Poem of the Week - 2011

[Buh4Bee]

Hunting Horns is a terrific poem. I enjoyed the de Quincy references.

[Thomas Novosel]

very kool on "hunting horns" but i was lost in the second stanza third line, and was unsure of how Ann related to the drinker... was Ann someone who he had a past love but then lost somehow which is why he drinks to have his memories come back?

[rosana]

In contrst to other romantic poetry - he's offering her something, but not much. A coffee pot, a raincoat, a ford cortina, (prone to rusting I think), and that rather disgusting image of the vacuum cleaner breathing in her dust.

It's like some bloke in a pub/ bar desperately trying to think of good lines with which to chat up a woman. I think the references to Teddy Bear - Elvis - and dreamboat are cliches. He's getting desperate, and then we have the ironic devotion deep as the ocean, when it is clearly as deep as a puddle.

Just to add - he's a performance poet who used to tour with Punk bands in the 80's.

the poet uses humor to convey his love wanting to protect to be better than the rest to stay to make things right to embrace to comfort to let her lead ; etc etc

it is a nice clichè that women enjoy he deserves credit for trying even if its just a fantasy hes inventing to "chat up" who knows maybe some of us still like flattery and to have our roles as domestics exalted i wouldnt be so hard on him

where did you see elvis named in the poem ? maybe i am missing something I am puertorican and english my second language

[Paulclem]

the poet uses humor to convey his love wanting to protect to be better than the rest to stay to make things right to embrace to comfort to let her lead ; etc etc

it is a nice clichè that women enjoy he deserves credit for trying even if its just a fantasy hes inventing to "chat up" who knows maybe some of us still like flattery and to have our roles as domestics exalted i wouldnt be so hard on him

where did you see elvis named in the poem ? maybe i am missing something I am puertorican and english my second language

Sorry - I missed this. The poet does all this consciously - I think it's a satirical poem about the poor effort of modern romance. The Elvis reference is I wanna be your teddy bear from the song.

[Paulclem]

I found this terriffic poem in The Guardian yesterday - they do a section called The Saturday Poem.

Terrier in Rape

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012...kinnon-terrier

[Andrew Mcleod]

ye olde english is a beauty to mi ears lol

[hallaig]

Two Girls Singing

It neither was the words nor yet the tune.
Any tune would have done and any words.
Any listener or no listener at all.

As nightingales in rocks or a child crooning
in its own world of strange awakening
or larks for no reason but themselves.

So on the bus through late November running
by yellow lights tormented, darkness falling,
the two girls sang for miles and miles together.

and it wasn’t the words or tune. It was the singing.
It was the human sweetness in that yellow,
the unpredicted voices of our kind.


Iain Crichton Smith, 1928-98, Scottish poet in gaelic and english

[NarpleLorry]

An homage to Keats? I like this a lot.

[Nicoletta]

Why is this a dead thread? It's good discussion material.

[poetmin]

I like poem by wallace stevens

The snow man

[russellb]

i think a good poem to discuss would be the 'entry of christ into liverpool' by adrian henri. I am reminded of a line by germaine greer, playing herself, in the end of the world drama 'second coming' when she says "i could understand if he came back to the middle east but the north of england?!!" the reference doesn't quite hold cos in the drama the son of god is mancunian. Manchester isn't far up the M62 though ('second coming' was written by the first new writer of dr who and the actor who played the son of god was the first new dr who. In the poem i refer to christ gets lost i think in a wonderful mythical procession...)

[emely24garcia]

the beauty of these words amazes me

[FTJohnson]

I really love this poem that you made. I hope one day I can do this such a pretty works.

[cacian]

In my Poem,

This is the day!This is the day!
that the lord has made!
we will rejoice!we will rejoice!
and be glad in it.

how is it?

and us and all!!

and now let's return
to our schedule
or have we forgotten how
to whole.

inspired by you ashleyturnier

[FTJohnson]

and us and all!!

and now let's return
to our schedule
or have we forgotten how
to whole.

inspired by you ashleyturnier

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