Titles and Phrases: Give and Take

[WickedEve]

Cornucopia of Contortionists popped into my head. I don't have a poem for it, so I'm giving it away. If you have any titles to offer, post them here. It's like give a penny, take a penny.
And if you have any unused phrases, toss those in too.

 

[Senna Jawa]

titles for Eve & co

 

        a bed made for a bedmate


    a lonely woman on a street corner


            disco midnights

 

[Rybka]

In the late 60s I saw a brand new schooner in English Harbor. It had just crossed the ocean from Norway and still even had that "new" fiberglass smell. (Which must have made the crossing very interesting.) It had a deep green hull, teak deck white trim, stainless fittings and VERY beautiful lines. It was named the "Dawn Piper". I have loved that name ever since. To go along with it is the phrase and title "Piper at the Gates of Dawn".

I know that both are the names of a song or an album by several artists, (Pink Floyd and Jerry Garcia for example), but I think that they deserve even more. "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" is just about my most favorite image. Although I am never sure if it is a bagpiper or a "pan" piper.


Regards,                                 Rybka

 

[Lauren Hynde]

About one year ago I read a book by J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes. The name of one of the chapters was a most fleeting reference to something barely mentioned, but somehow ever present in most of the book. I've been trying to work Nietzsche on the Beach into a poem ever since, but have so far been unable to.

 

[Senna Jawa]

paraphrasing an old joke

 

        polygamy and monotony

 

[denis hale]

Wicked Phrasing

Eve

you little minx this thread is
gonna be happenin', I can tell.

Bitchin I say. Straight up bitchin, mama!


OK,

A very shitty poem I once wrote about Kurt Cobain's Suicide began w/ the phrase

"SYCHOPHANTS IN THE SARCOPHAGUS..."

I was a wordy little birdy back in those days, quasi-cerebral and always metaphysical. Ouch!

I may have even been on track with that one, until I tried to bring Courtney into the mix. She started in to wailing Hole songs and cleared the room -- muse, self-restraint, common sense and craft all beat feet for the exits.

A shame, because the conjunction and alliteration of those two opening words really had it goin on there for the briefest of briefs.

Run with it! Gang? How 'bout ..A tabloid crew covering a celebrity archeological dig? Maybe... A kind of "Cask of Amontillado" thing with Bonnie Lee Blakely and Anna Nicole Smith as Fortunato et al!

discuss discuss get down get veclempt

possibilities are endless or, it is certainly endless, the ways in which we can talk about the possibilities being endless.

< dh

 

[denis hale]

Fun at the beach with neech

Lauren:

This is totally light and weak. I know I will be punished for this in short order. Just take it easy on an irish boy from limerick, or is it cork? One of those potato digs over there. OK


Me and Nietzsche

will meet you on the beach uh
we'll pop for existential angst and pizza
with psylocibin superman toppings of shrooms

Then we might treat ya
to a super duet nihilistic screech uh
when we'll all be so creaturely hot we'll

have to get a room!


LOL can't blame a boy for tryin! --d

 

[champagne1982]

Something I came up with ...

stroked by sarcasm and pelted with petulance


Carrie's Scribbles

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I've always wished I'd written:

Death To Van Gogh's Ear

But it was Gregory Corso. He used to throw off lines like this like it was nothing at all.

My own favorite is "Autonecrophilia"

It's not mine, alas, but I don't remember where I saw it.

And while I'm at it, I had a book of poetry called "Technicians of the Sacred". I thought that was a good description of poets in general.

---dr.M.

 

[RhymeFairy]

Bump~

Hmmm How long since ya saw this thread?

See a lotta old friends here. *smiles*

Bummpppp~ for anyone interested ~

 

[anonamouse]

Cornucopia of Contortionists popped into my head. I don't have a poem for it, so I'm giving it away. If you have any titles to offer, post them here. It's like give a penny, take a penny.
And if you have any unused phrases, toss those in too.

Pornotopia, pops into mine
I feel lonely so I thought I'd talk to a two year old post