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Re: Erica Ehrenberg's "Exquisite body' as a limerick
Well, NoStar, I guess when my parody gene's stuck in the ditch, all I have to do is read one of your limerical rewrites and it gets pushed back on the road. Stand by for a full-throttle HOTR parody! wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
"Girl, girl in the class..." (serious review)
I thought of that line, then thought of where it would lead inevitably in a ''Home on the Range'' parody, couldn't think of any decent alternatives, and finally said to myself, ''Well, my talent for unintentional puns, rhymes and double entendres has finally boxed me in. I am NOT going there.'' That said: WOW. I haven't liked a Tuesday Poem so ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 2009
Re: "The Most Careless Girl in the Class . ." By Erica Ehrenberg
WOW. I like this poem!!!! I like it more than any Tuesday Poem I can remember in a long time. More in my Front Post to come...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 21, 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
Re: Molar mountains
For what it's worth, I'll second the motion on mountains being like molars. Indeed some could be taken as bicuspids, incisors, or whatever -- and they can be likened to many other things. The Grand Tetons don't look like big breasts to me, but they did to someone and I can concede the analogy. And certainly mirrors reflect something ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 9, 2009
Re: Form follows function
As many of the Poems Fraysters know, I've often insisted here that form follows function in effective poetry. (''Functionalism: it's not just for architecture anymore!'' :) ) I have to admit that this week's poem passes (in my book) with flying colors on that point. It certainly seems to intend every bit of heavy-handedness that it uses. For all ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 24, 2009
Re: "The Fate of Pleasure" by Peg Boyers
There's nothing quite like a poet with an axe to grind, is there? I love it when you really focus yourself on giving serious reviews. Keep it up. The temptation is ENORMOUS to put ''The Fate of Pleasure'' through the grist mill of a ''Home on the Range'' parody. It would be a tremendous pleasure, and perhaps it would be the fate it deserves. ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 23, 2009
Re: And how would you classify Gluck herself ?
denny: My ''guess'' would be INFJ - with the emphasis on the J. As an INFJ, your primary mode of living is focused internally, where you take things in primarily via intuition. They place great importance on havings things orderly and systematic in their outer world. They hold a special place in the heart of people who they are close to, who ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 15, 2009
Re: The "adaptive personality"
denny: I find much to like in the chameon Lothario in ''Cafe'' - definitiely an ENFP with the emphsis on the F. Yet, I am also troubled by the idea - When they meet him now, he's a cipher—the person they knew didn't exist anymore.He came into existence when they met, he vanished when it ended, when he walked away.We can grow significantly by ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 12, 2009
"In the Cafe": An Inspirer (ENFP) gone bad (serious review)
Deep in another thread, I wrote the following reply because I realized that (my parody ''Home of the Strange'' notwithstanding) someone like the protagonist of ''In The Cafe'' just might be able to exist. If an ENFP (the most ''feminine'' [because the most estrogen-influenced] of personality types, even when owned by a man) can talk his way in or ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 12, 2009

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