by day he is a demon drover
who roams with rats in vacant lots
eats pitted dates with monster toads
leaves rinds of snot on rabid stones
his matted mane snares the mist
he shares his mind with dented mates
is atomised by vengeful doves
rants at vets who sieve his dreams
his eyes are stained with totem odes
he vends his verse from vats of steam
stores his rage in raven's drains
strides the street with riven tomes
but when the mares of night invade
the priestly demons that he droves
divest their robes and mitred hats
and rape him on the road
Another poem from my University of Iowa MOOC writing experience. Visit Tuesday Poem for more poems this week.
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Tuesday Poem: Giving birth
It’s scratching, sketching, hatching, culling
reflecting, collecting, selecting, electing
building, stitching, sowing, growing
It’s being mindful while netting metaphors
from speech and prosody's tidal reaches
lapping at our multitudes of selves
It’s saving sonnets lost in others’ words
taking pleasure with the tongue
seeking freedom in constraint
It’s congregation, congress, association
looking, sweating, kissing, cussing
this gestation, this poem writing
Like one or two other Tuesday Poem poets, several other New Zealanders, and over 3,000 global poetry writers, I have over the last 6 weeks been a participant in the University of Iowa's "Writers on Writing Poetry" MOOC. I registered for this online course because I was looking for new ways and techniques to explore and use when writing poems. To this end, I have not been disappointed and have been introduced to several ideas, many processes, and some exciting entrees into writing poetry. The course finishes this week and the above poem was my response to the exercise of writing a "constraint-based" poem. The constraint to be used was ours to choose and mine was to use a word from each of the titles that made up the12 Class Sessions. The words as they appear line by line in the poem are: sketching, collecting, building, mindful, prosody, multitudes, words, pleasure, constraint, association, looking, poem. And if you can get over all the -ing words in the poem, (which is frowned on by certain of today's poetry-writing teachers), I hope you enjoy.
Visit Tuesday Poem for more poems this week.
reflecting, collecting, selecting, electing
building, stitching, sowing, growing
It’s being mindful while netting metaphors
from speech and prosody's tidal reaches
lapping at our multitudes of selves
It’s saving sonnets lost in others’ words
taking pleasure with the tongue
seeking freedom in constraint
It’s congregation, congress, association
looking, sweating, kissing, cussing
this gestation, this poem writing
Like one or two other Tuesday Poem poets, several other New Zealanders, and over 3,000 global poetry writers, I have over the last 6 weeks been a participant in the University of Iowa's "Writers on Writing Poetry" MOOC. I registered for this online course because I was looking for new ways and techniques to explore and use when writing poems. To this end, I have not been disappointed and have been introduced to several ideas, many processes, and some exciting entrees into writing poetry. The course finishes this week and the above poem was my response to the exercise of writing a "constraint-based" poem. The constraint to be used was ours to choose and mine was to use a word from each of the titles that made up the12 Class Sessions. The words as they appear line by line in the poem are: sketching, collecting, building, mindful, prosody, multitudes, words, pleasure, constraint, association, looking, poem. And if you can get over all the -ing words in the poem, (which is frowned on by certain of today's poetry-writing teachers), I hope you enjoy.
Visit Tuesday Poem for more poems this week.
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