Friday, April 15, 2022

The Discipline of Poetry

I like the discipline of crafting poems.

Unlike prose where you can take time to develop a theme, poetry demands a degree of precision, concentration and restraint.

It reminds me of computer code in the 1970s, and I’m showing my age here, where there was only a small amount of memory to work with. Like 64K!

Code demanded precision and was crafted carefully.

The process of working on a poem is laborious but enjoyable.

It can be challenging to write a poem within a structure such as sonata or sestina form.

But the best thing is to try and learn as you go.

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DK

Why God?


Why God?

Why? God.

What God?

What? God

What? God?

What? God!

Be or be not.

God or not god.



Tuesday, October 5, 2021

4 Years of Quietude

The Muse went away without me. leaving me without a word, a line or even half a poem. But she came back today and I am glad.

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Poetry Workshop

Poetry workshop 
Or workhouse
Worksop?

They say that
The first draft
Is not enough

It needs polish
And spit

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Trumped by Donald

You have to hand it to Donald,
With his space age hair,
and old world homilies.

He gets it man,
You have to talk to the hicks,
at 4th grade level.

Feed their prejudices,
Beat up on Islam,
Blacks and minorities.

O Mighty Republican Donald,
May you not Trump,
in Heaven,
or on earth.

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

No Atrocities for Non Persons

You are a non person
We don't care about you
Only Westerners are human
You don't matter
We don't care...

Our atrocities
Are only atrocities if done
to persons.
You are a non person
So we can bomb you and maim you
You are "collateral" damage.

How dare you raise up
Against us
You terrorists.
Just because we take your land
and kill you non persons
Is no reason to attack us.
We are America
Uncle Sam
Benevolent Dictators of
the World
Bombs R Us
And we don't care
About non persons.


This poem comes out of my anger about the way the West (esp the US) treats people who are non Western. They are viewed as non persons, non human, and don't need our consideration. But one day everyone will have to face that humans are all persons, there is no out group of non persons. Western terrorism exists even if the West can not see this.

The term terrorist is a weighted one and depends on your point of view.

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Saturday, February 14, 2015

S.L.A.M

S. Sexy, Saucy, Satisfying
L. Loud, Lovable, Lively
A. Amorous, Advanced, Awesome
M. Marvelous, Motivated, More, More, More!


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