Poetic questionnaire of three.

[perks]

three...
A. Favorite poets?
1.
2.
3.

B. Favorite poems or poets on lit?
1.
2.
3.

C. Most hated cliches in poetry?
1.
2.
3.

D. Favorite poem styles?
1.
2.
3.

E. your favorite poems with links or just posted if you haven't posted them here.
1.
2.
3.

 

[perks]

three...
A. Favorite poets?
1. Goethe
2. Auden
3. Emily Dickinson

B. Favorite poems or poets on lit?
1. hale (denis hale)
2. eve (wickedeve)
3. drake (TheDR4KE)

C. Most hated cliches in poetry?
1. passion
2. sex as a noun
3. heart

D. Favorite poem styles?
1. free
2. villanelle
3. sonnet

E. your favorite poems with links or just posted if you haven't posted them here.
1.The Tale of Pleasing Me
2.Lord, have mercy
3. romantic interrogative

 

[Angeline]

Gread Thread Ms. Perks!

three... (this is not easy--I have a lot more than 3 per, but ok...)

A. Favorite poets?
1. William Butler Yeats
2. Pablo Neruda
3. Forugh Farrokhzad

B. Favorite poems or poets on lit?
1. smithpeter
2. wicked eve
3. lauren.hynde

C. Most hated cliches in poetry?
1. graphic but vacuous sex poems (Oh baby, baby style)
2. dopey romance cliches
3. oh and um graphic but vacuous sex poems

I also hate the near *constant* confusion of loose and lose here and elsewhere, but that's not a cliche


D. Favorite poem styles?
1. Free Verse
2. Dramatic Monologue
3. Sonnet

E. your favorite poems with links or just posted if you haven't posted them here. (none are here now, so here you are...)

1. Everland

Spring mornings are noisy things,
waking you to hammers banging nails
like expectations knock on dreams,
like wanting to believe again in faith

as bright as morning when Daddy builds
a bench and hammers latticework
on Saturday when even rain is sunny,
when expectation is a bike ride
on a blue ten speed with hand brakes.

Daddy hammers faith and paints it
green on a crooked bench with love
and a wood trellis built to curl vines
and roses through the lattices,

spilling morning’s rainy sun
on girls who sit and read and dream.

How easy to forget that dreams are born
in varnish smells and secret spots
for dropping rose petals on girls
who someday may despair of ever

finding hope again,

but turning right at the second star,
and flying straight on till morning,
remember that it’s still ok to dream,

for faith is not a land that never was,
but lived once upon a Saturday in spring.


2. Lady's Blues in Winter

Lady in winter
thin, stooped, diminished,
nodding, holding on,
almost blowed and gone
like leaves fall, fluttering
before they crumble.

Lady in winter
drifts through the room
cupped in weary blues,
fragile, fluttering.

She smiles at her men,
at Papa, Count, and Sweets.
Little Jazz cocks an eyebrow,
winks, sets his hat back neat.

She floats past the piano,
head swaying, fingers snap,
sings my man don’t love me,
room exhales and blues is back.

Lady drags behind the beat,
slurring notes like smoke rings,
eyes bright in love in vain.
She knows blues ain’t nothin
but a pain in your heart.

Her sentinels stand by--
Bean, aging patriarch,
Frog, soft-hearted brute,
tenor men curved to metal
singing sweet swing songs,
holding on, almost subsumed
as jazz shifts to a dissonant future,
as sweet swing time fades,
almost gone.

Prez stands apart,
indifferent to time or custom,
the anachronistic master,
at once on time and outside it.

Prez stands for Lady,
though battered by time
and custom, Prez,
never defeated,
blows timeless

He holds on impeccably,
flowing back to a Harlem
again bright with promise
and mad with music.
Harlem clanging,
singing bright city rhythms.

Love locks them.
Lady nods smiling,
caught in vision’s past

Prez smiles around his reed,
big eyes for Lady.

Love flows locked in blues
before the fall of time
almost gone.


3. Darling Billy

He says memories
are everything.

If you try hard enough
you can almost make
a person from a memory,

a daddy
or a whole family.

You can bring him ice cream.

Chocolate is best for dying men
who need to make everything
a memory --

life and cool sweetness,

a daughter
or a whole family
who feed you ice cream.

Chocolate is sweet like life
and dark like loss and even
comforting like forgetfulness,

but it’s ok not to forget
the way the spoon
scraped against the bowl,

the click of labored
swallows,

the nurse’s voice
mingled with La bohème

He’s not supposed to have that.

The freckles that once rioted,
alit the face, and punctuated anger
now are memories barely there,
fading under his pale skin.

Later
in the dark hushed room
her woman’s voice
will sing to him
the child’s song she knew,
and sang once then,
she whispers now again.

Can you bake a cherry pie Billy boy, Billy boy?
Can you bake a cherry pie, darling Billy?

The sound of tires crying
on the highway
driving home.

