid little nature poem well worth a read.


I'm not sure I understand Changing Sixes by Victoria_Lucas, but it had enough interresting twists to keep me entertaned until it lost me.


divorce, with insects by ElmerGlew has enough of a quirky perspective to pique my interrest. poignant in one way, cynical in another.


If that was quirky, the next one is anything but. Three Days by AnonAndAnon paints a nice, homely picture. Pretty straightforward in a disarming way. I like.


Dream Sequence (1) and (2) by DawnJ makes an interresting pair. The first is the better poem in it's spartan simpleness, but they're clearly meant to be read together, so here they are.

 

[WickedEve]

Monday

A Single Breath by WFEATHER
Nice, lean poem, with hardly any wasted words. I don't think much else could be cut from this one. Maybe "needed to live" but I'm only iffy about that. Good poem.

Thoughts one mornin... by krazee_at_25
This poem does have some interesting morning thoughts.

Subconsciously standing I am back in my recital
...facing the sensei who has made me subtle,
(With hands juxtaposed together to start my poem)
...the eyes around me check once more
before giving a nod to make me create furor...


Her Rose Lately Pic'd by woz8822
Give this one a look. I enjoyed reading it silently, as well as reading it aloud.
A taste:
our privy parts
did roundly fit –
arrow's tip
to archer's mark.

Anxious by CeriseNoire
I just have to like this one for lines like, his nice guy varnish/tarnished.

its flaccidity glaring
without tricks, light,
or shadows.

I'm Anxious for you to read Anxious. (I know. Boo and Hiss for that bit of silliness.)

My Hands Long For More by f-cynyr
There are parts that I feel are a bit cliche but not cringe-worthy. Other parts are wonderfully lovely.

My hands long to see more
than chores and scraping toil,
they hunger for the taste of spices,
of cloves and nutmeg, and dream
of breathing in the vanilla
dust of your desire.

Also, by f-cynyr Breath Control
A good piece of erotica.

I hold you wrapped in
the garrote of my hands,
I hold you captive in the
cage of my fingers.

 

[Angeline]

Tuesday April 8

There are nine new poems today.

dorksickle has two short poems. I like Being in Denial, but a date at baskin robbins is my favorite of the two.

sawzall by suitep is very erotic and well written though I think some judicious shaping would really pull it together and make it shine even more.

Willow Rain's Cutter is written with a precision befitting its subject and gives an objective look at one of the many permutations of love.

tungtied2u has a sort of dramatic monologue of a piece in Once more, with feeling. It's very moving and its subject something of a universal experience, I think.

Please find time to read, vote where you can, and most important leave some feedback to show you were there!

 

[LeBroz]

Wednesday's Review

.
.

There are but nine New Poems out today. Quite a contrast from last week's abundance. Still, it seems as though the poets around here are starting to crawl out from under their Winter rocks as the Spring's warmth soaks in. Some seem a bit rusty and I got one today that seems a tad cranky.


kayne0 is a new poet here with an oddly compelling first post in Dreams of apparitions, which has a certain symmetry about it:

you are there
I see you
in a world of darkness
candles your only light
I move towards you
a shadow among shadows
till at last I am beside you
we embrace, we kiss
a kiss like no other

//snip\\ //snip\\

I am there
you see me
asleep on a bed of darkness
candles my only light
you run to me
a light among the shadows
till at last you are beside me
I awaken, I smile
a smile like no other

Victoria_Lucas almost sounds like a cranky reviewer with her sardonic This Piece of Shit which almost comes across as a parody of too many poems we see here at Lit and ends on such an invitingly self-deprecating note:

I’ll quit here
so you can trash
this piece of shit.

That's it for today. There are, of course, others out there that may appeal to your own sense of poetry. By all means, go ahead and read, vote, comment ~ it's the least you can do. Above all, comment ~ a fair exchange for the pleasure of reading free poetry.


.
.

 

[WickedEve]

Thursday

Good morning. I've been checking for new poems and still don't see any. I will keep checking. Until a new poem pops up, try giving yesterday's poems a read. That's what I'm about to do.


New poems are posted. Only four and not sure if there will be more. A couple of them have an interesting phrase or two, but you give the new poems a read and see what you think.

 

[champagne1982]

Good day, this delightful spring morning Friday, April 11th brings 15 new poems along with its thaw.

Refugee by Willow Rain tells a story of love found in the wasteland that wars always leave behind. It's visual and poignant and quite good. There are always suggestions to offer that would make the poem better for a particular reader and to improve it for me, I think there are a few words and phrases that are redundant in the poem and could be trimmed away. Otherwise, a fine piece to start my reading on.

Nirvanadragones shares a solid piece in her offering Lighthouse Keeper. This poem shows a great use of metaphor and uses really fine imagery to capture the emotions discussed within the story. Sure, I'd like a more rhythmic narration throughout it, but that doesn't deplete my enjoyment of the poem.

tungtied2u brings us strong imagery in Once more, with feeling (reprise). This is a poem that assails the reader with bullet-like statements, then seems to lower the muzzle of the rifle to let us bleed out in to an uncomfortable understanding of loss.

Don't miss ArnoldSnarb's quatrain, Finicky. You'll see why once you read it.

My favourite read today comes from a returning poet, Cordelia. She is gracing our Friday read with her poem, The Book I'm Going To Recommend. It is a rich narrative poem that will take you through a novel punctuated with bits of history and memory and a whole lot of life. A really great lesson in use of description to add realism to a poem that's not really about being in a book store, after all.

That's all for today. I wish you a good weekend that bring you motivated for lawn and garden work . If you read a poem on the new list that you feel should be reviewed or mentioned on this thread, I hope you feel welcome to write one and post it here.

 

[My Erotic Trail]

no poems out yet
will check back later.....

 

[Liar]

Sunday

Without further ado... 14 new poems, 3 that IMO deserves an extra nod.



When Death stopped by by AnonAndAnon. Death as a robe, a schythe and a gloomy disposition? Not quite.

When Death stopped by,
I had to apologize,
"I'm not up for entertaining -
I'm busy with dying
And'm not at my best."
He waved a bottle of rye.
"Come in!" I cried,
"Don't be shy!".

...

Forge by DawnJ. A dark and strangely eloquent piece that is best when read aloud.

“What a world, eh?” the wispy voice
Replied to my slow sigh.
“No guarantees here!” The sound
Brushed like old leaves against the sky.

...

And best today, Theme Music by sassynyc. Cool, condensed, sexy, musical.

Trouble sits deep
In the curve
Of these lips