Kikuyu_Black_Paws Posted March 29, 2008 Report Share Posted March 29, 2008 What is a Poem? Does it rhyme or jump? Does it runaway before being trapped by a butterfly net? Does it sit quiet and stout in four lines or lie thin along the road in thirty? Does it flaunt its face before applauding spectators or hide its meaning among shrouds of scarlet cloth? Does it speak with stones or sunlight birds’ wings or foxes’ tails? What is a Poem? All of the Above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reverie Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 First rate. feels familar somehow. Completely original or an imitation? Ether way great job. rev... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quincunx Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 Kikuyu's old sig had some terrific short lines from Pablo Neruda, very much in the same style. That was enough to give me the feeling of familiarity, or more precisely of a poem that escaped the lips when the mind had already been soaked in poetry that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quincunx Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 reverie: Langston Hughes, "A Raisin in the Sun"? The end lines of that poem had gotten tangled in my head 'inexplicably' a few days ago. Now that I've taken conscious note of it, and hunted down the original, the form is identical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kikuyu_Black_Paws Posted April 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 A Raisin in the Sun? Could you post it? I don't think I've heard of that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver Dragon Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Very good if I do say so. Keep up the good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reverie Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 (edited) Oh yes, they do seem similar: http://raisin-sun.netfirms.com/hughes.html A Raisin in the Sun by Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Edited April 1, 2008 by reverie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kikuyu_Black_Paws Posted April 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 I like it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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