Reading

The secret lives of Bookmarks. Yes, where are they hiding? I know one is stuck in the office cubicle between the barrier and table. Difficult to retrieve. When you are a reader, bookmarks are a gift you are sure to get. Their whereabouts after that? A GPS on it could help.
Reading and eating

Wars and Armours

A modern uncle made his
nephew dress as terrorist
Admiral Yi dressed his
nephew in his own armour
to see through to victory

How long does it take to forget a word?

Atmost 15 years of disuse.

I forgot the mole from chemistry class. The first mole we learn is of the identification marks to be filled in the application forms for any school. Then you meet the word in the chemistry class. Then in the culinary world. Then in the 24 TV show.

What is magic?

Magic carpet
Abracadabra
Something that performs something unobviously.

Staying poet in the busy world

A super poem
that goes against
the grain

part of which
eludes the
reader its meant
for

The four states of matter

The reflection of a metal trellis and citrus leaves
from the lights of tennis courts onto the path
like a metallic shiny paper, starburst.

parents skate baby in stroller
man walks guitar upside down

Broken glass
Empty parking

Zangbeto*



Title and * from A world of curiosities

Blood on the wheel - A poem that stops you in your tracks

A dissolvable poem

A dissolvable poem
like an absorbable
s
  t
    i
      t
       c
        h
that joins the tear
and breaks down
after the mission
is accomplished

that mixes in the water and froths up
b
        u
   b
               b
                       l
e
         s


that poolslikeoil

that soften downs
the colour of the sand

that buzzes like a
mosquito

Can this poem self destruct?

Full circle poetry

Bolivia has the most Bowler hats - A World of Curiosities, John Oldale

While bakers have their Morning glory muffins
Australians have their Morning Glory clouds
Emily D infers Autumn from Millinery of the clouds
We are a sad people without hats
We are sadder without clouds

What should the American Writers Museum include?

What should the American Writers Museum include?

How the writer got started.
first rejection letter
first publication
The books they liked to read
favorite places to write
Their ardent readers
Their unfinished titles

poetry comics

Bianca stone. Joe Brainard has a hand in poetry comics too.

Writing your own journal while reading another

Life experiences in third person distance the reader from the author. But it also facilitates the imagination of the reader to direct inward and think of his/her own experiences. Pedantic way of listing all the addresses he's ever stayed at makes the reader recall their addresses and incidents there of. Somehow you get the sense of cherishment of the nostalgic self, while if I were in the author's place, I would send away chunks of me that dont fit in little boats. Which brings us to the question of the person we want to be in selection and/or entirety.

ModPo class essay

I taste a liquor never brewed

‘A liquor never brewed’ refers to the instantaneous, nectar made by flowers which is not fermented or boiled. It is present naturally. This liquor is better than what is available by the Rhine.

‘Inebriate of Air’ – drawn to the fragrance of the flowers

‘Debauchee of Dew’ -  addicted to dew formed on the flowers overnight

Endless summer days – length of the day, and continuous ritual

When landlords – The caretakers, mothers?

When butterflies renounce drams – does this refer to the time the butterflies stop drinking – night.

Foxglove’s door – wiki says that there is a myth that fairies live in foxgloves. So when Dickinson next talks of till ‘Seraphs swing their snowy hats’, is this vision a result of hallucination caused by foxgloves. Could it also refer to the passage of time from summer to snow.

To see the little tippler lean against the sun – drink until morning.

The poem has the traditional bee: flower :: man: woman metaphor going on but while listening to Al about sonnet’s main use of proclaiming love and dead metaphor of love, even though it is against the grain of modernism to employ the silly bee, flower symbols, I believe the ‘alcohol’ refers to love. Love is potent in that once you taste it, you are addicted to it like the victims of ‘La Belle dame sans Merci’. No body or no time is going to restrain the narrator’s being in love which she expects to exalt her. She will continue to love day in and day out.

Like in the ‘I dwell in the house of Possibility’, the metaphor of lover seeking love/nectar in the form of bees, butterflies is repetitive if they are to mean the same. The narrator must be referring to some difference in the nature of bees and butterflies.

poetry today

There's always a debate about what can be subject matter of poetry. When its simple things like Humidifier, beauty emerges. In India, mom opens the nasal passages of baby with Vicks VapoRub and warm touch.

Why the clouds make you stop and look? Its the biggest painting one can see.