 

[Maria2394]

A. Favorite poets?
1. T.S Eliot
2.Langston Hughes
3. Walt Whitman

B. Favorite poems or poets on lit?
1. Cordelia
2. Angeline
3. Steve Porter and Neonurotic( i couldnt choose twixt them)

C. Most hated cliches in poetry?
1."her skin was dewy, soft as silk"
2. one look melted him/her
3.maybe this sint cliche', buut everytime I see apoem with the D/s honorifics things, A/all..I just stop reading...sorry

D. Favorite poem styles?
1.free verse
2.villanelle
3.haiku

E. your favorite poems with links or just posted if you haven't posted them here.
1.
Trickle Drops ( from Calamus)
Trickle drops! my blue veins leaving!
O drops of me! trickle, slow drops,
From wounds made to free you whence you were prison'd,
From my face, my forehead and lips,
From my breast, from within where I was conceal'd,press forth red drops, confession drops
Stain every page, stain every song I sing, every word I say, bloody drops
Let them know your scarlet heat, let them glisten,
Saturate them with yourself, all ashamed and wet,
Glow upon all that I have written, or shall write, bleeding drops,
Let it all be seen in your light, blushing drops.
~~~Walt Whitman 1860,1867~~~

elements of being

some other time

to water a garden, lewdly

 

[Icingsugar]

Re: Re: Poetic questionnaire of three.

Alrighty...


A. Favorite poets?
1. Eyvind Johnson
2. Samuel Beckett (Prose and plays, you say? Humbug, I say.)
3. Pablo Neruda

B. Favorite poems or poets on lit?
1. denis hale, for the goddamn rythm
2. air2o, for precise beauty
3. Angeline, for daring to explore the mundane

C. Most hated cliches in poetry?
1. corny, flowery, and dead serious romance
2. vocabulary masturbation (using odd, difficult words for the intention of sounding deep and intellectual)
3. High horses in general.

D. Favorite poem styles?
1. Styles?
2. What styles?
3. I don't recognise styles, I don't write in styles that I know of. So I guess "free" is an answer.

E. your favorite poems with links or just posted if you haven't posted them here.
Of my own writing, you mean?
1. Signal to Signal
2. Cup of Silly
3. Why So Sad?
There are others, but I can't find them. Anyway, those means shit, personally, for different reasons.

(edited bcoz I changed my mind)

 

[Lauren Hynde]

three...
A. Favorite poets?
1. Fernando Pessoa
2. Robert Frost
3. Philip Larkin

B. Favorite poems or poets on lit?
1. WickedEve
2. Angeline
3. JUDO / Cordelia

C. Most hated cliches in poetry?
1. Teenage songs of angst, sorrow and woe.
2. A/annoying C/chat R/room D/s L/lingo.
3. Vagueness.

D. Favorite poem styles? (not the same as form, is it?)
1. Whatever style suits the theme.
2. Fast paced whenever possibly.
3. Urban edginess whenever suited.

E. your favorite poems with links or just posted if you haven't posted them here.
1. The Stylization of Self
2. Prodigal of Blue
3. Still Born Soldiers

 

[Angeline]

I can't stand it. I can't name just three. No can do. So---

darkmaas
cordelia
maria
JUDO

(there's more.....)

 

[perks]

the last category was your favorite poems, as in ones you've written.

 

[Cordelia]

Just three, eh?

three...
A. Favorite poets?
1. Elizabeth Bishop
2. T.S. Eliot
3. Richard Wilbur

(That's this week. It could change. Last week it included Pablo Neruda and Marvin Bell. Surprised Shakespeare isn't there?)

B. Favorite poems or poets on lit?
1. smithpeter
2. denis hale
3. Senna Jawa

(ack. Okay. darkmaas, Judo, Angeline, Eve, Lauren.Hynde and Rybka are there too.)

C. Most hated cliches in poetry?
1. what Angeline said about graphic and vacuous sex poems
2. comparing a woman's sex to petals (enough, already!!)
3. thinking your angst is so different from everyone else's

(And while we're ranting... only Senna Jawa can seem to get away with using "u" and "ur" instead of "you" and "your" -- and I get annoyed with his use of it at times.)

D. Favorite poem styles?
1. Sonnets
2. free verse
3. villanelles

E. your favorite poems with links or just posted if you haven't posted them here.
1. Dark Feel in Yellow Skin
2. Tea's Bridesmaid
3. The Science of Patterns

4. The next one I write.

 

[Cordelia]

oh my goodness

Okay.

Add perks to my list.

I went back and checked out her poetry.

wow.


Cordelia

 

[TheDR4KE]

In no particular order, three...

A. Favorite poets?
1. ee cummings
2. William Shakespeare
3. Basho

B. Favorite poems or poets on lit?
1. Perks
2. Wicked Eve
3. Daughter

C. Most hated cliches in poetry?
1. teenage angst
2. rhyming love with dove
3. I know this email will reach you as a surprise,but need not to worry as we are using the only secured and confidential medium available to seek for foreign assistance/partnership in a business transaction which is of mutual benefit. ...

