Tag: poem
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Napowrimo, Day 9 – Reconfiguration
I was discussing with someone last night how you might read something and think, yes, it is presented in lines, perhaps has a working metaphor; it might even be rhymed and metered. But in the end you think, “That wasn’t a poem.” I think this is a topic I’d like us to chat about in…
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Napowrimo Day 6, Pocahontas
Today’s poem is another response to a prompt from Richard at Poetic Asides. This prompt was to write and ekphrastic poem. John Drury’s Poetry Dictionary, defines ekphrastic poetry as “Poetry that imitates, describes, critiques, dramatizes, reflects upon, or otherwise responds to a work of nonliterary art, especially the visual.” Of the two works provided (I…
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Napowrimo Easter Poem
Running a bit late wit this! Yikes, I should be caught up shortly. I hope your Easter was as peaceful as it should be. Egg Versus Cross The Calvanist is hard on the Easter egg– “Fickle colored distraction, keeping children happily numb to sin and terrors of crucifixion.” But if the stories are true, Friday…
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National Poetry Writing Month
Well there is a National Ice Cream Month (July, thanks to Ronny Reagan), National Blood Donor Month (though that seems like it would be draining), National Soup Month, and a National Hemorrhoid Prevention Month (OK, OK, so I made that one up), so why not National Poetry Month? Great idea, right? Well, too late, the…
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Two Original Poems Read by DJB
This has been a busy two weeks. Midterm exams, papers, enough reading to overload Carl Sagan’s brain, and six nights of work. Ugh! But I’m sitting here now with my baby, listening to Michael Buble and Josh Groban, soothing my soul after the American Idol travesties of the evening. A glass of wine in my…
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“To a Contemporary Bunkshooter,” by Carl Sandburg, a Poetry Reading by DJB
The text of this poem can be viewed by clicking right here. I was a little unsure about making this video public for several reasons. My reading is a bit over the top in places, but then again it’s nothing compared to an over the top Billy Sunday sermon. Also, it was hard to make…
