Thank you to Amy Sorensen, a.k.a. The English Geek, for bringing this poem to my attention in her post, Why I Love April. It’s by Naomi Shihab Nye and was written in response to one of the poet’s students asking her to write him a poem:
Valentine for Ernest Mann
by Naomi Shihab Nye
You can’t order a poem like you [...]
This piece is called A Poem for Those Over 30, but I think people under 30 will appreciate the humor, as well. The author is unknown. It starts out:
A computer was something on TV
From a science fiction show of note
A window was something you hated to clean
And ram was the cousin of a goat.
Meg was the name [...]
So this poem I wrote has been traveling around on a sticky note for quite some time now, and I figured I’d better post it before I lost it. It’s a Sappho, a vastly underused poetic form that I love for its unique rhythm and that I’m single-handedly trying to make popular again (and when [...]
I spent the day with my dad who is very sick. This is kind of a free-form, journal-like, day-in-the-life type poem. Not sure what to call it — suggestions? Let me know if you have any thoughts on the ending, too.
Untitled (for now)
by Edie Montgomery-Pool
I keep thinking of what I’ll do if I find him [...]
The book, Third Rail, features poems inspired by rock and roll. Guns N’ Roses is the title of a poem by Campbell McGrath which starts out:
“Not a mea culpa, not an apology, but an admission:
there are three minutes in the middle of “Sweet Child o’ Mine”
that still, for all the chopped cotton of the passing years,
for [...]
Question: What do The Cranberries, Van Morrison, and W.B. Yeats all have in common?
Answer: Now & In Time To Be, a CD featuring rock songs using the poetry of Yeats as lyrics.
Probably one of the most interesting contributors to the album is Shane McGowan, formerly of the punk group, The Pogues, who performs An Irish [...]
Some dude named Joe Cislo published this poem over at 3Hive.com. I like it…
“Leslie Erickson
said she liked my Van
Halen button. It
was V-shaped just like
Eddie’s guitar. I’d
bought it at a flea
market along with
some tube socks that had
holes in the heels and
toes…”
To read the rest of this poem, titled Van Halen, go here.
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This is the second in [...]
(I’m going to be doing a series of 5 posts about rock and roll and poetry. Here’s the first… 
Rock and roll is poetry. Some of it’s crap poetry, but some of it will blow your socks off. Sometimes you can get a whole new appreciation for a song or artist by reading the lyrics on [...]
I read a lot of poetry I don’t like. Some days I get lucky and find something good right away; other days, I have to plow through a mountain of bad poetry in my search for that one poem that will bring a smile to my lips. Today was one of those “mountain of bad poetry” [...]
Okay, I wasn’t even sure I liked this online magazine upon first perusal, but now it is quickly becoming one of my favorites. It’s quirky, strange, a little silly, and perhaps an acquired taste, but one I’ve now grown to love.
Don’t miss the poem by Marilyn Letts called No Third Date at Feathertale.com. The last line/last [...]
