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Clarifying a potential misunderstanding
White_Rabbit: (...) I have to admit that these are my favorite lines: After a few years, they get over him.They tell their new boyfriends how amazing it was, like living with another woman, but without the spite, the envy,and with a man's strength, a man's clarity of mind. And the men tolerate this, they even smile.They stroke the woman's ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 12, 2009
Re: Another thought for you Wabbit ()()
I am pretty sure that the protagonist would be seen much more readily as the fool that he is. And the poem would've become very interesting, rather like a train wreck is interesting. :) I have to admit that these are my favorite lines: After a few years, they get over him.They tell their new boyfriends how amazing it was, like living with ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 12, 2009
Re: "Home, Home ... of the Strange"
Contempo: Bravo! One of your best -- yet. As to the original poem, it is far too long (imho, along with others, it seems) and it is far too repetitive. LG could have used such length to develop the poem & the unfortunate character farther & more deeply; instead she just went on & on, saying the same two things about five times, ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 11, 2009
Re: Good Grief MaryAnn
Hi MaryAnn, To be fair, and as I tried to make clear at the outset, it's not the poem I disrespect, nor the poet -- neither as poem qua poem nor as poet qua poet. The poem is worthy enough and the poet good at the craft (at least IMO-FWIW). It would be foolish for me to try to engage such a poem at the level that someone like Paul Breslin does. ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 11, 2009
"In the Cafe": Home of the Strange
This one's just too easy a mark. It's not that this poem is too long. It's not that this poem is too silly. It's not even that it's bad poetry (actually, I rather like it qua poetry: it's accessible without being pablum, and very enjoyable in its style and euphony). It's that it makes considerable light of, and really relates in impossible terms, ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 11, 2009
Re: This parody ...
Contempo: ''Moan, moan on the Fray...'' So glad to see you have returned ... and with the Tuesday Parody, ''yet.'' Excellent news, this. ''signed,'' ton amie fidele And I should return some other way, amie? :) Sardonically yours, ;)wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on May 21, 2009
"Hermit" parody: Better late than never?
(Parodist sets his Yamaha keyboard to harmonica voicing and his stereo to playing a recording of surf on the seashore, then begins...) Crab:You've written some lines(In a po'm without rhymes)How I'm living my prosaic life.I'm not ancient Greek,Nor an arthopod geek --Just seeking some freedom from strife. (Fraysters in unison, sounding rather ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 22, 2008
Re: Gloom, despair, and agony on me...
And where is your comment on my little parody? I mean as such; your comment on its aim is to the point... wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 3, 2008
Gloom, despair and agony on me...
(Fraysters:) Gloom, despair, and agony on me!(Ohhhh!)Deep, dark depression, excessive misery!(Ohhhh!)If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all!(Ohhhh!)Gloom, despair, and agony on me! (Parodist:) Our weekly Tuesday Poet isn't sure of what to write;It's almost if we Fraysters have given him a fright!He's neither time nor energy to ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 29, 2008
"Write, write it again..."
Foobs: Two weeks in a rowI've been holding my nosewhile you sang the week's poems praise;Are you going softor is my palate offshould I worship or tremble for grace? Oh, oh I'm perplexedand left by this state feeling vexedhas left turned to rightare we calling day nightor is it my taste that's suspect? (Parodist replies in song:) Don't ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2008

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