So, back to the poetry comp.

[mickey_one]

an earlier thread got a little "distracted".

I suggest we agree a subject by Tuesday

so far the only ideas are

how we came to Leonard, or free choice but with some Leonard connection.


I hope the other thread didn't "scare off" Lizzy and Peter from volunteering.

[lizzytysh]

I've never met Peter, but with the Lizzie I met ~ not a chance !

[Teratogen]

i say free choice, but make the form a villanelle.

[mickey_one]

i say free choice, but make the form a villanelle.

I have forgotten what a villathingy is but I know I hate it, the only form that is even worse is one of those........ahhhh, oh bugger even forgotten what they are. those awful 5 or 6 line abominations. what the hell are they called.

this post will be edited!


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got it- yuk, the haiku. this must be the most pointless, gimmicky, awful, form of poem writing ever.

ever.

ps ever

pps what? I edited this once I googled the dreaded form, where is my edit line.?

I demand my edit line.

[Diane]

Hi T, are we now writing a pome about a lady villain? I haven't even started my pome yet, and I am already confused.

got it- yuk, the haiku. this must be the most pointless, gimmicky, awful, form of poem writing ever.

Aaah, the haiku. Yes, now you're talking. Haiku are wonderful, aren't they?

You can edit yourself now Michael, if you wish. Just remove your description of the haiku and copy mine in. Sorted.

Diane

[Elsie]

MOON HOWL

It's full moon again
and I hear a wolf howling
Is that you, darling?

[lizzytysh]

See, Mickey? Didn't we tell you haikus are wonderful ?

Way to go, Elsie !

~ Lizzy

[mickey_one]

MOON HOWL

It's full moon again
and I hear a wolf howling
Is that you, darling?

well, well. if that's an haiku it is the first one I have ever liked! I suppose you are going to spoil it all by saying Leonard Cohen wrote it. But I don't care. I give full credit to you, and decree that this verse shall forever be known as Elsie's Howling Haiku.

[Charles]

Hello again.

I'd like to enter the contest as a non-poet. I really had a good time participating in the others. The suggested topic "How I came to Leonard" is a good one but it may be too narrow for people like me. I would hope that it could be more general. Leonard connected yes, involving his favorite themes--love, sex, marriage, religion, etc. Whatever is decided I look forward to reading everyone's poems.


Charles

[LaurieAK]

Hi Charles~

I'd also like to consider entering the contest as a non-poet. I'm surprised the band leader of this has not been more pro active getting a topic pinned down, since the suggested deadline passed yesterday...

The topic, "how I came to Leonard" was a double entendre joke tossed out there (by someone who should fess up) and is of course of practically not even a topic at all. Regardless, it does not work.

I did some mental word hopping after reading your request for a practical theme...and thought about the event being based on First We Take Manhattan...Berlin, and ended up with a potential topic of WINDOWS.

Maybe others have some other suggestions?

Happy writing.

Laurie

[Byron]

Philip Larkin

High Windows.


When I see a couple of kids
And guess he's fucking her and she's
Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm,
I know this is paradise

Everyone old has dreamed of all their lives--
Bonds and gestures pushed to one side
Like an outdated combine harvester,
And everyone young going down the long slide

To happiness, endlessly. I wonder if
Anyone looked at me, forty years back,
And thought, That'll be the life;
No God any more, or sweating in the dark

About hell and that, or having to hide
What you think of the priest. He
And his lot will all go down the long slide
Like free bloody birds. And immediately

Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
The sun-comprehending glass,
And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.

12 February 1967

[LaurieAK]

Hi Byron~!

Well, I don't know if this is a thumbs up, (or down) to my suggestion but I can now spend the rest of the day mentally bumping into that great line:

"the sun-comprehending glass,"

thanks,
L

[mickey_one]

MOON HOWL

It's full moon again
and I hear a wolf howling
Is that you, darling?

as you know , Elsie, I speak some Danish and as your little country, Norway, is a province of Denmark I believe, I have translated your haiku into my best Danish. Do tell me if you understand any of it

Månehyl
Fuldmåne igen
og jeg hører ulvehyl
Er det dig min skat

farvella

din ven, Michael

[mickey_one]

Hi Charles~

I'd also like to consider entering the contest as a non-poet. I'm surprised the band leader

Laurie

Joe Loss, Dead Loss, what's the difference?

just not been in writing mood, or organising mood, and uninspired by any title suggestions so far. "windows" reminds me too much of Joe's "winter".
let's set another deadline!!!! we will have our title by Sunday morning or if not then I will scweam and scweam and be jolly unhappy, and no-one wants that least of all everyone else as well as me. in the old troll days, Hallmark Lady etc, there was a bunch of squeaky mice who objected to me ever choosing the subject, ("ha already has written a selection of masterpieces just waiting to be entered and bound to win, it's not fair, boo hoo blah blah") so

SOMEONE JUST CHOOSE, who cares, then we will have something to do during these long winter days
when we look out of our windows
in this seedy hotel
and can't begin to put
pen to paper
as some bastard
has stolen
my pen
and crumpled my paper
and cast them
into the bin
along
with so many worn-out
dreams
that have bin
and gone
and are now just
bin
bi
everyone

Good Night


mikeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[mickey_one]

Hello again.

I'd like to enter the contest as a non-poet. I really had a good time participating in the others. The suggested topic "How I came to Leonard" is a good one but it may be too narrow for people like me. I would hope that it could be more general. Leonard connected yes, involving his favorite themes--love, sex, marriage, religion, etc. Whatever is decided I look forward to reading everyone's poems.


Charles

don't just enter, pick the topic, interthingy it, judge it, sleep with the winner, buy prizes for all the losers, beautiful or not, do the lot, so it is written in the Good Book of Charles.