Poetry

Toxic

Posted Mon, 06/01/2009 - 19:20 by rosalafae

A freeverse poem generally on the topic of the surreal nature of intoxication.

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One Day

Posted Mon, 06/01/2009 - 19:03 by rosalafae

A shortish poem I wrote for my girlfriend's eighteenth birthday. We're always talking about our possible future together, and we generally begin these conversations with "One day...". I know love poetry is somewhat cliché, but this is hopefully a little different.

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In defense of Eve

Posted Wed, 03/18/2009 - 18:37 by Phil

Dear Lord, my wife has done a silly thing.

That’s clear now and there’s no point arguing.

She’s guilty, and she feels a fool because

She’s let you down, but Lord, here’s how it was:

 

We honestly thought that the snake must be

One of your creatures. Though admittedly

He did look somewhat suspect. And he hissed.

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Sorry, Judas!

Posted Mon, 02/09/2009 - 22:21 by Judas-Orphei

A willingly provocative poem reversing traditional western values and associating long-loved figures with terrible crimes, and vice-versa.

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Winter Sonnet

Posted Mon, 02/09/2009 - 22:19 by Judas-Orphei

A consciously clumsy sonnet about long-lost love and the resentment thereof. Again, showing a tendency for the cryptic.

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Never Again

Posted Mon, 02/09/2009 - 22:17 by Judas-Orphei

Just a little ditty written when considering the over-bearing moral lessons that people try to teach. Not ot be taken seriously.

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Blackberry Tears

Posted Mon, 02/09/2009 - 22:15 by Judas-Orphei

A short poem about regret and memory - this poem is part of a cycle that, like "Ars Remedia", portray enigmatic events and characters with the intention to arouse interest for the cryptic, often underrated in poetry.

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Ars Remedia

Posted Mon, 02/09/2009 - 22:09 by Judas-Orphei

Ovid thought he knew it all. This spiteful poem attempts, with clumsy, rhyme-less verses, to show him how wrong he was.

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51+1

Posted Mon, 02/09/2009 - 21:52 by Judas-Orphei

A poem based on Catulus' poem 51, itself based on a poem by Sappho.
In Catulus' version, Sappho's passionate verses are reversed in order to allow the male poet to descant on his own female love-interest. Here, this version is itself reversed, although not necessarily back into the way Sappho would have meant it to be.

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Jazz and Portrait of an Asian Puppet

Posted Mon, 02/09/2009 - 21:16 by attrof

Two poems I wrote, the first was to be based off the conversation of a stranger (Jazz) while the second was supposed to be in iambic pentameter (Portrait of an Asian Puppet).
The quote in Jazz was taken from a religious fanatic in the Manchester city center, and Portrait was inspired by a long conversation I had with a friend from New York.
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