leonardcohenforum.com

I'm going to be quite daring here and suggest a little game.
I know there is a possibility no-one will join in but I can deal with that.
You soon get toughened up here. It's a good game, you have seen the
principle in action already. All you have to do is think of a poet and write
some lines about them, where every line rhymes with their name e.g.


WB Yeats
scaled the park gates
using Guinness crates
studied Greats
and with his Fenian mates
attended church fêtes
where they left JL dates
in the collection plates


A word of warning: names with two or more syllables
are harder*, so don't start with Wordsworth or Whitman
or Larkin - go for something easy, like Blake or Keats or Frost.



* in English anyway. In other languages they may be OK,
e.g.:

Antonio Machado
fue tan delgado
que su tío Eduardo
le ofreció un helado
y dinero adecuado
para irse al mercado
solo, siendo Sabado
se encontró cerrado

Interesting game Sue. btw your poem was very educational. I didn't even know yeats was pronounced like that and certainly didn't know anything about mr. o'leary

I hope you don't think my first attempt is cheating.

Doctor Richard Buckminster Fuller
Stepped into circle that was fuller
dreamed a circle of friends fuller
a sense of family that was fuller
attuned to a love that was fuller
E. Pound said Bucky's freedom was fuller
said the happiness he brought was fuller
John Cage said Bucky's light was fuller
even after he shone it, it is still fuller
other buildings could be filled, his fuller
I think I know little, he knew it fuller

No, I wouldn't call it cheating. I didn't know Fuller wrote poems by the way.
What do you think of them?

Sue wrote:No, I wouldn't call it cheating. I didn't know Fuller wrote poems by the way.
What do you think of them?

He didn't know either. He never had any interest in being a poet and it was pointed to by others that his words were poetry. People close to him and people far away. Some were people who knew a reasonable amount about poetry. Late in life Ezra Pound came to one of his 40 talks that were entitled "Everything I know" that spread out over 5 days and sat silently in the front row.
At the end he asked to meet bucky and handed him a little note which said "To Buckminster Fuller, friend of the universe, bringer of happiness, liberator. with affectionate admiration Ezra Pound."
To be able to be saying everything you know and to say it while thinking out loud with no notes and do it in 40 hours while in your 80's must surely be poetry.
One such talk can be found on the Internet and if you ever have a spare 40 hours it is pretty good stuff.
In one of his poems Leonard says that of the thousands who are called poets that there are one or two who are genuine. Right away I thought of bucky as one of those one or two.

I used Bucky for your game because i hardly know anything about any poets and have never studied poetry or have ever read a book about poetry or it's history.

What you wrote about Yeats I found interesting because it, for some reason, gave me a sense of Deja Vu. It was like i was remembering those crates. Will I have to know a lot about Yeats to have it make sense?

Hello Sue
I want to play too
but I've lots of stuff I've got to do
at the end of my day, some tea I'll brew
the sit an write a rhyme for you

Will I have to know a lot about Yeats to have it make sense?

Ha! ha! No.

Cate wrote:Hello Sue
I want to play too
but I've lots of stuff I've got to do
at the end of my day, some tea I'll brew
the sit an write a rhyme for you

make sure you do

Leonard Cohen

Because he's made of flesh and bohen,
I'm sure he'd rather you help to postpohen
his final approach to the great unknohen,
so I pray you call him on the phohen
and ask permission before you clohen.

Rhyming is trickier then I thought!

Blake

A rhyme for William Black
The poet whom I'd most like to bake,
a yummy orange sparked cupcake.
but that might be a mistake
my baking might give him a tummy ache.
To a restaurant then, Blake I would take
and buy him a milkshake, steak
and triple chocolate layer cake.

bill bissett


...ll ..... bi
bi ............ll .. ium ... thinking ... abt ..... billlll
...............................................................................ll
who .. still .............. gives . me ............a..... t h r il ... l
.
th ... dans ..... he .. does ....... with .. his .......quillll
.
th .. word ..... picturs ... on ... papr .... he .... leevs ..........instilll

.................zaa
.... a .......bi.....r ....... illusyn .... and ...... chilll

glad ... he ... lives ... heer ..........not ... in ...... braz
.................................................................................ill

Wow, Cate you really took flight!

cate, how did you make spaces? I have tried and tried to make spaces and could not. Please disclose your secrets.

Hi Manna

I use ..... then colour them with ... ... the lightest blue.
Lizzy suggested the idea - or an idea similar to it.
Use the preview button to help you with the spacing.

Have fun

Cate

E. Pound said Bucky's freedom was fuller

dunno about Pound -
was he the one they found
hanging around
ear to the ground
making no sound?
Did he leap from a mound
chained and bound
of words so profound
that meanings abound
and visions astound:
Drowned! Drowned! Drowned!
before he hit the ground?


found a wonderful page of recordings here:

http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Pound.html

e
e
cumming
ee
ee
cumming
EEE
EEE
CUMMING
EEEE
EEEE
CUMMING