Your Best Title Ever

[annaswirls]

What's your best title, ever, Anna? I know you've written many wonderful ones.

Go on, post your favorite title. Could be for a poem, story, novel, song, sculpture, whatever. Anything you gave a title to. No, not Sir Poops-Alot the title you gave your Dalmatian.

Doesn't have to be on lit, but if it is, please include a link. Unless you hate the poem but love the title.

If you have a story about how you came up with the title, please feel free to share.


Oh and if you feel like it, post your other favorite titles here too. I am partial to Half asleep in Frog Pajamas.

 

[annaswirls]

I kind of like "It is Rusted, I am Blind"

I got some really nice comments on that one. 8 of them! I miss the days of many comments. Did not realize how much of a treat that was! Two nice ones by anonymous (by the way, that is not one person, as some would believe)

I have no idea how I came up with the title. There must have been a reason.

 

[Angeline]

Go on, post your favorite title. Could be for a poem, story, novel, song, sculpture, whatever. Anything you gave a title to. No, not Sir Poops-Alot the title you gave your Dalmatian.

Doesn't have to be on lit, but if it is, please include a link. Unless you hate the poem but love the title.

If you have a story about how you came up with the title, please feel free to share.


Oh and if you feel like it, post your other favorite titles here too. I am partial to Half asleep in Frog Pajamas.

Lol. It was a shepherd-great dane mix named Shakespeare.

Well, after the coffee poem, here are some titles by me that I like:

She Stoops to Conquer (though technically Sir William Congreve gets that credit)

Lady's Blues in Winter

After I Loved You

Bibliobliss

Diana on the Cliff

Eating a Full Moon

Herstory

Frrbitt Whispers

Gimmie Gimmie Time Zone

Those are all decent, I think. N ot the best titles but not bad either.

 

[normal jean]

Go on, post your favorite title. Could be for a poem, story, novel, song, sculpture, whatever. Anything you gave a title to. No, not Sir Poops-Alot the title you gave your Dalmatian.

Doesn't have to be on lit, but if it is, please include a link. Unless you hate the poem but love the title.

If you have a story about how you came up with the title, please feel free to share.


Oh and if you feel like it, post your other favorite titles here too. I am partial to Half asleep in Frog Pajamas.

anna, remember when I wrote a poem about working in fog and you said you thought I had written "froggy pajamas?" that was the coolest slip/read on a title I ever heard, I don't even have that poem anymore

My favorite title of my own is "To water a Garden, Lewdly" or "Canning Mr. Wrong"

I miss the era of many comments too so while I have the time, I am going to comment avidly like I used to. I only stopped because I didn't want my name up there are the top of that most comments list . I hate being listed...for anything.

Angeline, I always like your Bagel Wisdom and wrote a similar one "Peanut Wisdom." Thanks for letting me copy off you

 

[Angeline]

anna, remember when I wrote a poem about working in fog and you said you thought I had written "froggy pajamas?" that was the coolest slip/read on a title I ever heard, I don't even have that poem anymore

My favorite title of my own is "To water a Garden, Lewdly" or "Canning Mr. Wrong"

I miss the era of many comments too so while I have the time, I am going to comment avidly like I used to. I only stopped because I didn't want my name up there are the top of that most comments list . I hate being listed...for anything.

Angeline, I always like your Bagel Wisdom and wrote a similar one "Peanut Wisdom." Thanks for letting me copy off you

Anytime Sis. I totally forgot about that one.

 

[Tzara]

Go on, post your favorite title.

Ever is a very, very long time, so I'll just say that considering my own things, I was way more pleased with the title of "Breaking Stuff at the Smash Shack" than I was by the poem.

Aesthetically, that isn't good.

My vote for champeen titleist of, at least, fairly contemporary poetry is James Wright. I mean, titles like "As I Step Over A Puddle At The End Of Winter, I Think Of An Ancient Chinese Governor" or "Depressed by a Book of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward an Unused Pasture and Invite the Insects to Join Me" are so perfectly wonderful, one wonders why he bothered to write the poem they label. He was done, and perfect, by finishing the title.

Oddly (or perhaps not oddly), wonderful poems often have dull titles.

The title is important, but not as important as the poem. A great title married to an uninteresting poem is way worse than the opposite.

 

[annaswirls]

Ever is a very, very long time,

it's also a good title. I think I will use it

 

[annaswirls]

anna, remember when I wrote a poem about working in fog and you said you thought I had written "froggy pajamas?" that was the coolest slip/read on a title I ever heard, I don't even have that poem anymore

My favorite title of my own is "To water a Garden, Lewdly" or "Canning Mr. Wrong"

I miss the era of many comments too so while I have the time, I am going to comment avidly like I used to. I only stopped because I didn't want my name up there are the top of that most comments list . I hate being listed...for anything.

