Friday, September 22, 2006

Dang! It Feels Good to be a Poet!

It feels good to be writing again. I've been into E.E. Cummings lately, and I think it shows. That and my post-modernist training, which I'm still coming to grips with. I love structure and syntax and twists and turns and strange words with double entendres and everything about language. Just love it. Believe it or not, this is a love poem. That's as much as I'll give away. I'd love to see commentary on it - of any sort - good, bad, or ugly. I'm interested in a, whether or not anyone's reading this other than my sister; and b, what you think...

(Non) SENSE

The smell of wanton sulfer -
his careless gentility -
an odor of undoing
and taste of starlit apple

he has a touch so malignantly
sagacious
(both alarming and familiar)

and still -
on the (almost
imperceivable) pauses
between comingandgoing

sober intoxication - and
inopportunity -
share between petals,
the thorns

3 comments:

Gini (Hallquist) Young said...

sorta get it and sorta don't. Really love the last bit! You know I'm always reading.

Shelby said...

it's neat, but i, like gini, sort of get it and sorta don't. i never did get poetry that easily, so take my comment with a grain of salt! keep it up.. i'm sure it's theraputic!

Shelby said...

i never did get poetry that easily.. i guess i still think like a 3rd grader, so don't be offended that i also sort of get it and not get it. however, keep it up--i'm sure it's theraputic!