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Erica Ehrenberg's "Exquisite body' as a limerick
This week's poem is hard for me to get a handle on. While poetry can distill, refine and give meaning to life and help us understand it, sometimes all a poem does (or needs to do) is reflect it. Adolescence is filled with as much misunderstanding as understanding. As a transitional phase, it is without clearly defined meaning. It is the search ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 21, 2009
Black Dog -- Revisited --Combining a pantoum & a sonnet
Two years and ten days ago as an exercise, I attempted to write a poem about depression combining the structures of a pantoum and a sonnet.I did seven revisions here on the Poem-Fray. Today, I re-read them and picked out what I thought works best, making one new change. Please know, that I am not now, nor have I ever been standing on a ledge. ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 18, 2009
Mirror Haiku
Broken mirror shardsMore accurately revealMy inner natureNoStar
Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 17, 2009
Poetry is art
Should art follow life or should life follow art? The answer is Yes. It is a dance wherein the lead is exchanged. Poetry can distill life, purify it and give it meaning. Poetry changes how life is perceived. Conversely, life gives context to poetry, often providing context unthought of by the poet. Life changes how poetry is perceived.If the ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 17, 2009
Limerick for MaryAnn--Denny made me do it.
This limerick's about MaryAnn,Academic-type poetry fan.''I just read, but don't write them;It's fun to recite them.Don't ask me to change my game-plan.''
Posted to Poems by NoStar on July 16, 2009
Re: Congratulations - Mary Ann
Hey, very cool, Denny and NoStar. I'd like to see that awarded limerick, if you don't mind tipping me off when it's presented. Congratulations from my end also, MaryAnn. I just looked up NoStar's limericks on the OEDILF...at least the ones deemed worthy of a general audience! Hmm... wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2009
Blog: The Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form
In belated formal kudos to NoStar for his Centurion status on the OEDILF (and to the OEDILF itself), I have composed this entry on my blog. I think that if you click on this link, you'll see some of his entries. I can. wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2009
No, actually, NS ... it wasn't ...
amazing at all. M.A. has a well-known 'tin ear,' has never written a poem in her life** (and is proud of it, even worse) and your original serial limerick is far FAR superior. (** I have to discount a recent attempt at a haiku, I think it was, which was bludgeoned into clumsy being. There may have been other attempts; as you know, I'm no longer ...
Posted to Poems by Contempo on July 14, 2009
Re: "No Running in the Halls" - comments welcome
The narrator is someone addressing the woman and quoting the girl she once was. The poem should be structured accordingly. I came up with a different solution overall, as you'll see below. wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 14, 2009
Re: Sophie Cabot Black's "Biopsy" as a limerick
I haven't read ''Biopsy'' itself yet, but I agree: this is top-notch as a chain limerick, certainly the best I have ever seen you do. Perhaps ironically, it is driven not by your usual sense of parody, but of pathos -- even in your introduction to it. Kudos to you as well. wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 14, 2009

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