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Damned I Am -- a Maiden Mad!
This is a "palindroem," an entire "poem" spelled identically backwards as forwards. Its title is also palindromic.
DAMNED I AM -- A MAIDEN MAD
DID I SAY ALL LIED?
AM I DAMNED? I ...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:40:00 GMT
Electric Grid Puppy Sonnet
ELECTRIC GRID PUPPY SONNET
In psychological experiments
One puppy pen was half-electrified.
We flipped the switch -- the subjects jumped and went,
Tails still wagging, to the other side.
The ne...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 01:34:00 GMT
What’s the Meaning of This Poem?
WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS POEM?
What's the meaning of this poem?
Yes, it is a villanelle:
Repetition drives it home.
Tape-looped serenade from some
Troubador to damoiselle:
What's the ...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:12:00 GMT
Sunset & Mission
This is a pantoum written August 23, 2007 in Los Angeles.
Sunset & Mission
I am not
The same as me;
I forgot
I used to be.
The same as me
Is what you are.
I used to be
A...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:01:00 GMT
No, No -- a Thousand (and One) Times No!
No, No -- a Thousand (and One) Times No!
What part of "No"
Don't you understand?
Is it the 'O,'
Or is it the 'N?'
'N' for negation,
Nihilism, nothing
-- A hole in place of
What used...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:38:00 GMT
Vlad the Impaler
This is an anagram-generated poem: all the lines are anagrams of the title. It describes Vlad's descent into Hell and sounds like a heavy metal lyric.
I was watching a show on the History ...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 19:04:00 GMT
Reason Is a Fine Machine
This very repetitive poem is a pantoum. It's a Malayan form we got from the French. It's the s-l-o-w-e-s-t of forms: four steps forward, two steps back.
This one's kind of Blake-l...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:29:00 GMT
Eye Sees Eye
EYE SEES EYE
for Lupe Rivera
"I see --si!"
Eye sees eye.
Eye saw it -- I was "Eye."
Eye saw: as eye
I saw was a saw, was I?
Was all I was a will? a saw?
Till I saw it, I was ill. It...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 15:37:00 GMT
O Tender Youth
This is another anagram poem -- that is, each line is an anagram of the title, which was suggested by J. Paul Slavens.
O TENDER YOUTH
O tender youth,
Heed yon tutor:
Nude to theory,
You ...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:33:00 GMT
In the Garden -- a short story
This is a short story I wrote 11/27/06 for a creative writing class at SMU.
IN THE GARDEN
In the beginning was the word specifically the...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:05:00 GMT
