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07-21-2020, 06:28 PM
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Okay, let me try again:
1. The Old Testament
2. Lots of early twentieth-century avant-garde stuff
3. Das Kapital
4. Jerry Springer
5. The meat locker at Applebee's
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07-21-2020, 10:14 PM
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Interesting exercise.
William Shakespeare
Bob Dylan
John Keats
Emily Dickinson
(Maybe this is cheating, but there are dozens I could list in the 5th slot but none who looms as large as those 4, if I'm honest. The truth is #5 is probably a rotating situation, occupied by whichever poet I have most recently discovered, rediscovered, or deep-dived into. This week, it's Saeed Jones's book, Prelude to Bruise.)
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07-22-2020, 12:47 AM
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Poets/poems
Philip Larkin, “At Grass” (at 9)
Gerald Manley Hopkins, “Inversnaid” (at 13)
Wilfred Owen, “Futility” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth” (at 13)
Horace, Odes, 1, IX, “Soracte” (at 14)
Lawrence Bellotti of Gibraltar (at 22)
Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” (at 24)
George Mackay Brown (at 29)
Kenneth Steven (at 30)
Douglas Dunn, Elegies (at 31)
Ben Okri (at 50)
Songwriters/songs
Paul McCartney, “Yesterday” (at 10)
Chris de Burgh, “Hold On” (at 12)
Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon (at 12)
Roger Hodgson of Supertramp, “Hide in Your Shell” (at 14)
Billy Joel, “Honesty” (at 16)
Leonard Cohen (at 16)
Robert Smith of The Cure (at 17)
Mark Knopfler (at 17)
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks (at 20)
Roy Harper, Flat Baroque and Berserk (at 20)
Last edited by Duncan Gillies MacLaurin; 07-29-2020 at 01:14 PM.
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08-03-2020, 02:01 AM
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A nameless ghost inspired me most
To make poetic clinks and clanks,
The while I live, therefore I give
To it my prose-trancending thanks.
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08-03-2020, 06:24 AM
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At the risk of being critical in a non-critical forum, this ditty might benefit from having the third line swapped around.
Regards,
Cameron
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08-03-2020, 08:57 AM
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A gentle reminder:
Against Posting Poems Outside the Workshop Forums (posted at the top of each non-workshop forum)
This rule exists due to past unpleasantness. Trust me, it's better this way.
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08-03-2020, 08:34 PM
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Julie,
Any offhand lines of verse in response to something are considered a "poem" here? I didn't know that and didn't intend them to be a "poem". Apologies.
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08-03-2020, 11:37 PM
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Yeah, I know, forbidding poetry seems deeply counterintuitive on a poetry site, and I argued long and hard against the rule when it went in. But then Bad Things kept happening due to apparently harmless little ditties in General Talk, etc., and I converted.
Coming back to the topic:
Aside from the usual children's poetry collections--Mother Goose, Robert Louis Stevenson, A.A. Milne, Shel Silverstein, Walter de la Mare--I was also influenced by growing up on the edge of the Mojave Desert, where most of the radio stations played country western music, which could be very big on wordplay sometimes--e.g., "She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft."
When I was in the second grade, I helped my fourth-grade sister learn her lines for an abridged presentation of Macbeth at school. She was a witch, and also the understudy for Lady Macbeth. We had so much fun practicing those parts that we kept on going, and long after the play's performance we used to do readings of the rest of the play together, divvying up the parts, just for our own amusement. So I owe a debt to Shakespeare for giving me more of an appreciation for the magic of meter.
In adulthood, my poetry has probably been most influenced by the female formalists I met at Eratosphere: Rose Kelleher, A.E. Stallings, Maryann Corbett, Susan McLean, M.A. Griffiths, Rhina P. Espaillat, Catherine Chandler, Gail White, Julie Kane, etc., etc. Which is not to say I haven't been influenced by the many excellent male poets I've met here, too--just that I felt a particular affinity for what other female poets were doing, and their example helped me to believe that I might be able to do it, too.
Last edited by Julie Steiner; 08-04-2020 at 12:23 AM.
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08-04-2020, 06:13 AM
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Poetic Influences
I have two images I keep close to me. They are of two artists diligently seeking their own voice.
Emily Dickenson alone in her room and
Sonny Rollins alone atop the Brooklyn Bridge.
Bill.
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08-04-2020, 06:22 AM
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Hi, Bill - was it not the Williamsburg Bridge where Rollins practised?
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