New Poetry Recommendations

[loganforester]

I dunno, Logan. I'd say all three have some merit, though I was most partial to two of them.

Scout by Victoria_Lucas is really quite wonderful, to me. I love the almost absentminded air of it. Like she's being careless with more than just her clothes. Like catching the riveting ends of conversational snippets. Like seeing the very insides of a lure.
I think everyone should read this poem, but that's just me. I don't recall having ruling rights over the poetry community but for what it's worth, do it now.

Doll Face by our resident greenmountaineer is also worth a read. Just as the title promises, this poem is the literary equivalent to the sicky-sweet eye-popping that can be found in everyday life, and then disrupted without care.

While I face down thoughts like these
And spoon-feed doll face more of this mash.

A really enjoyable read. Goggly-eyed good.

Thanks for taking the time to add to my quasi-review from yesterday. Perhaps I was a bit harsh on the poems or I was having an off day. Different strokes.

 

[bluebell]

Thanks for taking the time to add to my quasi-review from yesterday. Perhaps I was a bit harsh on the poems or I was having an off day. Different strokes.

No, no- I'm glad every time I see you show up.
You weren't harsh, I'm just a flibbertigibbet. And also, reading three poems is good. It's like drinking a V8 or something.
Or something.
Something good happens, at any rate.

 

[annaswirls]

I am finally home.

New Poems

Two illustrated today:

Clever girl likes to get us thinking she does not know....Painted in Raindrops - Submitted by UnderYourSpell (Illustrated Poetry) 05/06/09

Did you draw that Tess? Very flowery bird girl! What is Limodiad? All I could think was Limonaide and it made me thirsty. Limodiad - Submitted by Tristesse2 (Illustrated Poetry) 05/06/09


Matters of the heart - Submitted by tungtied2u (Non-Erotic Poetry) 05/06/09

"O'dark thirty,"

This poem is heartwrenching. I want to avoid it, you might too, in denial, but don't. Read the whole thing, then come back up to the top. What a cool line. I think this poem deserves a better title.


Baby Brother - Submitted by Firerocket67 (Non-Erotic Poetry) 05/06/09
Another heartbreaker. In this sad story, there is a poem waiting to be born. As is, sounds like a journal entry. Full of heart and some really nice ideas that would be great as a poem.

so how do I really enjoy a holiday again
listen to the birds in the morning and not think
"He probably did this sometimes too"

I hope this poet revisits this painful topic and really distills his feelings and memories down to tangible events that represent his pain and experience. For example, the quote above, the listening to birds...thinking his brother must have done that as well. That is a poem waiting to happen.



Fuck me with my boots on - Submitted by SkarlittFeenicks (Erotic Poetry) 05/06/09
I love this title. It holds a special place in my, um, heart.

 

[WickedEve]

Oh, God! It's Thursday, isn't it?

I need to do the thing...

Let me go read the poems, first.

 

[WickedEve]

Sorry to be so late with the reviews. Please give all the new poems a read and don't miss these:

Morning by bogusagain

Worship by Crystal_Gem

The One Who Saved Me by Curiouswife

Transfiguration by Cal Y. Pygia

 

[Epmd607]

A couple days of New Poems

Crystal_Gem has been writing some gems.

Somebody who reminds me of CuriousWife, CorinnaParr maybe, has two poems up, one is better than the other. Curiouswife has already been mentioned in previous posts.

Keroin has a Sloop John B poem up that is almost excellent, it's the sort of poem that is perhaps too personally detailed and therefore some readers of poems can't really figure out what's going on. Intimate details, inside info that the person he wrote it for/about would get, but not EPMD607 on literotica. I do really like his toothbrush sharing scenarios; maybe we share a fetish, Keroin(never a toothbrush.)

Ramona's hypergraphia isn't as interesting as it once was.

Cal Y pygia has a single poem up. This is a good poem, didn't quite get the last line though "Now thrice denied"? Are we talking Peter and The Cock? It has been mentioned before, it's tough reading six poems all in a row, you end up skimming. Same thing with posting eight individual poems a day, once you've read one that's not so hot you don't go and click on the other ones.

I'd say go read all of Crystal Gem's poems if you don't want to go through the list for the last week. She seems to have the ability to write an erotic poem, as opposed to most of what goes on here at this literary erotica. There hasn't been much quality these last few weeks for whatever reason. Sadly, all the penguin poets have migrated.

