Two MicroPoems about Two Wasted Girls at a Concert

Saw two things at a concert last weekend that were poem-worthy.  1) Really skinny girl (like drugged-out skinny) dancing spastically (like drugged-out dancing) fall on her face.  2) Middle-aged woman bend over, put her hands on the ground, and shake her (huge) butt in the air, then stand up and proceed to smack her own (huge) butt repeatedly. Thank you, [...]

6 Cute and/or Funny Haiku Books You Want to Buy

work is a circus I trapeze without a net surrounded by clowns                –Edie Montgomery-Pool I love haiku, especially when it has a funny or quirky angle.  If you’re feeling the love for haiku, too, here is a list of books that might interest you.  (These would also make great gifts for that person you know well [...]

Goodbye Jay, Hello Conan

As you probably know by now, Jay Leno is leaving The Tonight Show, and Conan will be taking over as host.  I love Conan, so this makes me very happy.  Jay Leno fans also have something to be happy about–now they won’t have to stay up so late to see him as he’ll be starting a [...]

Dark Poem – I Need You

A poem by moi… I Need You by Edie Montgomery-Pool   hold me       until i             suffocate   crush me       leave no bone             unturned   self hatred       is my             savior   but i cannot       destroy             this thing called me                   alone                           i [...]

What is Bromance?

Attention straight males — are you in a bromance? Find out what it is and if you’re doing it right now.

2008 Summer Olympics: The Short Version – The Games in Rhyme

Are the Summer Olympics taking up too much of your time and digital recording space?  Want to get right to the nitty gritty?  Here are several sports in the 2008 Olympic games, all recapped in 17 words or less.  This is a work in progress; I’ll add more as I watch more Olympics. 2008 Summer [...]

Laguna Sunset (A Poem)

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 [...]

Untitled Poem

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 [...]

Listen

Here’s the other poem I had published in The Advocate.  I grew up by the Pacific ocean, and although I get terribly seasick, I’ve always had a love for the ocean (as long as I’m looking at it from the shore!). Listen by Edie Montgomery-Pool Listen! Lie as still as you can. Close your eyes – [...]

The Dog Show

This was one of two poems I had published around 1996/1997 in The Advocate, PKA Publications.  (I’m still waiting on my author’s copy, though – lol.)  I wrote this when I was around 16; it’s a true story about a girl I knew at the time: The Dog Show by Edie Montgomery-Pool Here’s a quaint, [...]