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"Hermit" parody: Better late than never?
(Parodist sets his Yamaha keyboard to harmonica voicing and his stereo to playing a recording of surf on the seashore, then begins...) Crab:You've written some lines(In a po'm without rhymes)How I'm living my prosaic life.I'm not ancient Greek,Nor an arthopod geek --Just seeking some freedom from strife. (Fraysters in unison, sounding rather ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 22, 2008
Re: tower of power
Paul_Breslin: ''is it really that much different than Garbo wanting to be left alone or Woolf's desire for a room of her own?'' Not so different at all! (And seeing it that way explains why the voice that calls her promises ''we can give you solitude''--as if it's understood that without some guarantee of solitude, there's no way she's going ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 14, 2008
Re: tower of power
Dear islandtime, I haven't had time to read all the interpretations of this week's poem, and never will. I can't even go through all the replies to something I posted in my own thread. (''What have I done now?'' I keep asking myself.) But I'm glad I stole a moment to read yours. You've done it again. After reading this ''take'', ''Bristles'' ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 14, 2008
Re: The medium is the message
Dear HAP, The medium is the message... No one would agree more quickly than I. That's precisely why I raised the issues I did in the first place. Whatever else the poem is, it's not oriented toward people like me who try to hew to the line of form following function. I don't need to have a poem's structure toyed with arbitrarily in order to ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 14, 2008
Re: A bristle of wings on the anime
waltz and capsize: only time enough to note I'd mentioned you in ref. to this poem just this morning. from another thread: (On this score, we miss, in discussion of Bristle, White Rabbit, who seems to order his life by Occam. He always thinks horses, never zebras-- unless he's on the Serengeti.) Have you ever been on the Serengeti, WR? To ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 13, 2008
Re: First Terning of the Winding Stare
When Shakespeare ended Sonnet 65 by writing: ''O none, unless this miracle have might / That in black ink my love may still shine bright,'' was he writing pap? Did the Klingons' greatest bard (that's a Star Trek in-joke) ever write pap (in the bad sense)? Someone once wrote that apparently the Bard needed only to open his mouth for poetry to drip ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 13, 2008
Re: Gloom, despair, and agony on me...
And where is your comment on my little parody? I mean as such; your comment on its aim is to the point... wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 3, 2008
Gloom, despair and agony on me...
(Fraysters:) Gloom, despair, and agony on me!(Ohhhh!)Deep, dark depression, excessive misery!(Ohhhh!)If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all!(Ohhhh!)Gloom, despair, and agony on me! (Parodist:) Our weekly Tuesday Poet isn't sure of what to write;It's almost if we Fraysters have given him a fright!He's neither time nor energy to ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 29, 2008
Re: Interiority, Performance, and Faith in John Donne and Others
MaryAnn: Paul, thanks very much for the brief overview of changes in religious poetry over the past several hundred years. Although I enjoy the religious poetry of all those whom you've mentioned, especially the hot dog, I've never looked at at all of them in the context you've presented. Just a comment of explanation -- since you were here ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 25, 2008
Re: Wordsworth
It wouldn't surprise me if I learned that Wordsworth (about whom I know far, far too little, likewise of his poetry) had a temperament related to mine. ''Negative capability'' is something I have had to cultivate too, just to keep from letting all the questions I ask and can't answer drive me crazy. I don't think what I've long called ''holding ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 25, 2008

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