Throwback poem of the decade: Hanna Loves Horses by. Foehn ---> http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=186294

Foehn hasn't been around in a while, but he writes sentimentalist gems. He's got something in every poem that I'd change, but the poems are good regardless of my obsessive impulse. H Loves Horses kills it with its borderline sappy horse/Hanna epiphanies, you never know if he's talking about a woman or girl, maybe it's a threshold kind of deal. Reminds me of many females I grew up with in Upstate New York. You think of cows when you think of central new york, but we have a lot more horse farms/ranches/stables than you'd think--and they're all manned by fifteen year old girls who wholly embrace the platonic form of 'horse' as described in H Loves H's.

 

[bluebell]

I just spent an hour writing a review for Friday and Saturday, and then the power went out. I probably don't have to tell you how mad I am (there was cursing, and there continues to be cursing). I tried to restore my previous session but it only gave me a blank page. :sob:

I don't think I can re-write it all, especially not right now. I think I'll feel inclined later, but because I'm so damn mad all I can tell you is that you need to read Curiouswife, Hot Cross Buns Rewrite by Ramona Thompson, Tristesse, Corinna Parr, and Bogus from Friday and Saturday. Probably a few others, too, but I hadn't quite gotten to them yet.

To those who I left comments about dropping by for the review, I apologize. That will teach me to leave those until everything's done and posted. :superdupermadface:

Have I said GRRRRRRRRR yet?

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Damn! Did it again!

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

Monday, May 11, 2009

There are 9 new poems today.

I was just thinking yesterday about how some poets and artists are prone to dark moods. (Not a astounding epiphany, I know.) Today, we have Fear In My Soul by sweetNpassion. I appreciate when people use art of any kind to express disturbing feelings, though I feel that this use of poetry is often of the best service to the poet rather than the reader. This poem led me to thoughts of honesty in poetry versus perception and whether or not there is a difference.

Spirit Solution Sense by EroticOrogeny provokes thought about the assumed increase in understanding when a soul transcends mortality's limits. I found this to be a very interesting read.

Epmd607 gives us Her Hypergraphia. I find this to be another fine example of erotic poetry as a slice-of-life sample of sexual events with some sort of unique perspective or twist. Nicely done!

A heartwrenching poem, Dear Briona by greenmountaineer, caught my eye. Powerful words crisply and economically utilized. Give it a read!

Then, we get to familiars by hmmnmmish.. and I have to take a step back and try to gain some objectivity. I love hmmnmm's poetry.
The first 2 lines:

Kicked out of the excursion's
umpteenth drive-through slime lunch rush,​

seemed to just have that edge or angle that I expect from hmmnmm. With phrases like "lexical coppers" and "a gorge's cedar-scented inseam," there is texture to his poetry. Okay, maybe I fundamentally failed at being the least bit objective. Give it a read and see what you think.

Don't forget to vote in the poetry categories of the Reader's [sic] Choice Awards.
Enjoy some poetry today! Please take a moment to read, vote, and comment.

 

[annaswirls]

Hello! I have decided to start sleeping again so might not be around as much as usual, but here it is Wednesday. New Poems


Hey! I like this one-- a triolet? It works.
Sugar and Spice -Submitted by MickNasty (Erotic Poetry) 05/13/09

Sugar and spice and everything nice
A lie if ever there was one.

~

Oooh I like this one too. Naughty sexy good. Enjoy the phrasing, the innuendo, clever.

Crush - Submitted by JamesCiriaco (Erotic Poetry) 05/13/09

There were certain
disturbances:

Drought - Submitted by JamesCiriaco (Erotic Poetry) 05/13/09
Oh dang, this guy knows how to write erotica embedded within a poem, not for erotica's sake, but a nice blend of the two. Okay he uses bleached bones, but who cares? Who can argue with this?

The gila monster pulses its pebbled skin

Please go read and welcome this new talent to Literotica poetry.

~

Tears -Submitted by Remec (Non-Erotic Poetry) 05/13/09
Straight from the 20 questions thread. It hurt when I read it there, and the wound is still fresh. Definitely a must read. I think this poem deserves a more clever title.

This is a sweet-sad poem, Heat-Death - Submitted by CorinnaParr (Non-Erotic Poetry) 05/13/09

When I was younger, I found a baby bird
Fallen from its nest, head huddled...

