Poetry Again

There must be:

A real shortage of light verse out there in the world. 'Cause I just picked up another $9.41 "honorable mention" over at Poetry Nook for a piece that I will reprint here in its entirety:

The Stars, Like Penguins

The stars,
Like penguins in the daylight,
Waddle gassy, spotted, unwieldy.
But far away and in the dark,
Like penguins out to sea,
They soar.

Considering that I picked up another $9.41 two weeks ago for the revised version of my piece from last August's Writeoff, "Attack of the Fifty Foot Doughnut," I'm thinking I should definitely limber up my Don Marquis/Ogden Nash glands and see what more I can squeeze out of 'em...

Mike

Comments

[Georg]

Let's see, ten bucks each, so to make a living doing this would require...

I better get back to work. I've got servers to administrate. (and ponies to write for fun later)

[Corejo]

I see 2/7/9/8/6/2, with the 2's being the only distinctly strict thing going on, but nothing else that my high-school poetry education remembers. It's like a loose butterfly cinquain with only the wings (edit: I should say tercet, shouldn't I? The only 'butterfly poems' I've seen were cinquains). What kind of poem is this, specifically? I kinda like that symmetry going on there.

[PresentPerfect]

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free verse :B no one writes structured poetry anymore

[AugieDog]

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Yeah:

It's my first real try at free verse--I've got one in the Ponyville collection 'cause of Maud, but after reading a couple books about modern poetry, I'm starting to get a sense of how it works. Not a feel for how it works: it still feels wrong to me to call something that neither rhymes nor scans a poem. But there are ideas and concepts behind it that I think I can maybe play with...

Mike

[AugieDog]

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Fortunately:

I'm not asked to administrate anything. I just tell people their books are due back in three weeks and try not to trip over my shoelaces too much...

Mike

[Corejo]

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I truly wish this was a boldfaced lie, but I know better than to ague that. :(
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I feel the same way about words. It must rhyme and scan for me to call it a poem, no matter how poetic the words themselves may be.

[AugieDog]

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Every week:

Over at Poetry Nook, about 40 people enter poems in their contest. And every week, my entry is pretty much the only one that rhymes and scans--I've got a sorta Valentiney rondeau I'm putting together for this week. A lot of the entered pieces are really good, and I'm not enough of a Don Quixote to go tilting at the windmill of whether they qualify as poems or not. The judges--and the vast majority of the people who write and read the stuff--are happy to call them poems, so I just shrug and go about my business.

This stars and penguins thing, though: I wonder if it could work as a triolet...

Mike