poetry
soia I have the book of poems I wrote wedged in between my trash can and my recycling. It seems appropriate. 010215
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guitar_freak A link to ones soul 010216
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silentbob a structure
a building
a sky scraper of thought
of feeling
emotion
created in a way
to make the reader react to the poet's words, feelings, in an attempt to relate, to express, to be understood
If sometimes the poet is misunderstood, the poet still remains satisfied 		010216
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mikey emotions fall onto the paper
dripping off the tip of my pen
relaxing is this moment i waver
on the edge of insanity
oh how can it be
so tough to get a grip
tears can fall
maybe they all
water the garden
in my mind
or can it simply
be hardships taking on
a new vision
one which is tangible 		010306
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brown cardigan boy its that free flow transcending from my mind, the thoughts scribbled, except i like to type them. who ever said we needed punctuation. great poetry is about words right. fuck all those critics who tear down in one day what they couldn't do in a lifetime. 010306
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arinna I do however protest anent the un
spontaneous, and otherwise scented
merde which
greets one (Everywhere Why) as divine
poesy per
that and this radically defunct
periodical. i would
suggest that certain ideas gestures
rhymes, like Gillette Razor Blades
having been used and reused
to the mystical moment of dullness,
emphatically are
Not To Be Resharpened
-e.e. cummings 		010307
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unhinged e.e. cummings
a.r. ammons
jim carroll

THE DEBUSSY LECTURE
my mathematical friend
subtract my life
i would let you
these devotional pains
as sharp as a knife
equal to
times
divided by
the addition
of
this rotten mean
in spirals of
percentages
leaking
definite and concrete
solid in the answers
a proof
of these obtuse angles
of love
2/28/01 		010417
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black&blue those words that can be so important to me...yet so boring to somebody else 010417
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anonymouse an explanation for ones life...
the purpose of their soul 		010610
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silentbob or wordy attempt at that explanation. 010719
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Miffey I once heard that all great poets speak only for themselves, and so I say this:
poetry, to me, is a release. It's mountains of emotion, good or bad, that I can no longer contain. I write them down, for myself. Then, I can reread them and tell how I really felt about those emotions. Good poetry, like good sex, is never faked. 		020309
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misstree dripping chunks of soulflesh 020309
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amy i can't much help it, but truly the epicurian hedonism must be a little off the mark, because the dalai lama said so. time to floss. 040204
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lulie When music is added
it becomes a song.
Which is not always a good thing.
Why?
I sing out of tune. 		050726
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gja Good poetry does not err.

Of all the poets I can quote, and, of all the poems I can recite my favourite unreferenced retention is this:

"Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun." 		081030
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no reason "you don't have to be heartbroken to write poetry" 090808
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epitome of incomprehensibility Patrick_de_Belen

Also, fun_with_google_translate (is this on blather red?) at http://channelawesome.com/googledegook-7-one-teaspoon-of-hair-and-a-good-man/
which totally makes a pop song sound like Gertrude Stein.

Gertrude Stein's one of the most unique poets I've encountered, by the way. If I say avant-garde modernist poetry, you'll probably picture something very dense and referential like Ezra Pound's Cantos with all his Chinese characters and Greek words... either that or something more minimalist, haiku-like, like Pound again (can't escape him) with "In a Station of the Metro."

Stein, though, is something all her own. She wrote avant-garde poetry with simple words, about everyday objects, and made it surreal through repetition and word-rearrangements, not to mention a good dose of funny. My favourite line of hers is "Sugar is not a vegetable" from the book Tender Buttons. It's true! It isn't! (Sadly.) 		150214
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unhinged poetryonbuses.org 150214
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amy in red how could i write these poems
without this lifelong hunger
to do what i'm supposed to do?
then again how do i know
for a solid gain that
these are the poems i meant
to write for you? 		150625
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e_o_i (I like that, Amy) 150625
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raze "he said, 'with most books you just read them and you're done with them. you can use the information or you can't. but with poetry it's different. it isn't like something that you use up but more like a house you live in.' the house he was living in now was emily dickinson's."

— ron loewinsohn
from "magnetic field(s)" 		220116
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raze "i think i responded so strongly to poetry when i first encountered it because it was and was not narrative. that's probably why it still holds my interest so completely. it is and is not."

— catie rosemurgy 		221229
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