PERMISSIONS: To view the blog, post on it, and comment on posts, you must be invited. I will send you an email invitation to join the blog, and then you must follow the instructions to join up and begin posting. You can't join the blog without first creating a Google account.

POSTING: Post your poems by clicking "New Post" at the top right of the page. Paste your poem into the window.

LABELING: Then label the post with the assignment name (i.e., "confessional poem," "sonnet," etc.), your name (i.e., "Tony Barnstone," etc.), and the week (i.e., "week one," "week two," but not "week 1"--spell out your numbers). If you post a poem in week two that is due in week three, label it "week three." When you begin to type in a label, the program will fill it in for you, so your post will be labeled with the rest of the poems in the same category.

COMMENTING: Afterwards, you can "comment" on the posts of your classmates. Post "group one" and "group two" one-page critical responses as "comments" on the posted poems, but also print out copies for me and for the poet and give them to us in class.
Showing posts with label Quatrain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quatrain. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Healing-Celina

Your love is that of iodine
A curing clarity
That works its way between my bones
And nestles subtly.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Paint your path

I dwell within the realm of obscurity.
I search for truth and magic purity.

My mind is a Jackson Pollak wet dream,
Where questions drip as splatters darkly gleam.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Her Wild Demure

She clings to bold voice slips,
Unfolding like oragami
Of crisp and bare sheets, vul-
nerable listeners stormy.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Ned Ludd-Celina

“Enough!” Ludd’s act organically
stewed engineers in shame.
Humanity mechanically
gasped with the stocking frame.

Sour Grapes

Rimbaud, a country child not fit

for vineyards, rolling hills.

But city life bore no fruit and

destroyed his strength of will.

Gulliver

Is Gulliver so large and wild,
Or slipping deceit up?
A small and artful, shifting child
On isles he found himself.

Mr. Teach

Blackbeard the infamous dispatched
his foes with undue glee.
The shape of his flag flew low, just
a hair above the sea.