Angeline, I always like your Bagel Wisdom and wrote a similar one "Peanut Wisdom." Thanks for letting me copy off you

of course there is your Change Minus Quarters, which is also a favorite of mine

and hey, that comment comment was not directed at you. Lives change, patterns change, everything changes.... I certainly do not comment like I used to either!

okay gotta run run run

 

[normal jean]

of course there is your Change Minus Quarters, which is also a favorite of mine

and hey, that comment comment was not directed at you. Lives change, patterns change, everything changes.... I certainly do not comment like I used to either!

okay gotta run run run

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You have always been very supportive, Anna and I have always appreciated that about you. I know that wasn't directed at me, shoot, I was feeling bad for not leaving my 2 cents for a long time, you know, the world wont spin if I don't have part in it, lol. When I am working I don't feel like even reading much less deciding how I feel about what I read. There isn't much poetry in a hard hat and steel toe boots.

 

[Epmd607]

There isn't much poetry in a hard hat and steel toe boots.

I'ma steel that line for a pome, claim these words as my own.

My favorite title is "Semaphore From a Moored Ship"

 

[normal jean]

I'ma steel that line for a pome, claim these words as my own.

My favorite title is "Semaphore From a Moored Ship"

well, if you must

I wanna go back to work, whaa.

 

[champagne1982]

In desperation for a topic, the poet sees her toes.

 

[EroticOrogeny]

All my professional publications have staid titles as one would expect.

Some word/number play in my Five Square Anniversary - poem itself a mixed bag.
Perhaps MoPenguin, might be unique. Most of rest pretty bland.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I'm good at titles. I'ma stick with Lit titles, though. Lessee.

Three-Foot No-Cock Zone?
Front Lawn Butt Sex?
Akron Needs a Little More than Dental Floss?

I get hits from the titles, but dunno if people like the stories.

I liked "Sexuagronomy" for my poetry, though. Or "When Geeks Send Mash Notes."

 

[EroticOrogeny]

In desperation for a topic, the poet sees her toes.

Interesting title. You seem to have developed a nice poem with it too.

 

[champagne1982]

Interesting title. You seem to have developed a nice poem with it too.

It came about toward the end of another 30 poems in 30 days round. Once you've done a few of those, you feel as if you're writing the same poem over and over. It's a great place to write a lot of poems in order to glean a few that you can dress up to take out in public. I'll go look for the link but don't expect me to bump it, that would mean I'd have to find 30 bump poems and I'm simply too busy over the next couple of weeks.

eta: 30 poems in 30 days

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Don't take your miniskirt to Uganda

 

[SelfReliance]

Blueberry sunrise over strawberry fields

Whilst living in a shack

The Death of A child

throwing bricks to kill the man in the moon for his bastard smile on a day like this

Living in vitro

from whence you came, shall we return

Moon at MidAfternoon

 

[Noor]

Not sure its my favorite but I have always liked:

I still miss my man... but my aim is getting better

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Blueberry sunrise over strawberry fields

Whilst living in a shack

The Death of A child

throwing bricks to kill the man in the moon for his bastard smile on a day like this

Living in vitro

from whence you came, shall we return

Moon at MidAfternoon

Tried putting in a long title the other day but Lit wouldn't allow had to chop it short

 

[EroticOrogeny]

Tried putting in a long title the other day but Lit wouldn't allow had to chop it short

For some reason (I guess for small screens) the width for poems is much less than for posts, so it might wrap if you put it in the body as well.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

For some reason (I guess for small screens) the width for poems is much less than for posts, so it might wrap if you put it in the body as well.

pardon?

 

[EroticOrogeny]

The width of the provided windows for reading poems and for submitting poems is fairly narrow and the width appears to be fixed. The window for submitting forum posts is somewhat wider, and also fixed. The window for viewing forum posts grows if you make your browser window wider. So far I have not hit the enter key - how many lines are in this paragraph when you view it? If there is no explicit line break the paragraph will wrap in such a fashion that words are not split across the display lines. I suppose the width restrictions for poems is to accommodate those with smaller screens so that there aren't artificial lines if the poem's lines are too long. Thus, if you were to put the complete title in the text box, above the poem it might wrap when displayed. The preview should show this.

I see the above paragraph as taking 5 lines. My browser is taking up much of a good-sized screen (1920x1200) and using standard fonts.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Best titles? The ones that draw the potential reader in like Reflections on a shaved ham sandwich or Toasted Transgressions . Others just indicate what it's all about. Coming up with a title a kind of instinctive thing for me, I often regret my decision later.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

The width of the provided windows for reading poems and for submitting poems is fairly narrow and the width appears to be fixed. The window for submitting forum posts is somewhat wider, and also fixed. The window for viewing forum posts grows if you make your browser window wider. So far I have not hit the enter key - how many lines are in this paragraph when you view it? If there is no explicit line break the paragraph will wrap in such a fashion that words are not split across the display lines. I suppose the width restrictions for poems is to accommodate those with smaller screens so that there aren't artificial lines if the poem's lines are too long. Thus, if you were to put the complete title in the text box, above the poem it might wrap when displayed. The preview should show this.

I see the above paragraph as taking 5 lines. My browser is taking up much of a good-sized screen (1920x1200) and using standard fonts.

Perhaps I am being thick here (which is not unusual before anyone else says it!) but surely if you put the title in the body of the poem that defeats the object because it's not going to be eye catching there and you've still got to provide a title in the appropriate box anyway.

I can see 9¾ lines