D. Favorite poem styles?
1. haiku
2. free verse
3. anything really tricky form based, e.g. villanelle, palindrome, etc

E. your favorite poems with links or just posted if you haven't posted them here.
1. villanelle for perky
2. Searching for Shakti
3. not posted here:

Amen

In the night
my crowded mind
washes out,
no, drowns
the peace of Nuit's blanket.

I fall into the voices,
noises.
I fight, I cling.
Anticipate
what may not,
is not, happens
not.
Yet.
I fall.

Throw myself and none to blame
that I see no hands
to catch me -
I shy from peace.
The offer yet another voice
in the cacophony.

I fall, I run, I shy. I. I.
Enough
Noises, Voices, Choices.
What sparkle was it, that held my gaze?
A pause to let me see:
The world reflects.
 
 

 

[perks]

I have to admit, you're the reason I do love that villanelle form. I'm entirely self absorbed.

and thanks, Cordelia.

 

[Angeline]

Love seeing all your favorite poems. DR4KE, Amen is wonderful. Amen.

 

[Rybka]

Rybka's Threes

three...
A. Favorite poets?
1. MacLeish
2. Cummings
3. Frost

B. Favorite poems or poets on lit?
1. denis hale (at present)
2. Senna Jawa (poetry only)
3. too many others to choose from

C. Most hated cliches in poetry?
1. "four letter words"
2. lost/unrequited love
3. "cliche", "trite", "corny", "etc."

D. Favorite poem styles?
1. free
2. experimental
3. Haiku

E. your (most overlooked) poems with links or just posted if you haven't posted them here.
1.Sundowner
2. Loon
3.Apples

 

[Guest]

three...
A. Favorite poets?
1.William Carlos Williams
2.James Thomas Stevens
3. Joy Harjo

B. Favorite poems or poets on lit?
1.Angeline
2.Lauren Hynde
3.sometimes Rybka

C. Most hated cliches in poetry?
1.any goth type poems about death
2. any poems whining about how much life sucks
3. any poems whining about how much love hurts

D. Favorite poem styles?
can't really answer this, as I don't know the names of any of the styles--never studied poetry. Apologies.
1.
2.
3.

E. your favorite poems with links or just posted if you haven't posted them here.
I'm not going to put my own because I feel wierd about that. Here are some of my favorites of others.

She Had Some Horses

The Red Wheelbarrow

Can't find a link for this one so I'll put it here: Sherman Alexie's "Giving Blood"
I need money for the taxi ride home to the reservation and
I need a taxi
because all the Indians left this city last night while I was
sleeping
and forgot to tell me
so I walk on down to the blood bank with a coupon that
guarantees
me twenty bucks a pint
and I figure I can stand to lose three or four pints but the
white nurse says no
you can only give up one pint at a time and before you can do
that
you have to clear
our extensive screening process which involves a physical
examination
and interview
which is a pain in the ass but I need the money so I sit down
at a wooden desk
across from the white nurse holding a pen and paper and she
asks me
my name and I tell her
Crazy Horse and she asks my birthdate and I tell her it was
probably
June 25 in 1876 and then she asks my ethnic origin and I tell
her I'm an
Indian or Native American
depending on your view of historical accuracy and she asks me
my religious preference and I tell her I prefer to keep my
religion entirely independent
of my economic activities
and then she asks me how many sexual partners I've had and
I say one or two
depending on your definition of what I did to Custer and then
she puts aside her pen and paper
and gives me the most important question she asks me
If I still have enough heart
and I tell her I don't know it's been a long time but I'd like to
give it a try
and then she smiles and turns to her rcomputer punches in my name
and vital information
and we wait together for the results until the computer prints
a sheet of statistics
and the white nurse reads it over a few times and tells me I'm
sorry Mr. Crazy Horse
but we've already taken too much of your blood
and you won't be eligible
to donate for another generation or two.

--Xtaabay

 

[jthserra]

Okay... I guess I will try this

Poetic questionnaire of three.
three...
A. Favorite poets?
1. Wislawa Szymborska
2. Hart Crane
3. Sylvia Plath

B. Favorite poems or poets on lit?
1. Lauren Hyde
2. Eve
3. Tristesse

C. Most hated cliches in poetry?
1. cum... so unpoetic
2. 38Ds, 9 inchers... all so relative
3. all those cliches that keep appearing in my poems

D. Favorite poem styles?
1. haiku
2. Triolet
3. Tanka

E. your favorite poems with links or just posted if you haven't posted them here.
1. A Fall (see villanelle thread)
2. blue train (haiku)

blue train
the wind through the reed
saxophone

3. Isadora Fall (in the October poems at:
Eve's Habit )