darkmaas
Literotica Guru
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Greetings all. Seems that it’s been awhile since we had a “Same Title Challenge”.
(In my recent absence, this has been contracted to STC. I am of two minds as to whether this is a good thing. STC sounds like some new disease, but on the other hand I type slowly and any reduction in keystrokes is welcome.)
Earlier this year I posted a poem by Kanai Mieko in the Poem-a-thon thread.
A poet, (she knows who she is) rudely claimed to be concerned about my obvious obsession with sex and food. She reminded me of Tampopo Noodle, a poem I had submitted on a similar theme. Poor Tampopo seems to be the least loved of my slender poetic output (based on voting). I wondered if I had crossed some hidden line between good and bad taste.
Such matters prey on my psyche, and so yesterday I looked at “Tampopo” anew and found to my joy that it is not a very good poem. Bad poetry is more easily forgivable than bad taste.
So, in an effort to improve my writing at least, allow me to propose an STC dedicated to food and the erotic.
The title will be:
“Naked ____”
with the blank being a food item. (Vegans are strongly advised to avoid meat items since mixing poetry and animal byproducts is best left to those with barbeque tongs in their hands).
This is an erotic challenge but the definition of what constitutes erotic may be stretched mercilessly. (I am thinking of the late Frank Zappa and “Call any vegetable/ Duke of Prunes” or the immortal “Suzy Creamcheese”.)
Submit your poems to Lit on Thursday June 17th so that they will be posted on Friday the 18th, which my calendar tells me is the first day of the Red River Exhibition in Winnipeg.
I, (and my able and florabundant assistants), will be happy to assist in the reviewing.
In the meantime, a lively discussion of food and its place in the erotic is welcomed. Or if that is too constraining, feel free to hijack this thread and discuss whatever tickles one’s fancy. Eve’s tiny perfect … er … hats perhaps?
(In my recent absence, this has been contracted to STC. I am of two minds as to whether this is a good thing. STC sounds like some new disease, but on the other hand I type slowly and any reduction in keystrokes is welcome.)
Earlier this year I posted a poem by Kanai Mieko in the Poem-a-thon thread.
A poet, (she knows who she is) rudely claimed to be concerned about my obvious obsession with sex and food. She reminded me of Tampopo Noodle, a poem I had submitted on a similar theme. Poor Tampopo seems to be the least loved of my slender poetic output (based on voting). I wondered if I had crossed some hidden line between good and bad taste.
Such matters prey on my psyche, and so yesterday I looked at “Tampopo” anew and found to my joy that it is not a very good poem. Bad poetry is more easily forgivable than bad taste.
So, in an effort to improve my writing at least, allow me to propose an STC dedicated to food and the erotic.
The title will be:
“Naked ____”
with the blank being a food item. (Vegans are strongly advised to avoid meat items since mixing poetry and animal byproducts is best left to those with barbeque tongs in their hands).
This is an erotic challenge but the definition of what constitutes erotic may be stretched mercilessly. (I am thinking of the late Frank Zappa and “Call any vegetable/ Duke of Prunes” or the immortal “Suzy Creamcheese”.)
Submit your poems to Lit on Thursday June 17th so that they will be posted on Friday the 18th, which my calendar tells me is the first day of the Red River Exhibition in Winnipeg.
I, (and my able and florabundant assistants), will be happy to assist in the reviewing.
In the meantime, a lively discussion of food and its place in the erotic is welcomed. Or if that is too constraining, feel free to hijack this thread and discuss whatever tickles one’s fancy. Eve’s tiny perfect … er … hats perhaps?
