Truth though: Your diction lags,you ain’t got style to that flow,it’s 2014 and you’re tryin’ to one up Shakespeare, the beauty of all this is that the rules got broke,‘n more than ever we’ve got these fires to stoke. you’re shitty ass poets,and it ain’t for lack of skill,just vision. …
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You’re not doomed, just sad. (2013)
You feel like you’re shadow sliding,enduring the rough-shod reckoning,the pain you feel is so powerful, so powerful, Rum and coke was the first,Captain Morgan’s on my 19th,We drank and watched the Bruce Willis flop, Hudson Hawk.Him, his girlfriend, and me.He walked me home as I found inclines steeper than they should be.First drink was on …
Untitled #663 (2014)
If I am never read by another soul,it’ll be worth knowin’ your eyes have crossed these words. ain’t like I ain’t got dreams of teachin’,of passin’ on the passion,ain’t like I ain’t got dreams,of makin’ somethin’ of this,but the worth of it,that’s in knowin’ that these words speak, to even one. hell, sometime I ain’t …
Untitled #668 (2014)
I would like to argue, again, that Word or any word processor of that complexity is probably the most counter-productive program a poet or even author can work in, at least initially. The grammar and spelling lines are the most notable examples, but they are designed to attract your eye, which of course distracts you …
Untitled #669 (2014)
I don’t reckon you’ve got a joint?yeah, ‘spose not.guess, guess I’ll have to do the runnin’ the ol’ fashionedway. Back along foot-steps, cross the runnin’ stream, for the scent. ‘n I don’t, I don’t reckon you’re much for them extended metaphors?didn’t figure, don’t hold …
The Importance of Punctuation in Poetry (2013)
So, yesterday Renarrate asked me what I meant by saying punctuation can be powerful, so we’re going to look at one of my old Haiku poems. I was ridiculously infatuated with E. E. Cummings at the time (still am to a degree), and was absolutely blown over with my own cleverness. I’ve since realized that …
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 …
Poetry Facts: Special Edition! (2014)
And, they all start with “and”I’ve discovered this little man tapping old type-writer keys in four part rhythm where my heart should be,and he’s typing all the things I say to you in the darkness,and I don’t know that he’s ever felt anything,maybe moist. What I’m saying is that I have this habit of habiting …
Poems and Poets (2013)
I started writing this poem at 8:28 P.M.Hoo-hum, that’s enough writing for today.I finished this poem at 8:29 P.M. course, that ain’t the half of it is it? poetry’s this cry/shout/mutter/stoic form of communication, and more often than not we find ourselves catering to stolen cadences diction dancing through cut and paste sequences of …
