Interactive Poetry

[lostandfounder]

Hey everbody, I was thinking about a new way to use the site (if they ever decide to update) I wrote the beginings of an interactive poem, here is the link

Once Upon A Time

I want to know what you all think of the idea in general(Has anyone else tried it?), and of the style I picked specifically. (Should it be in rhyming quartets instead?) Please, any and all input would be appreciated.

thanks
lostandfounder

 

[Zingiber]

Aphrodite's Inferno?

How about terza rima(1) like Dante's Divine Comedy?

Fall evening curtains, close another day
And ope her hunger for the lustful hunt
She robes in colours hot to lure her prey

Of weapons has she many sharp and blunt
Clever words to charm and to surprise
Behind each ear a finger rubbed in cunt

And lips aglow with blood assure the prize
Before the midnight chimes have called their tune
Will fall beneath the piercing of her eyes

(I just read Le Ton Beau de Marot , which inclines me toward a more ambitious rhyme scheme for the good of poetic invention, and heck, because it's fun).

(1) http://www.google.com/search?q=terza+rima rhyme scheme ABA BCB CDC etc).

 

[jakelyon]

Man you guys are starting to scare me with all your fancy talk. But seriously poetry is one thing I have a real hard time with understanding when I read it much less trying to write it.

Still an interesting idea!! I don't see any reason, other then it would never get approved to get started, you couldn't run an interactive poem through the Chyoo format.

 

[lostandfounder]

Good thinking

How about terza rima(1) like Dante's Divine Comedy?

That's a really good idea. The rhyme scheme would be an excellent way to bind the seperate threads together and bring a ongoing sense of continuinty to the peice...I may have to rewrite what I have...

I don't see any reason, other then it would never get approved to get started, you couldn't run an interactive poem through the Chyoo format.

Are you just commenting on the lack of updates. or do you think that a poem just wouldn't get acccepted?

 

[jakelyon]

Re: Good thinking

Are you just commenting on the lack of updates. or do you think that a poem just wouldn't get accepted?

The lack of updates. A poem is as good an idea as any other.

 

[niceguy2002tim]

I am not the poet I use to be... but, I still like it. Back in the day, I wrote my fair share. I probably have over 100 poems.

Since you guys are sharing poems, maybe you'd like to check out my poems. Here's a link...

http://www.angelfire.com/al2/niceguy/Timspoem.html

Toybox Full of Rage, being one of my favourites. I wrote all of the poems with the exception of one or two.

-Tim (niceguy2002tim)