Poet & Critic http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/directory en-us Copyright 2006, Yuku feeds@yuku.com (FeedMaster) webmaster@yuku.com (WebMaster) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:00:00 GMT Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:20:49 GMT Yuku Feeds 1.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 Yuku http://static.yuku.com//feed/bypass/images/button-yuku.png http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/directory Yuku - free hosted forums and profiles 88 31 {pics-1.1 "http://www.icra.org/ratingsv02.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (nz 1 vz 1 lz 1 oz 1 cz 1 ) "http://www.rsac.org/ratingsv01.html" l gen true for "http://yuku.com" r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0 )) Search Search Domain q http://yuku.com/search/direct/ <![CDATA[ Nemerov deadline Nov. 15 ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/700/t/Nemerov-deadline-Nov-15.html
http://english.evansville.edu/Nemerov.htm ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Carol Taylor) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/700 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:20:49 GMT <![CDATA[ Plastic Jesus in an Upright Tub ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/699/t/Plastic-Jesus-in-an-Upright-Tub.html

From a distance he's only a trace
of a figure, almost beautiful, with brown
eyes glittered to shine from a loving face
molded of white plastic; but, a closer
look reveals the features are coarse,
as though the hollow head was melted
and reshaped over a flickering fire.

A city man was hired to dig
a trench and, with joist and chain and hook,
hoisted the tub; we watched it tilt
into a lot... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (slowlearner) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/699 Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:52:56 GMT <![CDATA[ Not A Roundel ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/698/t/Not-A-Roundel.html A roundel is wrought on the strictest Swinburnian lines.
It has rhythm and style; it is often dressed up to the nines
With all manner of tropes, which the sensitive poet refines
To suit his own taste.

And when he has done, he won't let himself rest on his laurels,
But ensure he's complied with the strictest Victorian morals,
So that no-one demurs or complains and if anyone quarrels,
He'll soon be... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aoms) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/698 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:34:44 GMT <![CDATA[ Poem for Nobody (Title Change from "Halloween poem") ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/697/t/Poem-for-Nobody-Title-Change-from-quot-Halloween-poem-quot-.html In the attic room

on the northwest side,

there's the bouncing of a ball.

In the somber... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (janso926) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/697 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:36:48 GMT <![CDATA[ Her Hair ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/696/t/Her-Hair.html ...given for a cover...
I watch each hairpin fall
and think, she needs no other.
I wish she'd dress herself
in hair and let it flow
around her - all her wealth
cascading freely down.
I love the subtle slide
past skin, the brush of sound,
the weightless swirl through air -
the glint of gold in brown,
"I love your hair," I say,
but she just smiles and braids
it tight and pins it up
against the nightly... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Celimlodyn) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/696 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:44:15 GMT <![CDATA[ Challenge 12: Fall poem ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/695/t/Challenge-12-Fall-poem.html everyone should write at least one fall poem every fall" So let's make it an official challenge. Mine's below.

Carol
]]> feeds@yuku.com (Carol Taylor) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/695 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:16:08 GMT <![CDATA[ Like Lilies ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/694/t/Like-Lilies.html Like Lilies

I'm not to worry for my basic needs:

a roof over my head, tomorrow's meal.

I'll be arrayed in... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Carol Taylor) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/694 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:30:26 GMT <![CDATA[ Fall Poem (Challenge 12) ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/693/t/Fall-Poem-Challenge-12-.html my upper half outran my lower.
On top of thirty Diet Cokes,
I fetched up on the kitchen floor.

Bare knees and sodas took the brunt.
Although I'm mostly corpulent,
that's one place where I have no padding.
I wish it could have been my butt.


]]> feeds@yuku.com (Carol Taylor) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/693 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:22:10 GMT <![CDATA[ The old and honorable quatrain ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/692/t/The-old-and-honorable-quatrain.html When I was young and dumb, I used to sort of look down my nose at the simple quatrain, as being too simplistic, a kind of "anybody can do that" attitude. (Same with couplets.)