There are others for you to read, go get 'em. Send your encouragement if you have a moment.

 

[WickedEve]

Thursday

Only four new poems posted so far. Give them all a read, especially In Phoebe’s Cottage by greenmountaineer. I'll check back later and see if more poems show up.

 

[bluebell]

Friday & Saturday

There aren't any poems for today (yet to come?) so I'll talk about Friday's offerings which are actually a solo show.

Triara joined at the beginning of May and has submitted several poems since then, most of them coming yesterday.

I don't know whether anyone has read the book or seen the movie Cold Comfort Farm (if you haven't, I HIGHLY recommend the movie- I haven't gotten to the book), but given this crowd I suspect some of you have. Always with the goodness are you people. Anyway, Triara's poems mostly remind me of what Elfine Starkadder's poetry would be like were we to hear any. Very connected to nature, whimsy, and romanticism.

My two choices of her current works are Longing and I Wish. Each of these resonates with me, and while there's nothing new under the sun it's still always a boon (at least to me) to find you've felt the same as someone else- someone you don't know. It brings a validation which it becomes difficult to afford ourselves when left alone too long with our feelings.

Longing is an erotic poem and the thought captured by the first stanza is really excellent:

Somehow, every time that i start over and keep on looking,
Things get harder, fences get higher
I require proof and persistence
If I am caught, does the hunter know what to do with me?
The chase is easy, taming is the challenge
Where are the walls and how far can I go on my tether?
Does he care enough to haul me in,
Are there consequences or indifference if I wander off course?
How do I know who I belong to, whose feet I kneel before?

I require proof and persistence. Who cannot understand that? It's concretely human. And then figuring out your relationship to others, to a lover. How (and if) your "pieces" fit together. Aside from being erotic (if you enjoy a BDSM flavor, which I do), the poem brings up the subject of ownership. To whom do we belong? Who do we allow to "own" us, sexually, spiritually, physically, emotionally?
She is talking about one of the best kinds of ownership, of course, but I couldn't help reading her poem and approaching it from a very cerebral POV as well.

My second choice, I Wish, is also a poem that I felt deeply when reading. In fact, I may well have been on my way to writing a poem of just that sort of subject matter myself this weekend. Granted, I'm not overly excited when poets invoke images of bleeding inside, etc, not because I think they're bad but more because I think they reveal a youth of words- meaning, I would hope with time a more mature wording of pain would be used- but the poem's feeling makes me nod my head.

I only wish,
For what I am.
It is hard to find.

Considering where your place is, what your function is around the people you're close with. You don't want to burden them because they are obviously dealing with their own issues, so you hold it inside wondering where you're gonna go when you lose your shit. Or if you're already losing it.

She ends the poem with the question, "Am I really that rare?"
Double-mega-whammy-ouch.
I understand.

From a writing perspective I think Triara is still finding her way, it sometimes wavers between too sweet and too intensely saturated, but I do believe she has gifts to offer and I hope she continues to work on her writing.

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

Monday, May 18, 2009

There are only 4 new poems today. So, go ahead! Give them a read!

Due to some internet connectivity issues, I'm going to just leave it at that. I mean, do you really need a briefing on 4 poems anyway? If you find one you want to review, feel free!

Happy reading!

 

[ishtat]

I don't know whether anyone has read the book or seen the movie Cold Comfort Farm (if you haven't, I HIGHLY recommend the movie- I haven't gotten to the book), but given this crowd I suspect some of you have.

The Book is much better than the film - and the film is pretty good, but I am prejudiced in favour because I was brought up on a farm in the west of England and some of the characters are all too real!

Stella Gibbons is now only really remembered for Cold Comfort Farm (1933) which in many ways was a parody of Mary Webb and even Thomas Hardy. She also wrote another twenty or so novels, the wartime ones being pretty good and she also published 4 volumes of poetry. The poetry is almost entirely forgotten but if you're in to 'nature' poems her work is quite good . At least it didn't deserve the shellacking it got from some of the critics, - Virginia Woolf for example who was jealous of Gibbons' success.

 

[ishtat]

There are only 4 new poems today. So, go ahead! Give them a read!

Happy reading!

One is good - I went to that boys school at the time girls were admitted for the first time so I know what Nostalgia is.

The second has a good sense of movement within it, its best feature for me.

The third seems a bit disjointed and unfinished.

