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Just for the record...
The more I think about Ms. Ball's poem, the more it jells in my mind. I like it. It gives the effect (intentionally and, I think, well) of a mind starting off in an organized way about the objective beauty of a lonely place... Here there are places remarkablefor how no one ever comes—no asphalt, no people, no trivia: only hills, creeks, ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2008
Re: When in the Empyrean Sonnet
Foobs:I know that I counter the popular viewbut I thought that it sucked ere the title was through... So did I, Foobs. So did I. And ditto on the rest of it: Foobs:I was sure that its badness would be of a typewith the reading revealing I'd pre-judged it right.It's common, conceited, preposterous fluff(there are websites and magazines full of ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 4, 2008
Re: Confined to 14 Lines
MaryAnn: their only wish, that they were better drawn. foobs, your last line is an excellent summing up of what's wrong, I think, with this week's poem. MA Nice job here, both of you. wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 26, 2008
I'll "confine" myself to this...
Out of several candidates, this is my favorite set of lines: And Barney was dead, big PartyBoy Barney, famous for his appetite and lack of self-control——now, needing an extra-large coffin, as if he was taking his old friends Drinking Eating and Smokinginto the hole with him. The last stanza especially shows a kind of screwball wit, which I ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 26, 2008
Re: Or not...
I have to hand it to Ted and Rob; they've nailed this poem to the wall. Good for them. Although Bottomfish certainly makes an interesting (and deservedly praised) defense of it... wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 17, 2008
Re: Impossible to look at the same leaf twice
Congratulations on the blue checky thingy, Bottomfish! While I am not clued in enough on philosophy to make the following statement make total sense, I suspect the basic problem comes when people (any people, from certain Eastern religionists to certain Western authors) use words to try to break the power of words, or to use the nature of the ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 17, 2008
Re: "Watch" : only impatience grows here
The need to establish that he's at his desk watching his garden as he tries to write his poem about his inability to distill the essence of his ephemeral perception sufficiently in words begins the enterprise on a false and throat clearing note, the sort of harrumphing we note in blustering cartoon buffoons who haven't a real thought under their ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 17, 2008
Lack of faith seems to have grown here too...
MaryAnn:I agree that parts of this poem are egotistical, especially the beginning with its reference to his particular writing desk and his own note above it. But I think his subject matter is the plight of all poets -- or all those who write about nature, for that matter. How does a writer transfer the mystery of the natural world to the ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 17, 2008
I'd rather "Watch" Tiger Woods play golf
For a poem that says so much about nature and man's view of it, and actually says it beautifully, I find this poem surprisingly unedifying. It just sits there like a brick of hardtack, indigestible and useless for almost anything (save as an improvised anchor or weapon). Sure, as I reread it the language slowly unravels in my mind like an opening ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 17, 2008

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