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  • Limericizing Adrian Blevins' "Poem for My Daughter..."

    Now Blevins is a good poet in need of an editor with a big supply of red pencils. The title of her poem is almost as long as my limerick version. Poem for My Daughter Disparaging the Gossamer Depictions of the Women of Certain Southern Texts rewriten as a Limerick By NoStar In the land of sweet tea and high cottenA daughter is warned life is ...
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on September 25, 2007

  • Rewritting L.S. Asekoff's "The Conquerors" as a limerick

    Read the poem. Listened to Asekoff read it. I am unmoved and uncaring. Gunna phone this one in folks. They surrendered and showed a white flowerThey showed red when we showed them our power 'Though we killed from afarOn our soul's a deep scar Think I'll find me a bunker and cower
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on August 28, 2007

  • Rewriting Hannah Faith Notess' "A Guide for Spiritual Tourists" as a Limerick

    I had no idea what to do with this poem until I heard Ms. Notess read it. I hope for her sake, the voice was affected for this poem, because I doubt she or her MFA will be taken seriously if she always sounds like a Valley Girl. ''A Guide for Spiritual Tourists'' By Hannah Faith Notess Rewritten as a limerick by NoStarA Valley-girl's guide ...
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on August 21, 2007

  • Rewriting Edison Jennings' "Apple Economics" as a Limerick

    Unless this poem is 10 years old, I would suggest that Edison Jennings (I love that name, it is poetic) find a better grocer. The Safeway where I shop carries a wide selection and Red Deliceous are a minority. Pink Ladies, Jonagolds, Fujis, Braeburns, Granny Smiths and others have elbowed the RD's for prime space in the produce aisle. In ...
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on August 14, 2007

  • Rewriting Alexandra Teague's "Adjectives of Order" as a Limerick

    Re: Alexandra Teague's ''Adjectives of Order'' The subject is interesting enough. It is a good story-telling essay, but poetry is not created by breaking up lines of prose. I sweated a bit trying to condense it into a limerick, but here it is. A foreign student of English obsessedWith the order of adjectives stressedWhy ''warm homemade ...
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on August 7, 2007

  • Rewriting Barry Goldensohn's "War Work (Brooklyn, 1944-45)" as a Limerick

    by NoStar A scared child woke to see a red sky.He yelled, ''Dad, New Yorkers will die.Manhattan's been nuked.''But he soon was rebukedAnd sent back to his room with a sigh.
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 31, 2007

  • Re-Writing Edward Hirsch's "Green Couch" as a Limerick

    This poem is well written. It does not eschew form for the sake of freedom. In fact the sparceness of the form fits the angst of the poem without cramping the Hirsch's ability to paint images in the reader's mind. I am therefore left with little reason to re-write ''Green Couch'' as a limerick except as an exercise to prove it can be done and ...
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 24, 2007

  • Re-Writing James Reiss's "Bureau of Missing Persons" as a Limerick

    After giving us some good poems, Pinsky isback to his old tricks. ''Bureau'' isn'tpoorly written, it is a decent piece ofmicro-fiction. But breaking up sentences likethis, does not a poem make. Or, if it does then I have just written a masterpiece. OR NOT! TLG And Now, it's Limerick time. (Note: it works better if you pronounce the word ''the'' ...
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 17, 2007

  • Re: poem: to lie in wait (as a limerick)

    Once again I feel the call to improve one of shannp's poems.She is the only poet to have her work, worked over by me twice. Shann, I truly hope you appreciate this honor. ;~) NS To Lie In Wait (as a triple chain limerick)by NoStar You can die young like one of the heroesLive a long boring life like the zeroesIt's a fate we all dreadBut we all ...
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on June 18, 2007

  • Jeffrey Skinner's Working? on the Railroad (as a limerick)

    Goofing off is more like it, but then railroad unions created featherbedding. This isn't really a poem, just prose with oddly arranged spacing. It is written well enough to hold my attention, but I come here for poetry. Still I will not slack off on my self appointed mission: To demonstrate that any poem submitted by Pinsky can be improved ...
    Posted to Poems by NoStar on June 12, 2007