The fourth! 'Hmmm' - least said soonest mended perhaps.

Tip . read 'em from the bottom up.

 

[annaswirls]

Sorry, nothing to say this morning:

http://www.literotica.com/stories/new_submissions.php?type=poem

Some illustrated poems came up later today-- go check them out. Purdy.

 

[WickedEve]

Thursday

There are quite a few good and very good new poems for Thursday. If you don't have time to read them all, at least check out these poems:

Waters Gray and Green by Cal Y. Pygia

Except when, in profile, they perplex
Us with their slender angularity,
Pouting like stems flowering before
Brick walls and troubled days;

Cal Y. Pygia almost always writes something of interest and originality. Today's piece of erotic is lovely and well written. Honestly, I was a bit burned out on Cal's poetry. So I took a break and began reading his/her work again this morning. Fortunately, Waters Gray and Green was awaiting me. Go read it!

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Take a moment in your day to give bflagsst's two newest poems a read.

Your Love Stands Contagious
Say you'll pin-up,
come undone for me,
come apart in stitches,

Illustration of a Painted Lady
When we were young
your hair was red, your lips
were the lips of a friend.

 

[annaswirls]

Check out these two

Birch Tree and Woodpecker by bronyaur67©

 

[bluebell]

Saturday

Saturday's new poems were a strange bunch. I hope you don't mind my saying that it was mostly a wheat/chaff sort of day.

My first pick is On the Beach by vjrose10. Once again she has a way of melting her words all over the place like warm syrup, descriptions liquid and delicious. My only qualm with this poem is the way it was phrased. Her words ought to be showcased, and running them together as a prose poem makes seeing the full beauty a little bit difficult. Still, her language is exquisite and I enjoyed it very much.

My second pick is The Stepmother Speaks by CorinnaParr. As ever, Corinna packs a wallop when she steps up to the plate. If I could bottle her particular brand of unassuming sweetness, dry wit, wry observation, and blunt poetic edge then I would buy a bunch of bottles and rub the stuff all over me when I felt suckful about my words. There really is no good way to adore her brevity and candor. I think reading is just about the best way. Savor it; she keeps getting better.

 

[vrosej10]

Hi Bluebell

On the Beach was an experiment is an experimental format. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I am only fairly new to poetry. I am a Writing major at an Australian University who normally writes non-fiction and short stories. Poetry is a leap for me. Thanks for the kind words though.

 

[PandoraGlitters]

New Poems Recommendations for Sunday

There were 21 new poems on Sunday. Of these, I liked only the one that Bluebell already mentioned: The Stepmother Speaks, though much more for its retelling of this old story than the diction, which seemed, like the images, too expected. Still, I was engaged by the character's story.

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

Monday, May 25, 2009

I'm running out of time today. I have about 3 more hours of work and only 2 more hours left in the day, but I wanted to mention greenmountaineer's poem, I Think. Therefore, It Is. Despite some grammar infractions, it is an interesting read.

Take a few moments and browse the new poems for today.

 

[WickedEve]

Tuesday

Since Tuesday's poems were not mentioned, I'll give you a quickie.

I like bits and pieces of Night Blooming by vrosej10:
A glimpse, white ginger in the shade

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Make sure to read Helicon in High Summer by CorinnaParr:
I'll try to enjoy the cracked white marble

Anyway.

 

[WickedEve]

Wednesday

I'd like to mention a few poems from Wednesday, then I'll be back later with the Thursday's poems.

I have a feeling that poetry from the STC: Please Read the Letter that I Wrote thread are beginning to show up on the new poems list:

take your hand by keacreme is poetic letter to My Dear Husband.

excerpt:
I want you to take your hand, that pen-fondling number-fumbler, and touch the bruise where my neck and shoulder meet.

Very nice!

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The titles for JamesCiriaco's Syrinx by the River Ladon and Winter Skyline Over Fairview Park are enough to satisfy me. Fortunately, I didn't stop at the titles. Both poems are skillfully written. I personally prefer the Fairview Park poem. Please take time to read and comment.

 

[WickedEve]

Thursday

For Thursday, go read Breaking Stuff at the Smash Shack by pushkine.

Or heart to hurl against their steel back wall.
What I want is shards, the thin ones that cut

When you walk over them, Miranda. Cut
The way you cut me out, like an old vase
Of unbecoming form.