Come to think of it, this contest is overdue. So I should pick a winner. I am considering any post an avant-garde poem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
I agree with Pompey Bum. We have a winner: Cacian
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Come to think of it, this contest is overdue. So I should pick a winner. I am considering any post an avant-garde poem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pompey Bum
I agree with Pompey Bum. We have a winner: Cacian
Congratulations Cacian !
What's next ?
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
thank you YesNo
the topic for avant garde is
express yourself
taken from one of Madonna's song
and the total numbers of line is
10
good luck :)_
If you want that baby, boy,
Your body better give her joy.
If you just watch her waiting there
In thigh-tight skirt and come-on hair
With giggles setting her apart,
Some dog might come and break her heart
Or dragon carry her away
Into his cave, so don’t delay.
She wants a wound-up, action toy
With heart-pumped hands to hold her, boy.
only i
awakening my inner moonlight
my hidden madness unsilenced
never to be made a victim
no one can define myself
only i
my paintbrush dips into my soul
leaving outward expressions
of inward passions and emotions
none can dictate my perceptions
only i
hefty stones n zaftig bracelets oh jiz screw em gal screw em,
an screw em good em lamborghinis n porsches em satin crap sheets
n long stem flowers cuz honestly they suck,
all ya need gal listen all ya need is jiz a skillful hand n finger
in yer hole to make ya feel like yer the queen of the world
the one who rules it all who makes em all turn turn turn
em boners n flabbies in their fast cars em boobies n flatties on their fancy sheets
cuz when yer shakin with delight n writhin an moanin oohs n aahs
when yer smellin that sticky index finger thats been rubbin n circlin
oh yeah gal yeah thats when ya know yer do much better on yer own
YesNo and Dieter thank you for posting
two very different but interesting pieces to read
Melanie
i enjoyed the lightness and idea behind the piece
and the winner is....
Melanie
only i
is a lovely thought and sound too:)
Thank you very much. I enjoyed working with the great topic you chose, cacian. Give me a few moments and I'll be back with the next avant-garde topic :)
The next avant-garde poetry topic will be a who, what, when, why, where question.
For example, the question could possibly start like:
who would…
or
what if…
or
when will…
or
why do…
or
where did…
Choose one or more or all of the questions for your poem.
Deadline: July 9th
This ends tomorrow. If there are no entries it will go back to Cacian for choosing a new avant-garde topic.
If there is only one entry, that person will be the winner and choose the next topic.
I told myself that I should be about 170 pounds
and sometimes I check in the morning to see if
my body got the message and usually it didn’t,
but it turned out today that the scale showed 167
pounds which kind of surprised me and made
me wonder if there was something wrong with
the scale or if I needed to tell my eyes to see
more clearly but it looks like my body finally came
through and then I wondered what if I could
levitate and then Alice appeared and she wanted
to know what I was doing and I told her that my
body finally did what I told it to do and she wasn’t
impressed and she wanted to know about that
levitating nonsense I was jabbering about and I
told her I thought it would be cool to become
weightless for a while and she told me that would
mess up my ideas about gravity and did I really want
another cognitive dissonance experience so soon
and then she mumbled something I deliberately
ignored about needing to appreciate whatever
experiences I might have while I had the chance.
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7/8/2015
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tailor STATELY
Where did you find that gorgeous Ottoman?
What if Vienna never fell to your end Peace?
When will Pierre find Love?
Who would Snoopy walk 500 miles in the Rein for?
I was pleasantly surprised to see 3 impressive last minute entries. Avant Garde has a variety of definitions but I saw a connection between all 3 poems...all took a surrealistic approach in 3 very unique ways.
YesNo - Yours had an Existential Surrealistic quality to it. It was a conversation with yourself about your personal experience and it's demands on your free will in a deterministic and somewhat meaningless universe. Alice then reminds you of your responsibilities for your acts of free-will causing you some anguish and dread. It had an unreal yet engaging quality for the reader to "hear" your conversation with yourself.
tailorSTATELY - Yours had a Dreamlike Surrealism with a strangely unexpected yet profound pop of imagery in the last word "origami"…seemingly unrelated at first. It stopped me in my tracks causing me to spend time analyzing the qualities of origami as related to "who am I"…causing a fun, engaging, and creative thought process about life's folds, layers, colors, and intricate design…ending with the creation of a perfected and whole image. All this in just three short lines. And the last line had a good rhythmic poetic flow.
HCabret - Yours was like a delightful Surrealistic Cafe Conversation combining unrelated images and events resulting in some fun and fascinating incongruous imagery. The unexpected yet deliberate misspelling and capitalization of "Rein" (and capitalization of "Ottoman" and "Peace"), and the phrase "never fell to your end Peace" and Snoopy even, were all cleverly disorienting with a touch of hallucination.
All of these were great examples of Avant Garde Poetry and all deserve to win. The winner is tailorSTATELY
Thank you Melanie! Enjoyed your thoughtful analysis.
I enjoyed YesNo's and HCabret's entries as well. (The byline "I am Kurdish.......apparently" still cracks me up).
Now the hard part... The next topic, or non-topic?, for the next round: Dadaism - https://www.google.com/search?client...est&gws_rd=ssl .
The Dadaism (or Dada) movement is actually older than I realized. After 20 seconds of googling for the above I found this: http://www.lasalle.edu/~blum/c340wks/DadaPoem.htm for an idea that a n y b o d y might have fun with.
I might cast my "Spam Gems" poems in the Dada light (ref: my poetry webpage - https://sites.google.com/site/apoetingardenvalley/ then control f [find]: Spam Gems). I'm not sure about my anagramic deconstruction of "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost (ref: "The Road Not Ken: Ta !")... but maybe... I'll accept this form as well; just beware that this exercise is mind-numbing.
Parameters:
• If you use the Dada Poem Generator please don't use the first thing that pops up (unless it's a cracker of a poem of course). The original cut and paste, or source might be cool to see.
• Be creative.
• Have fun.
• Deadline: 7/27/2015 midnight PDT
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY