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  • Re: Gimmericks and other irregularities

    The perfect limerick is all anapestic. da da DUM da da DUM da da DUMda da DUM da da DUM da da DUMda da DUM da da DEEda da DUM da da DEEda da DUM da da DUM da da DUM So that means I was right the first time, in all but keeping Denny's rhyme of ''Maria'' and ''urea'' with ''dysuria''. Well, it was bound to happen: your description of the limerick ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 5, 2009

  • Styles of poetry

    Mr. Pensky, While free verse seems to have become the accepted or popular norm of the day and though I enjoy it myself, it seems much more difficult to compose a poem with a specific rhyme scheme. Maybe it's apples and oranges but what are your thoughts on this. Thanks, Paul
    Posted to Poems by paulk on December 31, 2008

  • Re: There Was a Man of Double Deed

    hi. thanks for your valuable thoughts. on a linear progression, it sounded to me like it's moving from an immigrant's culture of america, an idea, to the immigrant's view of US, a wary nation, and of course to the falling off at the edge of the world (flat after all!) -h
    Posted to Poems by hemig on November 12, 2008

  • Happy Veterans Day, Bratsche.

    I'm afraid my poem was never deliberately organized. The rhythm seemed to tell me to cut at the sixth line in this one...I tend towards the organic, I guess, when it comes to strophes (I hope I'm using that word correctly). I see them like paragraphs. I have absolutely know formal education in poetry. none whatsoever. Anything I know, I learned ...
    Posted to Poems by catnapping on November 11, 2008

  • "Tuesday Accident" (sorry, couldn't resist ;) )

    Seriously, Laura Polley's poem has been parsed up, down and sideways and hardly needs more analysis by me. I did find it thought-provoking, though a tad obscure. I'm grateful that those with sharper intuitions for such things picked up on a few points that I found somewhat puzzling. The poem caused me to remember the time in my own childhood when ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 11, 2008

  • Two insights

    Thanks. It's nice to know that someone thinks that I have a leg up on the Tuesday Poem (which is a change for me). Besides the cinematic quality of the poem, there seems to be a decided and intentional contrast between the reactions of the poet and of his friend to the same circumstances. The two people seem to be exact opposites temperamentally, ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 3, 2008

  • Re: pea soup

    richard:Self consciously obscure. There are many interpretations of the last stanza which is a forced fit into the first two, primarily descriptive, stanzas. Fog, loom,owl are formula words that are supposed to evoke ominous allusionsIs the friend symbolically dying? Why is she wheeling? Who cares? When a poem can mean anything to anyone it means ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 3, 2008

  • "Walking in Fog": free verse in motion

    You've heard the phrase ''poetry in motion'' applied to many different things and people. ''Walking in Fog'' is free verse in motion in a sense. To me it is like a sequence filmed by a video camera in the poet's hand -- or (much more likely) in his mind. This may be no great insight, but the short-film character is one of the several gently ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on September 3, 2008

  • Re: "Yom Kippur" compared to two Psalms

    Hi Foobs, What you say may well be tied into the very viewpoint that Schultz seems to express: the Reform Jewish viewpoint, if not something more liberal still. (For that or for some other reason, he may well be something of an outsider to his own people's religious tradition. It would be interesting to cross-check his C.V. and find out.) Take a ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 29, 2008

  • "Yom Kippur" compared to two Psalms

    This week seems to have been a busy one, with regard to the Tuesday Poem. The subject matter is a couple of months early, but then had it been posted ''in season'' I probably wouldn't have seen it. You see, if all goes well I will be in London, England on Yom Kippur -- or Yom Kippurim (יום כפורים), as the Hebrew Bible actually puts the term (as ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 29, 2008
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