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Poetic Puke


Now, there are people who snidely claim the religious right doesn’t do poetry. No, of course, they don’t because it was coopted by the left, who queered every historic work of literature after dismantling it through a Marxist and Freudian lens. Then they determined that rules pertaining to language and grammar were snooty, not for true Bohemian artist types, who ought to have no restrictions placed on them. Stream of consciousness puked on the page and then workshopped in poetry classes in universities everywhere became the true meaning of poetry, along with subjective advice akin to “I’m just not feeling that third word from the right. Maybe give it a unique spelling?”

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Jill Domschot: Joy in the Southwest

 

 

 

Po: Dead?

The majority of poets today are little interested in connecting with the common or educated reader, and for the most part are devoid of the skill to say anything memorable or quotable. The only option, then, is to fall back on theory, whether manifesto-driven or a sort of hobby-horsemanship. By theory I mean a critical blueprint governing subject and method as well as a prior ideological agenda to be expressed in verse. In either case, the former takes precedence over the latter. The language of the poem tends to be either didactic or decentered, hortatory or disruptive.

David Solway: Is Poetry Really Dead?

Definedly Poetic

 

Poetry is the message, not the way it gets conveyed (SNIFF)

Do NOT make it your own (SNORT)

It’s not about saying it in a new way (HICCUP)

It’s all about a message delivered lyrically (BURP/BELCH)

Poetry is NOT about emotions recollected in tranquility (FART)

Poetry is not about pushing the boundaries of language (YAWN)

Nor is it spasmodic unburdening (AHH—CHOO!)

Poetry has no militant agenda (GRUNT)

and Poetry is not about your prosaic observations (SIGH)

 

LET’S GET THAT  STRAIGHT

 

 

 

Oh yeah – almost forgot:

PROMPT #10: a hay(na)ku consists of a three-line stanza,
where the first line has one word, the second line has two words,
and the third line has three words.

Poetry
Rendered incoherent:
 godless postmodern sensibilities

Hello Poetry Top Ten

As a poetry site I really like Hello Poetry. It is user-friendly and uncluttered. It is easy to comment and message other poets. It’s a sort of lyrical Facebook without the bells and whistles. A nice feature they provide is a count of how many views a poem gets over time. In this day and age, one never knows if these stats are truthful, algorithmic hype or fake, but accepting the bean counters at face value, here are my ten most-read poems since I began posting at the site in 2015. They range, top to bottom (if one believes the stats), from 29K+ views down to 13K+ views. Strangely enough, John Greenleaf Whittier’s Snow-bound which I posted there in its entirety, came in at number nine with 14K+ views. I wonder: are people actually reading these ?

1. Diversity Training

2. Planet of the Smartphones

3. Jungle Smile

4. Betting on the Races: Dark Horse

5. Cuneiform: Textual Intercourse

6. Poultry in Motion

7. Hung on a Psychosociolinguistic Scaffold

8. A Chicken in Every Pol Pot ☭

9. Snow – Bound

10. Christian Types in Limerick