I have been handed a note: If you would like to live, like the royals of old, you must remember, do as you’re told. poems are for poets, as it should be, stay away from this contest, …
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Untitled #302 (2013)
I read an article today that talked about the various “out of time” references in Shakespeare’s plays that made the point “research is always necessary”. I decided the internet needed a visual guide to poetic devices. It’s not complete, but here’s the start. Feel free to help me out on this project. Maybe if we …
Talking about why love poems are boring, and why they don’t have to be. (2013)
Tumblr, you and I need to have a talk. But Stephen, what do we need to talk about? Also, we are Legion. I’m gonna sideline that last comment, but you might want that looked at. We need to talk about poetry, or to be more specific, we need to talk about love poems. I’ve been …
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Talking About How to Write Poetry (2013)
Kayla Ancrum answered a question here that inspired this whole thing. The crux of the question is “How do you write poems?” Poetically, I could say to write poems your swish around all the roiling emotions you’ve got sloshing around inside you and spit them up into perfectly worded lines and metaphors, but that wouldn’t …
ATTENTION: WE SHALL RISE UP, DOWN WITH THE POETS! (2014)
A true poet is a three-headed beast that is capable of reacting to stimuli so quickly that pre-cognition has been suggested as a viable cause. This is the true difference between us humans and the poets, but if we train with great rigor, perhaps one day we can challenge the poets on the field of …
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