Garden of Poetry

Schneider Called It in 2001 !

Dan Schneider on Robert Bly:

Bly falls into didacticism—a trait he always displays with audiences—reading & rereading the most inconsequential images, lines, stanzas, & poems as if of cosmic import. It’s also the dead giveaway of a man unsure of himself, his talent, & in need of constant reinforcement. But then he’s always played the “insecure liberal”, wasting time & energy in politics that should go to art, who needs to show his/her innate goodness, go to a [3rd World country/rehab center/orphanage/social activist group] to see how the other ½ lives, translate 5th rate poetasters into English, & leach bad poems from the transformative period so crucial to their growth as a poet/person. It’s all part of the co-opting of language & freedoms by so many groups—PC Elitists among them.

Poetic Sanity in the Asylum: CosmoDan

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

Paths to Pathos

Poets: a pathetic lot—

Who sing, off-key, of their own refusing.

On a quest for what is not,

Entranced with their own maudlin musing

In that zone where life gets buffered

As the pages load; confusing

Pain with what their souls have suffered:

Lyric bombs for your defusing.

write a self-portrait poem in which you make a specific action a metaphor for your life –
one that typically isn’t done all that often, or only in specific circumstances.
For example, bowling, or shopping for socks, or shoveling snow, or teaching a child to tie its shoes.