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Re: Where Once Famed Babel's Gardens Grew
I ought to be ashamed for my forgetfulness...thanks for the refresher! Not long ago, I visited the British Museum. My favorite parts had to do with Mesopotamia, and in particular with the cache of musical instruments found at Ur (here, here, here, here and here; slideshow of the whole set of trip photos, here). You probably remember how the ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 26, 2009
Re: The Photon - An Ode to Light
How about ''foresaw'' or, perhaps better yet, ''foreknew''? Dr. Wheeler's exact phrase was that the Universe ''someknow knew we were coming'', and after looking at the online tangle of cosmological arguments revolving around that idea just now, I figure that for the sake of the poem, it would be best to not go too far beyond that. So far as I ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 26, 2009
Re: The Migrant - Comments welcome
In reply to a concern pointed out elsewhere, what could the narrator have done about the situation? He had no ''pull'' with the policeman, let alone the ability to usurp his authority. Yes, it would be a nice ''morality play'' for the narrator to try anyway, but it wouldn't be true to life. There is such a thing as trying to grab a passing dog by ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 26, 2009
Re: denny with a "d"
I LIKE that poem, denny. I really think you should focus on original poetry revolving around such themes. If (as Sir Arthur Eddington said) ''the Universe is not only queerer than we imagine, it's queerer than we can imagine,'' then surely there is a place for your slightly askew perspective in trying to imagine it poetically. And this is surely ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 24, 2009
Re: Thursday OPP
falcon:The problem, for me, is that Espy's poem isn't fun. Excuse the snort, but it's hectoring, pedantic, and supercilious. I guess the third stanza is ironic, but the rest of the poem is not. That's a little sloppy. He's trying to shoehorn all his pet peeves in. The last couplet: is that a dig at William Cullen Bryant, or what? That last ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 23, 2009
Lesbian eisgesis is more like it
That last line especially, Gretchen and NoStar, is not reminiscent of lesbian curiosity (with its potential for arousal), but of feeling ''un-woman-ed'' in the presence of a superior heterosexual specimen, just as a man can feel ''unmanned'' in a parallel presence of his own gender. I've been there and done that, as noted elsewhere. There is no ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
So do I...
I'm getting a little surprised at the reactions to this poem. There's nothing commonplace or ''prosy'' about it. It is narrative poetry. wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
This is narrative poetry, not narrative prose...
A great deal is lost, actually -- for once, in such a Tuesday Poem -- by presenting it in a ''prose'' format. This poem has something fundamental in common with biblical Hebrew ''prose'', which many biblical scholars (including many of the author's fellow Jews) realize is a misleading term. Very little in Hebrew Scripture is not poetry, however ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
In answer to your questions...
I've known Tempo for a long time on Poems Fray; she long preceded me there and welcomed me there, back in the days when Poems Fray was a haven of peace much more than it has been of late. (This goes back to the summer before President G.W. Bush's election, if memory serves.) Looking in the poems I've saved from Poems Fray, I regret that I ...
Posted to Best of the Fray by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2009
Walking tightropes is my specialty, cherie...
...which is preferable to my getting angry at someone like I sometimes used to, believe me. Yes, I saw that response you wrote elsewhere. But C/t, didn't MaryAnn just ask NoStar ''why didn't you tell me writing limericks was so easy?'' (It really isn't, but she'll catch on.) That doesn't sound to me like someone who can't and won't write poems at ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 15, 2009

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