But lots older and a little wiser, I have reappraised. The simple forms are a special challenge and sometimes what starts as fiddling around might turn out to be a a real poem or a close approximation. I have issued a challenge in my most recent post in the workshop section about... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (janso926) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/692 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:04:34 GMT <![CDATA[ Trees Gather at the Charity Ball for our Benefit ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/691/t/Trees-Gather-at-the-Charity-Ball-for-our-Benefit.html

The vulgar birches, nouveau riche,

decked out in brazen gold lamé,

come swishing in like they were made

 feeds@yuku.com (janso926) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/691 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:30:33 GMT <![CDATA[ Theory ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/690/t/Theory.html I have also wondered about an IP apothegm to represent one's aspirations:
"The deepest thoughts expressed in simplest words". ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aoms) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/690 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:27:44 GMT <![CDATA[ MODERN METRICS PRESS HAS BECOME EXOT BOOKS ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/689/t/MODERN-METRICS-PRESS-HAS-BECOME-EXOT-BOOKS.html I am pleased to announce that the transmutation of MODERN METRICS PRESS press into EXOT BOOKS is complete.

All Modern Metrics titles will continue to be distributed by EXOT BOOKS, including our latest release WE INTERNET IN DIFFERENT VOICES by Mike Alexander. Beginning in 2010, with new chapbooks... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (R Nemo Hill) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/689 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:59:04 GMT <![CDATA[ Sestina for Abandoned children ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/688/t/Sestina-for-Abandoned-children.html Rev 2, final for this workshop session

Sestina for Lost Children

I am no longer confident... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (janso926) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/688 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:28:40 GMT <![CDATA[ Good poems never die or ever fade away ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/687/t/Good-poems-never-die-or-ever-fade-away.html
but I found it today and really--it made my day. Brilliant. I laughed my you-know-what off.

http://www.journal.alsopreview.com/?p=1373 ]]> feeds@yuku.com (janso926) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/687 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:41:36 GMT <![CDATA[ Harrowing ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/686/t/Harrowing.html Dear friends,

This poem has gone through multiple versions, from tet to IP, yet I am still dissatisfied with it. As someone who was raised in Pennsylvania (in anthracite country, rather than on a farm), I am particularly eager to get this right. The version below is the latest re-focusing, and any help would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks.


feeds@yuku.com (CMBCO) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/686 Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:09:59 GMT <![CDATA[ Factory Girl in a Blurred Photograph ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/685/t/Factory-Girl-in-a-Blurred-Photograph.html Did she, before a first picture,
have time to fix her location;
was it a failure to settle her feet
that tilted her hidden image undone?
Perhaps the spark, the powder's flash,
seduced her thin, fluttering fingers
... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (slowlearner) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/685 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:48:14 GMT <![CDATA[ Thanks for helping hands (brains) ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/684/t/Thanks-for-helping-hands-brains-.html
The Death of Sardanapalus was accepted for Autumn Sky Poetry's ekaphrasis issue. Coming soon on a screen in your neighborhood.

Many thanks, friends.

]]> feeds@yuku.com (janso926) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/684 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:38:55 GMT <![CDATA[ The Turf Labyrinth at Saffron Waldon ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/683/t/The-Turf-Labyrinth-at-Saffron-Waldon.html

Rev 3,4,5 (v.4 changes in red. V 5 changes in blue. S2 still a prob.)

The Turf Labyrinth at Saffron Waldon

http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/683 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:22:58 GMT <![CDATA[ Boxed In ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/682/t/Boxed-In.html has got me thinking. What can be out there
that's not in here? Perhaps my viewpoint's square,
my reasoning contained and orthodox.

Yet I am such a klutz at picking locks.
These flaps and staples just won't let me out.
There's something waiting to be thought about,
and six grey cardboard walls are stumbling blocks.

But getting out entails a paradox:
my... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (Carol Taylor) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/682 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:29:36 GMT <![CDATA[ A You-shaped Box ]]> http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/681/t/A-You-shaped-Box.html

There was a you-shaped box within my heart
I never knew, until you came along
And totally upset my apple-cart
With new sensations, each one hot and strong.
At first resistant, feeling it was wrong,
I was in pain and really on the rocks;
I had no wish to join your merry throng.
But, when you came... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (aoms) http://poetandcritic.yuku.com/topic/681 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:53:20 GMT